Dream big and ambition have never been male or female, but the trump card of all brave!
——Sister Yuyan
This year's Bloomberg billionaires list data came out, Hengli Group boss lady - Fan Hongwei with a net worth of 17.8 billion US dollars, ranked 108th on the world's richest list, becoming China's richest woman (new), richer than the widow of Apple founder Qiao Gang who ranked 109!!!
This net worth surpasses Yang Huiyan, the princess of Country Garden, who has long occupied the title of China's richest woman, and Wu Yajun, the founder of Longhu Group, who occasionally changes owners.
▲It turns out that the dream of the real estate princess is the same as that of Teacher Ma Yun
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Hengli Group, a subsidiary of Sister Fan, ranks 75th in the 2022 Fortune Global 500 list, with annual revenue of more than US$100 billion, making it the third largest private enterprise in China, second only to Alibaba and JD.com.
▲Hengli Group is an international enterprise developed by the whole industrial chain of oil refining, petrochemical, polyester new materials and textiles.
The newly minted richest woman, Fan Weihong, has very little public information on the Internet, but Yuyan has always remembered her.
The first time she caught my eye was because of Lafeng's commute way - someone once broke the news on social platforms that Hengli Group's building has a tarmac and a helicopter at the top, which is the transportation used by Fan Weihong and her husband to "commute to work".
▲ Netizens speculated that the aircraft was an Agusta AW139 medium aircraft based on photos from different angles of the aircraft, produced in Italy
Moreover, Sister Fan is truly self-made, which makes her very prominent among the women who have become rich women by relying on their father or by marrying into a wealthy family.
Today, Sister Yuyan will take you to see how this admirable (red-eyed) woman became the richest man.
A proud daughter of heaven who is willing to "marry"
According to public information, Fan Hong Health graduated from college in 1967.
Don't have an inertial prejudice against college degrees, in the 80s when Sister Fan was admitted to university, the gold content of college degrees was not the same as now, and many colleges were still assigned by packages - even more difficult than universities - so college students were also properly "proud of the sky".
▲ Sister Yuyan misses the era of fluttering white clothes, and everyone felt very good that they could read books at that time
After graduation, Fan Hongwei worked as an accountant in a textile factory.
That textile factory was a state-owned enterprise, that is to say, Sister Fan served the iron rice bowl of that era, and accounting was a good job that society generally considered "suitable" for women, because it was convenient for taking care of the family.
▲ We can see from the current photo of President Fan that her appearance is very good, and she is a Jiangnan woman with a juanjuan show
It can be imagined that when she was young, she carried an iron rice bowl and a good job, and there must be many suitors, but at that time, the marriage object she chose was a man who was doing silk business and had not read a book - Chen Jianhua, which can be regarded as "marrying".
▲ Fan Hongwei's husband Chen Jianhua is definitely outstanding among successful men
Chen Jianhua's family is poor, and he dropped out of school at the age of 13 to work. Since there is no technology, masonry can only be done on the construction site. Later, because of a work accident, he stayed in the hospital for half a year.
After recovering, he could no longer do hard work and faced the problem of unemployment, so he switched to buying silk in a small business.
▲How healthy and beautiful the working women at that time were!
Suzhou has been an important producer of mainland silk since ancient times, and the sericulture industry in the countryside is very developed.
After the reform and opening up, the textile industry as a light industry was the first to develop, and textile factories in Suzhou sprung up like mushrooms.
The factory purchases raw materials and needs to go to the countryside to collect silk. What Chen Jianhua does is a middleman who collects silk, buys silk from silkworm farmers, and then sells it to factories in bulk to earn the difference.
According to Fan Hongwei, Chen Jianhua's silk purchase business is doing very well, and sometimes his capital turnover is not working, and the farmers also agree to give him silk first, which proves that Chen Jianhua must be an honest and trustworthy person.
