More than 20 years ago, Zhang Shiping's Shandong Wei Qiao Venture Group was just a small oil cotton processing factory with more than 60 employees. Now it has developed into a super-large comprehensive enterprise with five industrial parks, 14 subsidiaries, covering an area of 1 0,000 hectares and a total of10.4 million employees, integrating cotton processing, cotton spinning, weaving, dyeing and finishing, thermoelectric and aluminum industry. Until the first half of last year, the group's sales revenue still maintained a growth rate of 50%. This year, with the sales revenue of 35.5 billion yuan in 2005, the annual profit of 265.438+/kloc-0.0 billion yuan, and the total assets of 25.7 billion yuan, it ranks sixth in the Forbes list of the top 500 Chinese enterprises. Zhang Shiping, the head of the world's largest cotton textile enterprise, also became famous for the amazing development of Wei Qiao Venture Group. He is known as "the giant of textile industry in China" and is full of legend.