Mention the word "rich second generation", everyone may think of Wang Sicong, Li Zekai and other well-known rich sons, but no matter how well-known they are, how strong their asset strength is, on the contribution of charity, almost not as good as a rich man named Lu Weiding, so what is the origin of this Lu Weiding?
Lu Weeding's popularity is almost zero compared with Wang Sicong and others, and even the family property he inherited is not as much as theirs, but Lu Weiding has a sense of social responsibility that no one of them can compare, his son inherited his father's business and got 45 billion assets, but he has accumulated 5 billion to engage in charity, such boldness is almost difficult for other rich second generations to compete.
45 billion assets to take out 5 billion, almost a ninth of the net worth, in 2020 Wang Jianlin family wealth is 119 billion, if calculated according to this ratio, Wang Jianlin father and son at least have to take out 13.2 billion to do charity.
But so far, they don't seem to have such courage, so Lu Weiding's courageous initiative to assume social responsibility has attracted countless praises from people.
Perhaps everyone does not know enough about Lu Weiding, it turns out that he is the son of Lu Guanqiu of Wanxiang Group, Lu Guanqiu, a rich man who came out of Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, was once famous for the production and sales of auto parts.
It is understood that since the establishment of Wanxiang Group in 1969, Lu Guanqiu has been continuously committed to the production of industrial parts, in 1984, Lu Guanqiu founded the Wanxiang Group, became the first to sell goods to American customers, so that the current three major American automobile manufacturers have become loyal customers of Wanxiang Group.
In 1994, Lu Weiding, who succeeded Lu Guanqiu, was only 23 years old, and he was only a small role unknown in the business world at that time, and even employees within Wanxiang Group at that time did not know that he was the son of the boss.
With the support of Lu Guanqiu behind the scenes and the business model of Lu Weiding's charge, Wanxiang Group began to expand its development scale continuously, from the initial auto parts manufacturer to a large group involved in tourism, agricultural machinery, real estate, chemical industry and real estate.
And with the expansion of the global automotive industry, Wanxiang Group has opened 20 branches in the United States, earning 12.6 billion yuan from the United States every year.
In 2017, Lu Guanqiu died, and Lu Weiding began to lead Wanxiang Group to continue to develop alone.
In the same year, the development of Wanxiang Group at home and abroad was greatly harvested, and in order to commemorate his father's achievements in pioneering the foundation, Lu Weiding made a decision that surprised everyone.
In October 2017, Lu Weiding announced that he would donate 5 billion yuan worth of equity to create a fund project to support the three rural areas.
In 2018, this fund project was officially implemented, benefiting thousands of rural residents, and with such a huge donation, Lu Weiding successfully landed first in the Hurun China Charity List on May 21, 2019.
At that time, the second place was Tencent's Chen Yidan, Xu Jiayin and Yang Guoqiang were ranked behind, and the amount of donations was far less than that of Lu Weiding, and he also became China's first good.
Seeing here, I believe that many people have been very emotional, although most entrepreneurs now will also engage in charity, but in the name of mourning their father, they can take out such a high proportion of family property to do charity, Lu Weeding is probably the first person.
Like the philanthropist Chen Guangbiao, who we are familiar with, although there are many donations, almost every time it has to be publicized, over-publicized and packaged, and it seems that the significance of winning fame is far more than the significance of charity itself.
Although the rich people such as Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and Wang Jianlin have also taken out a lot of money to do charity, compared with their own huge family business, it is difficult to say that they have fully assumed social responsibility.
Today, Lu Weeding leads Wanxiang Group to continue to carry out business in more fields, among which in order to fulfill his father's last wishes, Lu Weiding also chose to enter the field of new energy vehicle manufacturing.
In 2017, the year of his father's death, Lu Weeding announced on behalf of the company that he would take out up to 200 billion yuan in the future and strive to build a new energy vehicle manufacturing base in Zhejiang within 10 years.
Judging from this move, Lu Weiding can indeed be said to be a filial son, who not only inherited his father's charity cause, but also took over his father's unfinished car-making business.
In the future, under the leadership of Lu Weiding, what kind of changes will occur in the development of Wanxiang Group? We'll see.