A few months later she added a second indoor title to her achievements, taking the long jump competition at the 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha. Chen was the bronze medallist at the Good Luck Beijing test event, but did not go on to compete at the main competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her 2009 season began with an indoor personal best of 6.57 m on the Chinese circuit. She secured another national title outdoors in May and was one of the favourites for the 11th Chinese National Games. She ended up as the silver medallist at the Games, however, as 16-year-old Lu Minjia emerged with an Asian youth record mark to win the competition. Her year's best jump came in Jinan in October, clearing 6.58 m, but she did not manage to reach this form at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships, where she had to settle for silver behind Filipino Marestella Torres.