About an entrepreneur's donation at the dedication party of love last night.

Last night, Zhang Xiangqing, the chairman of Tianjin Rongcheng United Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., and his wife donated 6,543.8 billion yuan to the disaster area at the "Giving Love"-2008 earthquake relief fund-raising activity jointly organized by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and other seven ministries and commissions.

The rich keep a low profile.

There is a coal river in Fengnan District of Tangshan, and there are "Ronghua Bridge" and "Qing Xiang Bridge" on the river. In 2002, when the Coal River was rebuilt, Zhang Xiangqing donated more than 2.3 million yuan to repair the river. To thank him for his help to his hometown, the locals named two new bridges after Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Xiangqing.

Next to Ronghua Bridge, an old man surnamed Zhang said that he only knew that the bridge was donated by a famous local steel factory, but he didn't know who it was. Director Zheng of the steel plant said that although he had money, he kept a low profile. The locals know their factory name, but they don't necessarily know Mr. and Mrs. Zhang Xiangqing. In the factory, they don't call him Chairman Zhang Xiangqing, but prefer to call him "Brother Six". Every time Zhang Xiangqing readily agreed.

During SARS in 2003, Zhang Xiangqing donated more than 1 10,000 yuan. In 2004, in order to save an employee suffering from kidney disease, he took the lead in donating more than 300,000 yuan for kidney replacement. In 2007, we donated 400,000 yuan to help 52 poor children in Tianjin. At the beginning of this year, we donated 3 million yuan for the snowstorm in the south. ...

I heard that my brother donated 654.38 billion yuan to the disaster area. My brother in Fengnan said that he was not surprised at all. On behalf of his family, he said, "Yes. We are all orphans of Tangshan earthquake. If you have the ability, you should repay the society. " Zhang said that his younger brother is a "caring person". Since its establishment, it has donated more than 38.5 million yuan in the name of individuals or enterprises in disaster relief, helping the elderly, helping the disabled, saving orphans, helping students, helping doctors, supporting cultural undertakings, sports undertakings and environmental protection undertakings. In 2006, he was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award of Chinese Charity" by china charity federation.

Not only do they support charity, but Mr and Mrs Zhang Xiangqing also educate their children in this way. One of their children is currently studying in Tianjin. Last year, a student at school was seriously ill. The children took out their lucky money and pocket money and donated them to their classmates for treatment. Knowing the children's behavior, he has been exaggerating, and his children are very disciplined.

"The chairman is not only a caring person, but also very studious." Zhang Yansheng, who worked with Zhang Xiangqing for 10 years, said that Zhang Xiangqing only has a junior high school education, but he is very studious. He solved many technical problems by himself. Now Zhang is always one of the few experts in ironmaking and steelmaking in China, and he has completed the postgraduate course in his busy schedule.

32 years ago, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tangshan, and he was lucky to survive in ruins.

Thirty-two years later, 12, May 2008, 14: 28, the Wenchuan M8.0 earthquake stung his heart again, and he knew what M8.0 meant.

Last night, Zhang Xiangqing, the chairman of Rongcheng United Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd., donated 30 million yuan at the "Giving Love"-2008 earthquake relief fund-raising activity jointly organized by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and other seven ministries and commissions. When the host interviewed on the spot, Zhang Xiangqing immediately said that as a representative of 1 1 10,000 Tianjin people, he would donate 70 million yuan to help people in the disaster areas rebuild their homes and build earthquake-stricken areas. So far, Zhang Xiangqing and his wife have donated 654.38 billion yuan in this earthquake relief.

On the afternoon of the Wenchuan earthquake, the land of Tianjin was also shaking.

At that time, Zhang Xiangqing was in Tianjin. At 7: 40 am on June 5438+03, Zhang Xiangqing and his wife turned on the TV and watched the morning news. They saw a strong earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan. The Tangshan earthquake that he experienced that year was 7.8, and 240,000 people died. This shocked Zhang Xiangqing. It seems that this disaster is very serious. After consulting with his wife Zhang Ronghua, Zhang Xiangqing immediately convened a board meeting and informed the company's finance department to prepare 6,543,800 yuan immediately, which he will personally donate to the charity department in Tianjin in the morning. "At this time, disaster relief needs money, and it must be fast." At 9 am, Zhang Xiangqing sent the donation to the Red Cross.

Manager Chai of Rongcheng Company said that Mr. Zhang is not only an entrepreneur, but also a philanthropist. He often donates money to help the poor, but it is the first time to donate100000. At that time, some employees did not understand. Is it necessary to donate so much at once? However, Zhang Xiangqing said that with such a big earthquake, the disaster area definitely needs a lot of assistance, and we should try our best to do more to fight the disaster, not to mention that he himself is a survivor of the Tangshan earthquake.

