On the National Day of 2020, the entry for the big wedding of Chen Jinghe, chairman of Zijin Mining Group, known as China's Golden King, once landed on the fourth place in Weibo's hot search, and the video of the wedding scene became popular all over the Internet.
The 63-year-old remarried with Qian Bing, a 38-year-old with a 25-year-old age difference, just one year after his wife died of illness.
At the end of 2019, Chen Jinghe also published a long-word article mourning his wife on social platforms, which made a group of melon-eating masses can't help but sigh that feelings really go fast and come quickly.
Behind the marriage and love storm that has aroused a lot of attention, Chen Jinghe's legendary entrepreneurial road is even more amazing.
01, husband sing women and women, strong backing
Chen Jinghe was born in 1957 in Yongding, Fujian Province, the son of a teacher at a local school and an ordinary farmer.
Although the family conditions were average, his parents never treated Chen Jinghe badly and gave him the best conditions he could create as much as possible.
After entering junior high school, Chen Jinghe found his favorite subject geography.
Interest is the best teacher, out of the passion for geography, Chen Jinghe became more and more energetic, in three years, almost won the first place in all the examinations of geography subjects.
Chen Jinghe and his wife Lai Jinlian had known each other as early as high school, and they both studied at Gaopi Middle School in Yongding City, and the two were still classmates.
Chen Jinghe and Lai Jinlian
At that time, Chen Jinghe already had a crush on Lai Jinlian, but he did not dare to boldly express his love.
After graduating from high school, Chen Jinghe, who had no future prospects, decided to return to his hometown to help his parents farm.
Lai Jinlian also returned to her hometown as a substitute teacher, and in addition to teaching, she also engaged in heavy agricultural production in her spare time.
With very little time to rest, it is difficult for two people to meet and can only keep in touch through letters.
Fortunately, in 1977, two years after they graduated from high school, China finally resumed the college entrance examination system, and Chen Jinghe, who had excellent grades, was admitted to Fuzhou University majoring in geology that year.
At that time, the college entrance examination acceptance rate was only about 20%, and Lai Jinlian was also successfully admitted to the nurse major of Longyan Health School, and after going to college, the two also formally established a romantic relationship.
The school system is two years, and when Chen Jinghe was still in his junior year, Lai Jinlian had already embarked on the road of work.
At that time, due to the poor family situation, Chen Jinghe's living expenses were very tight when he was in school, and Lai Jinlian was afraid that Chen Jinghe would not have a good life, and would often help him.
In 1982, Chen Jinghe, who graduated from university, was assigned to the Fujian Minxi Geological Brigade to work in charge of the Purple Mountain Gold Mine Project. Since then, Chen Jinghe has formed an indissoluble relationship with the Purple Mountain.
This year, Chen Jinghe proposed to Lai Jinlian that he wanted to marry her as soon as possible and enter the palace of marriage. At that time, marriage according to their local customs required a large dowry, which made Chen Jinghe very embarrassed.
Lai Jinlian's parents are also very understanding, holding Chen Jinghe's hand and saying: "You have just graduated from college, entered the workplace, the family is also more difficult, do not give the dowry, you just need to treat Jinlian well, in addition to this, we have no other requirements." ”
At the end of 1982, the young couple who had been married for less than a year ushered in their first love crystallization, and their son Chen Lei was born.
At that time, Chen Jinghe was responsible for the work related to the Purple Mountain Gold Mine, and stayed on the mine for many years to explore, and the prospecting work was very difficult.
Later, in order to facilitate his work, Chen Jinghe simply moved to a broken temple on the mountain with other staff members in the group, and the living conditions were very difficult.
There is very little time to rest throughout the year, and it is rare to find time to spend with his wife and children.
Chen Jinghe in his youth
Lai Jinlian works as a nurse in the Second People's Hospital of Longyan City, the work has to work in three shifts, and the parents are working in the family farm, can not spare time to take care of the children, Lai Jinlian can only take care of the children alone, it is very hard.
Later, Chen Jinghe published a paper entitled "Discovery, Research and Exploration of "Purple Mountain-style" Large Copper-Gold Mine in Shanghang, Fujian Province"
At a national academic forum held in Fuzhou City, Pan Kuoxiang, director of the Fujian Institute of Geological Sciences at the time, decided to transfer Chen Jinghe to the Fujian Institute of Geological Sciences to engage in gold mine research.
Not only was he well paid, but the unit also allocated a house for him and provided Lai Jinlian with the opportunity to transfer to a Fujian geological nursing home, so that the husband and wife would not have the pain of separating the two places.
During the two years of working at the Institute of Geoscience, Chen Jinghe was always worried about The Purple Mountain, so Chen Jinghe made a bold decision to return to the Purple Mountain to continue working.
He told Lai Jinlian about this idea, and thought that his wife would not agree, but after a short period of thought, she decided to support her husband, but hoped to go to Purple Mountain with him so that she could rely on each other in life.
