Li Zhiqiang, male, born in 1962, Master of Management from University of Science and Technology of China, Doctor of Management from Marseille Business School in France, Academician of World Academy of Productivity, Chairman of China International Resources Finance Group and International Resources Finance Holdings (Tianjin) Company, Executive Director and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Shanshui Cement Group Co., Ltd. in November 2017. Since 1994, he has served as the legal counsel of the General Office of the Central Military Commission of China and the executive editor-in-chief of china's military law, in the same year he served as a shareholder and vice chairman of IBC China (Global Business Internet • China), in 1996 he also served as the executive vice chairman of Oriental Huizhong Investment Holding Company, since July 2003 he has been the head of the Petition and Reporting Center of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (presiding over the work), and since December 2004, he has served as the executive director and president of Shougang Holdings Co., Ltd. In 2006, he served as a director and vice chairman of China Life Insurance Co., Ltd., chairman of China International Cultural Exchange Media Co., Ltd. since 2006, chairman and party secretary of Shougang Yili Steel Co., Ltd. and director of Tonghua Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. in 2010, and has been appointed as an independent non-executive director of China Shoukong Group Limited (stock code: 1269), a company listed on the main board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since October 2011.
Li Zhiqiang has won commendations such as "Beijing Model Worker and Beijing Outstanding Entrepreneur", was elected as One of China's Top Ten Financial and Intellectual Figures in 2010, was awarded The China Economic Figure of the Year Award in 2012, was awarded the Top Ten Exemplary Figures of China's Advanced Productive Forces in 2013, and was awarded the "Confucius Confucian Business Award" at the 32nd China (Qufu) International Confucius Cultural Festival co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education, the National Tourism Administration, the Shandong Provincial People's Government and UNESCO in 2015. He was also appointed honorary chairman of the Confucius Confucian Merchants Club in China.
"People must take into account the country, society and others in everything they do, no matter in which field, they should find a point of convergence and find a direction that can achieve a win-win situation."
<h1>Article - China Economic Information reporter Qian Yujuan Zhang Xingjun</h1>
Stepping into Li Zhiqiang's top office at the Tianjin International Finance Conference Center at the confluence of the Haihe River and the Bohai Sea in Tianjin, you will immediately be haunted by the atmosphere of science and technology and humanities, a huge building with a construction area of nearly 300,000 square meters and the main venue of the 2018 World Summer Davos Summit, which is preparing intensively for the conference. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you can see the Haihe River on the south side, and the ships are constantly flowing in and out of the sea and the river. On the east side, the azure sea is just around the corner. The warm afternoon sun shines on the floor of the house through the floor-to-ceiling windows, which is enough to make people forget that the season on the shores of the Bohai Sea has entered the cold winter.
On the shelves of Li Zhiqiang's conference room, there are displays including Neil? Ferguson's book is a collection of historical, cultural, and financial management books. It is not difficult to see that this man has military experience and works in IBC China (Global Business Internet?). China), Oriental Huizhong Holdings, Shougang Holdings and many other enterprises have held important positions, involved in a certain cultural literacy and pursuit of entrepreneurs across the fields of industry, investment, culture and high technology. Instead of talking to him, if you look at his decades of corporate management and operations, you will find that this entrepreneur, who is unusually low-key in today's popular media, has an unusually unique style of acting. In fact, it is difficult to summarize in a few words what he has done and the value he has created, but there is no doubt that he has created many enviable business miracles along the way.
As Neil? In Ferguson's Book The Top Financiers, "Financiers don't necessarily have to be famous, but they matter." "This is more like a portrayal of Li Zhiqiang." Of course, the areas in which he has covered and played a key role are by no means just finance.
<h1>Little Lu is sharp</h1>
As an entrepreneur, Li Zhiqiang's resume is legendary. Therefore, the case of benefiting millions of yuan in one fell swoop by collecting the small sheets of the West Chamber issued by the Postal Service more than thirty years ago is hardly worth mentioning in his many experiences.
In the early 1990s, with the popularity of personal computers, China's internet economy began to sprout. "At that time, the Internet had not yet emerged in China, and even computers had not yet become popular." Li Zhiqiang recalled to the "China Economic Information" reporter that he saw the opportunity of China's access to the world at that time, and also realized that the Internet will bring changes to people's lives. Therefore, in 1994, in the seat of the State Science and Technology Commission, in cooperation with the then State Planning Commission and the United States Global Business Internet, a global business Internet (China) company was established in China to carry out a number of explorations in the field of network information.