Minister Yang, who is in charge of raising money for the Red Cross, said that this large donation was very timely. On the same day, they remitted money to the disaster area through the China Red Cross Society to buy relief items.

Chai and Zhang are fellow villagers in Tangshan. They have worked in Tianjin for more than two years. In his impression, Zhang Xiangqing is very busy, but the content of his life is to study his steelmaking technology all day, except helping the poor. Although the life of the rich is simple.

"This is inseparable from his previous suffering experience." Chai Shuman said.

Orphans in Tangshan earthquake

1in the early morning of July 28th, 976, a major earthquake occurred in Tangshan.

Seven-year-old Zhang Xiangqing and his family live in Xugezhuang, Fengnan District. He has six brothers and sisters. He is the youngest. Originally, the whole family lived happily, but the sudden disaster changed everything.

Zhang Xiangqing, who was inexperienced, was frightened when he was rescued from the ruins by his brother and sister. There is no house standing in his sight, and there is no sound. Only a few people stood on the roof half naked, and it began to rain in the dark sky.

Zhang Xiangqing wept for his mother, but his mother and five brothers were buried in the ruins and passed away forever. The seriously injured father failed to survive, and the young Zhang Xiangqing and other surviving brothers and sisters became orphans without parents.

For Zhang Xiangqing, the childhood experience has left a deep imprint on his memory, and the terrible scene made him afraid to recall.

Zheng Chaoyang, director of the office of Fengnan Ji Fa Special Steel Co., Ltd., founded in Zhang Xiangqing, told reporters that Fengnan District was razed to the ground at that time, and there were many families like Zhang Xiangqing, the chairman. At that time, the country was in difficulty, and the economy, communication and rescue could not keep up. There are casualties in every household in Fengnan District. It is so common to lose one or two relatives, and everyone is numb after grief.

Zheng Chaoyang said that the earthquake disaster is a memory that Tangshan survivors don't want to mention.

With the support of her sister, Zhang Xiangqing grew up gradually. But without the protection of their parents, their lives are very poor. In order to make a living, Zhang Xiangqing collected rags, cut pig grass and sold popsicles when he was a child, and earned money to go to school by himself, but he dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school. Taking care of by the government, he entered a local iron factory and became the youngest apprentice in the factory. He was only 15 years old that year.

Standing by the blast furnace for the first time, facing the heat wave and looking at the red molten iron, Zhang Xiangqing smiled abstractedly. He dreams that his future will be as prosperous as this molten iron. But he didn't expect that this molten iron would really realize his dream and change his life.

Make a fortune in suffering

1989, Zhang Xiangqing married his countryman Zhang Ronghua, which was a turning point in their lives.

In order to make a living and live a richer life, the young couple started a small business-selling breakfast. However, due to lack of experience, he took his wife south, looked for an old master to learn the experience of making tofu, and then came back to start a business.

Selling breakfast is hard work. The couple get up at three or four o'clock every morning to prepare, make a stove to grind tofu brain, and prepare what they sell all morning. Both of them worked hard and saved every penny. After two years, the couple have a little savings. At this time, Zhang Xiangqing took a fancy to the business of collecting scrap steel.

199 1, the couple invested all their savings and loans in Laogang, but because they were inexperienced and didn't understand the market, their first business lost. A friend advised him to stop at once, or he would lose more and more. The creditor was worried that he would be unable to repay and kept asking for the bill.

Zhang Xiangqing, who has experienced hardships since childhood, is not discouraged. He has been cheering himself up. "There is a market for scrap steel. I will succeed if I persist. " Seeing her husband's unwillingness, Zhang Ronghua was also full of confidence. Although everything has to start from scratch, she said that in the most difficult time, she never complained about her husband, and they always encouraged each other.

Perhaps this optimistic spirit has infected people around. Just a few months later, with the enthusiastic help of friends from the same industry, the scrap business of the couple improved, earning hundreds of thousands of yuan that year.

1998, Zhang Xiangqing and Zhang Ronghua used scrap steel to lease a local collective iron and steel enterprise, and established Fengnan Ji Fa Special Steel Co., Ltd. (now Fengnan Rongcheng Iron and Steel Company). 1999, 10 In June, a closed enterprise of blast furnace and converter was leased in Luannan, and the present Tangshan Heli Iron and Steel Plant was established.

Zhang Xiangqing has become a big boss in the local steel industry, but Zhang Xiangqing is as frugal as before when selling breakfast.

