2006 Hurun Report: 24th.
Total assets in 2006: 6.2 billion pounds
Forbes list in 2007: No.54.
Forbes list in 2008: 10
20 10 hurun list: 48th.
20 12 hurun report 87th.
20 12 Forbes China Rich List, Zhou Furen's family ranked 85th with 7.37 billion yuan.
20 13 new wealth China's rich list ranked 42nd with 138 billion.
Graduate schools: Shenyang University of Technology, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Company: Xiyang Group
1957 was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province on August 28th; 19761—19841Once served as the deputy director of the village committee of Houyin Brigade of Yingluo Commune and the leader of the 11th villagers' group of Houyin Village;
1984 65438+ 10-1988 July as the director of Yingluo Building Materials Factory;
1July, 1988 to August, 200 1 year as general manager of Xiyang Refractory Company;
1996 1 as secretary of the Party branch of Xiyang Village;
In September of 20001year, he served as the chairman and general manager of Xiyang group;
On October 23rd, 2003, 65438+/KLOC-0 was elected as the deputy to the 10th National People's Congress. Lead the villagers to get rich
Zhou Furen is a natural business material because he is good at "changing money". In the 1970s, everyone was poor. The young people around Zhou Furen are far away from the object. But Zhou Furen talked about the object, because he is smart, diligent and can "find money", and he can find any way to make money. In fact, his "change" at that time was nothing special, just collecting firewood and selling it outside.
However, in those days, among a bunch of poor boys, it was a great thing to find someone. Therefore, everyone recommended Zhou Furen as the captain of the production team and let him "find money" with everyone.
Zhou Furen knows very well that his hometown does not produce much food, and it is difficult to earn money by farming. However, there are inexhaustible minerals in my hometown. The largest magnesite in China is next to me. Selling that thing can make money.
So, Zhou Furen used the only two wagons in the village to transport ore to Anshan to earn money. A year later, the per capita income doubled! Zhou furen's popularity is getting higher and higher The wagon pulling ore was replaced by a car. Zhou Furen heard that Panjin Petroleum Exploration Bureau had produced oil, and all the new oil was sprayed into the pit. He immediately took people to buy a pit of oil at the price of 50 yuan/ton, melted and refined the oil, and then hired a car to sell it to Dalian forklift factory at the price of 300 yuan/ton; As soon as he got the oil, he learned that the magnesite in his hometown had been burnt into powder, which could be used to make asbestos tiles for building houses, so he rushed back to the village and commanded the villagers' troops to enter the mountains. ...
From asbestos tile to magnesium oxide
Zhou Furen, born in 1980s, started asbestos tile business. He found that many cars came to Anshan every day to pull light burnt powder (magnesite burnt powder) to make asbestos tiles. After a simple calculation, he contracted two kilns of the brigade and began to burn powder and sell it himself. On the one hand, there is a broad market, on the other hand, the cost of making ceramic tiles is also reduced to a minimum, killing two birds with one stone. Zhou Furen said, "This is the first time in my life that I have a complete industrial chain operation, so my tiles always earn more than others." Next, Zhou Furen built seven kilns in one breath. The asbestos tile factories in Cixi, Yuyao, Guanghan, Sichuan and Changle, Fujian all use his light burning powder. 1982 rented a warehouse in Guangzhou and set up a sales branch. In the same year, he set up a production branch in Guiyang.
1983, Zhou Furen's accumulated capital has exceeded1000000 yuan. That year, 30-year-old Zhou Furen was elected as a deputy to the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress.
Magnesite can be made into asbestos tile after being fired by ordinary methods. If magnesite and coke are fired at ultra-high temperature, magnesium powder will crystallize twice and become extremely hard magnesite. Magnesium oxide can be made into magnesia brick, which is a kind of refractory material and used to build steelmaking furnaces and other high-temperature operation facilities. A ton of asbestos tile light burning powder can sell 80 yuan money at most; And a ton of low-grade magnesia can be sold to 350 yuan, middle-grade 800 yuan, and high-grade magnesia is 2000 yuan or even higher. Zhou Furen's hometown is the best magnesium mine in the world, and Zhou Furen has no reason to give up this opportunity of "finding money".
So, Zhou Furen began to make magnesia. If he wanted to do better than others, Zhou Furen invested more than 20 million yuan in a set of medium-grade magnesia equipment from the beginning.
1988, Liaoning Haicheng Xiyang Refractory Co., Ltd. was established. With the rise of magnesium oxide market, the sales of western company increased to 500 million yuan in 1995! No industry can only go up but not down. After the profits of magnesia industry are getting lower and lower and the competition is becoming more and more fierce, Zhou Furen began to look for new industries, which can make the company's profits continue to grow.