What is the concept of starting a commercial Internet company at this point in time? The BAT (Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent) as we know it today was almost all created in 1999 during the wave of Internet entrepreneurship, and Li Zhiqiang's Internet entrepreneurship was 5 years earlier than them. At this point, its forward-looking is evident.
"Since then, a wave of trends in the Internet field has gradually emerged in China." Li Zhiqiang frankly said that in the process of the magnificent development of China's Internet, many wealth upstarts of listed companies that have done the Internet have played their fists in their companies. To some extent, it can also be said that the global business Internet company he led to create, mistakenly opened the precedent of China's network economy, and did not bother to incubate and cultivate early Internet talents and business models, which played a role in fueling the rise of China's network economy in the follow-up.
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And he himself, through the benefits obtained in the Internet layout to open up the next blue ocean. "Later, the company was transferred to the equity, and the investment income was estimated to be about millions of yuan at that time, which was already a 'huge amount of money' in the era when 'ten thousand yuan households' were still rare products," Li Zhiqiang told China Economic Information with a smile. He chose to give the money to environmental protection, new technologies and cultural fields.
At that time, Li Zhiqiang found Professor Peng Daoru of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications who innovated and explored in the field of new environmental protection technologies and had patent rights, jointly developed and promoted a desulfurization and dust removal device for coal-fired boilers, which was the earliest professional environmental protection company established in China to effectively control the air pollution problem of coal-fired boilers through flue gas wet desulfurization and dust removal, and this device technology had remarkable results in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other coal-fired provinces.
"Even in the present, the technology of this device is still very advanced and practical." Li Zhiqiang said that in the late 1990s, when there was no concept of "smog", they had taken the lead in solving the air pollution problem of coal-fired boilers, effectively achieving the purpose of protecting the ecological environment and reducing carbon emissions, and achieving a double harvest of social value and economic value. Then, his national invention patent "A nano-catalytic desulfurization combustion fuel-saving agent and its manufacturing method", an advanced technology that directly generates cement clinker from coal ash from power plant boilers, caused a sensation in the world and won the big gold medal at the Leipzig International Fair in Germany.
From one field to another, at that time, the word "cross-border" was not as popular as it is today, but Li Zhiqiang proved with his own practice that he could be called a successful cross-borderer. However, this is only the beginning, and a golden age that better validates its ability to grasp the trend is waving to Li Zhiqiang.
<h1>Turn the tide</h1>
In 2004, the person in charge of Shougang Group found Li Zhiqiang, who was in charge of petitioning, complaints, reports, audits and other related work at the Insurance Regulatory Commission, hoping that he could participate in the establishment and operation of Shougang investment companies. In fact, the preparation of Shougang Holdings has lasted for a long time and has been repeated many times, but it has never been able to achieve the final foot in the door, and Li Zhiqiang was invited to "go out of the mountain", the purpose is to make Shougang Group's finance and investment classes enter the track as soon as possible. Looking back at the development process of Shougang Holdings today, Shougang Group found Li Zhiqiang as the president of the company, which can be said to be a wise eye.
As soon as he took office, Li Zhiqiang faced a big problem. Prior to this, Shougang, as a founding shareholder, became one of the founding shareholders of Life Life Insurance at a cost of about 180 million yuan, but the performance of Life Life at that time was not satisfactory. Before he took over the intervention, Life Life was already in a situation of loss, and the company's loss was as high as 480 million yuan.
Today, when people mention the four words of life and life, most of them know their status in China's insurance industry, but looking back at the embarrassing encounters in the initial period, it is impossible not to sigh.
"At that time, in the Chinese insurance industry, Life Life was still unknown." Li Zhiqiang told the "China Economic Information" reporter that not many people believed that Shougang Holdings could turn the tide at that time.
After taking office, Li Zhiqiang immediately entered the role, through sorting out and solving the accumulated shortcomings of Life Life, as well as changing the way of investment-linked insurance, in less than a year, Life Life has achieved great improvement. The data shows that in the second year of Shougang Holdings, the profit of Life Life has reached 370 million yuan, turning losses into profits in one fell swoop. In addition to the greatly improved solvency, Li Zhiqiang also took advantage of his participation in the legislation of the Insurance Regulatory Commission to lead the standardization of the life insurance company system. According to his recollection, after the company introduced a group of managers known for opening up the market, Life Life officially began a period of "barbaric growth".
