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Last Updated Mar 10, 2026, 1:01am EDT

  • Chen Dongsheng is the founder and chairman of Taikang Insurance Group, one of China's largest insurers.
  • Taikang also has interests in asset management as well as health and elderly care.
  • Chen's wife is the granddaughter of Mao Zedong, the communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China.
  • Early in his career, Chen worked as deputy editor of Management World, a publication of the Development Research Center of China's State Council.
  • His son Chen Yilun became the chairman of group asset management unit Taikang Fund Management in 2024.
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Age
68
Source of Wealth
Insurance, Self Made
Residence
Beijing, China
Citizenship
China
Marital Status
Married
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Chen holds an undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. in political economics from Wuhan University.
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