Forbes China Announces 2022 20 potential Women in Chinese Business

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Twenty female entrepreneurs constantly explore the way to break the circle of "her economy" and build a diversified industrial ecosystem.

Following the release of "2022 China's Outstanding Business Women", Forbes China has conducted a comprehensive assessment of the operation quality, growth potential and public influence of the companies where female entrepreneurs worked in the past year. "2022 Forbes 20 potential Women in Chinese Business" was launched again.

There is no doubt that China has become one of the most active entrepreneurial countries in the world. In the context of the epidemic accelerating the upgrading of the digital economy, women exert their elegant power and become the backbone of China's business community.

The 20 women selected this year come from science and technology, health care, consumption and other fields. While continuing the active characteristics in the field of hard-core science and technology entrepreneurship, such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and medical and health care, they are also constantly exploring the way to break the circle of "her economy," with vigorous and strong vitality and breakthrough. looking for more and more possibilities in different industries.

The following is a brief introduction of 20 candidates, ranked in no particular order, according to the alphabet of Pinyin.

Cheng Senping, PhD in Toxicology, University of Kentucky, USA. In 2015, Cheng Senping founded Nanjing Triassic Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. The Triassic is committed to the construction of a new 3D printing drug technology platform, covering drug formulation design, digital development and intelligent production of the whole chain. The company's R & D staff accounts for nearly 80%, has the richest 3D printing drug product pipeline in the world, is the only Chinese pharmaceutical company selected for the FDA emerging technology project in the United States, and is participating in the formulation of 3D printing pharmaceutical industry standards in the United States Pharmacopoeia. MED ®3D printing technology, pioneered by the Triassic in the world, is an important breakthrough in the original and new technology of China's pharmaceutical industry. In April 2020, MED ®3D printing technology was selected as an emerging technology project of FDA in the United States.

Qiu Yujing has more than 10 years of working experience in Silicon Valley and has participated in the founding of a number of successful chip start-ups, mainly in areas such as graphics processors and optical fiber network communications. Core Technology was founded in 2018, focusing on the design and development of high-performance and reliable vehicle gauge chips. Since its establishment three years ago, Xichi Technology has completed four rounds of financing, with a valuation of nearly 10 billion yuan. In 2021, the annual order of Xichi Technology reaches one million, and the main products X9 intelligent cockpit chip, G9 central gateway chip and V9 autopilot chip are favored by more than 10 international and domestic mainstream Tier 1 and OEM. Soon, Xichi Technology will release E3 high-performance MCU, which will push the technological level of China's local chip enterprises to a new level.

Qianya has rich experience in product design and management, and is the driving force behind the popular trend of underwear in China, screening and leading a large number of underwear to the market every year. Her serious and rigorous attitude towards product design and stringent detail requirements have won her the title of "devil of detail control" in the industry. In 2016, Ubras, a new comfort lingerie brand, was established. Ubras pioneered non-size underwear fabric, exclusively customized high elastic technology yarn special fabric, with the brand spirit of consumerism, product doctrine and long-term doctrine, to meet women's basic demand for "comfortable and easy to wear" underwear. Ubras's non-size fabric innovation is still upgrading, launching new products and categories such as cool breeze and muscle underwear one after another, driving the brand forward with product research and development.

Fang Mu, Ph. D. in Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2016, the Future Machine was established by applying core technologies such as 5G communications, artificial intelligence, environmental awareness, deep learning and servo control to the field of industrial self-driving, provide industrial unmanned vehicle products and flexible logistics unmanned solutions for production line logistics and warehousing logistics. As a leader in industrial unmanned vehicles, robots have developed and produced 8 series of unmanned forklifts and unmanned tractors in the future. at present, they have received financing of hundreds of millions of yuan, such as byte jump, and have landed more than 150 projects around the world. Fang Mu, who serves as co-founder and CTO, has led more than 10 core technology and major product research and development projects of the company, all of which have been industrialized. She is the first to put forward the technical path of developing self-driving industrial vehicles based on L4 self-driving framework, which has the forward-looking guiding significance of industry development and the commercial guidance value of large-scale projects.