The Origin of Hero Mo Wen
Many people can't imagine the connection between the production captain and the richest man in Liaoning. However, it took Zhou Furen 30 years to complete the transformation from a rural production captain to the richest man in Liaoning. Zhou Furen, the richest man in Liaoning Province who just boarded the Hurun Report in 2006, even boasted in an interview: "Strive to lead the Western Group into the Fortune 500 in 20 10 and become the first private enterprise in China to enter the Fortune 500."
The annual Hurun Rich List has almost become the talk of people after dinner. In the Hurun Report in 2006, apart from Zhang Yin, a rich woman who won the title of the richest man in China with assets of 27 billion, she became the biggest dark horse. Dalian Shide Xu Ming, who has been firmly seated on the throne of Liaoning Province, unexpectedly dropped out of the list and was replaced by Zhou Furen, an out-and-out peasant entrepreneur. Although Zhou Furen has entered the list for the seventh year in a row, it is this time that really attracts the attention of the market. The reason is that he wants to bring down Xu Ming, the richest man in Liaoning for many years.
According to the statistics of the website of Western Group, in 2005, under the leadership of Zhou Furen, the Group achieved a sales income of 654.38+0 billion yuan, a net profit of 654.38+0 billion yuan, and paid taxes of 400 million yuan, of which Anshan alone paid taxes of 265.438+0 million yuan, making it the first enterprise in Haicheng history to pay taxes exceeding 100 million yuan. These achievements are attributed to two major industries in the west-compound fertilizer and magnesia. Xiyang Group has become the largest compound fertilizer manufacturer in China, with an annual output of 6.5438+0.35 million tons. China's largest magnesia refractory production base belongs to the Western Group, with an annual output of more than 2 million tons of nine series of magnesia products, among which the output of intermediate magnesia and high-purity magnesia ranks first in the world. The group has comprehensive trade import and export rights, and its products sell well in more than 30 countries and regions in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Steel feelings will not change.
From Zhou Furen's constant pursuit of every step, we think of such a slogan: the stage is as big as the heart.
In fact, Zhou Furen's determination to enter the steel industry is not a whim, but a long wait of almost 30 years. And in the past 30 years, it has launched three attacks on the steel industry. And they are all investments of different scales.
As early as 1983, Zhou Furen's initial interest in the steel industry only came from one sentence: "The steel industry is industrial food and a big industry in the development of the national economy." Because farmers mainly rely on food, industry is bound to be closely related to steel. With this mentality, Zhou Furen invested in a small electric furnace of half a ton at that time. "The production was less than one year, and because it was not competitive, the output did not go at all, so it stopped production.
Speaking of this passage, Zhou Furen did not give up his enthusiasm for the steel industry because of his failure. On the contrary, I learned a truth from this failure that the steel industry must be bigger and stronger, and it is impossible to tinker with it. So after nearly 10 years of capital accumulation. 1993, Zhou Furen set his sights on the steel plant in Haicheng and invested in the construction of a 4-ton converter. However, the weather is unpredictable, and at the moment when the converter is about to be put into production, the global steel price is lower. At that time, Zhou Furen judged that there would be no improvement in a certain period of time. In order to avoid further losses, Zhou Furen braked urgently. This time it is a moderate decline. But this did not dispel his persistence in steel.
No wonder at that time, many old employees in the west could not help but persuade him to give up, or make the existing two western industries bigger and stronger, and there was no need to enter a strange field. It happened that Zhou Furen was an unbeliever. He said at that time that where he fell, he would start again. In the following nearly 10 years, Zhou Furen has been waiting for opportunities. Finally, he was given a chance to make a comeback in 2002. His merger of Haicheng and Shenyang iron and steel plants coincided with the rising domestic steel prices and promising market prospects. Zhou Furen finally realized his dream of steel. Today, Western Group has acquired four small steel mills. In June, Zhou Furen and Chongqing Iron and Steel announced an investment of 3 billion yuan to launch a hot-rolled plate production line. The annual output of this project is 2 million tons.
As a junior in the steel industry, Zhou Furen won the reputation of "private steel king" in less than four years with perseverance and perseverance.
Analysis on the depth of capital market
Zhou Furen always believes that as the leader of the Western Group, he only needs to be responsible for enterprises and more than 20,000 employees under enterprises. Once listed, he will be responsible to all shareholders. This is a huge project. There were too many lessons before, such as Gu of Kelon, Down Brothers of Delong, Hongyi Department and Tian Fei Department, which made him feel that he would not rashly bring the Western Group into the capital market unless the time was ripe.
Therefore, Zhou Furen repeatedly repeated his "three noes" principle. That is, not to go public, not to open up strange industries, and not to let other enterprises control western industrial companies. But in fact, the relationship between Zhou Furen and the capital market can be traced back to 2002.
The news that western groups are going to list in new york has been heated up. At that time, Zhou Furen led a large group of people and sponsor representatives to hold a huge press conference in Beijing, officially announcing the news that China's largest compound fertilizer enterprise was about to land on the NYSE. The reporter also had the opportunity to interview him for the first time because of this incident. In Zhou Furen's own words: "The listing was really hot at that time. However, due to a series of problems such as the company's shareholding structure, it finally gave up. " However, according to Zhou Furen's consistent character, the determination to make a difference will not be given up because of difficulties. That's true.
