Female entrepreneur Chen Lihua passed away in Beijing, with assets exceeding 50 billion yuan during her lifetime. At age 49, she married the actor who played "Tang Monk."

Ms. Chen Lihua, a female entrepreneur, has passed away.
On April 7th, Fuhua International Group announced that Ms. Chen Lihua, due to ineffective medical treatment, passed away in Beijing on April 5th, 2026, at the age of 85.
As an important figure actively involved in the business and cultural sectors for a long time, her departure has left many feeling regretful.

Public information shows that Ms. Chen Lihua was one of the key founders of Fuhua International Group, and also the founder of the Chinese Zitan Museum.
In her career development, besides achieving significant success in the business field, she also invested a great deal of effort in the systematic collection, preservation, and display of Zitan culture.
The establishment of the Chinese Zitan Museum is regarded as a concentrated embodiment of her long-term dedication and also provides an important platform for the inheritance of traditional woodworking techniques.

In her personal life, Chen Lihua’s marriage to actor Chi Chongrui has long attracted public attention.
The two married in 1990, when Chen Lihua was 49 years old and Chi Chongrui was 38, with an 11-year age difference.
This marriage, due to the different backgrounds of the two, once became a topic of public discussion, but the couple has maintained a low profile for many years.

From a business achievement perspective, Chen Lihua holds a high influence among female entrepreneurs.
According to publicly available information from Fuhua International Group’s official website, in the 2018 list of notable women entrepreneurs, Chen Lihua ranked third with assets totaling 50.5 billion RMB, demonstrating her long-term accumulation and steady strategic layout in the business field.

Unlike a development path focused solely on scale expansion, Chen Lihua chose to invest a large amount of resources into cultural endeavors during her career peak.
She spent decades promoting the systematic organization and public display of Zitan art, making the traditionally niche craft more widely recognized.
This long-term investment with a longer return cycle has become a notable part of her personal experience.

Fuhua International Group highly praised Ms. Chen Lihua’s life in its announcement, believing that she not only had a forward-looking vision in business management but also left a clear mark in cultural inheritance and social responsibility.
With her passing, a figure of symbolic significance in both the business and cultural worlds has come to an end, but the事业 and理念 she promoted will continue to have an impact.