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Recently, on a video platform, a video called "Suzhou boss goes to work by private jet every day" became popular, which triggered a heated discussion among the public.
The netizen claimed that Suzhou boss is Chen Jianhua, chairman of Hengli Petrochemical. Then Muddy Water Research issued a document saying that the reference price of the private helicopter shown in the video was 82 million yuan, and it was suspected that Chen Jianhua had a jet business jet worth 326 million yuan.
Regardless of whether the helicopter is really owned by Chen Jianhua. But what is certain is that with Chen Jianhua's financial resources, these are not unusual.
Just a few months ago, Chen Jianhua and his wife were selected into the Hurun Global Rich List with a net worth of 260 billion yuan, becoming the richest man in Jiangsu and one of the top ten richest men in China, surpassing Li Ka-shing and Lei Jun. Compared with six months ago, their net worth soared by 654.38+025 billion.
Behind the soaring wealth in Chen Jianhua, it is driven by the soaring market value of Hengli Group, the largest listed company of A-share chemical fiber.
Chen Jianhua was born in 197 1 to Li Ka-shing, the son of Lee Shau Kee, the founder of Henderson Land. The difference is that one is a rich second generation and the other is a poor boy. However, Chen Jianhua's achievements and wealth later surpassed that of Li Ka-shing.
When I was a child, Chen Jianhua's family was so poor that they couldn't even pay a few dollars for tuition. Forced by life, 13-year-old Chen Jianhua chose to drop out of school to work. But what can he do at a young age?
By chance, Chen Jianhua was able to work as a bricklayer on a construction site and earn a meager income. Things have not been solved. He broke his bone because of an accident at the construction site. Although he recovered later, he could no longer engage in heavy manual labor. Doing business became his only choice.
Born in Wujiang City, Jiangsu Province, which is known as the "Silk House", he began to sell some textile products along the street before he became an adult. Gradually, through several years' struggle, Chen Jianhua's business continued to grow, and it also successfully accumulated some savings.
Doing business has brought Chen Jianhua a brand-new life track. He was not satisfied with these small businesses at first, and the idea of starting a business took root in his heart.
1994, Chen Jianhua learned that a dying weaving factory in Wujiang was being sold. Excited, he hit it off with his wife, successfully acquired the factory for 3.69 million yuan and formally established Wujiang Chemical Fiber Factory (predecessor of Hengli Group).
But what he didn't expect was that what he bought was just an "empty shell". There are only over one hundred machines in the factory, and there is no one there. It turned out that after hearing that the factory was sold to an unknown individual, the workers felt that the future of the factory was hopeless and all resigned overnight.
But Chen Jianhua, who devoted all his life, didn't give up. He came to start a business to change and create. The factory not only operates normally, but also becomes more "hot" under his series of operations, such as replacing equipment, formulating iron management law, abandoning pot rice and engaging in rewards.
In one year, Chen Jianhua turned the factory into a profit, and realized the income of 10. However, soon, the textile mills suffered from the Asian financial crisis, and the whole industry was in deep trouble, closing down and losing money.
Dare to be the first, he made a bold decision-to buy the closed factory and equipment. This decision made his position in the industry after the financial crisis. When others are about to start again, he has become the boss of the textile industry.
Although he became the leader in China's weaving industry, Chen Jianhua immediately saw his limitations-he would not be the main product of textile fabrics-spinning.
It is understood that in the Millennium, China's spinning capacity is seriously insufficient, and some high-end spinning is completely dependent on imports. In addition, the international market has not been opened, resulting in China's textile exports less than the global 1/6.
In 2002, the textile mills in Chen Jianhua were struggling by many international chemical fiber factories. Malicious price increases of raw materials will inevitably affect business. But if you want to spin by yourself, you must set up a chemical fiber factory, that is, PTA (pure terephthalic acid) as the main raw material to produce and process man-made fibers.
In order to change its disadvantage, Chen Jianhua resolutely spent 2.2 billion yuan to break through the "chemical fiber" in the middle reaches of petrochemical industry and the upper reaches of textile industry. This year, Jiangsu Hengli Chemical Fiber Co., Ltd. was born.
