Text: Crescent Moon
As the largest province in central China, Hubei's economic strength is beyond doubt, according to the results of the unified accounting of Hubei's GDP, the province's GDP in the first quarter of 2021 was 987.267 billion yuan, an increase of 58.3% over the previous year at comparable prices. In 2020, wuhan's GDP was 1,561.6 billion yuan, and the province's GDP was 4,362.9 billion yuan, accounting for more than 1/3, more than 3 times that of the second place Xiangyang (460.197 billion yuan). Hubei not only prospered its own economy, but also created a group of rich people.
The former richest enterprises in Hubei include Yan Zhi's Zhuoer, Liu Baolin Brothers' Jiuzhou Tong, Wang Muqing's Zhengtong Automobile, Meng Qingnan's Fangu are all in Wuhan, and only the earlier Melya is from Huangshi.
In the latest "2021 Hurun Global Rich List", Huang Li, the richest man in Hubei, is also headquartered in Wuhan, but Huang Li is from Jiangxi, born in Xi'an, and later with his parents going to school and working in Wuhan to start a business, he is considered a new Wuhan native. Huang Li became the richest man in Hubei with 49 billion yuan, most of his wealth comes from Gaode Infrared, since 2020, Gaode Infrared's stock price has risen sharply, from 12.31 yuan / share at the beginning of the year to a highest point of 44.69 yuan, so Huang Li's wealth has also risen. Gaode Infrared released a semi-annual performance report on the evening of August 17, saying that the operating income in the first half of 2021 was about 1.847 billion yuan, an increase of 57.04% year-on-year.
Gaode Infrared is a military enterprise, mainly engaged in the production and sales of infrared thermal imaging camera product research and development. In the ranking of Hubei enterprises dominated by state-owned enterprises, it is not easy for private enterprises Gaode Infrared to achieve such results. Up to now, Huang Li holds 454 million shares of Gaode Infrared, Gaode Electric holds 610 million shares of Gaode Infrared, and Huang Li directly or indirectly holds 65.70% of the company's equity, with a market value of nearly 40 billion yuan.
In addition to Huang Li, there are 8 rich people who also live in Wuhan, three of whom are engaged in the leisure snack industry. Yang Hongchun, the founder of Liangpin Shop, made the list for the first time and ranked 2865th in the "2021 Hurun Global Rich List" with a wealth of 7 billion yuan. Although the base camp is in Wuhan, the good shop still gives an unexpected growth report card. Last year, it achieved revenue of 7.894 billion yuan and net profit of 344 million yuan, an increase of 2.32% and 0.95% respectively year-on-year, and a net increase of 285 stores opened in more than 160 cities across the country.
The third richest man in Wuhan is Zhou Fuyu and Tang Jianfang, with a net worth of 11.5 billion yuan. You may not be familiar with the names of Zhou Fuyu and Tang Jianfang, but when it comes to their brand "Zhou Black Duck", I believe many people have eaten it. Zhou Fuyu is the founder of the Zhou Black Duck brand, the current chairman of the company, in 1994, only 19 years old Zhou Fuyu was just a migrant worker who came to Wuhan, starting his own business from a brine shop, he sold Zhou Black Duck to all parts of the country.
On the evening of August 24, 2021, Zhou Black Duck released the first half of 2021 performance report, according to the financial report data as of June 30, 2021, the group's total revenue was 1.453 billion yuan, an increase of 60.8% year-on-year.
Compared with Huanghuang and Zhou Black Duck, Dai Wenjun's absolute taste belongs to the latecomers, and through the adoption of the production and operation mode of "one market, one production base, one distribution chain", a total of more than 20 production plants have been invested and built, forming a daily distribution capacity covering the whole country. As of the first half of the year, the number of stores has reached 12,058 (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), which is the largest leisure brine food chain in China, equivalent to 8 times that of Zhou Black Duck (1367) and 3 times that of Huangshanghuang (4152 stores).
Different from Lei Jun and Zhou Hongyi, who went out of Hubei, as a native of "Hubei Yankee", the entire Zhuoer department founded by Yan Zhi is in Wuhan, which is equivalent to ali in Hangzhou, and the Zhuoer department founded is a comprehensive industrial group integrating manufacturing and modern service industries, which has 5 listed companies such as Zhuoer Zhilian, Hanshang Group, Huazhong CNC, Tongshang Group, and Lanting Jishi. Ranked second in the list of Wuhan's top 100 private enterprises in 2020, with an annual operating income of 96.839 billion yuan. Yan Zhi, the 49-year-old founder of Zall, and Dai Wenjun, the 53-year-old founder of Absolute Taste, are both ranked as the second richest people in Wuhan, with a net worth of 17 billion yuan.
In 1989, the 38-year-old Wang Lili resigned from the Wuhan 710 factory and founded the Wuhan Fangu Research Institute with her husband Meng Qingnan, who is seven years younger than her. Wuhan Fangu Electronic Technology Research Institute mainly develops the core technology of rf frequency devices for mobile communication antenna feeder systems, and its customers include Huawei, Motorola, Nokia and other leading global mobile communication system integrators. Today, Fangu has become a large enterprise with assets of hundreds of millions of yuan and more than 2,000 employees.
Also worth 6.5 billion yuan is Li Zhigang, whose wealth mainly comes from Deere Laser, a company that provides integrated solutions for all high-efficiency solar cell laser processing, and Deere Laser's laser technology has been applied by the world's leading module manufacturer in the photovoltaic industry.
Ai Luming, who is currently the chairman of Wuhan Contemporary Science and Technology Industry Group Co., Ltd., has a net worth of 8.5 billion yuan, and after more than 30 years of development in the group, the group has gradually developed into a large private industrial group with total assets of more than 100 billion yuan. But the contemporary group led by Ai Luming is a very low-key company, there is no official website, and Ai Luming, as chairman, rarely gives interviews. Therefore, many people do not know that there are more than 100 subsidiaries of The Contemporary Group, three listed companies such as Fu Pharmaceutical and Daobo Shares, and are involved in diversified industries such as securities and education.
Liu Baolin, the founder of Jointown Group, is worth 8 billion yuan, born in June 1953, is currently the founder, chairman of the board of directors and legal representative of Jointown Group Co., Ltd., vice president of Hubei Provincial Chamber of Commerce, and is an outstanding Chinese entrepreneur and a pioneer of China's public welfare undertakings. In recent years, Jointown has completed the business layout and expansion of omni-channel and all-category, accumulated a large number of customer resources and business categories, and built a scarce all-scenario logistics supply chain service platform in the industry.
As the city most affected by the health incident and the latest to restart, but thanks to the confidence of entrepreneurs and successfully overcoming unfavorable factors, from the "eye of the storm" to the "weather vane", Wuhan's economy has shown strong resilience and vitality.