Head of the air-conditioner maker 格力 (Gree), which she joined as a saleswoman in 1990, and the face of its ads. In 2013 she bet 雷军 one billion yuan that Xiaomi would not outsell Gree within five years.
Gree won the bet: in 2018 its revenue reached about 200 billion yuan to Xiaomi's 175 billion. When Gree launched its own phone in 2015, the start-up screen showed her photo, which she defended as respect for buyers from the phone's founder.
