Fan Hongwei

Fan Hongwei (; born February 1967) is a Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire who is the chair and CEO of the chemical fiber company Hengli Petrochemical (恒力石化) and vice chair of its holding company Hengli Group (恒力集团). She attended Nanjing Normal University.

Career

Fan started her career as an accountant. Fan took over the factory as general manager, and she and Chen restructured the company and grew it from a factory with 27 employees into the largest fiber producer in China and one of the largest weaving companies in the world.

The company is now known as Hengli Group, and its main unit is Hengli Petrochemical.

Fan owns a 45% stake in Hengli Petrochemical. As of 2021, her net worth is estimated at US$23 billion. and on Fortune list of the 50 most influential business leaders in China. The same year, she was ranked sixth on Hurun list of the world's richest self-made women, with an estimated net worth of 53 billion RMB.

In 2021, Forbes listed her as one of China's 20 top businesswomen.

China Daily has listed her as one of the ten richest women in China three times: she was ranked fifth in 2018, fourth in 2019, and seventh in 2020.

Personal life

Fan's husband Chen Jianhua (陈建华) is also a billionaire. He is the chair and director of Hengli Group. Their daughter Chen Yiting (陈逸婷), born in 1993, is a director of Tongli Lake Travel (同里旅游), a subsidiary of Hengli Group.

Fan lives in Suzhou.