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The People, Companies, and Stories Behind Chinese Business.
An independent archive exploring Chinese companies, business leaders, corporate histories, and the connections that shape their stories.
Explore companies
All companies →AIA
Hong Kong-headquartered pan-Asian life insurance group providing life insurance and related financial services.
ANTA Sports Products Limited
BCEG Environmental Remediation Co., Ltd.
BEH-Property Co., Ltd.
A listed real estate developer controlled by Beijing Energy Holding, holding a Grade-1 development qualification.
Beijing Energy Holding Co., Ltd.
A Beijing municipal state-owned energy group engaged in energy investment, construction and operation.
BYD Company Limited
Engaged in batteries, automobiles and new energy-related businesses.
Notable people
All people →Bai Tao
A finance graduate of Renmin University of China who worked at ICBC for 30 years, he later served as vice president of China Life Group, deputy general manager of China Investment Corporation and general manager of Central Huijin, and became president of PICC Group in 2018.
Cai Manli
Securities regulation and capital markets professional. She joined the China Securities Regulatory Commission in 2002 and spent years supervising listed companies, serving as deputy director of the M&A supervision division, director of the first supervision division and head of the accounting group in the listed-company supervision department. After leaving the regulator she became a senior advisor at King & Wood Mallesons and later chief executive of an asset management firm. She is qualified as a Chinese certified public accountant, a certified tax agent and an international business valuation analyst.
Cao Huimin
Chan Tseng-hsi
Founder of Hang Lung Group, which he established in 1960 as a property development business. He died in 1986, and his will directed that his estate be placed in a trust establishing the Chan Tseng-hsi Foundation.
Chen Dongsheng
Founder of Taikang Insurance Group.
Chen Xuping
Colin Huang
Founder of Pinduoduo (PDD Holdings), which he launched in 2015; he formerly served as its chairman and chief executive officer.
Ding Changfeng
Former deputy general manager of China Vanke Co., Ltd.
Explore connections
Follow the relationships between founders, investors and companies.
Every link in the Atlas is typed and dated — who founded what, who invested when, who led which company and for how long.