Chen Jinghe's decision also made the leaders of the institute very moved, in that era, everyone squeezed their heads to enter the provincial city, but Chen Jinghe went up against the current and took the initiative to go to the area with difficult conditions, so Chen Jinghe was appointed as the person in charge of the Purple Mountain exploration project.
The wife also applied to the hospital to become a team doctor of the geological exploration team, and brought her 4-year-old son Chen Lei to live in the Purple Mountain mining area.
After two or three years, because her son reached the age when he should go to primary school, Lai Jinlian could only take his son out of the mining area to work in the Shanghang County Geological Bureau.
At that time, experts from the Ministry of Industry came to Purple Mountain to conduct open industrial experiments, estimated the total gold reserves of Purple Mountain, and found that the entire Purple Mountain was only 5.45 tons, which was difficult to mine.
And the quality of these ores is not very good, it is difficult to make a profit, it is a huge problem.
Chen Jinghe (left)
Chen Jinghe was not willing to let his 10-year-old efforts be in vain.
In 1992, in order to better explore the Purple Mountain gold mine, Chen Jinghe gave up his iron rice bowl as a senior engineer in the Geological Bureau and applied to work at the Shanghang County Mineral Company, an idea that was once again fully supported by his wife.
It is precisely because of his wife's strong support again and again that Chen Jinghe can show his fists in his career and have no worries.
02, break the routine, turn waste into treasure
In 1993, after resigning from the Fujian Institute of Geological Sciences, Chen Jinghe officially came to Shanghang County Mineral Company as the general manager of the company.
Shanghang County Mining Company was also the predecessor of Zijin Mining Group, the largest gold mining company in China.
At that time, it was very small, with total assets of only more than 3.5 million yuan and only 76 employees, but even the salaries of these 70 people could not be paid at times.
According to the mining design scheme of experts from the Ministry of Industry for the Purple Mountain mining area, the whole mud cyanidation process should be used in wet and rainy places, so as to guarantee the loss rate of the mine.
But the mining budget of this program is as high as 30 million yuan, so much money, how can it be taken?
Chen Jinghe thought that if he didn't even take the first step, how could he know if there was any hope? He immediately decided to boldly adopt a mining scheme that was not favored by experts, and chose a low-cost heap leaching process.
Unexpectedly, it really succeeded, and it only took less than a quarter of the cost of the total mud cyanidation program, and the gold mine treatment of nearly five tons of gold was completed for 7 million yuan.
Purple Mountain Gold Mine Concentrator
In 1993, after putting into production, Shanghang County Mineral Company was also officially renamed As Shanghang County Zijin Mining Corporation.
Through the unremitting efforts of Chen Jinghe and his team, he has overcome one problem after another in mining and turned Purple Mountain Mining into treasure.
At that time, the mining cost of Purple Mountain Mining was less than one-fifth of that of other enterprises, which greatly increased the mining value of Purple Mountain Mine.
In 1994, the Third Plenary Session of the Fourteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formally established the establishment of a socialist market economic system, in order to conform to the current of the times and respond to the party's call.
The local government decided to restructure Zijin Mining, reduce its state-owned shares, and allocate 14% of the state-owned shares to attract employees to participate.
Zijin Mining
In order to set an example for the majority of employees, Chen Jinghe was the first to purchase the original shares.
After that, Zijin Mining publicly raised shares and introduced Xinhuadu Investment, the largest private department store in Fujian Province at that time, and Xinhuadu invested 33% of the shares, becoming the second largest shareholder of Zijin Mining at that time.
In April 2001, Zijin Mining underwent a second restructuring and successfully restructured from a state-owned enterprise to Zijin Mining Group Co., Ltd.
At the same time as the restructuring of enterprises, technological upgrading and transformation are also being carried out simultaneously.
After many transformations, the Purple Mountain Mining Area has been rapidly improved in terms of available reserves, ore grade, gold production, etc., and the total assets of the enterprise have reached more than 600 million yuan, becoming the leader in the domestic gold mining industry.
But Chen Jinghe is not satisfied with such achievements, he has a bigger goal in mind, he wants to let Zijin Mining go out of Fujian, to the whole country, to the world.
After that, Zijin Mining began to look for resources for the whole country and even the world, and in just a few years, Zijin Mining has invested in 11 mining areas such as Guizhou and Jilin.
By 2021, Zijin Mining has invested in production in 8 overseas countries, including Canada, South Africa and Peru.
At the end of 2003, Zijin Mining Group was successfully listed in Hong Kong, and for a while, Zijin Mining became a sought after object of investors.
With continuous acquisitions and expansion, at the end of 2008, Zijin Mining became the largest mineral gold production enterprise in China and the third largest mineral copper production enterprise in China, accounting for one-fifth of the total domestic gold production.
According to relevant information, as of the end of 2019, the gold resource storage of Zijin Mining Group reached 1900 tons, accounting for nearly 40% of the domestic total, and the reserve of copper resources accounted for as high as 50%, which is very amazing.
With annual sales of US$15.8 billion, it ranked first among global gold companies and first among China's non-ferrous metals companies.
