Meng Fengchao

Company: China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC)
Position: Chairman

Meng Fengchao is the chairman of China’s largest overseas contractor, CRCC, and has ambitions to make the company the world’s most competitive large construction group. It is currently working on one of the region’s largest road schemes, Algeria’s $3.7bn East-West highway.

Fengchao was appointed as chairman in May 2010; before this he was a director, general manager and then vice-chairman at China Communications Construction Group. Fengchao’s early career was spent in the Chinese Railways Ministry, which he joined in 1982, working within its group of engineering firms until 1998, when he became general assistant manager of the China Railway Construction Development Centre.

He has also held positions at companies including China Railway Engineering Company and China Zhongtie Major Bridge Engineering Group Company. Fengchao graduated from Southwest Jiaotong University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, majoring in tunnels and subways.

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