In fact, in the nearly 8 years during the period when Shougang Holdings was a shareholder of Life Life, Li Zhiqiang turned the tide of the tide like this no less than three times, almost every time he was ordered to deal with the chaos, and each time he was able to forcefully improve his situation. To a certain extent, it can also be said that Li Zhiqiang's management ability and pattern determine that he is one of the most ideal candidates in this period.
According to the data, Shougang Holdings accounted for 13.75% of the shares of Life Life at its peak, and it was the largest shareholder of its tie. When Shougang Holdings withdrew from the majority shareholder of Life Life, the benefits obtained exceeded 3 billion yuan, considering that the cost of investment was less than 600 million yuan, the value of the takeover was appreciated for 5 years and realized nearly 6 times, which is another myth of value appreciation.
<h1>Fire Captain</h1>
As a large-scale enterprise group mainly engaged in the steel industry, Shougang Corporation and Shougang Holding Company have particularly significant experience in restructuring and mergers and acquisitions of steel companies, and it is particularly worth mentioning the successful restructuring of Tonghua Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tonggang Group").
In 2009, Jilin Tonggang Group, the largest provincial enterprise in Jilin Province, was in danger, and the Jilin Provincial Government invited steel companies such as Shougang, Anshan Iron and Steel and Valin Iron and Steel to join the discussion on the restructuring of Tonggang Group. After the vote of the employee congress, Shougang Holdings became the only candidate for the restructuring with 99% of the votes in favor. Li Zhiqiang told the "China Economic Information" reporter that it is more difficult than imagined to reorganize Tonggang and put it on the right track.
In January 2010, shougang holdings led by Li Zhiqiang, a total of more than 30 people from the management, production, equipment, finance and other comprehensive departments, went to Tonggang to conduct research.
In order to welcome shougang's new wife's family, Tonggang showed the unique enthusiasm of northeasterners. The newly painted factory area and the fiery welcome slogans all express the enthusiasm of Tonggang people for the new in-laws of Shougang", and it is not difficult to see from the content reported by the media at that time that Shougang's restructuring of Tonggang Group is undoubtedly expected.
Until July 16, 2007, Shougang Corporation and Shougang Holding Company, together with the Jilin Provincial Government, Jilin Jiantong Investment Company and Tonggang Group, signed the "Restructuring Agreement of Tonggang Group" in Changchun City, and Li Zhiqiang was the main signatory of Shougang. At that time, Shougang Corporation and Shougang Holding Company held a total of 77.59% of the shares of Tonggang, of which Shougang Holding Company held more than 56% of the shares.
Li Zhiqiang introduced to the "China Economic Information" reporter that after the reorganization of Tonggang Group, as the controlling shareholder, Shougang Holding Company immediately began to improve quality and efficiency. On the one hand, the quality of products is guaranteed through strict quality control, on the other hand, through the investigation of the southern market and other measures, the price system has been scientifically sorted out and the market positioning has been re-established. In this way, the product advantages of Tonggang Group were immediately highlighted, and in the first year after the reorganization, it achieved a net profit of 750 million yuan, which got rid of the eight-year loss of Tonggang Group and the dilemma of more than one billion yuan per year.
"This restructuring is not only conducive to the stable, sustained and healthy development of Tonggang Group, but also conducive to product structure adjustment and technological upgrading, and also to safeguarding and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of employees." Li Zhiqiang said that at that time, Shougang took Tonggang as its core steel enterprise, played a bridgehead role in the implementation of product research and development, sales and market development in northeast China, and made many contributions to Shougang's take-off and accelerate the revitalization of the old industrial base in Jilin Province.
As an important exploration and attempt to enhance the concentration of the domestic steel industry and accelerate the cross-regional merger and reorganization of steel enterprises, the strategic restructuring of Shougang and Tonggang Group has attracted much attention.
