Chen Feng (businessman)
Chen Feng (; born 1953) is a Chinese businessman and founder of business conglomerate HNA Group and Hainan Airlines. Early life and education Chen Feng was born in June 1953 in Huozhou, Shanxi province and raised in Beijing, the son of middle-rank Communist Party officials. During the Cultural Revolution, Chen worked for the People's Liberation Army Air Force in Sichuan; after the revolution was over in 1979, Feng worked for the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the National Air Regulations Bureau in China. In 1984, he won a scholarship to study at the Lufthansa College of Air Transportation Management in Germany. In 1989, he took a job at the World Bank's loan office in Haikou and in 1990, he went to work for the Aviation Business Assistant to Provincial Governor in Hainan province which had seen a surge in development as a tourist destination. Chen would get further education during his career including a M.B.A. from the Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands in 1995 and studied at Harvard Business School in 2002. Career After efforts by Hainan Province to establish a regional airline (Hainan Provincial Airlines) were not successful, Chen was tasked with bringing in private expertise