When Chen Jianhua sold silk to a textile factory, he had to settle the account with the accountant in the factory. In this way, he and Fan Hongwei met. Although he is 4 years younger than the woman, Chen Jianhua still bravely pursued Fan Hongwei.
In that era, the combination of women and men was still relatively rare, so there was a saying that "women hold gold bricks".
Through contact, Fan Hongwei found that although Chen Jianhua's family conditions were not good, he had many internal advantages, so he chose him as his partner.
Just imagine, if Fan Hongwei had been like many young girls now, seeking peace and stability, and being a little rich and safe, then there would be no magnificent life like her later.
Therefore, only by daring to take the initiative to bet on your own life can we have a broader possibility.
This is indeed missing in us East Asian women.
This is certainly due to social and structural reasons, but it is also something we can cultivate through learning.
After marriage, Fan Hongwei and his wife, who knew the textile industry very well, decided to start a business.
Sister Yuyan found that the couple is really a very suitable team for entrepreneurship - one of them has raw materials and marketing resources in the industry, and the other has worked in a large factory in the industry for several years, familiar with finance and business management, which is simply a "golden combination" of entrepreneurship.
Try to look at the large and small enterprises in the mall, basically this configuration, such as Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi we know.
One of these two has financial and management resources, the other has domestic real estate industry resources, and then riding the east wind of the times, of course, the entrepreneurship is successful!
Another example is Microsoft's Bill Gates and Bob, one of them is good at technology, the other is good at marketing, and they are also the golden partners of entrepreneurship.
No one can be good at all skills, and the important thing is that your partner can make up for your shortcomings.
Therefore, when you enter marriage, you may wish to choose your other half "in the way of building a team".
If you are good at finance, don't pick the other person's ability in this regard, but you can examine the other party's housework ability.
In this way, the team/husband and wife relationship nested with each other can often go further, even better than a strong combination!
The "success trilogy" of running an industry in the 90s
Yu Yanjie used to study accounting and has studied economic history after the reform and opening up. In so many successful cases, the manufacturing industry has basically stepped on the following three steps:
- Through restructuring and contracting, the production equipment of the old state-owned factory was obtained;
- Through internal reform, activate the vitality of the old factory until it turns losses into profits;
- Carry out industrial upgrading through new technologies and new management;
- By merging other competitors in the industry, we can become bigger and stronger.
And Fan Weihong and his wife have taken every step into place, walking very right, very good!
The original capital of the two was naturally accumulated by the silk business, but the real outbreak was based on the contract responsibility system.
In 1994, a state-owned textile factory, the Wujiang Chemical Fiber Weaving Factory, was on the verge of bankruptcy, and after Fan Hongwei and his wife got the news, they approached the director of the factory to explain their intentions. At that time, the town offered 3.96 million yuan for the equipment and plant of this factory!
▲Wujiang chemical fiber weaving factory in the 90s
Such a large sum of money is a great challenge for two pure self-made people, even though they have already earned their first pot of gold.
The two borrowed all over relatives and friends, and found bank loans to scrape together the money.
This model is not uncommon, in fact, at that time, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong could get rich quickly, relying on the way of relatives and friends raising funds, increasing leverage, rapid copying, and monopolizing the industry.
With the factory, the second step is internal reform to activate the vitality of the old factory.
At that time, the Wujiang Chemical Fiber Weaving Factory had not paid wages for a long time, and the workers did not want to work. In order to stabilize people's hearts, Fan Hongwei knew that the company's books were already stretched, but he still managed to borrow a sum of money and cash out the wages owed to the workers.
After that, she also formulated a series of reward systems such as "more work and more gains", as well as quality specifications and sales commission systems.
In this way, the enthusiasm of the workers was raised, and a factory on the verge of closure was quickly revitalized.
Next step is the third step - industrial upgrading.
Fan Hongwei and Chen Jianhua often communicate with each other and go around to study and study.
Once, when Chen Jianhua was inspecting Zhejiang, he saw a textile machine used by a textile company, a worker can operate 10 units, and can produce 400 meters of cloth in a day, while the traditional textile machine used in his own factory can only produce 40 meters of cloth a day.