<h1>Lay out the future</h1>
Most people close to Li Zhiqiang admire his pattern. Therefore, whether he first dabbled in the Internet, or the strategy implemented by shougang holdings against large enterprise groups facing difficulties such as Life Life and Tonggang Group, he can see his clear value orientation. Understanding his style, it is not difficult to understand the strategic layout of Shougang Holdings in the northwest frontier.
On August 19, 2009, Shougang Holdings, Yigang Group and the Ili Prefecture People's Government in Xinjiang signed a contract for the steel industry project, which was actually the unveiling ceremony of Shougang Yili Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. and the commissioning ceremony of the rolling project. On this day, it also opened the curtain on Shougang's integration of the steel industry in the Ili River Valley.
Li Zhiqiang (pictured in the picture) accompanied by Li Xianglin, then secretary of the Ili Prefecture CPC Committee (1st from the right), visited the Ili Iron and Steel Company.
As a pillar supporting the national economy of the frontier, the steel industry has developed rapidly with the help of many parties, but at the same time, the transportation bottlenecks of resources and minerals, including steel, to the central and eastern regions have been highlighted. This time, Shougang Holdings once again took on this thorny problem.
On this day, the reorganization of Xinjiang Yili Iron and Steel Company, which is 5,000 kilometers away from Tonggang Group, ended the history of iron and steel in the entire northern Xinjiang region, and realized the annual investment profit margin of 25% of the steel industry.
In 2009, Shougang Holdings, as the main shareholder, established Lince Railway Co., Ltd. as a joint venture with China Railway Co., Ltd. and the Ministry of Railways. On December 26, more than 700 kilometers of the Linhe-Ceke section were officially opened to traffic, and since then, the section from Zhongmengzek to Swan Lake has been completed, and the Ejina-Hami section was also opened for operation at the end of 2015, since then, the 1610-kilometer Linha Railway has been officially opened to traffic.
"This section of the railway is connected to the existing Linhe-Ceke railway, and its opening and operation has made the Linhe-Hami railway run through the entire line, and a new railway has been added out of Xinjiang." According to Li Zhiqiang, the Linha-Harbin Railway is the second Eurasian Land Bridge trunk railway, and the running time from Beijing to Urumqi can be directly shortened from the original three days and three nights to one day and one night, which can greatly save transportation costs and improve transportation efficiency.
Linha Railway is an important channel for convenient transportation between Xinjiang and North China, and its completion and operation has further improved the structure of the western road network, forming a railway channel connecting the east and west and connecting the two ports of Tianjin Port and Alashankou, making xinjiang and the mainland and foreign trade exchanges and personnel exchanges closer, promoting the development of tourism and mineral resources along the route, promoting the implementation of regional economic and social development and the implementation of the strategy of western development, and the development of the Belt and Road Corridor from Beijing to the Gwadar Port in Pakistan.
If the company's operating and management performance reflects Li Zhiqiang's unique ability to change and innovate, then combing through the business he is currently engaged in, you will find that its strategic layout has long been positioned ten years later or even longer.
In fact, Li Zhiqiang's innovative exploration in the field of new energy has never stopped, and the China International Resources Finance Group and the International Resources Finance Holdings (Tianjin) Company, of which he is the chairman, has a registered capital of 15 billion yuan and a total area of 35,000 square kilometers of mineral (mineral rights) resources in the world, focusing on the scientific research and production of clean energy, and their underground hydrogen and natural gas production technology is improving day by day. China Environmental Engineering Holdings Co., Ltd., established with an investment of 200 million US dollars, is an enterprise focusing on the research and development, production, sales and environmental protection and intelligent integrated system solutions of new energy equipment. The company's philosophy and vision is to use the core high-tech, based on the world's largest agricultural Internet system and cloud computing technology platform, to gradually solve China's urgent needs in environmental protection, smog control, food security.
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He participated in the investment in the creation of the new electric ring energy technology company, in order to provide energy saving, environmental protection and efficient heat generation of new solutions. It is reported that the company already has patented heating solutions, and its products will be brought to market on a large scale.
Li Zhiqiang told the "China Economic Information" reporter that the energy-saving heating system of the new electric ring energy uses unique quantum phase transformation technology, ultrasonic geothermal power generation and other innovative developments, which can be applied to all industrial production projects with electricity as the driving force or electrometry, baking, melt welding, electrolysis, electrochemistry, and electric promotion. At the same time, this solution can also choose energy-saving products according to the characteristics of residential building structure and region, effectively saving energy resources, and also opening up a broad space for environmentally friendly new energy. Li Zhiqiang firmly believes that the widespread promotion of this solution will bring about an energy revolution.
