On April 8, Fortune released a list of 50 of China's most influential business leaders in 2022, and 77-year-old Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei ranked first. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming ranked second, and Tencent Chairman and CEO Ma Huateng ranked third.
Luwang Taishan financial reporter found that there are 3 entrepreneurs in Shandong along with Ren Zhengfei, Zhang Yiming, Ma Huateng, etc., namely Zhang Ruimin, founder of Haier Group (30th), Tan Xuguang, chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry and Weichai Group (37th), and Zhang Bo, chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group (46th). Among them, Zhang Ruimin and Zhang Bowei were selected again.
The following is a comment from Fortune -
Zhang Ruimin is 73 years old
Founder of Haier Group and Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors
In November 2021, Zhang Ruimin resigned as chairman of haier's board of directors and was invited to serve as honorary chairman. Under his leadership, Haier has been named the world's first home appliance brand for 12 consecutive years, and Haier Zhijia has climbed the ranking of the Fortune Global 500 for three consecutive years, and is currently ranked 405th. The Fortune Global 500 company is just one part of the Haier Group. Haier also includes Haier Electric Appliances, Kaos, Haier Biomedical, Yingkang Life, DayDayShun, Raytheon Technology, Qingdao Youwu and many other listed or quasi-listed enterprises.
Ten years ago, when talking about the succession, Zhang Ruimin said: "I hope to leave behind a mechanism and a spirit. Although Zhang Ruimin stepped down, his management ideas, especially the "Rendanheyi" model he proposed, will still have an irreplaceable influence within Haier and in the enterprise management community
Tan Xuguang is 61 years old
Chairman of Shandong Heavy Industry Group and Weichai Group
Tan Xuguang is an important figure in China's equipment manufacturing industry and a representative of the leaders of atypical state-owned enterprises. He raised Weichai's export earnings from US$300,000 to US$60 million, presided over the transformation of Weichai's product, service and technical standard system to adapt to the international market, and insisted on sharing intellectual property rights with foreign partners with higher scientific research capabilities than his own to cultivate his own scientific and technological team with independent research and development capabilities. On September 16, 2020, Weichai Power released the world's first commercial diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 50.23% in Jinan, setting a new benchmark for the thermal efficiency of global diesel engines, and on January 8, 2022, Weichai Power once again broke the record, and the thermal efficiency of the diesel engine body reached 51.09% for the first time in the world, further enhancing China's discourse power in the global internal combustion engine industry.
Zhang Bo is 52 years old
Chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group
Zhang Shiping's son Zhang Bo is not satisfied with just being the heir of a family business, he is willing to create his own era in the development history of Weiqiao. From "Entrepreneurship Weiqiao" to "Science and Technology Weiqiao" to achieve high-quality development. Recreating a "new Weiqiao" is not to compete for economies of scale, but to break the path dependence and break a new road of new and old kinetic energy conversion and high-quality development, which is Zhang Bo's wish.
On October 19, 2021, the first all-aluminum body of Weiqiao Lightweight Base rolled off the production line in Binzhou, realizing the operation of the whole industrial chain of "from aluminum water - research and development and manufacturing of lightweight parts - vehicle assembly", and truly realizing the cage for birds at the "Weiqiao speed". In August 2021, Fortune magazine released the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list, and Weiqiao Group ranked 282nd, ranking on the Fortune Global 500 list for the 10th consecutive year.
Attached is a full list of "China's 50 Most Influential Business Leaders in 2022"