en.Wedoany.com Reported - On July 4, China's Huayou Holding Group held a new executive meeting, appointing Lou Jianfeng as President of Huayou Holding Group, responsible for overseeing the group's daily operations and management.

Lou Jianfeng, born in June 1968 in Dongyang, Zhejiang, holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Zhejiang University, an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lou Jianfeng worked at France's Atofina Chemical Company (now Arkema) from 1998 to 2003; from 2005 to 2015, he held positions including Senior Manager, General Manager, and Vice President at BASF; from 2015 to 2019, he served as Senior Vice President of BASF's Global Battery Materials Business Unit; from 2019 to 2021, he was President of BASF's Global Advanced Materials and Systems Research and a member of the Global Executive Committee; from 2022 to May 2026, he served as Chairman and President of BASF Greater China and a member of the Global Executive Committee.

Previously, on May 26, BASF issued a notice of senior management changes, stating that Lou Jianfeng had resigned, and Jeffrey Lin would assume the role of Chairman and President of BASF Greater China effective July 1, 2026.

Huayou Holding Group Co., Ltd., founded in 2006 and headquartered in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, is a large-scale new energy lithium battery materials investment group, with Chen Xuehua as the actual controller. The company's core business covers the entire industrial chain of cobalt, nickel, and lithium resource development, smelting, cathode materials, copper foil, and recycling, and it is the controlling shareholder of the listed company Huayou Cobalt (603799.SH).