Guo Guangchang once mentioned the origin of the name Fosun. "We all graduated from Fudan University and have a strong alma mater ..."
"We" refers to the "Entrepreneurial Five" when Fosun was founded: Guo Guangchang, Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin, Fan Wei and Tan Jian.
These five people all graduated from Fudan University. One studies philosophy, three studies genetics and one studies computer. Tan Jian is the only woman among them and Guo Guangchang's ex-wife.
After the rise of Fosun, the outside world called them "Five Tiger Generals of Fosun" or "Five Musketeers of Fosun".
Liang Xinjun once said, "The five of us are like five fingers, which are indispensable. Five fingers clenched is a fist. Moreover, in addition to establishing a good relationship in the school, the spirit of Zheshang is also reflected in several of us, and the corporate culture deduced from this * * * culture is the biggest foundation of our five concentric. "
However, time flies and comes and goes. Fosun is getting stronger and stronger, but the "Five Musketeers" are gradually scattered around the world.
Alumni, classmates, roommates, colleagues, fellow villagers, lovers ... so much for the interpersonal relationships that universities can derive. Rarely do Fosun's "five entrepreneurs" interweave these relationships.
This seems to be rare among China's business partners.
Guo Guangchang 1967 was born in Hengdian, Dongyang, Zhejiang, and his family was poor. After graduating from junior high school, he gave up the opportunity to go to normal school and made up his mind to pass the senior high school entrance examination to enter the university and change his destiny. From 65438 to 0985, Guo Guangchang, who studied science, was admitted to Fudan University as a philosophy major. It was the early days of reform and opening up, and ideas were surging. Guo Guangchang wants to be a philosopher, not a businessman.
On learning philosophy, Guo Guangchang said that philosophy trains thinking and makes people look at problems from multiple angles.
1987, in the summer vacation of sophomore year, Guo Guangchang rode an old bicycle to Beijing and went to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. This summer vacation, for Guo Guangchang, is full of thoughts. However, for those three prospective college students who have just finished their senior high school life in Zhejiang, it is another kind of mood.
After the summer vacation, Guo Guangchang was halfway through his college study career, and he had to plan his work in advance. Only Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei came to Fudan University from Zhejiang with great expectations and became freshmen in the Department of Genetic Engineering.
Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei became classmates, and Wang Qunbin and Wei Fan were roommates. Coincidentally, the three of them and Guo Guangchang are from Zhejiang. Liang Xinjun is from Taizhou, Wang Qunbin and Wei Fan are from Huzhou and Guo Guangchang is from Dongyang. However, at that time, they didn't know Guo Guangchang, a senior and a fellow villager.
1989, when the three of them were preparing for their junior year, Guo Guangchang had already graduated, and a new classmate named Tan Jian was welcomed in the computer department. Little known is that his grandfather was Tan, an international geneticist and one of the founders of modern genetics in China. He established the first genetics major, the first genetics research institute and the first life science college in China at Fudan University.
After graduation, Guo Guangchang stayed in school and worked in the Youth League Committee to prepare for studying abroad. Two years later, Liang Xinjun, who finished his studies, also stayed at school and began to work in the Youth League Committee. Wang Qunbin works in the General Branch of Life College; Fan Wei went south to Zhuhai, a pharmaceutical company.
Guo and Liang have the most contacts. They often take students to participate in summer practice and go to enterprises for research. 1992 after Xiaoping's "southern tour" speech, Guo Guangchang and Liang Xinjun took their students to investigate in Zhejiang and thoroughly felt the spring breeze of reform and opening up.
So, Guo Guangchang gave up the plan of "going abroad for gold" and went to sea with Liang Xinjun.
They set up a small company, Guangxin Technology Consulting Company, with 38,000 yuan of money and part of their savings for studying abroad. The word "Guangxin" comes from their names. That year, Guo Guangchang was 25 years old and Liang Xinjun was 24 years old.
Guangxin made a survey of the Shanghai market for Yuanzu Food from Taiwan Province Province, and earned the first bucket of gold-300,000 yuan.
The first business was hard-won, and they attached great importance to it. In the bidding office of Yuanzu, Guo Guangchang submitted the materials, tripped over the threshold when he went out, and almost fell down. Fortunately, Liang Xinjun held him behind him. The book "Long-term Fosun" wrote: Two men hold hands with each other, and the ups and downs in the future will always support each other.