<h1>Mission Value</h1>
Not all of the areas in which Li Zhiqiang invests and is involved can be measured by commercial value, such as his focus on the field of culture and history, which is easy to "misunderstand".
Li Zhiqiang revealed that in the initial period of the network company, it attached great importance to the investment and attention in the field of cultural industry, and the collection of porcelain and gold and silverware in the Sui and Tang dynasties, mostly heavy objects, has become a scale, especially commendable is the cultural project he cooperated with the collector Bai Shiyuan, and the large collection of bayeux sutras known as "Buddhist pandas".
The origin of the Bayeux Sutra is a long story. More than 2,000 years ago, before the invention of paper, the ancient Indians recorded the deeds and thoughts of the saints on Baye, and posterity called the Baye with the buddhist scriptures inscribed as the "Baye Sutra". For more than 2,000 years, in India, Burma, Nepal and other places in South Asia, various inscriptions of the Bayeot have been spelled in Pali, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Tocharian, Sinhala, Uighur, Khotanese, And Khotanese, Andhrao.
Mentioning the Baye Sutra in front of Li Zhiqiang immediately made him gush. In his eyes, if the results of hundreds of millions of words of records are deciphered today, they can not only enrich the cultural treasure house of mankind, but also make a strict sense of the original source of the current increasingly divided global cultural and historical system.
The great value of the Bayeux Sutra is now beyond reproach. Because in addition to recording countless original Buddhist relics that have been annihilated by history, the Bayeux Sutra also records the achievements of the ancients in the fields of philosophy, medicine, mathematics, history, and astronomy. Of course, as a carrier of value, it also determines that the collection of it is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly behavior. Li Zhiqiang recalled that he and Bai Shiyuan did not have much money at the beginning of the collection, but in order to include this Bayeux Sutra in the collection, Bai Shiyuan endured pain and love, sold a copy of the "Myofa Lotus Sutra" handwritten by Zhao Mengfu in his collection, and only then raised the first down payment for the Bayeux Sutra.
It is in this way that they have collected about 1.5 million bayeons from Tibet and Xinjiang to Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, India, Bhutan and Thailand, in many corners of the world, accounting for almost 90% of the surviving Bayeux sutras.
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However, at that time, many people expressed their lack of understanding of their practices, and people were not optimistic about the Bayeux Sutra. But for Li Zhiqiang and Bai Shiyuan, the collection of bayeux sutras is by no means an economic account.
"In the thin Bayeux Sutra, it carries the history of human civilization for thousands of years, which is a world cultural heritage, which is collected for reading, research, and then inheritance and development, which is bound to have an important impact on the world." Li Zhiqiang hopes that the spiritual wealth contained in the Bayeux Sutra can be continuously excavated, answer the unknown of mankind, and positively influence the world.
But what makes Li Zhiqiang feel very happy is that now these Bayeux sutras not only have the "stable residence" of Tambo Art Garden, but also recently Lanzhou University signed a letter of intent to cooperate with Tambo Art Garden, which will donate part of the Bayeux Sutra to the former, and provide all the Bayeux sutra materials collected to the former for teaching and scientific research. Li Zhiqiang revealed that the relevant state departments are also making efforts to explore the construction of the Bayeux Economic Research Institute and carry out targeted work in sorting out, classifying, and researching the cultural relics and culture of the Bayeux Economy.
It can be said that as an entrepreneur who has focused on investment in the fields of high-tech, new energy and cultural industries for many years, Every step Li Zhiqiang has taken is legendary, but this entrepreneur with a very reform spirit has not stopped his steps.
A partner of Li Zhiqiang once asked him very seriously: "From a financial point of view, the money we earn, or even the value of a collectible, has long been enough to spend a lifetime, why bother to do these things?" Li Zhiqiang had a serious expression and spoke eloquently.
"People must take into account the country, society and others in everything they do, no matter in which field, they should find a point of convergence, find a direction that can achieve a win-win situation, make life more meaningful, and work hard for a better human being."
Along the way, Li Zhiqiang has practiced his values in this way, and every field he has touched has gone beyond commercial value itself.