Source: Masajima
Until his death, many talents knew that this unknown invisible leader, the top textile and aluminum industry, created almost impossible business miracles.
One of the most legendary entrepreneurs in China in the 21st century, Zhang Shiping, the founder of Weiqiao Group, died at 17:03 on May 23, 2019 at the age of 73.
Zhang Shiping's name is far less than his textile cloth and aluminum materials to enjoy the world.The denim produced by its company is sold to the world, and 90%of the aluminum plate materials used in Apple mobile phone cases are from his factory.
He deeply cultivated the sunset industry in the eyes of others, but wrote the myths in business history. In the textile and aluminum industry, he brought out two first giant companies in the world, and both were listed in Hong Kong.Its annual revenue exceeds 300 billion, ranking third in the country.
Today, a generation of storms have farewell to the rivers and lakes, and his legend is still praised.
Hundred pounds of cotton bags, carried for seventeen years
In Zou Ping County, which is preferred by Zou Ping, Weiqiao Textile and Weiqiao Aluminum have 160,000 employees.
In the ranking of the top 500 list of Chinese private enterprises in 2017, Weiqiao Group came out with 373.1 billion revenue revenue results, second only to Huawei and Suning ranked third, crushing Lenovo, Evergrande, Wanda, Vanke, JD.com, Geely, Country Gardenwait.
In Shandong, which is ranked 3rd in the country, Zhang Shiping is called invisible richest man because of its assets and low -key style of the city.
Few authors have really seen Zhang Shiping.Since 2012, Zhang Shiping, who has always been low -key, has become more mysterious.He lived deeply, refused to accept interviews from all media, and asked his children and subordinates to do the same thing.Because it was difficult to endure long -distance flights, Zhang Shiping almost didn't go away, and rarely participated in the activities of the entrepreneur circle.Even if he showed up, he didn't speak.
His friends have commented: Zhang Shiping's talent and value in business have been almost completely ignored.
This businessman who only reads junior high school has a very simple business philosophy.If Zhang Shiping is a genius, then he is a talented talent who knows the simple way, and he is a real entrepreneur from the ground.Zhang Shiping said that no matter how big the company and the selling vegetables are the same as the same work mdash; mdash; low buying and selling high, not wasted in the middle.
He was born in a remote countryside called Weiqiao Town, Zouping County, and his parents are ordinary farmers.Zhang Shiping said that his earliest memory was hungry.He is the eldest son of his family and stopped his studies after junior high school.In order to bear the burden of the family, Zhang Shiping started in a small factory in Weiqiao Town, starting with a cotton bag with a hundred pounds of pounds.
Such a factory has been boiled for 17 years.Until 1981, Zhang Shiping was promoted as the factory director because he was able to endure hardships and hard work, and opened a magnificent entrepreneurial process on the banks of the Yellow River.
After 3 years of the factory director, he went to Beijing to accept Prime Minister Awards
Zou Ping is rich in cotton and a lot of cotton oil plants. The cotton oil plant he manages is the head of the county supply and marketing cooperative, but the worst one.
There are urine in the workshop, and there is no glass in all windows.At that time, the main theme was the planned economy. The cotton factory was only cotton business. As soon as the acquisition season could not be busy, but as soon as the peak season passed, the whole plant was doing nothing.
In this case, Zhang Shiping became the first person in the industry to buy soybean, peanuts, and cottonseed oil.He mentioned that he was also the first person in the country to break the large pot of rice and implement the wage system of ultra -fixed pieces.At the same time, he also vigorously promoted on -site sales.The factory capacity and sales came up.
Within three years, Zhang Shiping turned this township workshop into a factory with the largest profit industry in the country's oil and linen industry, and the first place in the national supply and marketing industry.
In 1984, he led the factory to achieve a net profit of 4 million; in 1985, he was selected as a model of commercial labor in the country.Beijing.
One year later, the cotton industry in the country was depressed, and a large number of cotton could not be sold. Zhang Shiping decided to engage in textile himself.
Since the establishment of a towel factory, Zhang Shiping has entered the field of woolen fiber, spinning and weaving in the field of wool fiber, spinning, and weaving.Venture Group.
Zhang Shiping revitalized these old state -owned enterprises with a strong management style.In less than a year, Binzhou's cotton and taxes under its reform increased 44 times.Its profit margin is 10 times that of state -owned textile companies, and per capita labor effects are 5 times that of state -owned textile companies.
In the integration of the big blood, it took only 10 years to rectify the rectification. In only 10 years, Zhang Shiping made the size and cost of Weiqiao the national invincible.
After joining the WTO in China, Weiqiao's textiles have been sold to Europe, America, Japan, and South Korean Southeast Asia, becoming the world's largest cotton textile company.
Turn to the power plant by yourself
Make electrolytic aluminum to the world's first
What made the world really realize that Zhang Shiping was not textile, but a new business he made by the way.At that time, Weiqiao Textile expanded all the way and was troubled by electricity.Especially when the power of the power tension, the power -limited power limit brings great difficulties to production.