Zhang Yansheng, an old worker of the former Heli Iron and Steel Plant, said that Zhang Xiangqing visited Luannan Plant, didn't go to the grand hotel, and didn't order big fish and big meat, so he ate in a small steamed bun shop on the roadside. Look how sweet he smells when he eats. He has no airs of a big boss. He is more like their hometown and feels very kind. Everyone is willing to start a business with such factory leaders.

"I still often go back to Tangshan, and the happiest thing is to find a group of' little children' to play cards together." Zhang Xiangqing said that although the enterprise has grown and he has enough ability to be "chic", he prefers a plain life. Back home, he is no longer the chairman, and his classmates and friends like to talk to him at home. In the words of Zhang Xiangqing, one should not forget one's roots.

Become attached to Tianjin

As a native of Tangshan, Zhang Xiangqing is a model worker in Tianjin.

"Tianjin is a blessed place for our husband and wife." Zhang Xiangqing said that he started a leap in life in Tianjin, where his dream of steel entrepreneurship was sublimated, but his entrepreneurship that year was legendary.

Zhang Yansheng, 60, works in Fengnan Rongcheng Iron and Steel Company. 200 1 When Tianjin Rongcheng United Iron and Steel Company was founded, he was the director. Speaking of the investment and factory building in Tianjin, Zhang Yansheng still remembers it vividly.

"The merger and acquisition of the closed steel mill in Tianjin is a big project with an investment of 280 million. It took Mr. Zhang four days to sign the contract and resumed production in one month. It was amazing. " Zhang Yansheng said that when Zhang Xiangqing heard that a steel plant in Jinnan, Tianjin was on the verge of closure, he took seven backbones of the company to Tianjin to inspect and set up a factory.

When they came to the factory in Tianjin, they looked up. There were reeds and puddles everywhere in the factory, and many equipments were rusty and could not be used. Some villagers caught rabbits and put them in the factory. Spending 280 million yuan to invest in such a place, everyone is sweating for General Manager Zhang.

"If I were you, I wouldn't dare to invest so much money to build such a factory." Sun Weiguo, the manager in charge of financial work in Tianjin, said that seeing people's doubts, Zhang Xiangqing told them that although the factory conditions were poor, he valued Tianjin as a port city with convenient transportation, and the investment environment was better than Tangshan in the long run. However, he analyzed that there are Tiangang and Daiyin factories in Tianjin, which need a lot of iron, but Tianjin Iron Factory is far from Shexian County, which provides a potential market for enterprises. Finally, he brainwashed everyone and everyone was involved in the reconstruction work.

On April 28th, 20001year, Zhang Xiangqing invested 60 million yuan to build a factory in Tianjin. Zhang Yansheng said that at that time, all the profits of two steel mills in Tangshan Iron and Steel Company were taken out by Zhang Xiangqing to invest in Tianjin, which was a big bet.

On may 1, Rongcheng United iron and steel co., ltd. went public, and the first blast furnace was ignited for production on may 28. it took only one month for the steel mills that had stopped production for many years to start production

"Our first big business was cooperation with Tiangang," said Zhang Yansheng. At that time, Tiangang imported iron from Shaanxi and refined it by itself, which was very expensive. They suggested that molten iron can be sent directly to the steelmaking furnace of Tiangang. "How to transport molten iron?" This made the Tiangang leaders at that time feel incredible.

"We have started using special vehicles to transport molten iron between two factories in Tangshan to improve efficiency." However, Zhang Yansheng said that transporting molten iron is still very dangerous. The first time he sent molten iron to Tiangang, he rode the car himself, fearing that there would be problems on the road. When a pot of molten iron was successfully poured into the steelmaking furnace, they also established a long-term cooperative relationship with Tiangang, and soon the seamless steel pipe factory took the initiative to find the business they wanted to cooperate with.

In order to save costs, Zhang Xiangqing used the experience of Shanghai Baosteel for reference and took advantage of Tianjin Port to import iron ore from abroad. "At about the beginning of 2003, the international iron ore price was low, and the ore of an Australian iron ore enterprise was unsalable. Mr. Zhang got the news and took the initiative to find them. " Manager Chai of Rongcheng Company said that this cooperation is a classic win-win strategy, providing 4 million tons of iron ore raw materials every year, totaling 40 million tons, with a contract value of 20 billion yuan. This company not only saved costs, but also brought foreign companies back to life.

After more than seven years' development, in 2007, Zhang Xiangqing was listed on Hurun Steel Fortune List, ranking second in China private steel industry with personal assets of 654.38+0.3 billion yuan.