The invisible richest man in China, the real invisible richest man in China

It was a summer in 1993. I still remember that the sun was shining brightly and the sun was scorching. The workers working on the construction site are working. This kind of good weather is a good time for them to work.

Among this group of people was a young man with an upright appearance, who looked to be in his 20s. He was moving bricks, mixing cement, building foundations, and doing various things on the construction site. All kinds of physical work.

What appeared in front of people was: he was wearing a yellow safety helmet on his head and thin, rough white gloves on his hands, looking like he was sweating like rain on the construction site.

When I was working, I kept moving the required materials and tools on the construction site. When I wasn’t working, I would talk and laugh with the workers next to me, acting like two brothers. look.

This scene, at first glance, makes people think that it is an image of unemployed young people from rural areas working hard in the city.

However, what people don’t know is that this person is not an uneducated person who can only go to the construction site to work. On the contrary, he is not only not uncultured, but a very educated college student.

What is even more incredible is that he holds academic qualifications and degree certificates from the Astronomy Department of Nanjing University, a well-known Chinese university.

What is even more shocking is that this young man who worked hard to move bricks on the construction site actually appeared on the 2018 Internet with well-known domestic entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma, Ma Huateng, and Wang Jianlin many years later. On the Hurun Rich List, he is as famous as Lei Jun of Xiaomi Mobile Phones, ranking tenth on the list.

Now, his personal worth has far exceeded more than 100 billion yuan!

So, here comes the question, what has he experienced during these more than twenty years? Why can you soar to the sky, win the championship in one fell swoop, and reach a level that ordinary people cannot achieve?

All these questions start from the initial story when he came to Shenzhen.

0 Breaking out of the comfort zone: A poor boy with a dream came to Shenzhen to work alone

In 1968, Wang Wenyin was born in a remote mountain village in Anhui Province. His ancestors had roots in On the land, rooted in the mountains.

And this doomed his fate: When Wang Wenyin was a child, because of his poor family, he often had to get up from bed before dawn to do farm work.

There is nothing he cannot do, including transplanting rice seedlings, planting land, and planting fruit trees. There is also nothing he cannot do, including cutting grass, feeding pigs, chickens, and driving cattle and sheep. From childhood to adulthood, he grew up in the mountains.

However, this kind of life is not what he wants, nor is it what he is willing to do, because he has a heart that is unwilling to be mediocre.

So, when he reaches school age, after finishing the day's farm work every day, he will take time to study.

Because he knows that in a family environment like his, if he wants to get ahead, the only way is to study hard.

Finally, in 1989, at the age of 21, he got admitted to his dream school, Nanjing University. In this way, he left this mountain and arrived in Nanjing.

Then, time flew by and it was time for graduation. He was successfully assigned to Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemical Company.

The pay in this company is also very good, with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan. Think about it, in the 1980s and 1990s, such a salary was considered sky-high. It was said that it was twice the average salary in Shanghai at that time.

However, he was not satisfied with this job that most people envied because he felt that this job was too stable and he had no sense of self-fulfillment day after day. and satisfaction.

He knew that he did not want to live such a life, so he quietly waited for the opportunity to come until 1993, when Shenzhen was set up as a special economic zone.

Wang Wenyin thought this was an opportunity, so he resigned decisively.

He packed his packed luggage and got on the train to Shenzhen. On the way, he looked at the slowly passing scenery outside the window and dreamed of the wonderful life of going to Shenzhen to pan for gold.

However, things did not develop as smoothly as he imagined, nor as he wished.

At that time, after 25-year-old Wang Wenyin quit his job in Shanghai, he took only 400 yuan to explore Shenzhen alone. He did not expect that in this huge city, he could not find it. A job!

Although he graduated from Nanjing University, there is no suitable job here for his major.

Consumption in Shenzhen is very high. After running around for days, he only had 10 yuan left on him. With this little money, not to mention staying in a hotel, even eating became a big problem.

With nowhere to go, he had no choice but to find a hard job with his high school diploma.

Because of his meager income, he could only eat one meal every day. At the same time, because he could not afford to rent a house, he could only live in a cement pipe house with air leakage everywhere.

When Wang Wenyin later recalled this difficult time, he explained it in a unique way: I have to lay a solid foundation first, otherwise, how will I manage the factory in the future?

However, faced with such a huge gap, he did not complain, nor did he flinch. Later, he entered a Hong Kong factory that produced wire plugs and worked as an ordinary warehouse manager.