03, marry a wife, and create a peak again
At the same time as Zijin Mining achieved great success, Lai Jinlian, who accompanied Chen Jinghe through nearly 40 years of marriage, unfortunately passed away due to illness.
At the end of 2015, Lai Jinlian's condition in many hospitals was still not improving due to low back pain, and she decided to do a comprehensive examination.
The physical examination report brought a thunderbolt of bad news on a sunny day, which was diagnosed by Beijing 301 Hospital as advanced lung adenocarcinoma, and the waist pain was caused by the spread of cancer cells and bone metastasis.
Beijing 301 Hospital
In fact, as early as a physical examination in 2011, Lai Jinlian had already found lung nodules, but after two years of regular examination, it was found that there was no major incident, and she did not pay attention to it anymore.
Who would have thought that letting down one's guard had caused such serious consequences, and missing the best time for treatment without timely diagnosis.
Through more than a year of targeted drug treatment, Lai Jinlian's condition has been controlled to a certain extent, and Lai Jinlian is still insisting on exercising in order to improve her body's immunity and drag her weak body.
But misfortune still came, in January 2019, due to the rapid development of the disease, the physical condition deteriorated extremely, Lai Jinlian finally did not overcome the disease and passed away.
A few months after his wife's death, Chen Jinghe published an article mourning his deceased wife in his social account entitled "Remembering His Beloved Wife Jinlian", in which Chen Jinghe wrote deeply: "Being able to marry Jinlian is the most correct decision I have ever made in my life, and recently, I often dream of her, and I always feel that she has not left." I hope that when I enter that world one day, I can still meet him and continue the relationship between husband and wife. ”
This article touched a lot of netizens.
Just a year later, the news of Chen Jinghe's remarriage spread throughout the Internet, and the video of the wedding scene was also exposed.
In the video, the bride Qian Bing confessed to Chen Jinghe affectionately: "I never thought that I would enter the palace of marriage, I used to think that marriage was not a necessity, until I met Mr. Chen, I believed in love." We want to use this marriage to prove that true love can cross and break through the boundaries of age. ”
According to China Securities News, the bride in the wedding was Qian Bing, born in 1982, born in the same year as Chen Lei, the eldest son born to Chen Jinghe and his ex-wife, and has an age difference of nearly 25 years with her husband Chen Jinghe.
According to public information, Qian Bing is a master of business administration from the New York Institute of Technology, has served as the vice president of the channel department of many companies, and has provided optimized financial management solutions for countless customers.
Many netizens on the Internet have revealed that Qian Bing's resume is not so simple.
Qian Bing (left)
In 2001, 19-year-old Qian Bing came to Quanzhou to go to school, and during his time at school, he began to contact advertising agencies and started his modeling career.
In 2005, Qian Bing signed up for the New Silk Road Model Contest and successfully advanced to the final.
Chen Jinghe was not her first husband, and in 2006, she married her college boyfriend with a license and conceived a son.
The two also co-founded a coffee shop, which is named after Qian Bing, named Qian Bing Coffee No. 1.
Later, when the two divorced, they also transferred the coffee shop.
Since then, Qian Bing has been engaged in the modeling industry and has filmed multiple advertisements.
Until 2016, Qian Bing went to the United States to study, the style of painting suddenly changed, and she began to take the elite strong woman route on social software.
Regarding Qian Bing's experience as vice president of the channel department of many companies, there is no basis for qian Bing's experience of optimizing financial management solutions for countless customers.
On the contrary, the melon-eating masses found through the heavenly eye inspection that Qian Bing was the legal representative and major shareholder of Xiamen Hera Zhiai Health Management Company.
Hera Love's homepage promotes the business of third-generation IVF in the United States, legal third-party assisted reproduction, and there are promotional posters suspected of Qian Bing's appearance.
Netizens have ridiculed: "Although I don't know what excellent achievements Ms. Qian has made, her marriage with Chen Jinghe should be her most successful investment case." ”
Qian Bing and Chen Jinghe met at a Xiamen entrepreneur annual meeting in 2020, Chen Jinghe had a good feeling for her at that time, under continuous contact, the relationship between the two was getting better and better, Chen Jinghe decided to marry Qian Bing.
At first, Chen Jinghe's son Chen Lei was very angry after he knew it, his mother died not long ago, and his father had a new relationship so soon, which was too much.
Chen Jinghe insisted on marrying Qian Bing despite his son's objections, and in the end, his son could only compromise.
While ushering in a new love affair, Chen Jinghe led Zijin Mining Group to usher in another new peak in performance.
In 2020, Zijin Mining Group achieved annual sales of 171.5 billion yuan, an increase of 26% over 2019, and the total annual profit also reached 10.9 billion yuan.
According to the annual performance report released by Zijin Mining on February 11, 2022, the market value of the enterprise reached 291.7 billion yuan, and the total annual profit in 2021 reached nearly 15.6 billion yuan.
Compared with the total profit in 2020, it increased by about 139% year-on-year, which is also the best performance created by Zijin Mining Group since its inception.
Today, the 65-year-old Chen Jinghe still leads Zijin Mining forward.
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