China's Economy and Informatization: Liang Wengen and His Eight King Kongs

Transferred from: China Securities Network Source: "China Economy and Informatization" Magazine Reporter: Sun Hongchao

Unlike some private entrepreneurs who firmly grasp the power and money in their hands, Liang Wengen's righteousness is heavier, and the subordinates who are commensurate with his brother are also willing to work for him, which has to say that Liang Wengen has very clever employment skills.

In 1993, at the suggestion of Xiang Wenbo, Sany Group moved its headquarters to Changsha and targeted construction machinery products such as concrete pumps.

It was from this year that Sany Group began to become well-known to the world from an obscure small basement workshop.

In the list of the world's top 500 companies released by the Financial Times in July this year, Sany Heavy Industry occupied a place with a market value of 21.584 billion US dollars.

On the surface, it seems that in the development process of these years, Sany Group has gone smoothly, but as long as you carefully study the development history of Sany, you will know that every step of Sany's turning point is extremely difficult, even if there is a slight difference, maybe the consequences will be completely different.

Liang Wengen's "big pigs eat small pigs to eat" during the share reform, the main products participating in the Bauma exhibition in Germany were folded, and even the boiling "bribery door" in April this year: on the surface, Sany Group, which seems to have unlimited scenery, is not short of crises.

But every time a crisis is turned into an opportunity, it shows Liang Wengen's excellence in employing people, and his senior management team has been relatively stable since the beginning of his business, even if he is a person with a distinctive personality like President Xiang Wenbo, he also has a high loyalty to Sany.

Unlike many family businesses, even if there is occasional turmoil, Sany Group never has a situation where its subordinates are centrifuged.

It is worth noting that Liang Wengen, the new "double" richest man, is different from many heads of private enterprises who monopolize wealth, and he leads all executives to get rich together.

Tang Xiuguo, President of Sany Group, Xiang Wenbo, President of Sany Heavy Industry, Mao Zhongwu, Chairman of Sany Heavy Equipment, Yuan Jinhua, Vice President of Sany Heavy Industry, Yi Xiaogang, Executive President of Sany Heavy Industry, and Zhou Fugui, Vice President of Sany Heavy Industry, were collectively listed on the 2011 Forbes China Rich List.

Fan Luxian, the founder of the Forbes China Rich List and the director of Forbes Shanghai, commented: "This is the first time that so many people from a company have been on our list since we made the China Rich List. ”

　　Enterprise "home"

In the workshop of Sany Group, there is a slogan of "four wants and five nos", and the *5656 of the "four wants" is to respect employees, and one of the "five nos" is "no gangs are allowed".

Liang Wengen often emphasizes the importance of talents, and he has repeatedly said that the most important part of governing an enterprise is "governing people".

In fact, Sany Group has a very obvious family business nature, which can be seen from the fact that many of Liang Wengen's relatives hold important positions in Sany Group. His younger brother Liang Zhenggen served as the assistant to the president and was in charge of audit and supervision, while his son joined the Sany Group as soon as he graduated from university and is now in a high position. In addition, there are many middle-level leaders who have relatives with Liang Wengen and other four entrepreneurial veterans.

Even with so many family members occupying high positions in the Sany Group, the Sany Group is not regarded as a family business by the outside world. This may be due to the fact that in the Trinity Group, family members are not the core.

There was a widely circulated joke that Liang Wengen's wife had a relative who worked in Sany Heavy Industry, and wanted to adjust his position because he was not doing well, so he asked Mrs. Liang to intercede, but he was severely criticized.

According to the employees of Sany Heavy Industry, although Sany Heavy Industry is a private enterprise, in the management, there will be basically no violation of the employment system due to personal feelings.

Professional managers enjoy a high status in Sany Heavy Industry, which can be seen from Liang Wengen's reuse of Xiang Wenbo. The stability of Sany's core management team is also well-known in the Chinese business community.

From the four brothers who started a business together to Zhou Fugui, Yi Xiaogang, and Wang Zuochun who joined in the early days of the business, and then to Xiang Wenbo and Zhai Dengke, who later joined the core team, this team has hardly changed, which also allows Liang Wengen to have a loyal team, so that his intentions can be implemented to the *5655 degree.

In 1985, four young people, Liang Wengen, Tang Xiuguo, Mao Zhongwu and Yuan Jinhua, submitted their resignation reports to the factory. This is the original entrepreneurial team.

Tang Xiuguo met Liang Wengen during a morning jog, when Liang Wengen said to him: "If I were you, I would run to Washington in three years." At this time, both of them had just graduated from college. Liang Wengen said this sentence to inspire Tang Xiuguo to be admitted to Harvard University as a graduate student, which was a dream of Liang Wengen, but he was 28 years old at the time and had a family, and Tang Xiuguo was only 21 years old at the time. Although Liang did not know that Harvard University was in Boston and not Washington, this common-sense mistake did not diminish the stimulus to Tang Xiuguo.

In 1991, Xiang Wenbo joined Sany. After that, Zhou Fugui, Wang Zuochun and others successively followed Liang Wengen to join Sany.

One day in June 1995, Liang Wengen rushed to Beijing from his hometown in Hunan to ask for help from Yi Xiaogang, a hydraulic user who worked at the Beijing Institute of Machinery Industry Automation. Yi Xiaogang may never have expected that his career would take a magnificent turn.

But after staying in Changsha for half a year, Yi Xiaogang decisively chose to stay and break with everything in Beijing. Yi Xiaogang once said, "My family thinks I'm crazy and ignores me." But it was such an "incomprehensible" choice that created a brilliant one.

