Text: Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
Editor|Xiao Peng's brilliant notes
[Preface]
Since Jack Ma became China's richest man on the day he went public on Alibaba, billionaires from all walks of life have appeared like carp crossing the river, making people overwhelmed.
After paying attention to these swaggering billionaires for so many years, people have also discovered a phenomenon, that is, although many rich people have become the richest people in China, but only temporarily.
On the contrary, although some people have always been inconspicuous, they can stay on the rich list all year round, and they are not as eye-catching as some rich people, and this kind of person is also called "invisible rich".
Among these invisible tycoons, Wang Wenyin and his "Zhengwei Group" are definitely the top ones, because his annual revenue alone exceeds 700 billion, and he has more than 10 trillion mineral resources in his hands.
【Brother of Private Enterprises】
Many people may not know much about the "Zhengwei Group", and may not even have heard of this group from Lae, in fact, before the financial crisis, Zhengwei Group was just a very ordinary mining enterprise.
However, unlike other enterprises, when the financial crisis came, Zhengwei Group was not greatly affected by years of accumulation, but acquired mines everywhere.
At the same time, because of the impact of the financial crisis, those enterprises that originally held minerals were short of money, so the acquisition of Zhengwei Group was very smooth.
Although this approach seems very simple, after all, we all know that financial crises are cyclical, and what falls during this period will definitely rise again after the financial crisis is over.
But not all companies have this ability, and for most companies, it is the norm to be heavily indebted, unable to pay wages, or even directly bankrupt during the financial crisis.
Therefore, to be able to do this, it is absolutely inseparable from Wang Wenyin's careful management of Zhengwei Group before, so that Zhengwei Group can have the ability to buy minerals and strengthen itself during the financial crisis.
At the same time, by virtue of the operation in this financial crisis, Zhengwei Group suddenly became the "World Copper King" with nearly 30 million tons of copper ore, and by 2011, Zhengwei Group's annual revenue had reached 128 billion.
Although at this time, Zhengwei Group is like a super enterprise, it does not mean that after this, Zhengwei Group has no room for development.
In the following ten years, Zhengwei Group has also been carrying out its own development, and the minerals in its hands have long exceeded the original 30 million tons, and the copper ore owned by Zhengwei Group can even account for 5% to 10% of the global reserves.
This figure is not an exaggeration, but Wang Wenyin himself said in an interview with "Chinese Entrepreneur" that the value of these minerals alone has exceeded 10 trillion yuan, and Zhengwei Group's revenue will also reach 727.7 billion yuan in 2022.
Even at an annual meeting of Shenzhen entrepreneurs in 2016, someone with good deeds moved out of the previous question that Wang Jianlin took earning 100 million as a small goal, and asked Wang Wenyin what he thought of it, and the answer given by Wang Wenyin was that 100 million is just 100 million, and it only takes the time of a movie.
But what many people can't imagine is that Wang Wenyin was just a worker who moved bricks on the construction site, and when he was most depressed, he was even so poor that he had to live in the bridge cave, so how did he get today's achievements?
【Noble son of the poor family】
In 1968, Wang Wenyin was born in an ordinary rural family in Anhui Province.
In fact, at the beginning, according to Wang Wenyin's family conditions, he should have embarked on this path, but fortunately, his parents knew the importance of learning very well, so they still chose to grit their teeth for him to go to school.
And Wang Wenyin also lived up to expectations, his academic performance was very good, he was a well-known good student in ten miles and eight towns, not only successfully completed high school, but also became a student of Nanjing University majoring in astronomy with excellent results.
Born in 1968, he can be said to be the only college student in their village, and in that era when college students were full of gold, he was naturally high-spirited when he received the admission letter.
However, after coming to the university in Nanjing, Wang Wenyin, who was originally very talkative, quickly became introverted, because he lived in the countryside since he was a child and never spoke Mandarin.
Therefore, in order not to let his classmates laugh at him, he simply tried not to speak, causing many of his classmates to think that he was born like this.
Fortunately, as Wang Wenyin participated in more and more campus activities, his Mandarin became better and better, and the whole person gradually became confident.
After graduating from university, although he did not have the conditions to continue his studies, he was assigned to Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical Co., Ltd. because of his excellent achievements.
