[8] She was selected to compete at the World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland alongside Shang Chunsong, Wang Yan, Mao Yi, Tan Jiaxin, Chen Siyi, and Zhu Xiaofang (alternate).

[10] Individually, after qualifying in fifth-place, Fan won gold on uneven bars in the first ever four-way tie along with Viktoria Komova, Daria Spiridonova, and Madison Kocian.

[13][14] Fan competed in the women's qualification round at the 2016 Summer Olympics on August 7, scoring 15.266 on bars, 14.866 on beam, and 13.500 on floor exercise.

Controversially, Fan failed to qualify for the uneven bars final placing ninth due to missing some connections in her routine.

[20][21] With this victory, she became the first Chinese woman and the fourth overall gymnast in history to defend their World uneven bars title after Maxi Gnauck, Daniela Silivas, and Svetlana Khorkina.

[24] Fan was selected to compete at the Melbourne World Cup alongside countrywoman Lyu Jiaqi, who she beat to win gold in the uneven bars final.

In the event final, however, a major error on a half-turn caused Fan to place fourth behind Liu Tingting, Cheng Shiyi, and Ou Yushan.

Instead, she competed at the individual national championships in September and defended her uneven bars title ahead of Du Siyu and Lv Jiaqi.

[28] Fan concluded her year by competing at the 2019 Cottbus World Cup in November, qualifying in second place to the uneven bars final behind Anastasia Agafonova of Russia.

[31] Later, FIG announced that the qualifications standings from the Baku event would count towards points in the Individual Apparatus World Cup series.

As a result, Fan clinched a first-place overall standing on the uneven bars and unofficially qualified to the 2020 Summer Olympics as an individual athlete for China.