Chen Feng, board chairman of Hainan Airlines Co. Ltd., won the "China Business Leader Awards 2005" in Shanghai Thursday, organizer said.

Chen is the first entrepreneur who won the honor of this first ever award on the Chinese mainland through eight months' selection and evaluation.

Chen will also become automatically a candidate for the Asia Business Leader Awards to be held in Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia in November this year, which is an influential event thathas been held for three sessions.

The Asia China Business Leader Awards, sponsored by the world'sleading business and financial media company CNBC, is one of the most important event in the Pan-Asia regions for business leaders who have scored outstanding achievements.

The China Business Leader Awards, co-sponsored by CNBC and the China Business News (CBN), is the first commercial award involvingan international organization on the Chinese mainland.

The award focus on such characteristic as leadership, acutenessof perception and creativity, according to Charles Lei, president of the Greater China Region of CNBC.

Source: Xinhua