Workplace life tells us: If you want to be promoted quickly, you must learn to attract the attention of the leader and let the leader appreciate you.

Wang Wenyin knew this well, and after just one week, he successfully attracted the attention of his supervisor.

Why? Does he have any secrets? Just because he can casually tell the code of any cable or plug in the warehouse, he will know it when the boss asks.

However, you must know that there are thousands of items in the warehouse! So, in the final analysis, it is because he is hardworking and thoughtful.

Now, because of Wang Wenyin’s outstanding performance, the supervisor not only praised Wang Wenyin greatly, but also promoted Wang Wenyin one after another.

Not long after, Wang Wenyin was promoted seven levels in a row with his hard work. In this factory, he went from a small warehouse manager in the warehouse management department to the assistant to the general manager of this department, and finally to the factory. General Manager of the Production Material Control Department.

His career has been smooth sailing. It only took him one year to reach this position. His annual salary is already in the millions, which is dozens of times higher than his original salary. .

In the eyes of ordinary people, they are satisfied if their life can reach this level.

After all, in your twenties, to be famous and profitable is not something that can be done casually or ordinary.

However, for Wang Wenyin, this is not his ultimate goal, and he will not stop there.

Because, he deeply understands the truth: in a company, no matter how well you do your work or how high you climb, you can never escape the constraints of one identity, that is, you are a As a worker, your destiny is not controlled by you, only by the company.

So, Wang Wenyin is not willing to be just a wage earner. He also wants to start a company, open a factory, be someone else's boss, and control his own destiny.

However, starting a company requires capital, especially for entrepreneurs who want to start an industrial company. This is the same whether they are engaged in light industry or heavy industry.

And Wang Wenyin thought: The current work is not enough to obtain a large amount of funds in a short period of time. Finally, Wang Wenyin made up his mind and changed jobs.

The facts also proved that Wang Wenyin’s choice was correct. The Japanese Hitachi company where he switched jobs earned him a sum of more than 20 million to support his future business ventures.

Perhaps, this money may seem like nothing now, but if you think about China in the 1990s, this was a huge amount of money.

0Busy Entrepreneurship Period: As a businessman, the most important thing is to be courageous

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is 1995, only two years after Wang Wenyin came to Shenzhen. , he really founded a company in this golden city, as he had originally wished.

During the days when he was about to start the company, he was very excited and stayed awake for several nights, thinking about a lot of things he would do after the company was founded.

One night, he suddenly remembered something important: he had not yet decided on a name for the company.

He was thinking, what name should he give?

As a result, when he went to register with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, he suddenly had an idea and thought of a very domineering and impressive name, Xianwei Industrial Co., Ltd.

This really corresponds to the idiom, that is, people live up to their names, and the company's initial stage is just like its name, and it is moving forward majestically.

Based on his experience in the factory, Wang Wenyin is ready to start buying and selling power cords. In the initial stage of the company's founding, Wang Wenyin was busy day and night without even touching the ground.

Every day before dawn, he drives a consignment truck back and forth between suppliers and customers to deliver goods. But even though he was so busy, he did not forget to think about how to make the factory develop better.

As a qualified businessman, how to obtain the maximum benefit at the lowest cost is his priority. Now, the hard-working Wang Wenyin is waiting for an opportunity.

In 1997, it was when the Asian financial crisis struck.

At that time, due to the pressure of the economic downturn, not only did the factory rents provided by all factory suppliers drop again and again, but a large amount of their production equipment was unsalable and could not be sold.

Wang Wenyin felt that an opportunity was coming: he wanted to purchase a large amount of these equipment first, seize the opportunity at the lowest price, and be the first to seize the opportunity and jump over the dragon gate.

So Wang Wenyin decisively found these suppliers and negotiated with them. The suppliers were initially unwilling to sell their production equipment at such a low price.

But seeing the inventory backlog day by day, they were desperate and had no other options.

As a result, the suppliers finally agreed to sell Wang Wenyin all these equipment to him in installments and with a 10% deposit in advance.

As a result, Wang Wenyin’s move and transaction enabled him to purchase more than a hundred pieces of equipment, which directly contributed to the established fact that he had become the largest factory in Shenzhen.

In 1999, Wang Wenyin integrated his factories into Zhengwei International Group. The purpose of this group integration is to expand and extend the wire factory towards the upstream of the industry.

So he stepped up his efforts to open cable factories, processing plants, plastic factories, etc. At the same time, he sold his products to more than 100 countries with the reputation of high quality and low price.

