One of my entrepreneurial friends is the 2017 Taishan Industry Leader in Shandong Province. When we met the day before yesterday, he told me that one night he had dinner with a business boss from another province, because the two sides were old friends who had cooperated for many years, and the catering atmosphere was very warm. At the moment of staggering, the other party suddenly asked without scruples, "Is your Taishan leader selected by Taishan?" As soon as the voice fell, the other party may feel that the question is too abrupt and slightly sarcastic, and immediately changed his mouth, "Is it the Taishan Research Institute that gave the evaluation?" ”。 As a result, this friend of mine cried and laughed, isn't the alias of the Taishan Society the Taishan Research Institute? So I quickly explained it to him. Fortunately, there was also an official of the local Economic and Information Commission present, who also gave careful explanations to the guests. I could feel it, and after many days, when my friend told me about it, I still felt quite embarrassed, although he was a free man. He didn't expect to "be able to associate me with my godfather." This friend of mine is engaged in traditional manufacturing, the restructured enterprise employs more than 10,000 people, he does transnational trade, but also do transnational operations, but the list of entrepreneurs he admires has never been a business master like Lao Liu, but an entrepreneur like Ren Zhengfei, Cao Dewang, Zhang Ruimin. The friend is an upright and upright person, a deputy to the provincial people's congress for two consecutive terms, and has been hired as a decision-making adviser to the local government.
Here we need to clarify a doubt: Liu Chuanzhi's "Taishan Society" (Taishan Research Institute or Taishan Research Institute) and Shandong Province's "Taishan Scholars and Taishan Leading Talents" are incompatible, and the two are completely different.
"Taishan Scholar, Taishan Industry Leading Talent Project" is a provincial major talent project implemented by the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Shandong Provincial Government in 2014, which is mainly divided into two categories: "science and technology entrepreneurship" and "industrial skills". In that year, Shandong Province issued the "Opinions on Further Improving and Upgrading the Taishan Scholars Project" and the "Opinions on the Implementation of the Taishan Industry Leading Talent Project" and the "Opinions on the Implementation of the Taishan Industry Leading Talent Project" issued by Lu Banfa [2014] No. 36 document, and later the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee issued the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Traditional Industries (Innovative Categories) of Taishan Industry Leading Talents (Trial)" in the document (Lu Zuofa [2015] No. 3), which was specifically undertaken by the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, the Department of Science and Technology and other departments. Taishan Scholars highlights the positioning of "scholars", focuses on supporting universities, research institutes, medical institutions, etc. to introduce and cultivate innovative scientific and technological talents engaged in basic research, original innovation and common technology research, and plans to select 500 candidates by 2020, and the provincial finance will provide 1 million yuan - 3.5 million yuan for each candidate. Taishan industry leading talents highlight the development orientation of service industry, focus on supporting enterprises, parks, industrial bases, etc. to introduce and cultivate leading talents or teams engaged in industrial technological innovation, industrialization of scientific and technological achievements and industrial skills, and plan to select 1,000 candidates and teams by 2020, and the provincial finance will give each candidate 500,000 yuan - 6 million yuan of funding. My friend is one of the "286" inductees in 2017 (111 Taishan scholars and 175 Taishan industry leaders). Most of them are well-known experts in various industries and fields or young and middle-aged scholars with great development potential, and have won a total of 797 scientific and technological awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, and have 3107 national invention patents, which are widely represented.
As for what kind of organization is the "Tarzan Society"? Because it is too mysterious, netizens know very little. It is said to have been officially deregistered and dissolved after 27 years of operation (initiated in late 1993, formally established in the summer of 1994, and finally ended in early 2021). If we ask what caused Tarzan to suddenly disband, we can't know. But since it is called the "most mysterious" "rich society" and resembles the "skeleton society" in the United States, it is best to search for its clues through the Internet search.
Don't check don't know, check a frightened. "Tarzan Society" is really extraordinary, and it can be called a gathering of big coffee. You see the list of 16 members before its dissolution, (Lenovo Liu Chuanzhi, Sitong Duan Yongji, Wantong Feng Lun, Oceanwide Lu Zhiqiang, Fosun Guo Guangchang, Broad Zhang Yue, Xinyuan Holdings Lin Rongqiang, Giant Shi Yuzhu, Baidu Li Yanhong, BBK Duan Yongping, Kehai Chen Qingzhen, Kerui Zheng Yuewen, Star Wang Yuansi, Hengdian Group Xu Wenrong, Heguang Business Wu Li, Huayi Brothers Wang Zhongjun), almost all the domestic capital giants and top rich people on the Forbes Rich List, spanning high-tech, real estate, finance, entertainment industries. It is said that the assets are as high as 2 trillion yuan, which can be called a rich country. No wonder the Taiwan media once marveled at its "influence on China's and even the world's economy."
