Hunan Daily: Liang Wengen was re-elected as China's economic figure of the year

Source: Hunan Daily Reporter: Tang Aiping
 

Today, the winners of the 2012 China Economic Person of the Year were announced, Guo Henian, Chairman of Kerry Group, won the Lifetime Achievement Award of China's Economic Person of the Year, and 10 people, including Liang Wengen, Chairman of Sany Heavy Industry, and Ma Yun, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Officer of Alibaba Group, were elected as the 2012 China Economic Person of the Year.

The list of winners is closely related to the theme of "real economy", involving traditional manufacturing, modern service industry, strategic emerging industries, Internet, finance and other industries, fully reflecting the characteristics of Chinese enterprises in 2012 in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, state-owned enterprise reform and innovation, Internet industry changes and other aspects.

In 2012, Sany was particularly eye-catching, and Liang Wengen also attracted much attention. At the beginning of the year, Sany Heavy Industry spent 360 million euros to acquire Putzmeister, a German construction machinery giant known as the "elephant". "Worldwide*5655Concrete machineryThe superposition effect of "manufacturer" and "global concrete machinery *5656 brand" has changed the competitive landscape of concrete machinery in the world. This lightning-fast strategic acquisition was hailed as an exemplary transaction in the history of Sino-German trade and was included in the 2012 National High School Examination Paper. The data also shows that the effect of the integration of Sany and Putzmeister is gradually emerging. In the first half of this year, Putzmeister's sales increased by more than 10 percent.

In March 2012, Sany Group's wind power project in the United States was forcibly blocked by CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States), and Obama issued a presidential order to terminate Sany's legitimate and legal investment project on the grounds of suspected threats to U.S. national security. Liang Wengen led the Sany Group to fight back bravely, took up legal weapons to say "no" to US trade protectionism, and took President Ma Oba and CFIUS to court.

2012 is a relatively difficult year for the construction machinery industry. In the context of the decline of the industry and the increasingly fierce irrational competition, Liang Wengen put forward the business policy of "not pursuing seats, not pursuing scale, and not blindly pursuing market share", calling for rational competition and injecting positive energy into the industry.

It is reported that as early as 2005, Liang Wengen was awarded the "Person of the Year in China's Economy" for his deeds of standing at the forefront of the stock reform and promoting the reform of China's securities market.