Zhou Chaonan

{ "bio": [ "Zhou Chaonan is the chairman of Range Intelligent Computing Technology Group, a provider of data center services.", "Zhou worked as a teacher briefly before finding a job at a state-owned logistics hub in her home town of Hengyang in Hunan Province.", "She then worked for various state-owned firms for almost two decades, and didn't launch her own business until 2000 -- when Zhou was already in her 40s.", "Zhou officially set up Range in 2009. The company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in a backdoor listing in 2022." ], "about": [ "Her given name literally means better than man in Chinese. Zhou's father hoped she could live up to Chairman Mao's famous quote: Women hold up half the sky." ] }