Our Team

The people behind your trip and your strategy

Business Consulting

Boyang Shen

Boyang Shen

CEO and Founder

Spent seven years at Allianz, working across automotive and insurance.
Founded China Industry Tours to connect visiting companies with the people and plants behind China's industries.
Still writes and films much of our own content.

Stella Gao

Stella Gao

Marketing Director

Durham MBA with eight years in marketing, digitalisation and strategy.
Sets the marketing plan and keeps it tied to real enquiries.
Turns what we know about China into messages that travel.

Alex Chen

Alex Chen

BD Director

INSEAD MBA and former senior strategy consultant.
Eight years in real estate investment, reading markets and deals on the ground.
Opens doors for business groups and shapes visits that match what they came to find.

Meki Peng
Languages: English & Chinese

Meki Peng

Head of HR

Master's in Human Resource Management from Durham University.
Background in HR consulting.
Runs team building and keeps the people side of the business working, in English and Chinese.

Fengyue Wang

Fengyue Wang

Business Consultant

Fudan IMBA, with work experience at Huawei in Germany.
Trilingual in Chinese, English and German.
Helps European companies read the Chinese market and its supply chains.

Harald Buchmann

Harald Buchmann

Travel & Culture Partner

Studied at HSG in Switzerland and Tsinghua in China.
Fifteen years across the auto industry, technology and strategy consulting.
Creates social media content in three languages, explaining China to audiences back home.

Jeremie Ni

Jeremie Ni

Business & Culture Partner

Studied at Tongji University and ESSEC in France.
More than thirty years advising European and Chinese companies and running cross-cultural training.
Specialises in China's automotive and new energy sectors.

Oliver Asante

Oliver Asante

Digital Marketer

Builds brand awareness through strategic marketing.
Trilingual in Chinese, English and Bahasa Indonesia.
Reaches audiences and markets we would otherwise miss.

Travel Services

Yang Zhang

Yang Zhang

GM of China Industry Tours Travel

Entrepreneur in the tourism market.
More than ten years in the MICE industry, running meetings, incentives, conferences and events.
Knows how an industry's value chain fits together and builds itineraries that show it.

Yuri Huang

Yuri Huang

Project Manager

Master of Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Runs complex trips as projects, keeping timelines and people in step.
Brings cultural and architectural context to the places guests visit.

Patrick Chen

Patrick Chen

Head of Sales

Seventeen years in tourism, eleven of them working overseas.
Knows what travellers need before they land, and how to deliver it.
Leads the sales team and the first conversations with most clients.

Ciao Zhang

Ciao Zhang

Strategy Partner

Jinan University MBA, with more than a decade in the luxury travel business.
Plans routes and stays that hold up to close inspection.
Bridges what a guest expects and what China can actually deliver.

Agnes Shen
Languages: English & Chinese

Agnes Shen

Travel Consultant

Duke Fuqua MBA, with ten years across globalization, project management and investment.
Works in English and Chinese to turn a client's wish list into a workable China itinerary.
Handles the logistics and the small details so travel days stay unhurried.

Daniel Lu
Languages: English & Chinese

Daniel Lu

Travel Consultant

Eight-plus years in tech branding, now guiding culture and business tours.
Runs events and group logistics end to end.
Guides in both English and Chinese.

Derek Young
Languages: English & Chinese

Derek Young

Travel Consultant

Nineteen years in outbound tourism.
Builds strategic, integrated B2B2C marketing that brings the right travellers to a destination.
Works with clients in English and Chinese, from first enquiry to the trip home.

Lin Pang

Lin Pang

Travel Consultant, Beijing

Fourteen years in multicultural automotive marketing at BMW.
Trained in Chinese language and literature.
Based in Beijing, leading tours for our northern routes.

William Wang
Languages: English & Japanese

William Wang

Travel Consultant

MBA from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University.
Ten years with an international automobile company.
Guides and supports guests in English and Japanese.

Content Creation

Joseph Wang

Joseph Wang

Content Director

Came to us from the film industry, where he produced TV programmes.
Won Silver at the 2023 China Short Video Competition.
Leads the films, photos and stories we bring back from every trip.

Polina Silkina

Polina Silkina

Graphic Designer

Bachelor's degree from Boston University.
Winner of the Young Ones One Show 2024.
Has travelled across six continents, which shows in how she designs for visitors.
Handles our visual identity and the graphics across the site.

Contact Us

Tell us what you need in China. We handle the rest.

One enquiry goes straight to our team. Share a few details about your trip, industry visit or consulting question and we will come back with a concrete next step — not a brochure.

  • A real person reads it

    Every enquiry is handled by the team that will actually plan your trip.

  • Replies within one business day

    If something is outside our network, we say so instead of guessing.

  • No obligation

    A first conversation and a rough scope come at no cost.

Prefer to talk before you write? WhatsApp is usually the fastest way to reach us.

Send us your enquiry

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Contact Us

Tell us what you need in China. We handle the rest.

One enquiry goes straight to our team. Share a few details about your trip, industry visit or consulting question and we will come back with a concrete next step — not a brochure.

  • A real person reads it

    Every enquiry is handled by the team that will actually plan your trip.

  • Replies within one business day

    If something is outside our network, we say so instead of guessing.

  • No obligation

    A first conversation and a rough scope come at no cost.

Prefer to talk before you write? WhatsApp is usually the fastest way to reach us.

Send us your enquiry

Fields marked with * are required.

Would rather skip the form? Message us on WhatsApp