China News Service WeChat public account
China News Service WeChat public account January 7 news, I would like to ask, worth more than 90 billion US dollars, relying on selling water to surpass the "stock god" Buffett is what kind of experience?
The only person who can answer this question at the moment, his name you may not be able to pronounce yet...
If you're not familiar with Chung-ǎn, the founder of Nongfu Spring, he now has a more concise and powerful title — the new richest man in China and the richest man in Asia.
Data chart: Zhong Shui, founder of Nongfu Spring. Photo by Liu Guanguan, China News Service
Zhong's wealth is ≈ Ma Huateng + Wang Jianlin + Liu Qiangdong
At the beginning of 2021, Zhong Shui, who made a fortune selling water, "sent when he encountered water".
On January 4, the first day of the opening of the A-share and Hong Kong stock markets, Nongfu Shanquan, a Hong Kong-listed company with 84.41% of Zhong's shares, soared 10.38%, with a market value of HK$681.5 billion, a new high since its listing.
But that's not all. On the same day, Wantai Biologics, an A-share listed company that Zhong Shui held 75.15% of the shares, also issued a threat at the same time, and the intraday limit was reported at 221.68 yuan, and the closing market value of the day was 95.8 billion yuan.
The soaring stock prices of listed companies controlled by Zhong not only made him the richest man in Asia, but also rushed into the top ten of the global rich list. It is worth noting that in the same time period, the wealth value of the rest of the world's richest people is not obvious, while the scale of Zhong's wealth is still increasing.
On January 5, Nongfu Spring's stock price rose by 6.52%, with a total market value of more than 700 billion Hong Kong dollars; Wantai Bio's stock price rose 5.43%, and its market value exceeded the mark of 100 billion yuan. In this way, Zhong's wealth was able to surpass the "stock god" Buffett and become the sixth richest man in the world.
On January 6, Nongfu Spring's stock price continued to rise, hitting a new high since its listing, with a highest point of HK$67.80 and the latest closing market value of HK$731.020 billion; Wantai Biotech regained its limit, the stock price closed at 256.3 yuan, and the market value reached 111.132 billion yuan.
Screenshot from Forbes Real-Time Rich List.
As of press time, Zhong's net worth on the Forbes real-time rich list is $92.5 billion, and the former richest man, Jack Ma and Ma Huateng, are worth $58.2 billion and $56.1 billion, respectively. Huang Zheng, the second richest man in China, is worth $62.3 billion, and Zhong is $30.2 billion more than him (194.8 billion yuan at the latest exchange rate).
In this way, Zhong not only left the former richest people in China far behind, but his wealth is roughly equal to that of Ma Huateng (worth about 56.1 billion US dollars) + Liu Qiangdong (about 21.9 billion US dollars) + Wang Jianlin (net worth about 14.5 billion US dollars).
The richest man who can't look at the Internet and can't do real estate
When it comes to what is the most profitable thing today, we may be able to find out from the ranking of the rich list.
In the top ten of The 2020 Hurun Global Rich List released in February 2020, the top four are the Jack Ma family, Ma Huateng, Xu Jiayin and Li Ka-shing, which can be said to represent the two industries that people perceive as the first richest people - internet and real estate.
"2020 Hurun Global Rich List" China's top ten. Image source: Hurun Research Institute
Obviously, compared with these "two major gold mines", Zhong Shui's identity as a "water seller" is a bit out of place. Although Zhong is accustomed to hiding in the jianghu and rarely accepts media interviews and expresses his views, he has publicly expressed his views on both industries.
For the Internet industry where his Zhejiang compatriots Ma Yun and Huang Zheng are located, which also gave birth to many top rich people, Zhong Jingxuan "fired" without mercy.
"The Internet is a tool, but it is not the whole of our economic development," Mr. Zhong said of the Internet in an interview. ”
Screenshot from an interview with Zhong.
As for why he did not enter the real estate, Zhong Also responded: "My personality does not have the habit of flattery, I don't like to deal with, I don't like to drink, so I can't do real estate." ”
It is precisely because of this that Zhong Has insisted on the real economy for decades. I am afraid that no one expected that this list, which was guarded by the Internet and real estate, was successfully "disrupted" by Zhong Jing, who was not ranked at the time, a few months later.
"We don't produce water, we're just nature's porters." Nowadays, it seems that Nongfu Spring does not produce water, but they "print money"!
Nongfu Spring + Wantai Creatures, the wealth code on the wind outlet
Just by selling water, can Zhong Compete with these Internet giants and real estate tycoons? In fact, under the "a little sweet" appearance of Nongfu Spring, Zhong Shui is "unfathomable". Tianyan's investigation showed that Zhong had as many as 58 enterprises with actual control.
Zhong's boss relationship diagram. Screenshot from Sky Eye Check
Although he has the title of "lone wolf", Zhong Jing's management of the enterprise is quite high-profile. In his own words, "Businesses want to hype, and not hype is mummy." Under this concept, Zhong Shuiyan fried the farmer's mountain spring and the yangsheng hall, which are well known to women and children.
Nongfu Spring disclosed its gross profit margin in its 468-page listing prospectus: in 2019, the gross profit margin of packaged drinking water of Nongfu Spring was as high as 60.2%. That is to say, mineral water that costs 2 yuan a bottle, Nongfu Spring can earn 1.2 yuan.
Industry analysts believe that after many years of deep ploughing in the market, Nongfu Spring has formed a unique and difficult to shake competitive advantage in terms of products, brands, market channels, etc., and has become its largest moat.
Stable gold absorption capacity coupled with super high national popularity, Nongfu Spring entered the capital market in September 2020, "the bell rings, gold is two thousand", Nongfu Spring's stock price opened up 85.12%, with a total market value of 445.29 billion Hong Kong dollars.
Nongfu Mountain Spring mineral water. Photo by Zuo Yukun, China News Network
Zhong's other "killer skill", Wantai Biology, which is controlled by Yangshengtang, also performed well.
Since the main product of the vaccine is cervical cancer (HPV) vaccine, Wantai Bio is also known as "Friends of Women". In April 2020, Wantai Bio launched the first domestic HPV vaccine, breaking the monopoly of foreign countries, and seized most of the market share with a people-friendly price, and then launched a bivalent HPV vaccine.
In April 2020, Wantai Bio went public, and then won 26 up and down boards in succession, and the cumulative increase in stock price once reached 3198.40% on August 3.
Some insiders concluded: The large consumption dividend continues to be deeply released, and the epidemic has forced the era of national health to come, and Zhong Has grasped both outlets.
It is no wonder that on the day of the listing of Nongfu Spring, Zhong's wealth rose all the way, surpassing Ma Huateng and Ma Yun in one fell swoop, rewriting the ranking of China's top rich list in a short half hour.
But now, the former "half-hour richest man" not only sits firmly on the throne of China's richest man, but also constantly refreshes the ranking record of China's richest man in the world's richest list.
Are you optimistic that this "water seller" will continue to attack the city?
This issue is edited by Zhou Yuhua