China Business Times: Liang Wengen: Sany Group's innovation is not only for the pursuit of profits

Source: China Business Times Author: Su Qun

26 years ago, who would have thought that a small special welding materials factory in Loudi City, Hunan Province could become the "aircraft carrier" of global heavy industry and rank among the world's top 500? Who would have foreseen that an ordinary young man who was a son of a craftsman and an ordinary young man who had just walked out of the school gate of Zhongnan Institute of Mining and Metallurgy would grow into a representative of China's most famous private entrepreneurs?
He is Liang Wengen.

Pursue eighteen years to become a party member

In 2007, Liang Wengen was elected as a representative of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and became a private entrepreneur in Hunan. In 2012, Liang was once again honored as a representative of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, becoming one of the few representatives of the private enterprise party in the country.
As the main founder of Sany Group and chairman of Sany Heavy Industry, Liang Wengen is a representative of the 8th, 9th and 10th National People's Congress, and has won the honorable titles of "National Model Worker", "National Private Entrepreneur", "Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics", "Person of the Year in China's Economy", "Boss of China's Listed Companies" by Forbes, and the winner of the "Mondell World Manager Achievement Award". Among the many honors, Liang Wengen said that being elected as a representative of the party congress has a special meaning for him.
Liang Wengen officially became a member of the Communist Party of China in 2004, but he pursued it for 18 years. After being admitted to the Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Liang Wengen wrote 5656 applications for joining the party in his life. Liang Wengen said: "My motivation for joining the party for the first time was not very clear, but I only felt that it was a very honorable thing, because at that time, rural girls wanted to find party members. It wasn't until I started my own business that I realized that only by linking myself with the party's cause could I realize my ideals. "
In 1983, Liang Wengen graduated from university and was assigned to Hongyuan Machinery Factory of the Ministry of Ordnance Industry. At the beginning of his career, his innovative ideas and talents made him stand out, and he was soon promoted to the director of the factory restructuring office. It was at this time that he submitted his second application to join the party. But this time he joined the party* and missed the opportunity because Liang Wengen chose to resign and go to sea.
Soon after he went to the sea to do business, he expressed his desire to become a party member to the local party organization for the third time. The provincial leaders at that time attached great importance to it, but because there were restrictions on private business owners joining the party at that time, the number of employees could not exceed seven. This regulation once again deprived Liang of the opportunity to become a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2002, the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) sent an important message: we must respect and protect all labor that is beneficial to the people and society, and we should not simply take whether or not there is property and how much property we have as the criterion for judging people's political progress and backwardness, but mainly look at their political ideology and practical performance, and look at their contributions to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics with their own labor. Accordingly, private entrepreneurs can not only join the party, but also private enterprises can set up party organizations.
This is exciting news for Liang Wengen.
In the winter of 2002, Sany Group established a party committee, and Liang Wengen became the target of 5,656 party members. Two years later, Liang Wengen finally joined the Communist Party of China, and his dream finally came true after 18 years of pursuit and hard work.