1993, Guangxin needed to expand its team, so Guo Guangchang and Liang Xinjun turned their attention to the people around them. With the joining of Wang Qunbin, Fan Wei and Tan Jian, Guangxin changed its name to Fosun, and the core business of the company began to shift to biomedicine and set foot in real estate.
At this point, Fosun in the initial stage has a core team, namely "five entrepreneurs".
After graduation, Tan Jian and Guo Guangchang entered the marriage hall.
In the "Entrepreneur Five", except Tan Jian who is from Shanghai, the other four are all "Zhejiang Gang".
At the beginning of the business, Guo Guangchang, Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei huddled in a small place to work, eat and work overtime. When not working, I play mahjong and often eat fried rice with eggs for dinner.
After the core team was determined, they held an important meeting to clarify the division of labor among the five people.
Guo Guangchang is not conservative. He never feels that he can only think about what he can't do. He has strong systematic thinking ability and is a very qualified general manager. Liang Xinjun has a keen sense of strategy and is Fosun's "second-in-command". Wang Qunbin is Fosun's "first shooter" because of his low-key and solid professionalism. Fan Wei is like a scholar who studies experiments.
After deciding to take biopharmaceuticals as the main direction of Fosun, Fan Wei and Wang Qunbin invested in technology, while Guo Guangchang and Liang Xinjun invested all the funds accumulated by the company in the early stage.
From 65438 to 0995, under the leadership of Fan Wei and Wang Qunbin, several R&D personnel of Fosun transformed the project into a finished product-hepatitis B PCR diagnostic reagent, which was an important step for Fosun's development.
Drug research and development is the vanguard, and sales network is the logistics force, both of which are very important. Guo Guangchang sells green leather cars everywhere, and the sales network is all over the country. As a result, the first 654.38 billion yuan after Fosun was founded came in like this and became the industry leader.
During the period of 1998, domestic enterprises were reorganized, and Fosun also faced changes. Several elders gathered in the conference room of Fosun to discuss the management system that Fosun should choose.
This topic is very important to everyone here, because the result of the discussion will determine their future "identity" in Fosun.
Guo Guangchang lit a cigarette and choked at the first bite. He coughed and Liang Xinjun pushed a glass of water in front of him. Guo Guangchang looked at these elders who share the joys and sorrows with themselves. They seem to be on pins and needles. Liang Xinjun tapped his finger on the desktop several times. Wang Qunbin looked out of the window. Wang Wei lowered his head and held a cup in his hand. He just looked at Guo Guangchang quietly.
Talking about swords has eased the atmosphere for Guo Guangchang: restructuring is not a bad thing, but for the better development of enterprises. We have been together for so many years. Now, we should only talk openly.
The silence was broken by the serious tone of talking about swords.
How to reform? What is the general direction? Several people began to actively express their ideas. They also talked about the plan after reorganization: the group and many of its companies went public; Be the best investment group in China; Set foot in major industrial fields.
In the same year, Fosun Industrial (now Fosun Pharma) landed in A shares, raising 350 million yuan. Since then, Fosun has started to invest in other enterprises by way of equity participation or holding, entered various industries, and gradually built a huge "composite galaxy".
200 1, Fuxing's acquisition of Yuyuan Mall (now Yuyuan shares), one of the "old eight shares", is regarded as a typical example of its industrial expansion through the capital chain. In 2003, it acquired Nangang shares, which was the first tender offer of China stock market. ...
In the announcements of more and more listed companies, many galaxies have appeared. In addition, there are many international acquisitions. Subsequently, the territory of Galaxy Capital expanded, and Fosun set foot in medicine, real estate, steel, retail, securities, insurance, leisure tourism, sports, minerals, gold jewelry, catering, drinks, information, logistics and other fields.
In the process of Fosun's diversification, Guo Guangchang is the soul of the whole enterprise and controls the overall situation; Liang Xinjun, vice chairman and vice president, has become a leading figure in Fosun's investment and information industry. Wang Qunbin is the general manager of Fosun Industry, specializing in biomedicine; Fan Wei focuses on real estate business and is also in charge of internal affairs; Tan Jian is in charge of sports and cultural industries.
In 2007, Guo Guangchang became the richest man in Shanghai after Fosun International, which integrated many industries of Galaxy, went public in Hong Kong. According to the Forbes Rich List in 2007, Guo Guangchang's net worth reached 36.23 billion yuan. By June 30, 2020, the total assets of Fosun International had reached 744.986 billion yuan.
