Text: Long wind
The most powerful person in the mainland is Zhong Sui, who not only surpassed Ma Yun, Wang Jianlin, Ma Huateng and other rich people who have dominated the list for many years, but also climbed into the world's top ten for the first time. Unexpectedly, according to the 2021 Forbes Chinese mainland rich list, the most profitable person in the pharmaceutical circle in 2021 is still Zhong Jingjing. I thought that Zhong Shui was the richest man who became the richest man by selling water, who knew that people were hidden deeply.
In addition to holding the Nongfu Mountain Spring, Zhong Also has wantai creatures. In 2021, in addition to the bivalent HPV vaccine that has already been listed, he is also involved in some high-priced HPV and a variety of innovative vaccines. At its peak, his wealth was as high as 550 billion yuan, ranking 6th in the world and the highest status reached by China's wealthy people.
Ma Yun's highest value when he won the title of China's richest man was 440 billion yuan, which is even greater than the wealth of Musk, the chairman of Tesla, the world's richest man in the United States, 1.28 trillion yuan. Ma Huateng, the founder of Tencent, who is also developing in the Internet field, ranked second in China with a value of 413.4 billion yuan, ranked 14th in the world, and has not yet entered the world's top 10.
However, in addition to focusing on the company's own project product development, Ma Huateng has also invested in many well-known domestic Internet companies, and even the boss behind Meituan and JD.com is also him. Tencent holds a 16.5% stake in Pinduoduo, a 17.2% stake in Mushroom Street and a 9.3% stake in Vipshop.
In addition, there is JD.com in the e-commerce industry, and Tencent holds 17.9% of its shares, even surpassing founder Liu Qiangdong. In addition to the e-commerce industry, Tencent also holds an 18% stake in Meituan, a leader in the takeaway industry. That is to say, Ma Huateng is undoubtedly the boss behind many Internet companies.
It's just that since 2020, the founders of many Internet giants have retreated behind the scenes, such as Alibaba founder Jack Ma, Pinduoduo founder Huang Zheng and JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong.
The difference is that Liu Qiangdong handled a lot of things before he retired. Only in 2020, Liu Qiangdong resigned from more than 50 companies in succession, and even resigned from important positions such as the legal representative of Jingdong, and also made major adjustments to Jingdong Logistics, making the latter turn losses into profits and get on the right track.
Today, we only see the success of JD Logistics, thinking that Liu Qiangdong has a broad vision, but we do not see the loss of JD Logistics in the 12 years before its listing. Liu Qiangdong also said that if JD Logistics loses money for another 2 years, it can only go out of business.
In fact, since the establishment of "JD Multimedia" in 1998, "JD Strong" has worked hard in the business world for more than 20 years, and its success is no accident!
Looking back at Liu Qiangdong's photos when he was young and Liu Qiangdong's entire entrepreneurial history, you can understand what is really self-made. Liu Qiangdong was born in Suqian, Jiangsu Province in 1973, and although his family was very poor, he did not lag behind in his studies.
In the 1992 college entrance examination, Liu Qiangdong became the city's champion with 688 points and successfully entered Chinese Min University. However, Liu Qiangdong did not have enough living expenses to go to school, or the villagers friendly "crowdfunded" 500 yuan and 76 eggs for him before letting him enter the university gate.
As for why Liu Qiangdong chose Chinese University, he once publicly stated: There were many choices that year, but I only saw two cities - Beijing and Shanghai. It was in this situation that Liu Qiangdong stood out and became one of the most successful "North Drifters".
The university is a beautiful place, with a freer and more adequate learning environment, Liu Qiangdong uses his spare time to continue his struggle. He taught himself programming and earned money through various part-time jobs, and after getting the "first pot of gold", he opened a restaurant at the school.
It stands to reason that the restaurants located near the campus are the least short of people, and there is no reason to lose money. However, Liu Qiangdong not only lost all his money, but also owed more than 100,000 yuan. However, he did not give up his entrepreneurial career.
In 1998, Liu Qiangdong went to Zhongguancun with 12,000 yuan, rented a small counter, named it "Jingdong Multimedia", and began to operate various CDs and tape recorders. At that time, electronic product piracy was rampant, and many people profited from it. However, Liu Qiangdong insisted on not selling fakes, and won the trust of many people, and Jingdong did it little by little.
By 2004, Liu Qiangdong had discovered the advantages of online sales, and resolutely closed all offline stores and began to enter the e-commerce business. After JD.com's development was on the right track, in order to better serve customers and ship to customers in the shortest possible time, JD.com announced the construction of a logistics warehouse in 2007.
The news was like a deep-water bomb that blew up the objections of many shareholders of JD.com. Because no e-commerce company will establish its own distribution network, not to mention that "three links, one reach, one SF" has gradually developed, the choice is more diverse, almost monopolizing the e-commerce industry, and now joining a slight negligence will be in trouble.
However, Liu Qiangdong still insists on building his own logistics group. In April 2019, Liu Qiangdong said that this is the 12th year of JD Logistics's losses, and if the losses continue, JD Logistics will disappear in less than 2 years. Therefore, in order to make JD Logistics survive, the basic salary was also cancelled, not to reduce wages, but to increase income.
Subsequently, JD Logistics also changed its business model. It no longer serves the JD e-commerce platform alone and begins to serve third parties. Today's JD.com is still very successful, as of February 26, the market value of JD Group has reached 856.8 billion yuan.
Liu Qiangdong's personal wealth has also been accumulated, becoming a regular customer on the wealth list, and marrying Zhang Zetian, the "milk tea sister". He believes that in order to establish a sound logistics ecosystem, it is necessary to have its own system. Moreover, there are already 4 listed companies in the JD department: JD.com, Dada Group, JD Health and JD Logistics. If JD Technology also successfully lands on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Liu Qiangdong will receive his fifth IPO and his personal wealth will rise to a higher level.
In addition, the new energy industry that Liu Qiangdong once "bet" on Dong Mingzhu has gradually achieved results. Since 2022, Gree's lithium battery business has attracted a lot of media attention, first renaming the lithium battery business to Gree Titanium, and then announcing that it has won 8,000 buses in Beijing. It may mean that Gree's "bet" to acquire Silver Dragon New Energy is a victory.
For the future logistics vision, Liu Qiangdong once said that Jingdong will establish an underground fully automatic logistics and transportation channel. Just like the subway channel, the fast transport channel can run continuously, the manual only needs to store and take out the courier at the entrance and exit, and the traffic between the cities can borrow the magnetic levitation channel. Do you think his vision of the future of logistics will come true? Will Liu Qiangdong be the next richest man in China?