He Xiusha graduated from Oxford University in mathematics and received a master's degree in finance from Cass Business School. In 2013, he Jingsha founded Liansheng. Up to now, Liansheng New Energy Group has three major industrial sectors: Liansheng Electric Power, Youde Operation and maintenance, and Aopu Energy Technology, which is committed to distributed clean energy power plant development and investment, general contract construction, operation and maintenance management and intelligent energy technology research and development. The business covers more than 2000 power stations across the country, and the total operation scale is close to 5GW. It is the first clean energy power plant operator in China that is mainly distributed and has stepped into the industrial scale. In 2020, Liansheng launched its innovative business strategy, the Zero carbon Metro Plan, and became the first clean energy power plant operator in China to include private enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises in its investment and service map, helping "made in China" to continuously reduce production costs. improve environmental protection and energy efficiency.

Li Xiang, who graduated from the University of Hong Kong, was in charge of products and strategy in Ant Financial Services Group International Department. He has many years of entrepreneurial experience in product, business and operation. After joining Black Lake Technology, she is fully responsible for the company's commercialization strategy and system construction, and is deeply involved in strategic planning, organizational structure and enterprise management. Black Lake Technology is committed to providing cloud-based, algorithm-driven, flexible and configurable manufacturing collaborative systems. It has received nearly 1 billion yuan of investment from Temasek, CITIC Industrial Fund and other institutions, with a valuation close to that of quasi-unicorns. At present, more than 3000 manufacturing enterprises have established cooperation with Heihu, covering plastic packaging, food and beverage, chemical and pharmaceutical, automobile manufacturing, home appliance electronics and other industries. Li Xiang has promoted the systematic upgrading of Black Lake Science and Technology in terms of talent structure, organization, operation and management, and brand promotion.

Li Ying was the vice president of NetEase, Inc e-commerce, responsible for the construction of NetEase, Inc e-commerce marketing system, and successfully created a number of popular products, with rich experience in marketing promotion and strategic innovation. In 2019, Ms. Li Ying co-founded Yuanbao, a technology-driven Internet health insurance trading and service platform dedicated to providing cost-effective universal health insurance products and services. Based on the team's rich marketing experience and deep insight into the new era of insurance users, Yuanbao uses big data and AI technology to accurately match insurance products for users, and provides one-stop protection services from health management to assisting in the settlement of claims. Yuanbao has received four rounds of financing within two years, and completed round C financing of nearly 1 billion yuan in May 2021, making the premium scale among the first echelon of Internet health insurance.

Lin Xi graduated from CFA, University College London, UK. In 2019, Linxi co-founded the brand "Daily Black Qiao" and successfully launched it to the market. Daily black skillful use of global supply chain resources to create the development of a "new generation of healthy chocolate", launch a variety of innovative formulations of healthy functional black products to meet consumers' different choices for chocolate taste and aroma. One year after the launch of the brand, the turnover exceeded 100 million yuan and entered more than 100000 terminal channels offline, ranking first in Tmall's dark chocolate category sales. In September 2021, Hei Qiao launched its flagship oatmeal milk dark chocolate series, which expanded the definition of chocolate with oat milk plant-based formula innovation for the future market and new consumers, in order to break the game innovation and pry the brand upgrade. In the tide of the times, every day Black Qiao goes with young people who have the courage to break through themselves, encouraging each other and resisting mediocrity.

Liu Chang, co-founder and vice president of Galaxy Aerospace, was vice president of Tencent Group. Galaxy Aerospace is China's leading satellite Internet solution provider and satellite manufacturer, and is the first unicorn enterprise in China's satellite Internet and even commercial aerospace field. Galaxy Aerospace officially put into operation in April 2018, independently developed and successfully launched the Leo broadband communication satellite with the strongest communication capability in China, and completed the verification of many key technologies, such as the construction of the Qmax V-band feed link, and carried out a series of satellite-to-ground fusion 5G tests. The six low-orbit broadband communication satellites independently developed by Galaxy Aerospace are China's first batch of low-orbit broadband communication satellites, which were successfully launched on March 5 this year to verify China's small-scale batch production and full-process research and development capability for low-orbit satellite Internet construction.