Chen Jianhua and his wife immediately ordered 80 new textile machines, and sure enough, with the new machines, their factory formed a dimensionality reduction blow to their peers!
And the fourth step - merging competitors, they go even further, because they are stepping on the low point of the industry.
Sister Fan's first expansion was in 1998, when Suzhou's textile industry was severely affected by the Asian financial crisis, and many factories were unable to receive an order a month, and some bosses could not survive, so they could only sell factory buildings and equipment at a low price.
Fan Hongwei took this opportunity not only to build two new branches, but also to acquire a large number of imported looms that were promoted at low prices due to the financial crisis, and the number of water-jet looms also increased to thousands of units.
This move is the same as Zhang Jian, a famous "champion industrialist" in China during the Republic of China.
Back then, the rapid expansion of the Dasheng Spinning Mill founded by his old man was also after the First World War, when China's textile industry generally collapsed, and at that time, he also established a textile industry guild to coordinate the use of raw materials in the industry.
Sure enough, the success stories of great entrepreneurs all have something in common.
After surviving the financial crisis, Suzhou's textile industry prospered again. At this time, Fan Hongwei was not satisfied with only doing the textile industry, but integrated the upper and lower industrial chains.
The couple formally established Hengli Group, through many mergers and acquisitions, the business gradually developed from textiles to petrochemical, chemical fiber new materials and other fields, the company claims to have a "from a drop of oil to a cloth" of the whole industrial chain.
And similar to the operation of counter-trend expansion in 98, during the financial crisis in 08, Sister Fan did it again (bottomed)!
The First World War made Hengli Group the largest textile enterprise in Asia.
It is luck to step on the spot once, and to step on the right every time, that is proper strength.
Some of life's "darkest moments"
Sister Fan's road to entrepreneurship was not all smooth sailing.
For example, when Hengli launched a petrochemical PTA project on Changxing Island in Dalian in 2012, it was greatly resisted.
Shortly after the project began, the provincial party secretary was examined on suspicion of violating laws and discipline, and Chen Jianhua was also implicated and summoned for several days for investigation.
After the incident, Fan Hongwei did not panic on the surface, she was in charge of the enterprise independently, and she did not talk to anyone about Chen Jianhua.
Some reporters went to the company to interview the workers, but the workers said that everything in the factory was the same as before, there was nothing abnormal, and as for Chen Jianhua's arrest, the workers also said that they did not know.
Being calm in this way is the one who masters the overall situation of life.
Although he experienced the darkest moment of his life, fortunately, the Discipline Inspection Commission did not find out what financial problems Chen Jianhua had, and Chen Jianhua was soon released.
Subsequently, Hengli Group also obtained the project approval standards of the National Development and Reform Commission, and finally invested in the construction of this project with an output value of more than 100 billion yuan.
In the growth stage, we women are inevitably taught to seek peace and not bet on ideals and life.
Just like Yuyan sister herself, when she chose a major in college, she obeyed her parents and chose the most stable professional "finance", and after graduating from college and entering a good company, she held on to this profession she didn't like and didn't dare to let go.
Even though I was writing columns for the domestic media while working, dreaming back at midnight, and often questioning the direction of my life, I never thought of giving up my stable job.
On the other hand, women who have achieved careers have a kind of entrepreneurial courage and risk-taking gambling.
▲ Before writing, Sister Yuyan found out in Bloomberg that just today, Sister Fan's wealth has shrunk by $10 billion from its high in February this year
Without gambling, it's hard to make a big deal – gambling itself is valuable, and the focus is on gambling strategically.
For marriage, she did not choose the safest partner;
For her career, she also did not choose the safest iron rice bowl.
Through Fan Hongwei's life, I hope that my relatives, no matter what family they come from, can have the courage to see farther and longer.
Dream big and ambition have never been male or female, but the trump card of all brave!
Some of the pictures in this article are from the Internet
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