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Zeng Qinghong of GAC, He Xiaopeng of Xiaopeng, Yao Zhenhua of Baoneng, Shen Hui of Weima, Zeng Yuqun of Ningde era, Li Dongsheng of TCL, Huang Hongsheng of Kaiwo... These founder-level bigwigs are all Alumni of Huagong. Not to mention serving as the backbone of the middle and high levels in various new energy vehicle companies, there are countless Chinese graduates.
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Author: State-owned Assets Rao Yuanwai
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Someone once systematically sorted out the industry leaders of chip semiconductors and found that Tsinghua University graduates occupied half of the industry.
▲ Tsinghua University shoulders half of China's chips.
Today we will use the same method to study another strategic emerging industry - new energy vehicles, and explore who is the first university in China's new energy vehicles.
The answer you may not think, not Tsinghua, not Peking University, not Fudan turned in... But it is located in Guangzhou - South China University of Technology!
From the perspective of the industrial chain, China's new energy vehicle companies are mainly divided into four categories: vehicle manufacturing, new energy batteries, automatic driving and key devices.
At present, there are a number of bullish companies in the four categories, such as "Wei Xiaoli" who makes cars, Ningde era that engages in batteries, Baidu that plays unmanned cars, and BOE that does car displays. For details, please see this form I made -
There are a total of 50 new energy vehicle leaders in China, of which 14 are from South China University of Technology.
Zeng Qinghong of GAC, He Xiaopeng of Xiaopeng, Yao Zhenhua of Baoneng, Shen Hui of Weima, Zeng Yuqun of Ningde era, Li Dongsheng of TCL, Huang Hongsheng of Kaiwo... These founder-level bigwigs are all Alumni of Huagong.
Not to mention serving as the backbone of the middle and high levels in various new energy vehicle companies, there are countless Chinese graduates.
It should be known that there are only 4 Tsinghua alumni on the list, 3 from Peking University, 3 from Zhejiang University, 1 from Shangjiao, 1 from the University of Science and Technology of China, and Fudan and Nanda eat duck eggs. By the way, the next five schools are all located in East China, so they are collectively called "East China Five Schools".
If you count the sum, the total market value of these 14 companies in the Chinese engineering department exceeds 2.1 trillion yuan. What is this concept? The total market value of the "Tsinghua chip circle" that was previously blown up by the media is only 600 billion yuan, less than one-third of the "Huagong new energy automobile circle".
Unbelievable.
South China University of Technology, a school that ranks outside the top 20 all year round, can one day beat the "good friends" of CUHK on a single indicator, crushing the eight schools in Hong Kong (HKUST, HKUST, CUHK, CityU, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Baptist, Lingnan, HKUST), and even defeating the "Qingbei + Huawu".
Why South China University of Technology? This is a question worth pondering.
Compared with Peking University Tsinghua, Huagong has a geographical advantage
We all know that there is a chain of contempt in China's higher education circles, standing at the top are Tsinghua University and Peking University, and every student in it is a genius. However, after all, the scale of the two schools in the north of the Qing Dynasty is limited, and it is impossible to account for all the benefits, and at this time, the second echelon represented by the "Hua Fifth" has emerged. South China University of Technology can only rank in the third echelon at most.
However, it is better to learn well than to be born well. Hefei, where the University of Science and Technology of China is located, is a late-developing area, beijing, where Qingbei is located, has no new energy automobile industry chain, and the new energy vehicles in Shanghai, where Nanda is located, and Hangzhou, where Zhejiang University is located, are independent and have not formed a joint force.
Guangdong Province, where Huagong is located, has a unique advantage and forms a perfect closed loop in the new energy vehicle industry chain.
Guangdong is the province with the largest number of Chinese and the youngest population. Guangdong has inexhaustible labor resources, so as to create a new energy vehicle that meets the standards. Guangdong has the strongest consumer demand, which can digest hundreds of thousands of new energy vehicles a year.
Guangdong is the largest province in economy and finance, and the financing channels here are the smoothest and the financing costs are the lowest. New energy vehicles just happen to be capital-intensive enterprises, and it will cost billions to engage in a research and development project, which is the easiest to make bigger in Guangdong.
Guangdong is the demonstration window and frontier of 40 years of reform and opening up, where the investment policy is the best and the business environment is the most relaxed. Beijing is the base camp of central enterprises, and Shanghai is the world of state-owned enterprises and foreign enterprises, which is not conducive to the growth of private enterprises. The new energy automobile industry is a high-risk sunrise industry, which can only be the front line and the front line of private enterprises, so Guangdong is the best soil.
Most people know that Zeng Yuqun is a native of Fujian, and the headquarters of the Ningde era is in Ningde, Fujian. But few people know that Zeng Yuqun's master's degree was obtained at South China University of Technology, and the birthplace of the Ningde era was in Guangdong.
In 1985, after graduating from undergraduate, Zeng Yuqun was assigned to a state-owned enterprise in Fujian province and won an iron rice bowl. But he resigned after a few months of work and went south to Guangdong to enter a foreign company. Excellent people shine everywhere, and in just 9 years, Zeng Yuqun climbed to the position of engineering director. Please note that this is a foreign company.
