Most Powerful Women Asia

Fan Hongwei

Courtesy of Hengli Petrochemical
  • Title
    Chairman
  • Company/Affiliation
    Hengli Petrochemical
  • Country/Territory
    China

Fan Hongwei is the chair of Hengli Petrochemical, the main listed arm of China's Hengli Group. Hengli Petrochemical trades and refines crude oil and other petroleum products, and supplies oil to the company's refining and chemical plants to make polyester and other fibers for the apparel industry. Fan founded the company with her husband, Chen Jianhua, who chairs the parent Hengli Group. Hengli Petrochemical generated almost $33 billion in revenues last year.