Ren Jianxin (businessman)

Ren Jianxin
任建新
BornJanuary 1958 (age 66)
Lanzhou, Gansu, China
EducationMechanical Engineering
Business Administration
Alma materOpen University of China (BEng.)
Lanzhou University (M.B.A.)
Occupation
  • Businessman
Known forFounder of ChemChina
Political party
Board member of
ChemChina(Chairman)
Pirelli(Chairman)

Ren Jianxin (Chinese: 任建新; pinyin: Rén Jiànxīn; born January 1958) is a Chinese businessman who is the founding president of the state-owned China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina), the 265th largest company of the Fortune Global 500. He founded Bluestar, a small solvents factory, in 1984, and created ChemChina by taking control of more than 100 troubled factories from the government, which retains ownership.