In fact, there were many chemical fiber enterprises in China at that time, but their finished products could not be compared with foreign countries because of outdated equipment and backward technology. In order to ensure competitiveness, Chen Jianhua introduced advanced production equipment and production lines from Germany.
The following year, Chen Jianhua formally established (China) Hengli Group by merging its subsidiaries. But in a few years, Chen Jianhua destroyed foreign-funded factories in the industry with new equipment, large-scale and low cost, and the top engineers in those factories were absorbed by Hengli.
At the beginning of 2007, Hengli's 200,000-ton super bright yarn project was officially put into production, which once again broke the monopoly of foreign markets and filled the gap of domestic high-grade bright yarn.
In 2009, Chen Jianhua made another effort to increase production capacity. In this year, Hengli Group became the world's largest producer of ultra-bright silk and industrial silk, and Chen Jianhua was also known as the "world chemical fiber giant".
In the year of Chen Jianhua Gaoguang, affected by the financial crisis, the international oil price dropped sharply. Crude oil is the main source of PTA production and an important raw material for Hengli Chemical Fiber Factory. At that time, China also relied heavily on imports in PTA and aromatics fields.
Chen Jianhua mustered up the momentum and decided to go upstream again and attack the upstream petrochemical industry.
What to do in what era. This is Chen Jianhua's summary of the past of Hengli Group. In fact, at that time, Hengli had enough strength. But it is Chen Jianhua's consistent style to go forward and be the first.
In 20 10, Hengli Group formally invested in the construction of Hengli Petrochemical (Changxing Island, Dalian) Industrial Park, mainly building three PTA production lines with an annual output of 6.6 million tons, which was the beginning of Hengli's "refining and chemical integration project".
In fact, Hengli realized that the output of crude oil could not be determined, but how to efficiently refine crude oil and give it a value beyond its own is the focus of the group's future work. The mode of "refining and chemical integration" is the choice of Hengli.
On the one hand, Chen Jianhua has built a whole industrial chain layout of "from a drop of oil to a piece of cloth", on the other hand, it has not neglected the blessing of capital.
20 15 Chen Jianhua won the shares of listed companies despite public opposition. Subsequently, through the operation of Chen Jianhua, Hengli successfully listed on the backdoor.
By 20 19, Hengli Group invested 74 billion yuan, and the 20 million tons/year refining and chemical integration project was officially put into production. This was the largest oil refining project in China at that time, which also meant that Hengli Group realized a complete industrial chain from crude oil to spinning.
But the pace of Hengli is still more than that. At the same time as the "Refining-Chemical Integration Project" was put into production, Hengli began to build the largest coal chemical project in China, with a total investment of 654.38+0.35 billion yuan.
Some people may ask, since Hengli, from the source of crude oil to the production and sales of cloth, has been opened, why should we spend huge sums of money to open up the industrial chain layout of "from a piece of coal to a piece of cloth"?
In fact, the goal of Hengli is to attach importance to both coal chemical industry and petrochemical industry. Because oil is still a raw material with high uncertainty for Hengli. Coal and oil are substitutes for each other, and China is a big coal producer. At some point, coal can replace crude oil, thus offsetting some risks of crude oil.
Today, Chen Jianhua leads Hengli to break the foreign monopoly on China's PTA and aromatic high-end industries in one fell swoop, and has many "best in the world": the PTA production base with the largest production capacity in the world, one of the largest weaving enterprises in the world, the largest ethylene project in the world and the highest output in the world. ......
From selling cloth to weaving, to spinning, to refining crude oil. A small textile factory successfully went upstream to get through the whole industrial chain and go global. This is inseparable from Chen Jianhua's strategizing.
The data shows that Hengli Group will achieve revenue of 695.3 billion yuan in 2020, close to 700 billion yuan, becoming the second largest private enterprise after Huawei and the largest private chemical enterprise in China.
China has never lacked hard-working people. As Chen Jianhua said, "In such a great era, we are making history every day." In the past, there were many miracles and historical moments through step-by-step exploration. However, there is no end to struggle and technology. In the future, Hengli still cannot be taken lightly.