Nowadays, multi-galaxy is still active in the capital market, and M&A events occur from time to time. In 2020, several galaxies successively won Jin Hui Liquor Industry and Shede Liquor Industry, and will also win Wansheng shares in the near future. Wansheng will become the eighth A-share company of Galaxy Holdings.
Many private enterprises in the early days were founded in the name of Jianghu brothers. Whether it is "Wantong Six Gentlemen", "New Oriental Troika", or "Tencent Five Tigers" and "Baidu Seven Musketeers", they all have this color at the beginning, and you can feel it from the title.
However, after the development of enterprises, it is inevitable to separate. The ideal way, as Feng Lun said, is to enter from the Jianghu and exit from the merchants.
Liang Xinjun once said, "All five of us are walking on the expressway, and now the speed of the five lanes is the same. However, if someone's car breaks down and slows down obviously, you can't always occupy the fast lane. In Fosun, there are only eternal corporate interests and no eternal personal relationships. "
"Fosun Five Musketeers" are sailing at the helm in the complicated Milky Way, and there is a saying that they often mention-"Walking on thin ice, walking on an abyss, trembling and conscientious". Finally, after sailing for 20 years, they also began to drift away.
20 13 in may, Fan Wei, executive director of fosun international, resigned as co-president of the company on the grounds of "considering health factors". At that time, Fan Wei was 44 years old.
Fan Wei was in charge of Forte Group, and served as the chairman of Forte Group from 2009 to 20 10. Later, in the position of co-president of Fosun International, he left after working for more than two years.
Less than four years after Fan Wei left, so did Liang Xinjun.
2065438+In March 2007, Liang Xinjun released a letter to Fosun's classmates, saying that he would resign from the management and board of directors of Fosun on that day due to "physical reasons". Previously, Liang Xinjun was the vice chairman and CEO of Fosun International, and Guo Guangchang was the chairman.
In the letter, Liang Xinjun said: "Lucky than others, I think, one is the era of reform and opening up to encourage intellectuals to start businesses; Second, there is a warm climate and soil like Shanghai; The most important thing is that at the beginning of my business, I was fortunate to meet entrepreneurial partners such as Guangchang and Awang. In the next 20 years, I met all of you. "
Liang Xinjun and Guo Guangchang were the original partners of Fosun. He has been in Fosun for 25 years and is a veritable "second-in-command" of Fosun.
Shortly after Liang Xinjun sent his resignation letter, Guo Guangchang also sent a letter to Fosun students, in which he reviewed his entrepreneurial experience with Liang Xinjun.
Guo Guangchang said in the letter: "In the company, I am more polite to others; However, for more than 20 years, I have never been polite to the new army. What should be said, what should be criticized. At that time, I thought I was definitely right, but I wasn't. Such a second-in-command, how much tolerance, how much difficult adjustment is needed to accept and face this criticism in front of everyone. If I were you, I wouldn't have such endurance. I am so sorry, it is not easy. "
Except for these two, Tan Jian has long since faded out.
Tan Jian and Guo Guangchang met on campus. When Guo Guangchang wanted to set up a company, it was also because of his courage after a long talk with him all night. However, their marriage did not come to an end. In the "Long Fortune" published in 2008, the divorce of the two was mentioned. It can be seen that the two have been divorced for many years.
Later, Guo Guangchang married Wang Jinyuan, the host of Oriental TV. Coincidentally, Wang Jinyuan is also Guo Guangchang's school sister. Guo Guangchang Jr. is about 4 years old and graduated from the journalism department of Fudan University.
At present, Wang Jinyuan is the chairman of Fosun Foundation and Fosun Art Center, while Tan Jian is still the chairman of Fosun's Star Fitness Club and holds a certain share in the company.
Qi Xin and Qi Xin, the former "entrepreneurial five", joined hands to lead Fosun from a small company to a huge ship. Now only Guo Guangchang and Wang Qunbin are still in the core team.
After Liang Xinjun left, Guo Guangchang said in that letter: "We are all passers-by, Xinjun is a passer-by, I will be a passer-by, and everyone is a passer-by, but our common hope is to make Fosun's career go further."
References:
Changyun Fosun, Deng Peng, Guo Liang, Machinery Industry Press.
(Author Lei, editor)