Innovation isn't just about profits

Liang Wengen once said with emotion: "For so many years, I have always been grateful and respectful to the party. "
On October 16, 2007, Liang Wengen attended the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. At the press conference, he said frankly to reporters: "When the assets of Sany Group are 100,000 yuan, it is my personal Sany; When it reaches 1 million yuan, it is the 'Trinity of the enterprise'; When it reaches 10 billion, it should be the 'Trinity of the State'. He also said with emotion: "The election of private entrepreneurs as party representatives is a high affirmation of Sany by the party and the government, and it is also a great encouragement to private enterprises."
Inside the gate of Trinity Industrial City, a huge slogan - "Be grateful" was erected, which was very conspicuous. "Who is Trinity grateful for? Trinity people are grateful for reform and opening up and for the party's leadership. Sany, a seedling of market economy, is a towering tree that has grown under the care of the party. He Zhenlin, deputy secretary of the Sany Party Committee *5656, once told reporters.
In this regard, Liang Wengen once said with emotion: "After I joined the Communist Party, I integrated the party's cause with the Sany cause, and Sany really found the direction. The factor of our success is to combine the pursuit of economic interests with support for party building work, and to embark on the road of independent innovation. "
Facts have also proved Liang Wengen's confession: since the establishment of the party committee of the group, the company has developed by leaps and bounds, forming an average annual growth scale of 60%, and the turnover in 2011 is expected to exceed 80 billion yuan. Before 2004, Sany's turnover was only more than 2 billion.
In this regard, Liang Wengen said that for Sany people, gratitude to the country and society should be reflected in repaying the society with outstanding product quality.
Liang Wengen's daily office building is now called the "Party Committee Building". Sany's party member activity room used to be Liang Wengen's office, and now it has become a special place for party members to communicate and activities. Here, once a month, the regular meeting of party members is transmitted to every corner of Sany Group in the world through the television and telephone video system. In Trinity, the *5656 songs that sound every morning are "Singing the Motherland".
Liang Wengen has a mantra, that is, whenever he meets a new face at a middle and high-level meeting of the company, he will always ask: "Are you a member of the Communist Party?" "If he learns that he is not a member of the Communist Party, he will earnestly ask him to have faith and move closer to the party organization.
With the belief of Sany, we take the initiative to enhance the creativity of the party organization and enhance the creativity of the enterprise, and combine the party's ideology with the culture of Sany to sublimate the spirit of enterprise.
Make Sany a benchmark for party building in private enterprises
After the formal establishment of the Party Committee of Sany Group in December 2002, it consists of 4 hierarchical party committees, 6 general party branches, 59 party branches, and nearly 5,400 party members.
As an international enterprise, with the expansion of overseas business, the group has successively established four party branches in Germany, the United States, Brazil and India. It has realized that "where the production and operation of the enterprise develops, the party organization will be established; Where the employees of the enterprise work and live, the party's activities will be carried out".
Liang Wengen emphasized: "Strengthening the party building work of private enterprises is an important aspect of improving the party's governing ability and consolidating the party's class foundation. Adhering to the work concept of "promoting development with party building and promoting party building with development", the goal of party building work he put forward is to build Sany into a benchmark for party building in private enterprises.
The Party Committee of Sany Group has always adhered to the "three meetings and one lesson" system such as the democratic life meeting and the party member organization life meeting, and has a sound party building work system such as party member education, management, training and party member development. The "Several Decisions on Strengthening the Party Building Work of Sany" formulated by the Party Committee of the company requires that a regular meeting of the Party Committee of the Group must be held once a month, which shall be presided over by the Secretary of the Party Committee in person; Half a day of the group's monthly study day is for party members to study; Every year, no less than 1 million yuan of special funds for party building will be allocated. The group has also formulated and promulgated the "Implementation Measures for the Assessment of the Work of Grass-roots Party Organizations" to strengthen the assessment and evaluation from six aspects: organizational construction, ideological construction, team building, development performance, harmonious construction, and cohesion of employees. Since 2004, the group has established the company's party school to carry out the rotation training of party members and the training of party activists, and has developed more than 1,000 party members in the past 8 years. In August 2011, Sany Group held the "In-depth Development of Pioneering and Striving for Excellence Activities and Improving Scientific Development Ability Training Course" at the Central Party School, and organized nearly 80 leaders of grass-roots party organizations and senior executives to participate in the five-day full-time training, creating a precedent for private enterprises to hold party building training courses in the Central Party School.
In the Sany Group, the role of the party committee as a fighting fortress and the exemplary role of party members have been brought into full play. The party committee has always been the political core of the enterprise and employees, and has strived to practice the "combination of the exemplary role of party members and the development of enterprise management, the combination of the party's ideological and political work with the construction of corporate culture, the principle of party management of cadres and the human resources work of the enterprise, and the combination of the party's purpose and corporate social responsibility"; Vigorously carried out the "double training" work with the theme of "cultivating employees into party members and cultivating party members into employees", implementing two-way training and cross-posting, more than 90% of party committee members, general branch members and branch members are senior executives, and more than 30% of the company's middle-level management cadres are party members, and cadres must first submit an application for joining the party; The party member * front post and responsibility area have been set up, and the party member research team and volunteer service team have been formed; The party committee of the company leads the trade union organization and the league organization, and the party secretary concurrently serves as the chairman of the trade union.
Sany Group's practice of actively exploring and innovating the party building work of private enterprises has been affirmed by the central government. In March 2007, when the research team of the Central Party Building Leading Group inspected Sany Group, it praised the party building work of Sany Group as "valued by the enterprise, welcomed by the party members, supported by the employees, and set a model for exploring the party building work of private enterprises and promoting the economic development of enterprises". In February 2008, Qiushi magazine published a special article to highly affirm the party building work of Sany Group. CCTV and Xinhua News Agency have also successively published reports on the achievements of Sany Group's party building.
On March 21 this year, the National Conference on Party Construction of Non-public Enterprises was held, and Liang Wengen was invited to participate as a representative of the first enterprise in Hunan Province. The delegates were cordially received by the party and state leaders.
Now Sany, 7 of the 11 directors are party members, the main business positions of the enterprise, there are a large number of party members and activists, the majority of party members have become the backbone of the company's employees, the party building work has become the core force to promote the development of Sany, is an important part of Sany's core competitiveness, is the core factor of Sany to achieve scientific development. Practice has proved that the development of private enterprises is inseparable from the leadership of the party, and it also needs the leadership of the party.
"Private enterprises love the party. Why * love the party? Because only the Communist Party of China can provide better development opportunities and conditions for China's private enterprises. The words of Xiang Wenbo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Sany Group, expressed the special feelings of Sany as a private enterprise for the party.
Ren Zhengfei, a well-known entrepreneur, famously asserted: "If an enterprise does not agree with the mainstream ideology, even if it has great ability, it will achieve nothing." The Sany Group led by Liang Wengen made a vivid annotation to this passage with his own growth experience.