Zhou Furen has his own understanding of this. He said, although I didn't go to the capital operation, it doesn't mean that I won't go in the future. I just don't consider the overall listing of the company for the time being. HSBC, an international financial giant, took a fancy to the development potential of Western Group, so it joined hands with Guizhou Western Group, a subsidiary of Western Group, and spent $50 million to acquire a 25% stake in Western Guizhou. According to the deployment of HSBC, Guizhou Xiyang will be listed in Hong Kong, and the amount of financing for listing is expected to reach about 2.5 billion yuan. At this point, Zhou Furen will officially go to the capital market.
Target world top 500
From the beginning of his business, he began to mine magnesium ore and burn magnesium oxide. Only two years later, he was among the richest people with a value of 6,543,800 yuan. It was not until the 1990s that it began to enter the field of compound fertilizer. 1997, Zhou furen invested 300 million yuan to build Liaoning Xiyang Special Fertilizer Co., Ltd., and in just five years, "Xiyang Special Fertilizer" covered 0/5% of the domestic market, and was called a dark horse in the fertilizer industry in China. In 2000, Zhou Furen set his sights on phosphate rock resources in China, and invested 900 million yuan to build Guizhou Xiyang Fertilizer Co., Ltd., with an annual output of 6,543,800 tons of high-concentration special series compound fertilizer and 200,000 tons of compound fertilizer, becoming a key enterprise in compound fertilizer production in China.
From small to large, from scratch, from the history of the western group, the transformation of the western group from magnesia to compound fertilizer to steel industry can be described as just right. Zhou Furen believes that this is mainly due to his accurate judgment of the market. He said that his fields are basically routine projects, and unfamiliar fields are basically not done. Zhou Furen, who has successively occupied a place in the fields of magnesia and compound fertilizer, set himself the next goal, that is, to enter the steel industry in an all-round way and strive to make the Western Group enter the world's top 500 before 20 10. Therefore, when he filled in the questionnaire of "People, Finance and List in Beijing", he gave a positive answer to the question under what circumstances he would retire. He won't retire unless he brings the Western Group into the top 500 in the world. He explained to himself, "I can't be a deserter just because the task is not completed."
240 million dollars to invest in North Korean minerals
Yangfeng Cooperative invested by Western Group in North Korea is the largest investment project of China in North Korea at present. From 2007 to 20 1 1 year, a total investment of more than 30 million euros was made to build a modern mining plant, a concentrator with an annual output of 500,000 tons of iron concentrate and related supporting facilities. North Korea unilaterally tore up the contract under various pretexts. Through negotiations, the North Korean cooperative enterprise Lingfeng United Association promised to pay the transfer fee of $3 1.24 million to the Western Group. However, after half a year, Western Group still has not received any repayment funds. ...
As the chairman of Liaoning Xiyang Group (hereinafter referred to as "Xiyang Group"), the largest private enterprise in Northeast China, Zhou Furen completed the layout in North Korea as early as two years ago.
In Haizhou, adjacent to the west coast of North Korea, Western Group has won nearly 600 million tons of iron ore resources. At that time, when the western group was preparing to enter the North Korean market, he was reminded that the legal system in North Korea was not perfect and the policy risks were great. But this is not enough to stop Zhou Furen. He said that the less perfect the market, the greater the opportunities and the higher the profits.
However, times have changed, and Zhou Furen and his western group have to face the fact that the iron ore concentrator invested 240 million yuan in the Wengjin Iron Mine in Wengjin County, South Yellow Sea Road, North Korea, which unilaterally tore it up and deported it.
As if overnight, such a long-awaited idea was shattered.
"Investing in North Korea is a nightmare!" On August 2nd, the Western Group published an article entitled "The Nightmare of Western Group's Investment in North Korea" through Weibo and blog, expressing its dissatisfaction ... What do you think is your greatest talent?
Computer thinking.
When you were a child, what was the question you thought most about?
How to eat and wear warm clothes, how to make money.
What kind of people do you think will succeed in the world?
Serious people are sure to succeed.
What kind of environment do you most appreciate working in?
An environment suitable for enterprise development.
What kind of employees do you admire most?
Dedicated employees.
What kind of employees will you fire?
Disloyal people, lazy people, people with quality problems.
What kind of person do you want employees to define you as?
I hope I can become the backbone of the staff.
How will you handle the relationship between yourself and your employees?
Responsibility, let employees do it, and maximize the potential of employees.
What is the biggest problem you encounter in the process of company management?
1996 and 1997 economic crisis of the group.
How many hours do you work on average every day?
Every day is about 14 to 15 hours, and it is longer when you are young.
Under what circumstances will I retire?
When you can't do it yourself after bringing the enterprise into the world's top 500.