He started from scratch, struggled hard for decades, created the myth of annual income of tens of billions, and became a true mining king. Shortly after the death of his wife, he married a beautiful wife who was twenty-five years younger than himself, which attracted the attention of countless people for a time, and his deeds also exploded throughout the Internet, causing people to discuss and sigh, so how did he work hard step by step so far? In this issue, Ziya Tong Fun Merchant will take you to see Chen Jinghe, the king of China's gold mines.
Study hard and change your destiny
Chen Jinghe was born in 1957 in Longyan City, Fujian Province, to an ordinary family, which is a very rich mining and forest area with beautiful mountains and rivers.
Perhaps because of the influence of the geographical environment, Chen Jinghe likes to deal with "stones" since he was a child, likes to study various natural and geographical knowledge, and is really the best enlightenment teacher for children.
Since Chen Jinghe went to junior high school, his geography results have been very good, not once in three years is not the first place in the class, his obsession with geography has also been praised by the teachers, becoming the "bully" in the class, and later he was naturally admitted to the best high school in the city.
If he had taken the college entrance examination in the normal order, he would have taken the college entrance examination, but due to the particularity of the era in which he lived, he could not take the college entrance examination that year, and could only return to his hometown to engage in very tired agricultural production.
Two years later, the state resumed the college entrance examination, Chen Jinghe was successfully admitted to Fuzhou University majoring in geology, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Fujian Province Minxi Geological Brigade, and then engaged in geological exploration work in Purple Mountain.
Purple Mountain is located in Fujian Province, rich in mineral resources, and is likened by locals to "copper dolls wearing golden hats". However, between 1960 and 1980, the state did not find valuable minerals when it was explored.
Chen Jinghe, who was full of enthusiasm, believed that there were definitely mines here, and he firmly believed and took action to explore in the mountains.
In 1982, he led a team to camp at the foot of the mountain, looking for minerals along the banks of the Ting River every day. The mountain is steep, and every group of people walks on the rugged mountain road against the wind and the sun to explore everywhere, sunburned bones, lived in broken temples, drilled caves, but they all overcame.
The efforts were not in vain, and a year later, he finally discovered the mine. In order to explore the exact amount and type of ore, he and his teammates spent another 10 years.
Give up the iron rice bowl and work hard to start a business
In 1992, Shanghang County, Fujian Province, decided to develop this mine, but experts believe that the total reserves of gold mines are only 5.45 tons, everyone is not optimistic, Chen Jinghe does not think so, he resigned his iron rice bowl, took the initiative to apply to Zijin Mining as a leader, his own development.
At that time, the company was small, and it was very difficult, the initial stage, even sometimes even the salary could not be paid, only 76 employees, the annual profit was only 30,000 yuan, or rely on the sale of sporadic minerals to earn.
But Chen Jinghe braved the difficulties and boldly chose the heap leaching technology with low investment amount and low production cost, and no one thought that this plan could be implemented at that time, but Chen Jinghe succeeded, spending 7 million yuan to build a mine that processed 50,000 tons of minerals per year.
After the first success, Chen Jinghe also changed the name of the company to Zijin Mining, and his Zijin Mine was also superimposed on the economic benefits after repeated mining, and the company became bigger and bigger, and the earnings were also full.
The team he led continued to innovate mining technology, making Purple Mountain quickly become the largest mining area in China's gold production, and the company's popularity continued to rise, but this is far from enough, Chen Jinghe's goal is to make his company go global.
He spent several years searching for gold resources across the country and investing, Zijin Mining's investment in mining areas quickly reached double digits, and by 2003, Chen Jinghe had successfully listed Zijin Mining in Hong Kong and obtained countless financing.
After the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, his Zijin Mining has become China's largest mining enterprise, he has expanded again and again, so that the company's gold storage reached a staggering 1900 tons, and sales are also broken 10 billion, after that year, Chen Jinghe became the real gold mine king.
Only when the family has a virtuous wife can we have a successful career
Chen Jinghe's success has a lot to do with his wife Lai Jinlian. His wife, Lai Jinlian, is his high school classmate and has a superior family background, although the two have a huge difference in family background, But Lai Jinlian has never abandoned Chen Jinghe.
When Chen Jinghe was frustrated, she always gave comfort to the other party, encouraged him to reinvigorate, and gave financial help.
In 1982, they married, after marriage Chen Jinghe was busy with his career, staying at home for several days all year round, almost all exploring in the mountains, and the burden of the family was all on Lai Jinlian.
Every day during the day, Lai Jinlian not only has to go to work, but also goes home to take care of housework, take care of children and the elderly on both sides after returning home. When Chen Jinghe threw himself into his career, Lai Jinlian had no complaints, and even when Chen Jinghe wanted to resign and start a mine, he fully supported him.
It is precisely because of his wife's understanding that Chen Jinghe can devote himself wholeheartedly to his work and make major breakthroughs in his work. In 2003, Zijin Mining was successfully listed, and five years later, its scale continued to expand, becoming the largest mineral gold production enterprise in mainland China. The company has total assets of 26.218 billion yuan, net assets of 19.179 billion yuan, the scale of the enterprise has also developed from the initial mining company to China's top 500 enterprises, holding companies distributed in more than 20 provinces and regions of the country and 7 overseas countries.
Just when Chen Jinghe's career was in full swing, his wife Lai Jinlian had an accident. One day in 2015, Lai Jinlian, who thought it was just ordinary low back pain, came to the hospital to do a checkup, who had thought of this investigation, found out that the lung cancer was advanced, and it was advanced.
The family is not short of money now, but time can not be bought by money, because she missed the best treatment period, although she tried her best to cooperate with the doctor's treatment, but the condition was serious, in 2019, Lai Jinlian died of illness.
Subsequently, Chen Jinghe posted an article mourning his wife on the Internet, recalling the ups and downs experienced by the two together, and at the end of the article, he said: "I am proud and proud to be able to marry Jinlian, which is the most correct decision I have made in my life... When one day I want to enter that world, I still have to find her to renew the relationship. ”
I believe that everyone who has read this article will definitely be touched by their love story and will be touched by the deep affection of this man.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Jinghe would suffer a heavy blow because of Lai Jinlian's death, but he did not, on the contrary, only a year later, he met thirty-eight-year-old Qian Bing at the annual meeting of entrepreneurs, and the fate of one side made the two feel good about each other.
A year after Lai Jinlian's death, Chen Jinghe married the woman who was twenty-five years younger than himself, and the news quickly spread throughout the Internet, and there was news that Chen Jinghe's son was also very angry about his father's behavior.
But these voices did not affect Chen Jinghe's decision at all, and in order to get his son to agree to marry his wife again, he also transferred part of the equity in his hands to his son.
People have to sigh that Chen Jinghe has really laid down blood for this wife. Later, the wedding of the two was huge, and for such a marriage, the discussion naturally rose and fell.
In fact, Lai Jinlian is undoubtedly very unfortunate, if it were not for her alone with her weak arms to take on all the trivialities in the family, naturally there would be no Chen Jinghe who was fully committed to her career.
But fate is so unfair, but also full of regrets, such a thing in addition to making people feel emotional, who can criticize whom? Perhaps, Chen Jinghe can only use the company's outstanding achievements again and again to miss his former wife.
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