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Zhou Chaonan

China 65 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Manufacturing
Industry
Manufacturing
Residence
Langfang, Hebei

Assets

  • Range Intelligent Computing Technology Group
    793,233,000 shares @ -
    -
    300442-CN

Biography

Zhou Chaonan is the chairman of Range Intelligent Computing Technology Group, a provider of data center services.

Zhou worked as a teacher briefly before finding a job at a state-owned logistics hub in her home town of Hengyang in Hunan Province.

She then worked for various state-owned firms for almost two decades, and didn't launch her own business until 2000 -- when Zhou was already in her 40s.

Zhou officially set up Range in 2009. The company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in a backdoor listing in 2022.

About

Her given name literally means better than man in Chinese. Zhou's father hoped she could live up to Chairman Mao's famous quote: Women hold up half the sky.