In Guangdong, where the entrepreneurial atmosphere is strong, everyone wants to go to the sea. Zeng Yuqun is the same, he started a new energy technology company (ATL), registered in Hong Kong (he later got a Hong Kong resident identity card), the production base is in Dongguan. The company has grown rapidly, entering the supplier list of Apple and Samsung and becoming a benchmark in the battery industry.
Later, under the repeated persuasion of the leaders of Ningde City, Zeng Yuqun moved the production base back to his hometown, which led to the glory of the Ningde era.
Compared with Zhongda, Huagong has professional advantages
We all know that the school with the strongest comprehensive strength in Guangdong Province is not Huagong, but CUHK. So, why is it that in the list of 50 people in new energy vehicles, the number of Chinese workers on the list is far more than that of CUHK?
Although Sun Yat-sen University has a high comprehensive ranking, it focuses on the development of humanities and social sciences, science and medicine, and its accumulation in the field of engineering and technology is not thick enough. As can be seen from the name, South China University of Technology is the best engineering school in South China.
As early as the 1970s, South China University of Technology opened a major in automotive, and in the mid-1980s, it has carried out the research and development and teaching of automotive electric technology, and published a self-compiled textbook "Electric Vehicle Science".
The School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, one of the largest colleges in South China University of Technology, has 28 top scientific research platforms such as the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Auto parts Technology, the Guangdong Electric Vehicle Technology Engineering Laboratory and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Automotive Engineering.
In order to cultivate compound talents, South China University of Technology integrates relevant advantageous course resources such as computer, automation, new energy, vehicle engineering, etc., to form an interdisciplinary research platform of "new energy intelligent vehicles" to promote teachers to carry out research on key common frontiers to lead subversive technologies.
Shen Hui, the founder of WM Motor, once said: "I went to the United States after graduating from undergraduate, and the four-year education of Chinese workers has benefited me a lot, allowing me to open my mind to the clouds, and I can also roll up my sleeves and work little by little." ”
In contrast, Sun Yat-sen University's resource investment and talent reserves in this area are far behind, and there is neither a major in vehicle engineering nor a key laboratory in the field of automotive. Therefore, Huagong can surpass CUHK in this field.
Compared with the eight schools in Hong Kong, Chinese workers have entrepreneurial advantages
Within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the strongest higher education is not guangzhou, but Hong Kong. Among the eight public universities in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University are world-recognized engineering schools, and the quality of faculty and students is significantly stronger than that of South China University of Technology. So why haven't these two world-renowned schools trained leaders in the field of new energy vehicles?
This is because Hong Kong's economy has been "hollowed out", land and labor costs are extremely high, and the manufacturing base is extremely weak. Hong Kong university students are flocking to economics, management, law, medicine, foreign languages and other disciplines, and few people study engineering. Occasionally, one or two engineering elites emerge, who also go to multinational companies as executives, and are unwilling to take risks to start a business.
The students of South China University of Technology are completely different, and their heroes are not senior government officials, nor professional elites such as lawyers and doctors, but entrepreneurial leaders in the field of science and technology.
In 1999, South China University of Technology took the lead in proposing the goal of "three innovations" talent training in the country, that is, innovation, creation, entrepreneurship, and exploration of industry-university-research collaborative training of talents. In 2015, South China University of Technology was awarded the "Top 100 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Chinese mainland".
Moreover, Huagong has also formed a cultural tradition of "getting rich first and getting rich later, and master and brother helping master and disciple". In the words of He Xiaopeng: "If you are a graduate of South China University of Technology and you want to build a car, as long as you squeak in the alumni group, the seniors will already help you get the supply chain done." ”
▲He Xiaopeng gave a speech at the graduation ceremony of South China University of Technology in 2020.
Those Chinese graduates who have successful in starting a business will also give back to their alma mater in various ways to contribute to the development of Chinese workers.
In 2010, Huang Hongsheng, the founder of Skyworth Home Appliances (now the chairman of Kaiwo Automobile), together with his wife Lin Weiping, who is also an alumnus of Huagong, donated 30 million yuan to his alma mater, of which 10 million yuan was used to set up the "Hongping Evergreen Fund" to fund the scientific and technological innovation activities of students of South China University of Technology.
In 2012, Liu Jincheng, founder and chairman of Ewell Lithium Energy, set up the "Ewell Lithium Energy Scholarship" in Huagong to fund outstanding students for a long time, and also carried out school-enterprise cooperation with Huagong.
In 2013, Yao Zhenhua, founder and chairman of Baoneng Group, donated 20 million yuan to Huagong.
In 2020, He Xiaopeng held the second "1024 Smart Day" at South China University of Technology, which is the annual brand activity of Xiaopeng Motors.
In 2021, Juwan Technology Research Co., Ltd. and South China University of Technology Automotive Industry Alumni Association held a strategic cooperation framework agreement between Juwan Technology Research Institute and South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, aiming to promote the iterative upgrading of new energy industry technology and help the industrial innovation and development of the Bay Area.
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In the future, China's new energy vehicles will also attack the city in the international market, and the industry influence of Chinese industry alumni will certainly rise to a higher level.
Tsinghua Peking University, this time you have to obey, right?