陈德荣 (Chén Déróng) · Chen Derong (Chinese business…

Meanings

1 Chen Derong (Chinese business executive, chairman of China Baowu Steel Group since 2018)
2 a common Chinese personal name (陈 surname + 德荣 'virtue and honour')

About Chen Derong

born 1961 · 企业家 entrepreneur

Executive who chaired the state-owned China Baowu Steel Group from 2018 as it became the largest steelmaker in the world, after years as a local official in Zhejiang.

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

陈德荣是我父亲的老朋友。

Chén Déróng shì wǒ fùqīn de lǎopéngyou.

Chen Derong is an old friend of my father's.

HSK 7-9

陈德荣领导着全球最大的钢铁企业。

Chén Déróng lǐngdǎo zhe quánqiú zuì dà de gāngtiě qǐyè.

Chen Derong heads the world's largest steel enterprise.

Tips

usage

The name 宝武 joins the first characters of the two firms merged in 2016: 宝钢 (Baosteel, after Shanghai's Baoshan district) and 武钢 (Wuhan Iron and Steel). Chen himself had studied steelmaking at the Wuhan Iron and Steel Institute.

history

As party secretary of 温州 from 2010, steering the city through its financial crisis, he was known for working so hard that he fainted from exhaustion three times.