On May 31, the 2022 BRICS Women's Leadership Forum and BRICS Women's Innovation Competition Award Ceremony with the theme of "Endogenous Power, Blooming Light" was officially held. Wang Yang, co-founder and president of Nengchain, won the "Mulan Award" as a representative of Chinese women entrepreneurs, becoming one of the three Chinese winners of the award and the only winner from the field of energy digitalization in China.
Third from the right: Wang Yang, co-founder and president of Nengchain
The competition lasted for nearly 3 months, and Wang Yang, co-founder and president of Nengchain, stood out from 449 participants and successfully won the "Mulan Award". At the sub-forum "Crossing the Gap and Living Far", Wang Yang told her entrepreneurial story and her thoughts on women's development.
In the seemingly cold and hard energy industry, the figure of female entrepreneurs represented by Wang Yang is gradually breaking the stereotype of "male dominance". Energy Chain was established in 2016, when concepts such as "carbon neutrality" and "energy digitalization" had not yet emerged, and private enterprises engaged in the energy industry were not optimistic about the outside world. Wang Yang said: "That period of time was completely to start a business on days when the light could not be seen. ”
"Although it was difficult in the early stages of entrepreneurship, I believe that what I have done to help China's 80 million truck drivers reduce their fuel and electricity costs is valuable." In Wang Yang's eyes, every outstanding female entrepreneur is a hermaphrodite "grass walker", a single-celled organism with a relatively simple mind but a clear goal. In the process of entrepreneurship, looking for the goal of helping truck drivers reduce costs, Wang Yang and his team moved forward firmly and led the company to become a leader in the energy digitalization industry.
After six years of development, Energy Chain has grown from a peer-to-peer service provider that helps truck drivers improve refueling convenience and save costs in the early days to a large middle office that helps the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of the transportation and energy industry. At present, energy chain has built a national digital energy supply network connecting hundreds of millions of car owners and tens of thousands of enterprises, covering 80% of domestic OEMs, more than 20,000 gas stations, and hundreds of thousands of charging piles, and has been awarded the top 500 global new energy enterprises and domestic and foreign dual-material unicorns for many times.
With the blessing of digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and AIoT, the energy chain has realized the progress of serving customer groups and energy categories from few to many, and the business scenarios have advanced from shallow to deep. The service customer group has gradually expanded from the truck driver group to different user groups such as private cars, online ride-hailing cars, taxis, etc., as well as enterprise users in various industries such as logistics, technology, finance, and real estate. The energy category has expanded from oil to oil, electricity, hydrogen, gas, wind and solar storage and other integrated energy categories. Focusing on the upstream, middle and downstream of the energy industry chain, energy chain has carried out an all-round layout in the fields of smart energy supply, energy digital upgrading, dangerous chemical supply chain, integrated energy services, non-oil retail management, enterprise-level energy services, etc., forming a business matrix of tuanyou, fast power, energy chain cloud, energy chain technology (energy chain logistics), energy chain integrated energy port, energy chain convenience, energy chain enterprise service and other business matrices, and building a smart energy ecosystem.
The innovative practice of Energy Chain in the transportation and energy industry and its own high growth have been recognized by the industry and capital. Since its establishment in 2016, Neng chain has received more than 10 rounds of financing, repeatedly breaking the track financing record. Shareholders include state-owned capital, such as China Merchants Capital, CICC Capital, China Resources Capital, National SME Development Sub-Fund, Shandong Green Development Equity Investment Fund, Shandong High-speed Capital, etc., as well as well-known investment institutions at home and abroad, such as Bain Capital, Joy Capital, Xiaomi Group, NIO Capital, etc.
With the proposal of the national "double carbon" strategy, the energy industry is facing the urgent need for structural transformation and digital upgrading, and it is necessary to gradually get rid of the dependence on fossil energy by greatly improving energy utilization efficiency and developing non-fossil energy, so as to support the high-quality economic and social development of the mainland with lower energy consumption and cleaner energy. Wang Yang believes that in this process, there are huge market opportunities, and there are more things that can be done in the chain. If she goes back to 2016, she will make the same entrepreneurial choice, "because the sense of accomplishment and joy gained is incomparable." ”
In emerging economies, the tenacity, hard-working, and courage of female entrepreneurs in creating and developing companies are the valuable qualities needed for economic development in the post-epidemic era. Around the world, there are many female entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs like Wang Yang who are working hard to shape tomorrow's world. More outstanding women are determined to forge ahead and persevere, to join the front line of economic construction, and to make positive contributions to creating a fairer and more sustainable world.
【Error correction】【Responsible editor: Shi Haiping】