Forbes 2019 World's Most Influential Women: Ping An Chen Xinying of China was selected for the first time! Ranked 22nd

Wen | Ke Yi

A few days ago, Forbes magazine's "2019 Global 100 Most Influential Women" list was announced, and Chen Xinying, co-CEO of Ping An Group, a female executive in China's financial industry, was selected for the first time and ranked 22nd, along with European Commission President von der Leyen, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, Walmart International CEO and President Judith McKenna, Citigroup President Jane Fraser, Temasek CHIEF Executive He Jing, Shell CFO Jessica Schwarzenegger. Yule and other global women leaders joined the list.

Forbes said that the 100 women on this list are builders, disruptors and innovators in all walks of life. Including Chen Xinying, a total of 23 women are new faces on the list for the first time this year. They are influencing traditionally male-dominated fields, paving the way for the next generation of female leaders. Moira Forbes, executive vice president and president of Forbes, said: "The 2019 list reminds us that women have made tremendous progress and that they have a huge opportunity to define the next decade. ”

Xinying Chen joined Ping An in 2013 after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently the Co-CEO of Ping An Group, where she is in charge of Ping An Group's technology innovation and healthcare business. She has been awarded the Peacock Program for High-Level Overseas Talents, served as Co-Chair of the 2019 Summer Davos Forum (the only representative of the global financial industry), and chaired the AI/Industry 4.0 Intelligent Reform Forum. Prior to joining Ping An, Xinying Chen was a global partner at McKinsey & Company, where she worked with leading financial and technology institutions in the U.S. and 10 countries across Asia, with a focus on strategy and technology.

As the only representative of China's financial industry, Chen Xinying also won the 2019 Chinese Government Friendship Award on the eve of this year's National Day. The award is the highest honor awarded by the Chinese government to foreign experts, and recognizes Chen Xinying's important contributions to China's financial and medical technology innovation, China's urban intelligent service and helping the country's science and technology go to sea.

It is reported that Chen Xinying is responsible for Ping An's independent research and development and application technology business of basic technology, and in the past six years, she has actively participated in the trend of various innovative developments, and is committed to combining the world's leading development concepts and cutting-edge technologies with China's actual situation and continuously deepening development. Under the leadership of Chen Xinying, Ping An's basic science and technology research and development and investment have achieved rapid development, and the company's development strategy and service model have been constantly pioneering and innovating, effectively leading the development of the industry and enhancing the industry's ability to serve the national strategy, and actively promoting the progress of national science and technology and the improvement of international competitiveness.

In the past six years, Ping An's R&D personnel have increased from 3,000 to 32,000, the total number of science and technology employees has reached 101,000, and the number of Internet customers has increased from 40 million to 540 million. As of the first half of 2019, Ping An's cumulative number of technology patent applications reached 18,050, ranking among the top international financial institutions, including 3,959 PCT and overseas patent applications; a number of core technologies won international awards and were affirmed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and SAFEA. Chen Xinying also led the team to incubate a number of innovative models, Ping An's technology companies have reached 11, of which there are 2 listed companies and 3 unicorns, with a total valuation of more than 70 billion US dollars.

In order to solve the pain points of Financing Difficulties and Expensive Financing for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in China, OneConnect, which Chen Xinying personally incubated, has provided end-to-end financial technology services for more than 3,700 domestic banks, insurance, investment and other financial institutions. OneConnect has also cooperated with 27 financial institutions in 10 countries or regions in Asia to empower countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" and help export Chinese science and technology overseas. In addition, the world's leading commercial blockchain platform led by Chen Xinying has been launched in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, aiming to help the construction of the Bay Area and the rapid development of enterprises in the platform.

Under the leadership of Chen Xinying, Ping An's medical technology uses artificial intelligence as a means to empower the medical service level of large hospitals to grass-roots hospitals, so that the masses can enjoy the same quality of medical services in hospitals at different levels. At present, the world's leading Ping An intelligent image screening, prediction, auxiliary diagnosis and treatment and other core technologies, and intelligent AI doctor subsidy diagnosis (AskBob doctor) have landed in more than 70 cities at home and abroad in 10,000 medical institutions, benefiting more than 200 million people.

In line with the principle of "serving the country, serving the society and serving the public", Chen Xinying promotes the construction of smart cities with Shenzhen as the benchmark, focusing on 21 areas of "excellent governance, prosperity and benefiting the people", aiming to empower government management and urban governance, and comprehensively serve national development, social prosperity and people's living and working in peace and contentment. At present, Ping An Smart City services cover more than 100 cities across the country, Ping An Commercial Comprehensive Credit Platform covers more than 3 million commercial entities, and the accuracy rate of identifying abnormal credit enterprises has reached 90%, and the smart transportation integration platform provides services for more than 20 cities across the country, reducing the traffic accident rate in upper-tier cities by 10% and shortening the congestion time in key road sections by 30%.

Under the call of the party and the state for targeted poverty alleviation, Chen Xinying actively promoted the use of Ping An's scientific and technological advantages to promote the "Three Villages Wisdom Poverty Alleviation Project" to help the country get rid of poverty. In terms of health poverty alleviation, Ping An Medical Think Tank's auxiliary medical products landed in Guizhou, providing more than 500 village doctors with auxiliary diagnosis and treatment of common diseases, with an accuracy rate of 95%, including more than 1,500 kinds of personalized auxiliary diagnosis and treatment support, as well as more than 30,000 diseases encyclopedia knowledge query think tank, saving nearly 30% of the diagnosis and treatment time for grassroots doctors. In terms of education poverty alleviation, in May this year, Chen Xinying went to the countryside in Heyuan, Guangdong Province, to teach in the countryside, bringing smart classrooms to poor villages, improving the scientific and technological literacy and ability of rural students; she also promoted the use of artificial intelligence and remote technology to upgrade the teaching facilities of nearly 400 rural primary schools, aiming to improve the teaching level of rural primary schools; in terms of industrial poverty alleviation, under the leadership of Chen Xinying, a series of innovative technologies of Ping An entered poor villages, including crop intelligent identification technology, meteorological disease and pest prediction platform, Innovative technologies for the Internet of Things in the field have widely empowered the industrial development of poor areas.

The innovative scientific and technological power brought by Chen Xinying has promoted the continuous deepening of Ping An's "finance + technology" and "finance + ecology" strategies. Ping An of China has said that with the joint efforts of 100,000 science and technology practitioners led by Chen Xinying, it will continue to strengthen scientific research investment and application, establish a sound clustered, matrix and original science and technology system, comprehensively improve the company's data management level, and steadily move towards the goal of becoming an international leading technology-based personal financial life service group, helping the national economic transformation and upgrading and innovation-driven development.

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