Online information shows that the "Taishan Society" was proposed by Duan Yongji in October 1993 to establish a platform for entrepreneurs with assets of more than 100 million yuan to communicate and open up the living environment of private enterprises. Members must have assets of over 100 million, and the number of members has remained within 20 for many years. In the early stage of establishment, the member units jointly contributed 250,000 yuan as office expenses; in addition, each member unit also needs to pay 30,000 membership fees every year, and take turns to sit in the village to bear all the expenses of the annual meeting of the Taishan Association. Only one member is developed each year. New members need to be introduced by two Taishan club members, and all members vote unanimously to become a reserve member of taishan club, and become a full member after 1 year. Look, such a rigorous and harsh entry threshold and conditions, how many people to join, so it does not pursue a large number of personnel, suitable for good. If you have money and meet the conditions for membership, then once you have a gap with one of them, he does not agree, and you can't get in no matter how much money you have.
Everything is dialectical. If there is in, there will be out. Some people have emigrated to other countries after retiring from the association, and some people hope to make room for their children to take on their parental work because they have reached retirement age. After Ma Yun withdrew from the association (it is said that he violated the discipline of not attending the meeting three times), he started a new stove and a new path, first establishing the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce and then establishing the Lakeside University; he joined forces with Liu Chuanzhi, Feng Lun, Guo Guangchang, Shi Yuzhu, Shen Guojun, Qian Yingyi, Cai Hongbin, Shao Xiaofeng and other 9 people to initiate the establishment of this Jianghu Academy, and the members of the Taishan Association accounted for more than half of the initiators.
Some people commented that "the Taishan Society is the gathering place of the first group of people in China to make a fortune through capital operation." Note that it is capital operation, not manufacturing production, not scientific research and innovation, but capital operation."
In any case, they are absolutely "brotherly unity as one person" internally, absolutely "in the same boat through thick and thin, sharing weal and woe", and have the liangshan good man style of "shooting when it is time to shoot". If anyone really believes what Feng Lun of Wantong Group says, they are just "a bunch of old men, private organizations" and just "play golf, drink tea, and chat" together, it would be too naïve and naïve. Because later it was rumored that they not only discussed politics, discussed the state of affairs, studied trends, discussed trends, and discussed the changes in the international situation, which were all major events that stood tall in the sky.
They are "models" of "brothers working together to create great things and joining hands with each other to make money". For example, someone said:
In 1995, after seeing the general trend of residential commercialization, Lu Zhiqiang, Liu Chuanzhi, Duan Yongji and other members jointly established the "Guangcai Project Investment Governance Co., Ltd.", and under lu Zhiqiang's seat, with the acquisition of Nanyou Property, led the company to make a lot of money in the next few years.
In 2011, a number of members, including Lu Zhiqiang and Liu Chuanzhi, jointly funded and Wang Jianlin to establish Changbaishan International Tourism resort development co., LTD. Based on the help of the "Taishan Society" brothers, Wang Jianlin waved the 200 million yuan ski resort project into a giant project, and the value increased by 100 times. Wang Jianlin also thanked Lu Zhiqiang in his speech on the listing of Wanda Hong Kong.
For another example, in 2005, Because Lu Zhiqiang took too much land, the capital chain was affected, and Liu Chuanzhi stepped forward and actively helped Lu Zhiqiang get through the difficulties.
In order to repay Lao Liu, in 2009, when Liu Chuanzhi wanted to change Lenovo from state-owned to private and equity into a private enterprise, Lu Zhiqiang was obligated to stand up to Liu and immediately bought 29% of Lenovo's shares from Guoke Holdings at a price of 2.755 billion, becoming lenovo's third largest shareholder, so liu Chuanzhi became the actual controller of Lenovo.
All in all, the Tarzan Society is a regal organization that resembles a chaebol group. They have money, but lack of power, on the one hand, they are blind and self-reliant, on the other hand, they are impetuous and extremely inferior, in order to make people look up to prove their own value, make a Taishan of the Five Peaks as a name, trying to use the auspicious connotation of "stable as Taishan" to make the carrier of this research institute sustainable. As a result, they think too beautifully, China is not a Western capitalist system, China is a socialist China with special characteristics, a China where the people are supreme and the people are the masters of their own affairs; China in the new era is an era of promoting common prosperity, an era of accelerating the complete reunification of the country, and an era of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and no one or organization is allowed to endanger the interests of the state and the people through the disorderly expansion of capital. Capital must be subordinated to the will of the state and the will of the people, and must serve the country's economic and social construction and the people's mastery. A true entrepreneur must have the motherland in his heart, must carry forward the entrepreneurial spirit, make contributions to the great era, must be patriotic, innovative, and honest, expand his international vision, and assume social responsibility; the people hope that every discipline-abiding and law-abiding enterprise can innovate and develop and go steadily and far; but no matter how far he goes, he must bear the ideal and responsibility, enhance the feelings of home and country, live up to national integrity, take the initiative to share worries for the country, and actively serve the people. This is what the country expects, the people expect.