Zhang Shiping, who was unwilling to be subject to electricity, established his own power plant in 1999.The Zibo Power Grid, which was learned, threatened: If Wei Qiao wants to generate electricity by himself, it must be listed from the large power grid.And also warned the Zouping County Government.
Although he knew that there was risks, Zhang Shiping was dissatisfied with this tone, and finally made a combination of heat and electricity to make the cost of power lower than that of the Guojia Grid.
At the beginning, it was commented that Weiqiao's electricity price was cheap. It was unfair to compete. Zhang Shiping would be very angry: You said I was cheap, why don't you go to the power plant?You do n’t do what you make, you ca n’t think of it, you are a fool!fool!
Later, Zhang Shiping no longer argued with him.He knew too much.A good company cannot criticize. Only the market can really criticize the company. If the market capacity is not good, the government and colleagues can not stand up.
Zhang Shiping also has a larger plan MDASH; mdash; he has a power plant, low in electricity, and sufficient power. This unable to worry about electrolytic aluminum.Because in the electrolytic aluminum industry, 45%of production costs are electricity costs.
If you say it, you will run all the way. In less than 15 years, Zhang Shiping's Weiqiao Aluminum industry takes the global aluminum industry's leading challenge to achieve five recognized industries the most: the most advanced technology, the most energy -saving, the most environmentally friendly, employment workThe minimum investment is the lowest.
Its 600,000 -saving electrolytic groove is the only one in the world that has successfully run and the largest electrolytic aluminum production line.The purification rate of its discharge waste reached 99.8%.
In 2014, Weiqiao Aluminum surpassed the giant Russia United Aluminum Corporation, becoming the world's largest aluminum manufacturer.
According to a report from Goldman Sachs Group, Weiqiao Aluminum is still the few companies that can maintain profits in the global aluminum industry, even the only company that is still making money.
Created Guinea Mine for 200 million US dollars
Return to Chinese aluminum history
The legend never stops.Zhang Shiping also rewritten the dilemma of China's aluminum industry with his own strength.
China is not only the world's largest aluminum production country, but also the world's largest scarcity of aluminum ore resources.Large -scale enterprises such as Chinese aluminum industry are unable to do this.
However, Zhang Shiping only took 200 million US dollars. In less than a year, he started a large aluminum mine in Guinea, and transported aluminum ores from several Nine Asia to Weiqiao. This is also the first time that the Chinese have really taken aluminum ore for aluminum ore.Come back.
Weiqiao's Guinea Mine Project exceeds 30 million tons, and is currently the largest single mining area in the world.<<<
In the environment of excessive industry, the Weiqiao aluminum industry has always maintained considerable profits.However, Zhang Shiping was aquatic, let Wei Qiao throw away the electrolytic aluminum business, and smashed most of the money and people into aluminum products and aluminum supplies.
Today, from car aluminum, electronic aluminum, to pharmaceutical aluminum, and various packaging, Weiqiao aluminum can be made, and the higher the more sophisticated, 90%of the aluminum plate materials used in Apple mobile phone cases in Apple mobile phones worldwideThey all come from here.
Weiqiao Aluminum used 40%of employees to contribute nearly 70%of the sales revenue, profits and taxes to the group.
In 2013, Zhang Shiping also built a million -ton aluminum project in Indonesia, which is also the first alumina plant in China overseas. It has also been completed.
For Weiqiao Group, the change is the biggest constant.
300 billion yuan in revenue, all rely on these three words
In Weiqiao, the speed is fast.Almost all the projects of the group were established in that year, construction, and put into production that year.One of the 210,000 kilowatt -thermal booths, they can put into production and power generation in less than 10 months, which is 1 times faster than their peers, and the investment is only half.
The company's 10 production bases are a super fast response force, which can quickly respond to market demand according to hours.New varieties of cotton and cotton yarn only take two or three days.
In Weiqiao, the standard is high.Zhang Shiping has to do the number one scale, but he will never engage in repetitive construction at low levels. It will be high at the beginning, and it will not be eliminated for many years.
At the beginning, the textile industry was used, and they did not hesitate. They introduced top equipment such as jets and weaving machines from Japan, the United States and other countries, to allow Weiqiao to be not only the largest, but also the most leading equipment for cotton -defense enterprises.
Entering aluminum, they are also the most advanced equipment in the world as soon as they shot.
Zhang Shiping showed reporters in a textile workshop to show the modernization and advanced nature of Weiqiao: he broke the silk thread on a spinning machine, and this smart machine quickly found the breakpoint, and it took less than 2 seconds to put it in less than 2 seconds.Re -connect and continue to work.
In Weiqiao, the cost is low.Zhang Shiping often said that a penny should be spent one dollar.Weiqiao can continue to make a profit in the industry of three large losses. The most critical of which is the low cost.
Over the years, Weiqiao's energy consumption, raw material consumption, and consumption are one of the lowest levels in the industry.In particular, Weiqiao's managers accounted for only 0.8%of all employees, and their per capita labor effects reached more than 200,000 yuan, and they were leading the leading level.
