Dong mingzhu biography for kids video

Dong Mingzhu was born the youngest of seven children in a working-class family in Nanjing , capital of east China 's Jiangsu province, in August After graduation, Dong got an administrative job at local government chemistry laboratory in Nanjing for 15 years. In , at age 36, recently widowed Dong left her three-year-old son to his grandmother and quit her job at the government research facility in order to move to the more economically developed Shenzhen in Guangdong province and to find a new job, but moved to Zhuhai soon.

Joining Haley Gree Electric's predecessor as a salesperson, she made her mark from the start, recovering massive debts in a little over one month.

Dong Mingzhu is a Chinese businesswoman who serves as Chairwoman of Gree Electric.

By , Dong was made head of sales, where she upgraded sales process. By the time Gree Electric went public in , Dong was deputy president, and later company president in During her tenure, Dong developed Gree Electric into the world's largest household air conditioning unit maker, and China's largest household appliance maker generating a record breaking billion Yuan revenue in Gree Electric's sales shifted from traditional to online, contributing significantly to the company's record breaking revenue.

In January , she was reelected chairwoman of Gree Electric. Dong has displayed a strong nationalistic streak over the year, and has been a member of the 10th, 11th, and 12th National People's Congress. In , Fortune the most influential women in the world ranked seventh. Dong married soon after graduating from university, but was widowed when her son turned two-year-old.

In , law enforcement in Ningbo mistakenly accused Dong of jaywalking because her face was featured in an advertisement on the side of a bus and inaccurately flagged by a facial recognition system. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.