The Hengli Group was originally founded in 1994 as a small local textile and weaving factory by entrepreneur Chen Jianhua alongside his wife, Fan Hongwei. Over subsequent decades, the entrepreneurial couple successfully expanded operations into a massive, vertically integrated multinational industrial enterprise. Today, Hengli stands as one of the largest energy, petrochemical, and fiber manufacturing conglomerates in the world, maintaining high rankings on global corporate lists while remaining under the strategic direction of its founding family.