On August 22, 2026, Taikang Insurance Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Taikang Insurance Group") celebrated its 30th anniversary. On the day of the company's celebration, a personnel change news attracted market attention - the founder of the company, Chen Dongsheng, will no longer serve as the group's CEO and continue to serve as the group's chairman, and the current president and COO, Liu Tingjun, will take on the role of CEO.

This personnel appointment was approved at the 7th meeting of the 4th board of directors of Taikang Insurance Group on August 20th and was not announced to the public until the company's celebration two days later.

Taikang Insurance Group has stated that this is a proactive adjustment by the group to promote its new life insurance strategy and continuously strengthen the professionalization and youthfulness of its management team. Chen Dongsheng will return and focus on company strategy, team, risk, culture, and major decision-making, continuing to play a core leadership role.

Chen Dongsheng was born in 1957 and is already 69 years old this year. Liu Tingjun is a veteran of Taikang. He was born in 1972, 15 years younger than Chen Dongsheng, and both are alumni of Wuhan University. In 1997, in the second year after Taikang Life Insurance was approved for operation, Liu Tingjun joined Taikang Life Insurance and served as the head of the planning department, chief operating officer of Taikang Assets, vice president of Taikang Life Insurance, CEO of Taikang Home, CEO of Taikang Health Investment, and chairman of Taikang Online. He implemented the breakthrough and systematic construction of Taikang's medical and elderly care strategic service system from scratch.

In the list of leaders and management committee members of Taikang Insurance Group, there are a total of 17 people. In addition to Liu Tingjun, Duan Guosheng (Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, and CEO of Taikang Asset Management Group), Miao Li (Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of Taikang Insurance Group Miao Li) and other subsidiary leaders and group department heads are also included. Taikang Life Insurance and Taikang Asset Management have two and three people on the list, respectively. In addition to Duan Guosheng, Taikang Asset Management Committee members include Deputy General Managers Chen Yilun and Zhang Jingguo.

Taikang Insurance, together with Xinhua Insurance and Huatai Insurance, was one of the first joint-stock life insurance companies established after the promulgation of the Insurance Law in 1995. As of the end of 2025, Taikang Insurance Group's asset size reached 2.29 trillion yuan, with operating revenue of 209.153 billion yuan and net profit of 32.583 billion yuan for the year.

(Author Jiang Xin)