There are two kings in the Chinese business community who are the most powerful, one is Wang Jianlin, who is engaged in real estate, and the other is Wang Chuanfu, who makes cars. At present, Wang Jianlin is preparing to lead Wanda Commercial Management to go public in Hong Kong, and his Wanda has successfully turned around, and now its development is getting better and better. Wang Chuanfu took BYD in a big stride towards a market value of 1 trillion yuan.
Wang Jianlin and Wang Chuanfu are both hot figures recently. But you may not think that there is a hidden rich man who has invested in two kings. Recently, Yang Guoqiang invested 10 billion yuan in Wang Jianlin, causing a sensation in the market. Compared with this investment, Yang Guoqiang's previous investment in Wang Chuanfu is very little known.
In 2020, Yang Guoqiang successfully invested in BYD Semiconductor. Some time ago, BYD Semiconductor has been preparing to spin off and list, although it ultimately failed, but the listing is sooner or later. BYD Semiconductor's current valuation is expected to reach 50 billion, while when Yang Guoqiang invested last year, the valuation was only 7.5 billion.
With the global shortage of automotive chips, the strategic significance of BYD's self-built semiconductor company is getting bigger and bigger. Yang Guoqiang's vision is also very strong, and he actually invested in BYD Semiconductor Company last year.
Many people only know Yang Guoqiang's real estate business, know that he is the owner of Country Garden, and know that he once gave up being China's richest man in 2008, but many people do not know that Yang Guoqiang's investment map is also very powerful.
In addition to the recent investment in Wanda and BYD Semiconductor, Yang Guoqiang has also invested in many popular companies in recent years, such as Wen Heyou, which is popular all over the country, and brands such as Meet Xiaomian. These companies are all star startups, and the development in recent years is also very good, and it is very difficult to invest.
For example, Wen Heyou is like this, it is said that there are hundreds of investment institutions that take money and want Wen Heyou to receive investment. In addition, Yang Guoqiang also invested in Blue Arrow Aerospace. In the past 10 years, China's aerospace industry has developed very fast, and it is also the focus of national attention, and the two big men in the United States, Musk and Bezos, have also invested in their own space companies.
Yang Guoqiang also invested 500 million yuan in Blue Arrow Aerospace. Yang Guoqiang has long announced that he will take 50 billion yuan to invest. Many real estate companies are diversifying, but many companies have dragged down their main business. Yang Guoqiang is very smart, he did not do it himself, all chose to invest.
For example, Xu Shoufu spent more than 40 billion yuan of real money and silver to build a car, if he took this money to invest in BYD, then it is now worth more than 400 billion, and he will not be like this.
Tencent also had a lot of business to do by themselves, and later found that in addition to social networking, many of their businesses were not done well, so Ma Huateng changed his strategy in one breath, cut off the non-core business, changed all to the form of shares, and then used his own resources to help the development of the company that invested.
From the very beginning, Yang Guoqiang understood very well what the advantage of the real estate company was, that is, there was money. Country Garden made more than 20 billion yuan in the first half of this year, and still has more than 180 billion yuan in cash. Taking out 50 billion yuan to invest is not a problem at all.
If you take tens of billions of dollars to build your own car, it is estimated that you can't even see the shadow, so it is best to invest. Yang Guoqiang seems to be an old farmer, but in fact, his grasp of business is very good. Country Garden's real estate is also successful in catching the essence. Yang Guoqiang once went to Walmart, and he found that Walmart's traffic was very large. After Yang Guoqiang's research, he found that Wal-Mart's things are good and cheap.
So Yang Guoqiang applied the business philosophy of the FMCG industry to real estate. Real estate was originally a slow cycle industry, but Yang Guoqiang made the house into a fast moving consumer goods, with the fastest speed to get land, design, expenses, payment, not the pursuit of high profit margins, only the pursuit of small profits and high sales.
Yang Guoqiang's strategy is indeed very successful, he once said that even if the project can only earn 100 yuan per square meter, I will do it. At that time, Country Garden started with super real estate, but now Country Garden has many lines of products and has developed very steadily. Country Garden's high turnover also makes Country Garden's capital utilization rate very high, which greatly reduces Country Garden's debt ratio.
Yang Guoqiang not only has a set of business, but also deserves to be learned by young people. In 2008, Yang Guoqiang had the opportunity to become the richest man in China, but such a good opportunity to appear, he voluntarily gave up. Before the company went public, Yang Guoqiang transferred his shares to his second daughter, making her daughter Yang Huiyan the richest man in China. Even over the years, very few people have known him.