Liu Ke is an artificial intelligence expert with a master's degree in engineering from the University of Maryland and a former senior product manager of IBM Global Business Solutions Center. Has 17 years of supply chain system design, research and development experience. In 2016, Liu Ke, together with a team of former IBM Waston scientists, founded Feimei Technology, which is committed to the application of artificial intelligence technology in the clothing supply chain, providing small SaaS products and S2B2C supply chain services to thousands of clothing factories, designers and brand customers in China. Dr. Liu Ke uses AI to empower factory production, preside over the development and application of core SaaS products such as intelligent production collaboration system SewSmart, promote the digitization of the clothing industry, build intelligent factories and intelligent workshops, and achieve high efficiency, high quality and low cost in the manufacturing process. Under her leadership, Feipomegranate Technology has successively completed seven rounds of financing, and has been continuously blessed by byte beating, Hillhouse Capital, GGV GGV Capital, Gongze Capital and other venture capital.

Liu Shuting (Jump) is an architect who loves running marathons. She graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and majored in architectural design. In 2014, she founded the super orangutan based on the idea that "a group of moving souls meet". Relying on the Wechat platform and through the official account pay-per-view reservation, Super gorilla provides users with more than 100 fitness services to meet a variety of fitness needs, such as slimming, sub-health improvement, yoga, boxing and dancing. They also form sports communities that motivate and surpass each other. With "no annual card, pay-per-view, professional coach, no promotion", the super orangutan has become a "subverter" of the traditional fitness industry with its extreme focus on fitness. In 2021, Super Gorilla completed the E-round financing and rushed into the first echelon of Chinese fitness industry brands. Jump hope brand provides the value, so that more people in the super orangutan to see the sparkling themselves.

Liu Xingyu, Ph.D., Tsinghua University, research scholar of Harvard Medical School in the United States, has rich experience in the research and development of orthopedic artificial intelligence and surgical navigation robot, and has a deep understanding of the clinical analysis of artificial intelligence surgical system and surgical robot system. In 2018, Dr. Liu Xingyu founded Beijing Changmugu Medical Technology Co., Ltd., which provides hospitals with full-process solutions such as orthopedic artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis, individualized operation planning, surgical robot, postoperative evaluation and so on. Since the establishment of the company, its independently developed orthopedic artificial intelligence joint replacement solution AIJOINT has covered more than 30 provinces. As a leader in the orthopedic artificial intelligence industry, Changmu completed 660 million yuan B round financing in 2021, becoming the largest scientific and creative enterprise in orthopedic intelligent track financing.

Founded in Shanghai in 2015, Manner is one of the largest boutique coffee chains in China and currently has more than 300 direct stores. Adhering to the concept of "making coffee a part of life", we firmly believe that coffee is a healthy drink that everyone close to the people can afford. Manner makes coffee really come into people's lives and become a daily drink. In addition, Manner regards environmental protection as its social responsibility, deducting 5 yuan from each activity that brings non-disposable paper cups to the store to enjoy coffee, and works with customers to make their own contribution to environmental protection.

In 2017, Ma Chune founded Jukun Technology, which focuses on using artificial intelligence to build digital doctors and empower medical health. As a medical AI high-tech company, Jukun Technology independently developed and created the product portfolio of digital doctors, providing a disease-centered, comprehensive, end-to-end artificial intelligence medical imaging platform to provide intelligent diagnosis and treatment for heart disease, stroke, cancer and other most critical diseases of mankind. The platform includes 12 products and 25 candidate products, and has obtained a number of medical device registration certificates, such as Class III and Class II, and maintains a number of "firsts" and "uniqueness" in the field of image artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis and treatment, such as heart, brain, chest, abdomen and so on. it has established cooperation with the top hospitals in China, such as Peking Union Hospital, Ruijin Hospital and Huaxi Hospital, and has been widely used by more than 1200 hospitals in China. At present, Sikun Technology, after six rounds of financing, is the star unicorn of the medical AI track, and formally submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in September 2021 for listing on the main board.

In 2008, O'Yirou graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York and joined the design team of J.CREW and Doo-ri. In 2010, she became the chief designer of Badgley Mischka's product line in China. In 2016, as a sports fanatic, she gave up executive salaries because she could not find the perfect sportswear to create a designer sportswear brand, MAIA ACTIVE, to bring a better sports experience to Asian women by developing "addictive" technology sports fabrics and layout systems that are more suitable for Asian women. Over the past five years, ou Yirou has continued to gain insight into consumer demand and continue to create multi-category brand explosions. In 2021, MAIA ACTIVE was awarded the TOP1 of fitness trousers on Tmall platform, with omni-channel sales exceeding 300 million yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 166% (since 2016). MAIA ACTIVE relies on the sportswear R & D laboratory MAIA LAB and cooperates with TTRI, the world's leading fabric R & D and service organization, to provide consumers with professional comfort and design sense of sportswear.

