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Whether an enterprise is excellent or not, whether it can become a benchmark in this field, is inseparable from the leader of this enterprise. And those who can be called business leaders must also be the core figures of industry giants. Fortune magazine recently released the list of China's 50 most influential business leaders in 2022, and overall, in addition to information technology, advanced manufacturing, traditional basic industries, as well as emerging industries such as new energy and high-end manufacturing.
The big guys that people are more familiar with are basically on the list, such as Huawei's soul figure Ren Zhengfei, as well as "Erma", "Glass King Cao Dewang, Anta founder Ding Shizhong, Weilai boss Li Bin." However, there is a huge gap between men and women, there are only 7 female entrepreneurs, and in terms of age, more than 70% are over 50 years old, and there are 3 people over 70 years old. Now let's take stock of the top 10 business leaders on the list.
Tenth place: Xu Zheng, chairman of Shanghai Construction Engineering Group
Many people are not familiar with Xu Zheng because he is relatively low-key, but what Shanghai Construction Engineering does is not low-key at all. Since 2020, Shanghai Construction Engineering has helped to build epidemic prevention facilities across the country, reflecting the sense of social responsibility of a large enterprise, achieving operating income of 281.516 billion yuan last year, and Chairman Xu Zheng is also the first time to enter the top ten business leaders in the country.
Ninth place: Dong Mingzhu, chairman of Gree Electric Appliances
Dong Mingzhu is definitely one of the most famous Chinese business women at present, she dares to fight, and the "five-year contract" with Lei Jun has allowed everyone to see her unique charm and her confidence in Gree. Although the revenue of Gree has declined in the past two years, there is a hidden trend of being surpassed by the United States, but the influence of Dong Mingzhu and Gree Electric Appliances in the industry has not diminished at all.
In the list, Dong Mingzhu is the only female entrepreneur in the top ten, and she has also won the top spot in the list of domestic female business leaders for many times. In 2021, the shipment of Gree air conditioners still achieved steady growth, reaching 152.59 million units, Dong Mingzhu from an ordinary salesman to become the chairman of Gree Electric Appliances, with his own tenacity and persistence out of a road that others can not replicate. On February 28 this year, the 68-year-old Dong Mingzhu successfully re-elected as the chairman of Gree Electric Appliances, and Gree will continue to sit firmly in the leading position of the industry under her leadership for at least the next three years.
Eighth place: Lei Jun, founder of Xiaomi Group
Lei Jun's entry into the top ten of the list this year is also expected, after all, Xiaomi has become the first mobile phone giant in China, and the rapid development speed of Xiaomi Group in the past two years is obvious to all. In 2021, Xiaomi Group achieved revenue of 328.3 billion yuan, and the annual profit did not increase but fell by 5%, and the net profit was 22 billion yuan. It is worth mentioning that in the newly released 2022 China Charity Entrepreneur List, Lei Jun ranked first, donating 15 billion yuan a year.
Seventh place: Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD
The early BYD is doing lithium battery business, just a few decades of development, not only has become one of the world's largest power battery manufacturers, but also the domestic new energy vehicle industry leader, which is inseparable from chairman Wang Chuanfu's insistence on the concept of technology first and quality as king. In 2021, BYD sold 721328 cars, of which 562871 new energy vehicles were sold, greatly increasing its share in the new energy vehicle market.
In March this year, BYD announced the suspension of production of fuel vehicles, which is not unrelated to the surge in sales of new energy vehicles, in March alone, its new energy vehicle production reached 106,700 units, no wonder there is no doubt to stop production of fuel vehicles.
Sixth place: Ali founder Jack Ma
Alibaba, founded by Ma Yun, has greatly facilitated people's lives and greatly affected the consumption methods of Chinese people in terms of shopping, travel and consumption. As a result, Ali has formed its own e-commerce empire and become an Internet giant enterprise. However, in 2021, Under various supervisions such as anti-monopoly fines and ant listing suspensions, Ali's profits have plummeted, and Ma Yun has also slipped from the top of the list of most influential business leaders in 2020 to sixth place, and has rarely appeared in the media in the past two years.
