Editor’s note:
Wang Jun, former chairman of Citic Group Corp. Ltd., one of China’s largest state-owned conglomerates, died this month at the age of 78. Wang served as the top executive at Citic from 1995 to 2006. He was a leading figure behind Citic’s reforms that shaped it into a globally operating state-owned enterprise. Wang was a son of Wang Zhen, one of the founding fathers of the People’s Republic of China, who was appointed as a vice president of the country in 1988.