Text: Xiao Jie
In 2022, the mainland's most influential business leader will undoubtedly be Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei. Ren Zhengfei also once said, "For thirty years, Huawei has been all pain and no joy." However, he still led Huawei to the world with indomitable will and tenacious courage. It is worth mentioning that Tencent's Ma Huateng's ranking has remained basically stable in the past 3 years, while Ma Yun has gradually slipped from the top of the list in 2020 to the 6th place this year.
As we all know, Huawei has suffered unfair treatment from foreign capital because of its strong scientific and technological power, and its performance in 2021 has also fallen by nearly 30%. In the list of the top 500 private enterprises in China in 2021 released in September last year, Huawei ranked first with a business of 891.368 billion yuan, but Huawei's global sales revenue in 2021 was only 636.8 billion yuan. So, how likely is Huawei to rank first in the top 500 Chinese private enterprises in 2022?
Looking at the list of the year, Jingdong Group and Hengli Group ranked 2nd and 3rd respectively, with operating income of 768.624 billion yuan and 695.336 billion yuan respectively. Moreover, Zhengwei International Group, ranked No. 4 and No. 5, and Alibaba both have higher revenues than Huawei.
This is followed by Tencent, which focuses on the Internet business, and Country Garden, which focuses on the real estate industry, and by comparing the revenue of these companies, it is possible to judge Huawei's ranking in the top 500 private enterprises this year.
According to the latest financial report data released by JD Group, its revenue in 2021 was 951.6 billion yuan, an increase of 27.6% year-on-year. From this point of view, JD.com has surpassed Huawei in revenue and become the first private enterprise in China. Today's JD.com is in its heyday, and it is also the most likely to break through the trillion yuan of revenue in 2022.
JD.com not only sponsored 1.5 billion yuan for the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2022, but also announced a donation of 15 billion yuan to public welfare undertakings in February. The acquisition of Debon Express, which has strong comprehensive strength, trained Xu Lei as CEO of Jingdong Group, and built the "Asia One" intelligent industrial park, which is enough to see the strength of Jingdong to go to trillions of revenues.
The revenue of Hengli Group in 2021 reached 732.3 billion yuan, and it is also a foregone conclusion that it will become the second largest private enterprise in China. It is worth mentioning that although Hengli Group does not have much fame, it is the largest private enterprise and the largest manufacturing group in Jiangsu. At the same time, Hengli Group is also a regular customer of the world's top 500 companies, ranking 67th in 2021.
The most important thing is that unlike many successful entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma and Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Hengli Group is a grassroots couple. His wife, Fan Hongwei, is an accountant with only a college degree; her husband, Chen Jianhua, is a rural-born construction worker who almost became disabled because of an accidental fall. Therefore, it is indeed admirable that Hengli Group can have today's achievements.
There is no revenue data of Zhengwei International Group in 2021, but according to the revenue of 2020, the gap between Zhengwei International Group and Jingdong Group is more than 76 billion yuan, and it is still difficult to catch up with Jingdong within one year. Wang Wenyin of Zhengwei Group is also a prominent figure in the capital circle, sitting on more than 20 mines and more than 24 million tons of copper mines, and has always had labels such as "the richest man in Anhui", "the world's copper king" and "the most mysterious Chinese richest man".
In 2021, Alibaba's revenue increased by 29.8% year-on-year, and its revenue of 836.4 billion yuan was also above Huawei. However, Alibaba's revenue growth rate fell to 10% in the fourth quarter of 2021, and net profit fell by 74%. Ali is now a strong enemy, and has also been affected by short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou and live streaming.
Tencent's total revenue in 2021 is 560.1 billion yuan, under Huawei. However, Tencent's net profit was as high as 224.82 billion yuan, equivalent to 616 million yuan per day. Huawei's net profit in 2021 is 113.7 billion yuan, only a little more than half of Tencent's.
Country Garden's revenue in 2021 is under Huawei and Tencent, with a contract sales amount of about 558 billion yuan and a contracted sales area of about 66.41 million square meters. In this way, country garden's house price is about 8402 yuan per square meter, which is below the national average. According to the "2022 Hurun Global Real Estate Entrepreneur List", Yang Huiyan of Country Garden is undoubtedly the world's No. 1 "charter wife".
From the perspective of the revenue of the above major enterprises, among the top 7, Tencent and Country Garden remained 6th and 7th respectively, JD.com rose to the first, and Huawei is most likely to rank 5th, between Ali and Tencent. So, does Huawei still have a chance to achieve overtaking?
Under the influence of a series of external factors, Huawei's situation in 2021 is extremely difficult. Due to the lack of chips and other components, Huawei's new machines basically do not support 5G networks, and decisively let honor mobile phones out of their predicament. However, Huawei's R&D investment not only did not shrink, but reached a new high, exceeding 140 billion yuan.
In addition, Ren Zhengfei also made it clear that in the future, 20% of the annual revenue will be used as research and development funds. Moreover, Huawei has already opened investment in chips, systems and other fields. With this huge amount of money, Huawei can attract talent from all over the world, and it is only a matter of time before it breaks the limitations of chip technology.
Huawei also made it clear that it will use a multi-core architecture to solve the problem of Huawei's high-performance chips by stacking and exchanging area for performance. Apple released the M1 Ultra chip, which is to package the two chips together through advanced technology.
It is understood that on April 5, Huawei disclosed a patent for chip stacking packaging and terminal equipment. In addition, there is a technology patent to ensure the power supply of the chip while solving the problem of high cost caused by the use of silicon through-hole technology.
The most important thing is that Yu Chengdong, Ren Zhengfei and Meng Wanzhou are all very confident in Huawei's future. On the question of when Huawei will break through, Yu Chengdong said that Huawei will return to the king in 2023; Ren Zhengfei said that Huawei's winter has passed and spring is coming.
Meng Wanzhou also said at the 2021 results conference that Huawei may have passed its own "black barrier area". Coupled with the help of the 15 major legions, Huawei will move forward in the direction of digitalization, intelligence and low carbon in the future, relying on talent, scientific research and innovation to build long-term competitiveness. Technology must be in its own hands, huawei's technology must be its return to the peak of the capital.