Recently, the two major lists of the rich world "2021 Hurun Rich List" and "2021 Forbes Chinese mainland Rich List" have been released, nongfu Spring founder Zhong Sui, won the "richest man" of the two major lists, on the Hurun list, the value is 390 billion yuan, in the Forbes list, the value is 424.4 billion yuan. There is no difference in the top five, from the second to the fifth place are Zhang Yiming, Zeng Yuqun, Ma Huateng, Ma Yun.
Hurun's entry threshold is still 2 billion yuan, an increase of 520 compared with last year. Forbes only ranked in the top 100, and the last one was worth 37 billion yuan. From the perspective of the residence of the rich, it basically reflects that the more developed the economy, the more the number of rich people. Beijing is the city with the largest number of rich people, Shenzhen ranks second, and Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Suzhou, Foshan and Ningbo are behind.
Shenzhen was at the forefront of reform and opening up, and a large number of young people poured in that year, which began the process of hard work. After 40 years of development, many enterprises have grown into super giants, such as Huawei, Tencent, SF, Zhengwei, Mindray and so on. This also made its founder a super rich. Therefore, the number of rich people in Shenzhen can surpass Shanghai and rank second.
On the Forbes rich list, the richest person in Shenzhen is Ma Huateng, worth 316.2 billion yuan, followed by Wang Wei, Wang Chuanfu, Li Xiting, Xu Hang, Wang Wenyin, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Jiayin and others. There are many rich people in Shenzhen, and their value is not low, but this is a place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden, in addition to these rich people on the surface, there are many invisible rich people. Among them, the biggest invisible rich man is Ma Mingzhe, who is at the helm of Ping An of China and was once the highest-paid corporate manager.
Compared with Ren Zhengfei, Ma Yun, and Ma Huateng, Ma Mingzhe's fame is slightly weaker, but the Ping An Group of China he built can be said to be famous. When they were worth tens of billions and hundreds of billions, Ma Mingzhe only took tens of millions of annual salaries and looked like a migrant worker. But in fact, this is not the case, Ma Mingzhe holds a lot of shares in Ping An of China, but it is very hidden, even Hurun does not know how much, according to the market value of Ping An of China, Ma Mingzhe's value can be quite a lot.
Born in 1955, Ma Mingzhe was a northerner whose father was a Siye cadre, who went south to Guangdong with the army and later held a leadership position in Zhanjiang. Ma Mingzhe grew up here, but only went to junior high school and became a worker. 1983 was a turning point in Ma Mingzhe's life, because of an opportunity he was transferred to shenzhen Shekou Industrial Zone, where he met a noble man in his life, that is, Yuan Geng, the founder of Shekou Industrial Zone.
Yuan Geng, a veteran soldier, served as the executive vice chairman of China Merchants Group after the reform and opening up, and later founded the China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, which developed into a model area for reform and opening up, and put forward the famous slogan: "Time is money, efficiency is life". It is rumored that Ma Mingzhe became a driver for Yuan Geng because he could drive, and was later appreciated, but this story cannot be confirmed.
It is only known that Yuan Geng proposed to establish the Shekou Social Insurance Company, which later developed into Ping An Insurance, which was prepared by Ma Mingzhe, and the first two major shareholders were ICBC (51% shareholding) and China Merchants Group (49%), with Ma Mingzhe as general manager. I have to say that Ma Mingzhe is a talent who quickly made Ping An's insurance business prosperous.
However, Ma Mingzhe is also very shrewd, and he is not willing to be only a migrant worker, otherwise he may be replaced at any time. Therefore, as early as 1989, he promoted Ping An to establish an employee stock ownership fund and began to partially hold the company's equity, while Ma Mingzhe entered the company's board of directors as a representative. After that, he actively introduced Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, diverging the shares and getting rid of the control of the original two major shareholders. By 1999, Ping An launched equity reform again, and the Employees' Shareholding Association controlled 17.61% of Ping An shares.
Today, Ping An's equity is extremely dispersed, and the largest shareholder is the Thai Bu Bee Group, but the shareholding is only 5.11%, and it is not the controlling shareholder. Therefore, in the Board of Directors of Ping An, the management team headed by Ma Mingzhe occupies 5 places, the others are shareholder representatives and independent non-executive directors. For decades, Ping An of China has been firmly in the hands of Ma Mingzhe's management team.
Ma Mingzhe receives a huge salary every year, and the annual salary of the management team is also very high. But this is all deserved, because Ma Mingzhe is indeed a central figure in the success of Ping An of China and has made great contributions. Ping An of China has developed into a comprehensive financial group integrating insurance, banking and investment, with total assets of nearly 10 trillion yuan. In the 2021 Fortune Global 500, it ranked 16th, with an annual revenue of 1.32 trillion yuan, beating Huawei Tencent and making it the largest enterprise in Shenzhen. The profit is also 143 billion yuan, which is 2.2 times that of Huawei.
Ping An Group of China is very special, neither a private enterprise nor a state-owned enterprise, but a mixed ownership enterprise, the shareholders are state-owned, foreign capital, private capital, and individuals, the equity is very complex and scattered, but the operation is excellent, becoming one of the world's largest financial groups.