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...“We don’t have enough positions for so many job seekers,” said Chen Jian, a recruiter who works with contract manufacturers in Kunshan....
...HNA’s chair Chen Feng and chief executive Adam Tan were taken into custody late last month. The grounds for their detention have not been revealed....
...Chen Jian, a 35-year-old in the city of Wuhan, is one of many victims of China’s property crisis....
...The move by Chinese officials comes three years after co-founder Wang Jian fell to his death in Bonnieux, southern France, in what French police said was an accident....
...Wang Jian, their co-founder, fell to his death in France in 2018. Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...HNA’s well-documented debt problems were compounded by the pandemic, as well as factional rifts following the death of a top executive, Wang Jian, in 2018....
...Wang Jian, co-founder and former chairman, fell to his death in 2018 while sightseeing in southern France....
...Many employees have left since the sudden death last summer of co-founder Wang Jian, including five of the group’s eleven board members....
...On Tuesday, Wang Jian, co-founder of airline-to-finance conglomerate HNA, fell to his death from a wall in France where he was reportedly taking pictures....
...Mr Chen also holds an estimated 15 per cent....
...HNA’s leadership was shaken in July when the group’s founder Wang Jian died after a fall while on holiday in France....
...Chinese airline-to-finance conglomerate HNA Group said that co-chairman Chen Feng would absorb the duties of his colleague Wang Jian, who died in a fall in France this week, but left unanswered the question...
...co-founder Wang Jian in July....
...He was one of the two trusted lieutenants of Chen Feng, who is really the talismanic leader of this company....
...Chen Feng, HNA’s co-founder, was assured at the meeting that his company was in a different category than Anbang, which regulators had deemed a systemic risk....
...Jian in July....
...Wang Jian slipped off a wall while touring a church in Provence in July, forcing co-founder Chen Feng to take a more hands-on role....
...HNA co-chair Chen Feng and chief executive Adam Tan flew immediately to Marseilles, joined soon after by Wang’s wife....
...That has left the company in the hands of co-founder Chen Feng, who has promoted his son and nephew to senior positions. Chen Xiaofeng, Mr Chen’s son, was named deputy chief executive in August....
...“Wang Jian was the number one person in the actual operations of HNA,” said Shen Meng, director of investment bank Chanson & Co....
...Yuan introduced Ludendo to Chen and a fresh round of talks commenced, resulting in Chen agreeing to pay about £100m for Hamleys....
...Founder Chen Feng — who worked under Wang Qishan in the 1980s at an agricultural trust company channelling funding to the rural sector — and chairman Wang Jian each hold about 15 per cent....
...In the documentary, co-founders Chen Feng and Wang Jian age from young men joyfully serving tea on Hainan Airlines’ maiden flight into middle-aged executives celebrating the group’s inclusion in the Fortune...
...Nearly 30 per cent is split evenly between co-founders and co-chairmen Chen Feng and Wang Jian, with the rest in the hands of ten other executives or directors of HNA....
...Founder and public face Chen Feng — a Buddhist with a taste for luxury cars — and the chairman of the board, Wang Jian, own about 15 per cent each after many years of complex asset reshuffles that effectively...
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