Until 2003, Zhengwei Group became one of the power cord manufacturers with the most complete industrial chain in China. It was also ranked among the top companies not only domestically but also globally.

At that time, SARS was sweeping across China.

Because of the impact of the epidemic, a large amount of capital was quickly withdrawn from both the financial and physical fields, and the prices of various domestic resources and products fell sharply.

Wang Wenyin saw that the price of copper mines had also dropped a lot, and the most needed metal for the production of wires was copper.

At this time, he saw the opportunity and seized the opportunity in one fell swoop. He bought several relatively large copper and tungsten mines at home and abroad, preparing to expand the industrial circle and vigorously enter the copper and tungsten industry.

Soon after, the value of copper and tungsten mines continued to rise, and Zhengwei Group finally obtained huge profits, which also allowed Wang Wenyin to start the business of copper mining and smelting.

After that, he was preparing to win a copper pole and wire production project. However, it was opposed by the partners.

This project is not a small amount and requires the unanimous approval of the board of directors.

Wen Yin, this project is too risky. If it fails, you will lose everything. Otherwise, please consider it again.

Faced with all kinds of doubts and uncertainties, Wang Wenyin did not waver in his idea and resolutely invested 2.8 billion to win this project.

Why is Wang Wenyin so decisive? Because he sees things in the longer term.

He did not stick to the small profits in front of him, nor was he defeated by the fear of the future, but focused on the long term.

Wang Wenyin’s behavior directly made Zhengwei Group no longer have to look at fluctuations in raw material prices to act, and it also made Wang Wenyin the leader in the copper and tungsten industry.

Since then, Wang Wenyin has won the title of World Bronze King. At this point, his legendary life is not over yet.

In 2008, it was another precarious period when the global financial crisis swept across.

For ordinary people, this financial crisis is undoubtedly a frustrating blow and a sudden disaster.

For Wang Wenyin, this is simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a good time to charge against the wind and bravely climb to the top.

Wang Wenyin acquired a large number of foreign copper processing companies that had depreciated in value, and purchased hundreds of thousands of tons of copper materials at low prices. After the crisis, when copper prices rose, he sold them at high prices. As a result, tens of billions of profits have been earned!

Today, Wang Wenyin’s company is different from the past.

In 2020, Zhengwei International Group had 30,000 employees and achieved a turnover of 691.9 billion yuan, ranking fourth among the top 500 private enterprises in China in 2021.

On March 31, 2021, Wang Wenyin was elected as the fourth Vice President of the European Association of China

And in April 2021, Wang Wenyin himself ranked among the "2021 Ranked 161st on Forbes' list of the world's richest people.

Looking back at that time, this company was still a small factory, and Wang Wenyin was still a migrant worker. But now, it has transformed from the original small factory into Zhengwei International Group, one of the world's top 500 companies.

Today, Zhengwei International Group, founded by Wang Wenyin, has become the world’s largest copper industry company after more than 20 years of development. Moreover, he also controls 10% of the country’s copper mine production capacity, and also controls 10% of the country’s copper mine production capacity. It has 5% of the world's copper reserves.

In addition, it also owns more than 20 mines in many foreign countries and other countries, and the total value of its mineral resources reaches tens of trillions.

Some people may see this and have some doubts:

Since Wang Wenyin’s achievements are so high, why have I never heard of his name, and why has he not heard of him? Are people as famous and well-known as Jack Ma of Alibaba and Ren Zhengfei of Huawei?

In fact, this stems from one of Wang Wenyin’s principles of life:

That is to be a low-key person and do things in a high-profile manner.

In fact, it is not difficult for us to find that every choice Wang Wenyin makes is a new approach, because he has done things that others cannot do and thinks from a perspective that others cannot see. Therefore, he has gained success.

Looking back at Wang Wenyin’s legendary life, it also teaches us a lot.

Summary

In fact, whether it is Wang Wenyin who has the courage to jump out of his comfort zone, or Wang Wenyin who first arrived in Shenzhen and repeatedly hit the wall and struggled to survive, these all reflect the qualities of a social person. , as a businessman, he possesses excellent qualities.

Hard work, perseverance, keenness and decisiveness, humility and prudence, these excellent qualities can all be seen from Wang Wenyin, and these qualities are what we as a worker or a leader should pursue. Possessed.

And this is exactly the philosophy of life that we need to understand and savor carefully when we are born and live in this world.