　　Joys and sorrows

In fact, there are countless examples of Chinese private enterprises that share hardships in the early days of entrepreneurship, but when they sit back and enjoy the results, they parted ways. Recently, Zhou Hong and Fu Sheng (Weibo) had a war of words, which is a new example.

However, although Sany Group, which has been constantly undergoing personnel changes, has new senior executives joining, the core team has never wavered. Perhaps this is directly related to the "common prosperity" at the beginning of this article.

The nine-member board of directors is now the *5661 decision-making level of Sany Group. In addition to the early "Liang Yuan Mao Tang" combination, in the later development process of Sany, Wang Zuochun, Xiang Wenbo, Zhou Fugui, Yi Xiaogang, Zhao Xiangzhang and other five people were added one after another.

Among them, Tang Xiuguo in the start-up trio was regarded by Liang Wengen as the role of "big housekeeper" because of his attention to details, softness and introvertedness, while Xiang Wenbo, who was the same age as him and had the opposite personality, became the top two people in the Sany Group respectively, while Wang Zuochun, Mao Zhongwu, and Yuan Jinhua gradually found new battlefields in Shanghai, Kunshan, and Shenyang, and grew from a director in charge of a booth in the group to a general who can lead troops to fight tough battles.

Liang Wengen's Jianghu spirit can be seen from the very traditional breakfast meeting of Sany Heavy Industry.

Liang Wengen rented a white house near Aiwan Pavilion at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, which was both his study and a place for him to discuss important matters with the directors.

An investment banker was invited to attend such a meeting, and when he came back, he was very surprised, saying that he had never seen a company hold such a meeting, and the directors quarreled and questioned in various ways, everyone was sweating, and anyone could interrupt Liang Wengen's speech.

And for money, Liang Wengen is very generous. In 1994, Liang Wengen convened a meeting of his brothers stationed in Lianyuan and Changsha at the Xiaoxiangcheng Hotel in Changsha to clarify the property rights of the two companies, which is also the 5,656 times in the past ten years since they started their business*5,656 times to discuss the issue of "dividing family property". At that time, Yi Xiaogang and Zhao Xiangzhang had not yet joined, according to Xiang Wenbo, Tang Xiuguo, and Wang Zuochun, from Liang Wengen's announcement of the plan to the approval, 10 minutes were useless. Liang Wengen's plan is that the equity of Lianyuan Material Factory, Liang and Tang are 21% each, Mao and Yuan are 20% each, Zhai Dengke is 11%, Wang Zuochun is 5%, Xiang Wenbo and Zhou Fugui are 1% each; Changsha Sany was still negative equity at that time, with Liang Wengen accounting for 56%, Tang, Yuan, and Mao accounting for 8% respectively, Xiang Wenbo accounting for 7%, Zhou Fugui 12%, and Wang Zuochun 1%. Later, Yi Xiaogang joined, and Liang Wengen took out 2% of his shares to Yi. In 2007, Zhao Xiangzhang, vice president of Sany Group, who was responsible for finance and investment, contributed nearly 2 billion profits to Sany Group through a series of capital operations, was promoted to director, and also held part of the group's equity.

Liang Wengen's understanding of "sharing" is different from many private enterprises clinging to equity, and he constantly shares equity with people who can bring greater benefits to the company. This may be the reason why Sany Group continues to grow.

　　Gang of Sages

In February 2008, at the "2008 March Day Celebration and Commendation Conference" held by Sany Group, a huge bonus of up to 35 million yuan caused a sensation, because the party Li Bing had passed away for three years.

Li Bing is a native of Yiyang. In 1998, when he was still an associate professor of Chang'an University, he was invited to join Sany Group, and after joining, Li Bing served as the president and deputy general manager of Sany Heavy Industry Research Institute. He not only presided over the development of a range of fully hydraulic pavement rollers, asphalt pavers andMotor gradersIt has also presided over the research and development of 5656 domestic asphalt transfer machines, and has undertaken the research and development of the national 863 project for many times.

More than ten years ago, Liang Wengen, the head of Sany, promised to give employees huge awards when the sales revenue exceeded 10 billion.

After Li Bing joined, the condition for him was that he must work in Sany Group for 10 years. But due to physical reasons, Li Bing died of illness about a year after being hospitalized in 2004, when he was in his 30s. "For responsible enterprises, a promise must be done, let alone talents with outstanding contributions like this." Xiang Wenbo said.

In Sany Group, there are not a few such foreign talents, and it can be clearly seen from the organizational chart of Sany Heavy Industry that the reporter understands that many minister-level executives are from the airborne, and some personnel are directly from the middle and senior management talents of some large international enterprises.

For talents, Liang Wengen has never been stingy in opening his money bag. For a long time before the listing, Sany continued to show the banner of development space and high salaries, and introduced a large number of airborne troops. Liang Wengen once revealed that in 2002, his own annual salary was 600,000 yuan, general manager Xiang Wenbo's annual salary was 500,000 yuan, executive deputy general manager Yi Xiaogang's annual salary was 400,000 yuan, and financial director Zhao Xiangzhang's annual salary was 300,000 yuan.

In addition to such senior management personnel, Liang Wengen regards the technicians of Sany Heavy Industry as the most important "treasure", and he once joked with the technicians of Sany Heavy Industry: "You are like hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake." It's not because the crab is good, but because it's from Yangcheng Lake, it's valuable. As long as you have Trinity's work experience, you will not have to worry about finding a job in society. ”

When Sany did not yet have a decent office building, the R&D building was already completed. In the past, domestic researchers liked to go abroad, often for research and development conditions. With Sany's R&D conditions, there is little need for most technicians to go out. Xiang Wenbo explained the concept of Sany employment from another aspect: "Sany has also laid off people when the pressure of macro-control is high, but we have never laid off technical personnel. ”