Wendy Ding, the vice president of China’s leading jacket specialist Shenzhen Chiwan Sembawang Engineering (CSE), was something of a child prodigy.

Ding’s intellectual excellence at junior high school allowed her to skip senior high and go to university at the age of 15.

She has since gained a reputation as a tough negotiator.

In 2014, Ding and her commercial team won a subcontract from Hyundai Heavy Industries to provide facilities for the Nasr field development in the United Arab Emirates.

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