Linyi Entrepreneur Day Person of the Year - Zhang Chao of Jinyi Meng Group

Zhang Chao, male, Han ethnicity, member of the Communist Party of China. Born on September 6, 1979, a native of Linshu County, Shandong Province, he is currently the Party Secretary and Chairman of Jinyi Meng Group Co., Ltd., the Vice President of Linyi Young Entrepreneurs Association, and was rated as a national outstanding entrepreneur in 2019-2020. In 2017, he was elected as a deputy to the 19th People's Congress of Linyi City.

"Dan Qing did not know that the old man would be as rich as a floating cloud to me." There is a poem in the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's "Danqing Introduces General Cao to Ba" depicting the scene of the general galloping across the battlefield and killing four parties, and for Zhang Chao, chairman of the Jinyimeng Group, this sentence is used to describe him. The accumulation of wealth and the expansion of the commercial territory are only forms, and what he enjoys most is the pleasure of galloping in the commercial jianghu. He is like a highly perceptive swordsman, with the sword of "science and technology" to open up the road of innovation in Jinyimeng; he is also a dedicated person with a sense of responsibility, resolutely slowing down the pace of development and committing to the circular economy in order to protect the environment; he is also a hero who helps the world, composing a song of great love on the land of Yimeng with a sincere heart. Calm in the heart, bold in love, atmosphere in the world, after years of experience, he is at ease in the commercial jianghu, but also outside the complicated business community, this is the unique Chairman of Jinyimeng Group - Zhang Chao.

Jinyimeng Group is located on the banks of the Shushui River in the old district of Yimeng. Since the mid-1970s, the first barrel of ordinary agricultural ammonia has been produced, and after nearly 50 years of development, it has now developed into a large-scale enterprise group dominated by the three major sections of chemical industry, fertilizer and logistics, featuring park heating, equipment manufacturing, fruit and vegetable processing, etc., and cross-regional and cross-industry. The group now has total assets of 6.81 billion yuan, with an annual output of more than 1 million tons of chemical products such as fermented alcohol, acetate, pharmaceutical intermediates, etc., and a production capacity of more than 1 million tons of fertilizers, of which the market share of acetate has reached more than 25%.

Since Zhang Chao led the management of Jinyimeng, he has taken innovation as the first priority. Scientific and technological innovation is endless, and the competition in the market is ultimately the competition of the level of science and technology. Under the leadership of Zhang Chao, Jinyimeng Group has established a provincial technology development center, a provincial engineering technology research center and a postdoctoral research workstation, and has married more than a dozen scientific research units such as Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Shandong Normal University, Shandong Chemical Industry Research Institute, etc., and gradually formed a scientific and technological innovation system integrating scientific research, design, pilot testing and application promotion, and a benign technology development system of development generation, production generation, reserve generation and conception generation. Under the leadership of Zhang Chao, Jin Yimeng has undertaken more than 10 national-level planning projects such as the 863 Program and the Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology, won 1 second prize of national science and technology progress, more than 20 provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards, and obtained more than 130 authorized patents. The company has been selected as one of the "Top 500 Industries of China and the Top 500 Competitiveness of Chinese Enterprise Groups" for many consecutive years. Since then, we have seen that a giant ship in the chemical industry is sailing away.

The great hero is for the country and the people. In Zhang Chao's eyes, whether for enterprises or individuals, the meaning of existence and self-worth do not lie in how much honor and wealth are obtained, but in the dedication to society and mankind. Therefore, Zhang Chao and Jin Yimeng regard dedication to society and mankind as the embodiment of their own values. This is the feeling of him, a private entrepreneur, "helping the world at the same time", and it is also the unrepentant choice of a hero of the new era who "shoulders the morality of iron shoulders". The same social environment, the same market opportunities, but because of different wisdom and courage, different styles of people and the world, to create different lives. Zhang Chao, a warrior who has the courage to constantly break through and surpass, with a positive and open attitude and the help of scientific and technological means, leads Jin Yimeng to one peak after another.