Peng Li, Master, Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Department of Information and Control Engineering, GPU hardware design expert. She is the first Chinese female scientist in AMD. She has 15 years of experience in high-performance GPU chip design. She has served as AMD Chief SOC architect, system architect, GFXIP architect and other positions, and has led the entire process of many GPU products from architecture to mass production. In 2020, Peng Li established Muxi with an average of nearly 20 years of end-to-end research and development experience in high-performance GPU products to provide high-performance GPU chips and solutions for heterogeneous computing. In nearly a year, Muxi has completed four rounds of billions of RMB financing, all invested in the research and development of high-performance GPU. Under the leadership of Peng Li, the R & D team aims to build a world-class Chinese GPU chip company, solve the security problems of China's high computing chip supply chain, and provide strong support for the computing economy.

Sun Meilin graduated from Beijing Medical University with a MBA degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. Before founding the Pharmaceutical Research Society, she worked as a clinician in a third-class hospital. In 2015, Sun Meilin founded Pharmaceutical Research Society, which is the leading digital service platform for innovative clinical research in China. Through industrial digital innovation, it covers CRO services such as clinical supervision, project management, registration, biological statistics, drug vigilance, medical affairs, center on-site management, patient recruitment and management, forming a "pharmaceutical research club model" with both quality, cost and efficiency. Its clinical operation team has covered 210 cities across the country. At present, the company has also completed D-round financing, which has been recognized by Yuanyuan Capital, Matrix Partners China, Sequoia Capital, GGV Capital and other front-line investors.

In 2011, Wu Yuqi founded Qitu Photography while in college, and in 2014, he founded the hippocampal body Photo Studio, the main brand of Qitu. She pioneered the business model of Internet + photography, using the power of images to record every ceremonial moment in life. In 2022, under the leadership of Wu Yuqi, Hangzhou Guitu Photography Group has more than 500 stores in more than 70 cities across the country and has provided photography services to more than 30 million customers.

Xu Yang has more than 10 years of working experience in Internet B2C enterprises. In 2014, Xu Yang jointly created China's first "Internet + International Logistics" one-stop international logistics online service platform. Focusing on the three major business sectors of pre-port integrated services, cross-border transport services and destination port services, the platform constructs a multi-path integrated service matrix, linking more than 2000 suppliers around the world. and reached strategic cooperation with Cosco, Maersk Shipping and many other shipping companies and logistics groups. Xu Yang led the platform through a long period of exploration of the new model from scratch, with technological innovation and supply chain resource agglomeration as the core of development, and successfully explored a development path that belongs to where to go. At present, "where to go" has gone through seven rounds of financing, with a cumulative financing amount of more than US $300m, becoming the first Chinese company in the field of international logistics digitization to complete D-round financing with a valuation of unicorn level.

Zheng Jing, Bachelor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Nankai University, Master and Doctor of Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zheng Jing has more than 20 years of scientific research and industrialization experience in the field of gene therapy, focusing on the development and application of lentivirus and AAV gene therapy drugs. In 2018, Dr. Zheng Jing founded Faith Medicine, which focuses on providing more effective and innovative gene therapy for genetic defects, neurodegenerative diseases, age-related degenerative diseases and some major malignant diseases through safe and efficient adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector technology. The field of treatment covers hemophilia, Parkinson's disease, lysosomal storage disease, hereditary neuromuscular diseases, ophthalmology and senile degenerative diseases and other major diseases that do not meet the clinical needs. Under the leadership of Zheng Jing, Faith Pharmaceutical team conquered a series of key technologies and technological barriers in the field of AAV gene therapy, and was in a state of keeping pace with or taking the lead with their European and American counterparts; independently solved the problems of difficult scale-up, high production cost and low output of AAV gene therapy drugs, and laid a solid foundation for the production of AAV gene therapy drugs that are "affordable, affordable and well treated" by the Chinese people.