When he was at the height of his power a little over ten years ago, Chen Feng looked like he was ready to rule the world.In 1993, Chen and his late business partner Wang Jian who also owned HNA Group Co, founded Hainan Airlines, and since then it has grown into a massive conglomerate and has become a symbol for a group of corporations that have acquired trophy assets in the United States and Europe. Their wave of mergers and acquisitions marked China's entry into the global corporate scene. The world-traveling tycoons were then sought out by Wall Street and interacted with influential leaders including China's President Xi Jinping and Britain's former prime minister, David Cameron.
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