Haitian Group
Haitian Group was founded in 1966, and has been involved in five major industries: injection molding machines, drives, zhilian manufacturing, high-end CNC machine tools and metal forming.
The group's founder, Zhang Jingzhang, is 85 years old and is worth up to 22 billion yuan in 2021, the oldest among all the founders of listed companies, which is rare.
Since 1966, Zhang Jingzhang has led the group for more than half a century, through the ups and downs, 85 years old he is still struggling in the front line, as the chairman of the group.
If he doesn't really love this career, what is the reason for him to give up his life? I am afraid that only Zhang Jingzhang himself can say this clearly.
Although Zhang Jingzhang did not answer this question in the newspaper online media, we can follow the answer to this question through only a few words that can be found.
Perhaps it is a coincidence that looking at Zhang Jingzhang's entrepreneurial history makes me think of Chu Shijian, founder of Hongta Group and Chu Orange, and Zou Jieming, founder of Guilin Watermelon Cream Throat Tablet. These two people can do a good start and a good end in their careers, and they both fought until the last moment of their lives on the road of entrepreneurship, which is also a common feature of this generation of old entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurship is their own life.
They have a lot of wealth and can comfortably nurture their lives, but they choose the way that ordinary people think of suffering and suffering, and interpret the meaning of life by creating more value.
To be the first in the world
If I had to use a character in a martial arts novel to describe Zhang Jingzhang, I think it was a joke in the jianghu, his heroic spirit and style of solipsism and sacrifice of others, and he had to be the first in the world to be the first in the world.
Zhang Jingzhang, founder of Haitian Group
The predecessor of Haitian Group was only a township small agricultural machinery factory. At the beginning of its establishment in 1966, the factory covered an area of only 30 square meters, and the assets were only 4 old machine tools and 100 yuan of funds, and the economic benefits were very poor, and it was difficult to even feed the workers.
In 1970, at the age of 33, Zhang Jingzhang was appointed as the director of the factory, and he relied on diligence and courage to simplify the scope of business, quickly extricate the agricultural machinery factory from difficulties, and solve the problem of food and clothing for workers.
The agricultural machinery factory, which has just gained a firm foothold, has begun to seek opportunities for further development under the leadership of Zhang Jingzhang.
He caught his attention when he happened to see women's clerks returning from a business trip in Shanghai wearing fashionable plastic sandals, and he found that the sandals worn on women's clerks' feet were much stronger than the grass shoes worn by farmers, both wear-resistant and comfortable, and would certainly be popular in a few years.
After investigation, the machine that produces this kind of sandals is called injection molding machine, and the popularity of sandals is the trend in the next few years, and the injection molding machine market prospect is very broad.
So he organized people to visit and study the various parts of the injection molding machine at the national congresses and exhibitions, and began to develop and produce the injection molding machine.
Kung Fu pays off. In 1973, the team he led successfully produced the first injection molding machine, and the output value of the agricultural machinery factory exceeded one million yuan that year.
Since then, Zhang Jingzhang has fully focused on the production and sales of injection molding machines, registered the "Haitian" trademark, and sold products abroad.
In 1994, Haitian Group completed the restructuring into a private enterprise, and the output of injection molding machines of Haitian Group ranked first in the country and became the industry leader.
Under the leadership of Zhang Jingzhang, Haitian Group has never stopped innovating and constantly adapted to the new requirements of the times. Founded in 2002 by Haitian Seiko, in 2006 by Haitian Drive, in 2016 by Haitian Metal, and in 2017 by Haitian Zhilian, Haitian Group has become the world's leading manufacturing multinational company, with products sold in more than 130 countries.
In Zhang Jingzhang's own words, "We want to be the first in the world."
Haitian Group plant
Never do an industry that you are not familiar with
Today's entrepreneurs can sink their hearts like Zhang Jingzhang, there are too few people who do what they originally planned to do, and most people still can't help but forget their original intentions in the face of temptation.
It is easy for people to forget their original intentions and dreams, that is, the temptation of immediate interests, and the immediate sense of satisfaction makes them completely lose their immunity and cannot extricate themselves.
The year 2000 was a time of great prospects for the real estate industry. Before 2020, most of the top ten richest people on the Forbes China Rich List entered the real estate industry in 2000.
It was in this period of 2000 that Zhang Jingzhang's manufacturing career was in its infancy, and someone once advised him to do real estate, saying that this was fast. He replied, however, that he would not go into an industry with which he was unfamiliar.
His answer shows that he is very determined in his heart, he knows what he wants and what he can do well.
Compared with many entrepreneurs now, what industry fire to do, forget the original vows to break out of the world in what industry. On the way to start a business, I saw that the real estate and financial industries were all full of pots, so I pressed all the belongings of the entrepreneurial industry, and when the final industry tightened, shrewd as Li Ka-shing, decisive as Wang Jianlin, there were few who could successfully escape the top.
As everyone knows, the monk who is halfway out of the house cannot do the practice for many years and has unlimited mana.
Such impetuous behavior will only make your bamboo basket empty, because the luck will be rich for a while and a half, which will only make the interests wash away and make you fall deeper and deeper.
Even with the ups and downs, many people are reluctant to quit the industry that stimulates his nerves. You must know that a gambler will not settle down to start a business, because the long-term flow or long-term return can no longer make him feel stimulated, he wants instant pleasure.
Zhang Jingzhang, such a helmsman, has a clear mind, is down-to-earth and steady, and Haitian Group will certainly be able to go farther than others under his leadership.
In the face of hard work and concentration, any opportunism is scum.
Can't forget ben, the most terrible sound in the world is the sound of measuring rice barrels rubbing the bottom of rice tanks
A person's feeling and understanding of poverty determines the distance between him and poverty, and the more thoroughly he understands, the deeper he feels, the farther away from poverty.
Only those who have experienced hardships and poverty will be hard-working and unforgettable, and only then will they have the motivation to break free.
Zhang Jingzhang grew up poor, and his understanding of poverty is much deeper than others.
When asked by reporters what is the most terrible sound in the world, Zhang Jingzhang pondered for a moment and then replied that it was not a ghost crying wolf howl, but the sound of measuring rice barrels rubbing the bottom of the rice tank, that is, poverty and hunger.
Therefore, he did not want to repeat those days, nor did he see others as poor.
Haitian Charity Foundation was established
He is very caring for his employees, in his view, Haitian Group has two gods, one is a customer and the other is an employee. He said that enterprises are employees' and should be prosperous together.
People who have experienced the torment of poverty and hunger, who have struggled to the brink of starvation, will one day be able to turn around. The reason for this is either that they have the help of nobles or that their talents are just in time for a good era.
Zhang Jingzhang believes that the reason for his success belongs to the latter, thanks to the good policy of reform and opening up.
At the end of the writing, I think that what supports the 85-year-old Zhang Jingzhang is still struggling in the front line should be his character of not forgetting his roots, competing strongly, and focusing on loving manufacturing.