Business & Enterprise
Distinguished
Rong Yiren
1916 – 2005
Founder of CITIC and vice-president of China
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the China Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
A businessman from a leading industrial family who founded the China International Trust and Investment Corporation in 1979 and later served as vice-president of the People's Republic.
Rong Yiren stayed in China after 1949 when much of his family's business empire was nationalised. In 1979 Deng Xiaoping chose him to found CITIC to attract foreign investment.
He served as vice-president of China from 1993 to 1998.
He served as vice-president of China from 1993 to 1998.
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