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...But as former finance minister Lou Jiwei has repeatedly argued in public speeches, too many of these swaps would only delay resolution of the problem, ultimately increasing leverage....
...Another 29 per cent of HNA Group held offshore has passed through a number of hands, including Hong Kong-based aviation businessman Bharat Bhise and Guan Jun, a Beijing man....
...On a recent weekday morning, Liu Ai’jun boarded one of eight daily high-speed rail services between Urumqi, capital of China’s north-western Xinjiang region, and Hami, an oasis town 614km to the east....
...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....
...Company executives say that stake — which passed from an aviation businessman, Bharat Bhise, to a Chinese man named Guan Jun before being transferred to the charity — represents “our shares” and that the...
...HNA’s new ownership structure omits Guan Jun, a man who owned a large chunk of the company for about a year....
...Chen Feng, HNA’s founder, and Wang Jian, its chairman, each own just under 15 per cent of the business....
...Last February Blackstone, which frequently sells to Chinese buyers, hosted HNA co-founder Wang Jian in a charity fundraiser in New York, featuring glitzy gold masks of Mr Wang’s face....
...HNA’s largest single shareholder is also the most mysterious: Guan Jun, who purchased nearly 29 per cent of the company last year from Hong Kong-based businessman Bharat Bhise....
...Founder Chen Feng and chairman Wang Jian each hold 15 per cent of HNA apiece....
...“He represents the backward forces, sweatshops and those small workshops that should long have been eliminated,” a user named Du Jian said in one characteristic post on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter...
...Fans of upstart Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi have come to expect bold vision and swashbuckling steps from founder Lei Jun....
...Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner Thomas Watson Sr and Lou Gerstner both came from working-class backgrounds to head a company whose progress has done much to define the first century of the information...
...The walls of BGI’s austere building are covered with photos of everything from cloned pigs to Wang Jian, the company’s co-founder, on Mount Everest....
...Nina Warren is superb as Scheherazade in an overly bustled dress, more Alice in Wonderland than Arabian Nights, while the rich bass of Dong-Jian Gong’s Kublai Khan emerges from a hot bundle of fur....
...He cites Wang Jun (not related), who dropped out of Peking University to join BGI....
...“It opens a new chapter for China’s domestic equity market,” said Jun Ma, an economist at Deutsche Bank. “The market will no longer be a ‘one-way street’.”...
...There have since been countless instances of performance art spawning performance art: who can forget the furore when Chinese artists Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi leapt half-naked on to Tracey Emin’s Turner...
...It was the innocence that had once belonged to Mei-jun and myself. I had forgotten it in Lou-zhen’s room. And I would live without ever getting it back.”...
...Both Zhang Jian (a head-strong girl) and Wang Qimin (borne on a wave of emotion) were Juliets to treasure; Hao Bin (all ardour) and Li Jun (obsessed by his love) were their excellent Romeos....
...Further efficiencies arise from an integration of supply chains, an effort being led by Lui Jun, 36, a sharp and to-the-point executive from the Chinese side....
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