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After the rebellion, he became the global lithium king

  【1】

  How miserable is the new energy industry?

  For every car sold, the ideal is to lose 15,000, Xiaopeng will lose 80,000, NIO will lose 120,000, and the most outrageous is WM, for every 100,000 cars sold, it actually loses nearly 150,000.

  So who earned everyone the money for buying electric cars?

  It is not BYD's Wang Chuanfu, nor Zeng Yuqun in the Ningde era. But a man with a mine at home.

  He is the boss of Ganfeng Lithium: Li Liangbin.

  In the first three quarters of 2022, the gross profit margin of BYD in the downstream is 15.89%, the gross profit margin of CATL in the midstream is 19.27%, and the gross profit margin of Ganfeng Lithium in the upstream is as high as 55.92%.

  Because the price of lithium is too crazy, for example, the main raw material for automotive batteries, lithium carbonate, has risen from 50,000 / ton in 2021 to nearly 600,000 / ton in 2022, more than 10 times.

  In addition to eating the price increase dividend, Ganfeng Lithium also relies on scale and quality, all the way.

  At present, it has 17 lithium resources and reserves of 48.49 million tons, ranking first in the world and becoming a well-deserved "world lithium king". Even Tianqi Lithium, which ranks second in China, has only about one-third of its reserves.

  And in terms of quality, even the "door slamming" Musk has to pay for it. When the average domestic price of lithium hydroxide is only 60,000 / ton, the export price of Ganfeng lithium industry is as high as nearly 100,000 / ton.

  Although it sells expensive, there is never a shortage of customers.

  In addition to the four kings of the battery industry, Panasonic, LG Chem, CATL, BYD, as well as top car companies such as Volkswagen, BMW, and Tesla lined up to grab goods.

  But no matter how hot the market is, Li Liangbin has always remained sober, in his opinion, lithium products have 200,000 yesterday, and there may be 40,000 tomorrow.

  And in this industry, he really believes in only 2 words: technology.

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  How obsessed is Li Liangbin with technology?

  In college, he won the first place in his grade in all 4 professional courses, and he is a well-known student in the chemistry department. In the unit, because of his excellent technology, he only took 9 years to work from an ordinary technician in the Jiangxi Lithium Plant to the director.

  But in 1997, the polytechnic man's self-esteem was hurt.

  Because a company in Chile has developed the technology of "brine lithium extraction", the cost is reduced by more than one or two times compared with the domestic "ore lithium extraction". If they are killed, their domestic counterparts will hardly survive.

  So Li Liangbin, who was just 30 years old, decided to throw away the "iron rice bowl" and take 4 good brothers to the sea to start a business, to develop domestic lithium-making technology.

  But what he didn't expect was that he actually took a "copy of hell".

  First he was deceived by the relatives of the deputy mayor. It was said that the local government invested 3.85 million yuan to build the factory, but only gave 380,000 yuan, and Li Liangbin, who was helpless, could only scrape together and get 800,000 yuan before barely starting construction.

  And then pitted by the good brothers again. After allocating 20% of the shares to each brother, Li Liangbin began to bury himself in technology, but the good brothers around him only wanted to make money, and even some people embezzled the company's property.

  So after only a year, everyone went their separate ways.

  The final result was that Li Liangbin took on a debt of 1.14 million yuan in exchange for a lithium plant facing bankruptcy. And when the group was scattered, a brother patted him heavily on the shoulder and said: Liang Bin, you are so stupid!

  But what the brothers didn't expect was that Li Liangbin, who was obsessed with technology, actually turned this Jiangxi township workshop into a lithium battery kingdom that dominated the world.

  【3】

  From more than 1 million in debt to a net worth of more than 50 billion, Li Liangbin relied on a big gamble.

  In 2008, the financial crisis swept the world, and Ganfeng Lithium's revenue also decreased from 36 million to 11 million, but Li Liangbin did not panic at all.

  His peers were reducing production capacity, but he started technological innovation. Peers are providing raw materials for mobile phone batteries, but he is vigorously developing battery-grade lithium carbonate products and preparing to provide services for new energy batteries.

  Fortunately, Li Liangbin bet on the right technical direction.

  Since 2008, the domestic new energy market has exploded rapidly, and a year later, Ganfeng Lithium's annual revenue reached 246 million, an increase of 80 times over when it first started; in 2010, Ganfeng Lithium was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and became the first listed company in China's lithium industry.

  In 2021, when lithium prices were "blown up", Li Liangbin became the richest man in Jiangxi with a net worth of 54.5 billion.

  But these are not the ultimate wishes of this science and engineering man.

  Because Li Liangbin, who has an elegant appearance, has always thought in his mind: to use technology to subvert others.

  In order to improve efficiency, he took many jobs and lost 20 pounds in the busiest years. In order to improve technology, he invited a group of industry experts such as Hu Hongbo and Bayar from Beijing, and even recruited many technical talents from customers.

  After continuous efforts, Ganfeng Lithium has become the only enterprise in the world with "brine lithium extraction", "ore lithium extraction" and "recycled lithium extraction". Li Liangbin has also become the man behind countless car companies and battery factories.

  But that's just the beginning.

  Because the competition in the lithium battery industry has long been not a strategy between enterprises, but a national game behind the automobile industry.

  Twenty or thirty years ago, China's lithium battery industry was poor and could only do OEM processing, but now, whether it is raw material reserves and processing, or battery technology and output, we are ahead of the world.

  Next, we need Li Liangbin, an entrepreneur who advocates technology, to contribute to China's new energy development.

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