Weiqiao's coal procurement had caused the increase in costs, and Zhang Shiping fired 20 people at one time.In order to save land, Weiqiao is also the first company in mainland China to produce textiles and woven fabrics on three and five floors.
I do n’t touch real estate in my life, I do n’t have a secret secretary to carry their own bags
Bold and bold, arguing for a long time, it is better to do him once.This is Zhang Shiping's life.
However, some people asked Zhang Shiping to do real estate, some let him do the Internet, and some let him open a bank. He refused.
If you do n’t understand, do n’t do it, Zhang Shiping also has his own rules.He was not afraid that others laughed at him conservative and said he was old.
Compared to Li Jiacheng, the capital crocodile that was held in the altar, Zhang Shiping worshiped Formosa Plastics Wang Yongqing.They are all model workers of the real economy of the business world, making money by sweat, and proud of this.
In Zhang Shiping's eyes, business is to use real products and real prices to meet the real needs.
The market is good, earn more; the market is poor, earn less.Zhang Shiping worked for a lifetime and did not have a full -time secretary, and his business trip was often a lone man.
He was uncomfortable, and he looked down on those who had positions, wealth or power, and brought a large class of followers to talk about the limelight and powsing.He knows that management, discipline and style are all up and down.
If a leader must have a dozen followers, how can you talk about the efficiency and cost control of the company?
He said that as long as he can move his luggage by himself, you do n’t need to be someone else, and you ca n’t wait for it, that is, it ’s time to rest.
For decades, Zhang Shiping has been one of the most diligent people in the group.Weiqiao stipulates that when the cadres go to work at 7:20, Zhang Shiping usually arrives at 6:30, even earlier, and the thunder can't be moved.
This spirit of hard work also inspires more than 100,000 employees.
Zhang Shiping: My two children's children
It's not a rich second generation at all
Zhang Shiping's children also retain these precious quality.In his eyes, his two children are not the second generation of the rich, but their ability.
His daughter Zhang Hongxia is the chairman of Weiqiao Textile. She has a lofty prestige among her employees and has participated in the provincial meeting as a party representative.
His son Zhang Bo was the chairman of China Weiqiao Aluminum, and is currently the successor of Weiqiao Group.The two children's children were leisurely, and Zhang Shiping gradually retired behind the scenes before his lifetime, and no longer asked about production and operation.
Zhang Shiping once told reporters that his son Zhang Bo was respected by his peers in the industry and inherited his spirit of hard work. He was proud.
Zhang Bo's office and Zhang Shiping are only separated by the street, and have the same pattern and furnishings, but only have an apple computer and giant globe.
It took only one year to build a mine in Africa and returned to the ore.As he admired his peers, Zhang Bo accidentally admitted that he was Zhang Shiping's son, but this was also the most terrible place.
Zhang Bo feels that the opening of overseas mining is just a trivial matter for him.Right now, he is most concerned about how to use a more modern system and technology to transform his company, so that his men can fully show their talents.
He believes that it is difficult for him to guarantee that all the decisions are right. If he makes a mistake and no one reminds him, it will be a disaster.
He recalled that as long as he made mistakes when he was a kid, he would inevitably be beaten. His father taught him strictly from an early age.When describing his father, Zhang Bo used respect and worship.
Enjoying the spiritual wealth of life is the strict father who left the most precious legacy of his children.
Build a house for 160,000 employees
Use 200 mobile phones by yourself
In addition to hard work, some people commented that Zhang Shiping, who did not like brand names and did not enjoy luxury, said that his pursuit of quality was not high, but he was very low.At that time, the Secretary -General of the International Aluminum Association Ronbine came to visit. In the office of the chairman of this world -class enterprise, it was a table and an iron cabinet.
He lived deeply, and he didn't like entertainment. He liked to return home and eat his wife and children, especially the corn nest.When he died, Zhang Shiping used a mobile phone of 200 yuan.The main function is to connect the complaint hotline of employees. He often receives text messages from ordinary workers.
Zhang Shiping, who had a simple life for a lifetime, promised Weiqiao's 160,000 employees: there are houses, old -fashioned, doctors, doctors, and children.In fact, we are a group of farmers and 160,000 employees. In addition to college students, 95%are agricultural accounts, high school students, junior high school students, and family conditions are not good, but we have responsibility to help them get rich.Helping them to get rich is equivalent to creating a blessing for the people.
Today, the group pays more than 7 billion yuan each year, and the company's own outpatient clinic allows employees to enjoy low -cost medical care.The total construction area of employees alone is as many as 6.7 million square meters, and 7 high -end kindergartens have been repaired for more than 10,000 children to go to school.
Let each migrant worker in Weiqiao be able to afford a house, be able to raise old, can look at the disease, and the child can afford a good school. It is never just talking about it.
I think the highest level that can really reflect value is to do it!The more you do, the more you will benefit the society!The more you make!If you do it, the value is realized!
Shiping lived alone and lived for a few lives.
After today, the rivers and lakes have one less hero and lost a color.We can only give the wine with tears.