Fifth place: Zhang Zhixiang, founder and chairman of Beijing Jianlong Heavy Industry Group
Zhang Zhixiang is definitely a low-key and powerful big man, he can be called the "steel king" in China. Under his leadership, in 2021, Jianlong Group achieved revenue of 247.463 billion yuan, total profit of 8.362 billion yuan, crude steel production reached 36.71 million tons, delivered 5 ships, and was the eighth largest steel enterprise in the world.
Fourth place: Zeng Yuqun, founder and chairman of CATL
The latest Forbes rich list shows that Zeng Yuqun's value surpassed Li Ka-shing, Ma Yun, Ma Huateng and others, ranking third in the domestic rich list. In 2021, the penetration rate of new energy vehicles and energy storage market increased, driving the growth of battery sales, last year's installed capacity increased by 167.13% year-on-year, the market share was as high as 32.6%, and the Ningde era has become a global power battery "brother" for five consecutive years.
Third place: Ma Huateng, founder of Tencent Group
Last year, the Internet industry was affected to varying degrees under the strict regulatory system, and like Alibaba, Tencent was not happy. In 2021, Tencent's operating income was 560.1 billion yuan and net profit was about 123.8 billion yuan, an increase of 1% year-on-year, which was the lowest growth rate in Tencent's past decade. In the most influential list, Tencent CEO Ma Huateng ranked third in the list, with a salary of 44.1 million yuan last year, and also dropped two places in the 2022 China Rich List.
Second place: Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance
ByteDance's annual revenue in 2021 is about $58.9 billion, equivalent to about 1.007 billion yuan per day. ByteDance's today's toutiao, Douyin and other platforms have contributed a lot of data and user volume to Byte in recent years, making its valuation last year reach 2.3 trillion yuan, becoming the world's largest unicorn company. This has also greatly increased Zhang Yiming's wealth, ranking second in The Hurun China Rich List with a value of 340 billion yuan.
China's most influential business leader: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei
Some people say that there are only two entrepreneurs in China, Cao Dewang and Ren Zhengfei, and the others are businessmen. Today, both are on the list of most influential business leaders, with 77-year-old Ren Zhengfei undoubtedly at the top of the list. As we all know, the national enterprise Huawei has been suppressed by the United States in recent years, and the mobile phone business has been seriously affected, and Huawei's revenue in 2021 has dropped sharply, with a total revenue of 636.8 billion yuan and a net profit of 113.7 billion yuan.
Even in this context, Huawei still insists on research and development, and last year's research and development investment reached 142.7 billion yuan, accounting for 22.4% of total revenue. Today, Huawei's research and development in 5G has led the world, is the most influential enterprise in the domestic technology industry, and founder Ren Zhengfei has become the most representative Chinese business leader.
In addition to the top ten, Yu Liang, chairman of Vanke, Wang Xing of Meituan, Yang Guoqiang of Country Garden, Zhang Ruimin, chairman of Haier, Wang Wei of SF Group, Huang Zheng of Pinduoduo, etc. are also on the list, which is basically expected by netizens. However, many people have also withdrawn from the list, such as Zhong Sui, Xu Jiayin, Sun Hongbin, and so on, the new richest man in China. The only thing that people did not expect was that Liu Qiangdong of Jingdong was not on the list.
In 2021, JD.com's revenue reached 951.6 billion yuan, much higher than Huawei, and it has the potential to become the "first private enterprise" in the mainland. In fact, Liu Qiangdong has not been on the list in recent years, the list has always been Xu Lei, and now Xu Lei has also taken over the position of the new CEO of JD.com, and Liu Qiangdong has also announced his retirement and is invisible behind the scenes. Now it seems that the former big guys have also chosen to retreat, and the era of rapid development of the Internet seems to have slowly gone.