Here, his monthly salary is 4,000 yuan, you must know that this is 4,000 yuan in the 90s, and even now, there are many people who can't earn 4,000 yuan a month.
However, Wang Wenyin was not satisfied with this job, because he found that many of his classmates had already gone to the sea to do business, and he didn't know much more than him, so he hid from his parents, quit the job with a monthly salary of 4,000 in the 90s, and came to Shenzhen alone.
【Doing Business in the Sea】
That year happened to be the time when Shenzhen was designated as a special economic zone, and 25-year-old Wang Wenyin came to Shenzhen knowing 400 yuan and enthusiasm.
Because the transportation was not developed at that time, it took Wang Wenyin two weeks to come from Nanjing to Shenzhen, and after getting off the car, he only had 10 yuan left.
Therefore, for Wang Wenyin at that time, the most important thing was not to start a business and get ahead, but to find a job as soon as possible, otherwise he would not even be able to afford to eat.
However, Wang Wenyin found that although he was a top student who graduated from Nanjing University, because he studied astronomy, he couldn't find a job with a professional counterpart, which means that his diploma was useless here.
He couldn't find a job and didn't have any money on him, so he had no choice but to find a bridge to spend the night in, and try to find a job during the day.
The college students back then were all proud of the sky, and if they were put on other people, they might be directly hit to the point of collapse, but perhaps because Wang Wenyin came out of the countryside, he was not discouraged by this.
After realizing that academic qualifications are not a stepping stone to finding a job, and may even be an obstacle, Wang Wenyin simply put away his college diploma and took out his high school diploma.
Not to mention, after packaging his education as a high school graduate, he quickly found a job, although it was only a small job on the construction site for a day's salary, but this was at least his first step.
After a month here, Mr. Wang got to know the new city, so he quit his job on the site and became a warehouse manager at a factory in Hong Kong.
This job also has no technical content, and anyone with any education can do it, but Wang Wenyin does this job very seriously, instead of messing around every day.
Because of his outstanding performance, he was appreciated by his boss, and he went from an ordinary warehouse manager to a material control manager of this company step by step.
After that, this company was directly listed, and Wang Wenyin also followed this company to the sky, and when he was less than 30 years old, he became a "working emperor" with an annual salary of tens of millions.
【World Bronze King】
However, at this time, he once again remembered his purpose when he resigned from a state-owned enterprise, and with the growth of the company, he obviously found a lot of problems in the company's management and system, but no one took it seriously, so he gave birth to the idea of starting his own business.
So Wang Wenyin, who was only 27 years old, chose to resign again, but unlike before, this time he is no longer a hairy boy who doesn't know anything.
Today, he has $20 million in start-up capital, and more importantly, he has experience as a leader in IPO work.
Because the previous company was making wire plugs, he chose a related field that he was familiar with, that is, the power cord industry, and established Xiewei Industrial Co., Ltd.
After running the company day and night for several years, Wang Wenyin ushered in an opportunity that he did not expect - the Asian financial crisis.
Taking advantage of this financial crisis, he aggressively expanded his company, factories, equipment and even channels, as long as they were sold by others, he would take them all.
After that, his Xiewei Industrial Co., Ltd. also gradually began to transform, not only operating the power cord business, but also involved in the raw material copper ore.
Until 03 years, because of the arrival of SARS, he once again ushered in an opportunity, only spent 2.8 billion yuan, bought a large copper mine, and Wang Wenyin officially began to move towards his own "world copper king" road.
Some people may feel that the reason why he was able to succeed was not because of his own efforts, but because the three crises gave him the opportunity to succeed.
But in fact, the reason why he was able to seek benefits for the development of his own enterprises in these three crises also depends on the accumulation of past operations, otherwise it will only be crushed by the crisis, rather than profiting from it.
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Information sources:
Douyin Encyclopedia———— Wang Wenyin
Southern Metropolis Daily released ———— 2022 Top 100 Private Enterprises in Guangdong, and Zhengwei Group surpassed Huawei to rank first
Red Star News ———— "World Copper King" Wang Wenyin was "restricted" twice: he was once on the list of the world's richest people, and now Zhengwei is facing a crisis
The Daily Economic News ———— the "World Copper King" was sued by the bank to collect 1.6 billion yuan in debts! His net worth once reached 110 billion yuan