Some people interpret the word "Fosun" as "Fudan Star", while others interpret it as "Fudan Bull". Regardless of how it is interpreted, the name has a strong connection with Fudan University.
Guo Guangchang once mentioned the origin of the name Fosun, "We several graduated from Fudan, there is a strong alma mater feelings ......"
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These five people all graduated from Fudan University, one studied philosophy, three studied genetics, and one studied computers; Jian Tan is the only woman among them, and Guo Guangchang's ex-wife.
After the rise of Fosun, the outside world also called them "Fosun five tigers" or "Fosun five swordsmen".
Liang Xinjun once said: "The five of us are like five fingers, none of which is missing. Five fingers clenched, is a fist. And, in addition to our several people in the school on the establishment of a good relationship, the spirit of Zheshang is also reflected in our several people, and by this **** the same cultural interpretation of the corporate culture, is the greatest foundation of our five concentric."
However, time goes by in a hurry, and there is a time for gathering and dispersing. Fosun is getting stronger and stronger, but the Five Musketeers are gradually dispersing to the ends of the earth.
Alumni, classmates, roommates, coworkers, hometowns, couples ...... a university can be derived from the relationship between people, but that's it. Rarely, Fosun's "entrepreneurial quintet" has intertwined these relationships.
This seems to be rare among Chinese business partners.
Guo was born in 1967 in Hengdian, Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, to a poor family. After graduating from junior high school, he gave up the opportunity to go to a teacher's college, determined to change his fate by going to high school and going to college. 1985, Guo Guangchang, who studied science, was admitted to Fudan University, majoring in philosophy. It was the early days of reform and opening up, the tide of thought, Guo Guangchang wanted to become a philosopher, not a businessman.
On studying philosophy, Guo Guangchang said that philosophy trains the mind and allows one to look at problems from more angles.
In 1987, during the summer vacation of his sophomore year, Guo Guangchang rode a worn-out bicycle to Beijing for a trip to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. This summer for Guo Guangchang, full and full of thought. However, for the three prospective students in Zhejiang who have just finished high school, it's a different kind of mood.
At the end of the summer, Guo Guangchang's college career was half over, and he had to plan his work early, while Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin, and Fan Wei, who came to Fudan University from Zhejiang with great anticipation, became freshmen in the Department of Genetic Engineering.
Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei became classmates, and Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei are still roommates. More coincidentally, all three of them and Guo Guangchang are Zhejiang people. Liang Xinjun is from Taizhou, Wang Qunbin and Fan Wei are from Huzhou, and Guo Guangchang is from Dongyang. However, at that time, they did not know Guo Guangchang as a senior and hometown.
In 1989, when the three of them were preparing for their junior year, Guo Guangchang had already graduated, and the computer science department welcomed a freshman named Tan Jian. It is a little-known fact that Jian's grandfather was Tan Jiazhen, an international geneticist and one of the founders of modern genetics in China, who established China's first genetics program, first genetics research institute, and first school of life sciences at Fudan University.
After graduation, Guo stayed at the university to work in the Youth League Committee while preparing for his studies abroad. Two years later, Liang Xinjun, who had completed his studies, also stayed on campus and started working in the school's Youth League Committee; Wang Qunbin worked in the Youth League Branch of the School of Life; and Fan Wei went south to a pharmaceutical company in Zhuhai.
Guo and Liang had the most dealings.
So, Guo Guangchang gave up the "gold rush abroad" program, pulling Liang Xinjun together to go to sea.
They took the money and some savings for study abroad, ***38,000 yuan, set up a small company - Guangxin Technology Consulting Company. "
This is the first time I've ever seen a company like this, and I've never seen one like it. That year, Guo Guangchang was 25 years old, Liang Xinjun 24 years old.
Guangxin did research on the Shanghai market for Yuanzu Foods from Taiwan and made its first bucket of money - 300,000 yuan.
The first business was not easy to come by, and they took it seriously. In the bidding office of Yuanzu, Guo Guangchang finished submitting the materials, tripped over the threshold on his way out and almost fell, but fortunately Liang Xinjun behind him helped him.
The two men held each other up, and in the future, they will always support each other through thick and thin.
In 1993, Guangxin needed to grow its team, and Guo Guangchang and Liang Xinjun set their sights on the people around them. With the addition of Wang Qunbin, Fan Wei, and Tan Jian, Guangxin was renamed Fosun, and the company's core business began to shift to biomedicine, and it also began to venture into real estate.
By now, Fosun had a core team, the "Venture Five".
After graduation, Jian Tan and Guo Guangchang entered into marriage.
In the "entrepreneurial five", in addition to Jian Tan is Shanghai, the other four are "Zhejiang gang".
At the beginning of the venture, Guo Guangchang, Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin, Fan Wei, four people crowded in a very small place, work, eat, overtime. When not working, they rubbed mahjong, and often ate egg fried rice for dinner.
After the core team was identified, they had an important meeting to clarify the division of labor among the five people.
Guo Guangchang is not conservative, never felt that there is something that can only be thought not done, strong systematic thinking ability, is a very qualified general manager; Liang Xinjun keen sense of strategy, is Fosun's "second in command"; Wang Qunbin low-profile, professional and solid, Fosun's " first scorer"; Fan Qunbin, the first in charge of the company's business, has a very good reputation. The first scorer"; Fan Wei on the experimental "drunkenness", like a scholar.
After deciding to take biopharmaceuticals as Fosun's main direction of attack, Fan Wei and Wang Qunbin invested in the technology, and Guo Guangchang and Liang Xinjun invested the company's pre-accumulated funds.
In 1995, under the leadership of Fan Wei and Wang Qunbin, several R&D personnel of Fosun turned the subject into a finished product - PCR hepatitis B diagnostic reagent. This was an important step in the development of Fosun.
Drug R&D is the front runner, and sales network is the logistic force, both are important. Guo Guangchang rode around in a green car to sell, and spread the sales network to the whole country. So the first 100 million dollars after the creation of Fosun came in, and also became the industry leader.
In 1998, domestic enterprises were restructured, and Fosun also faced changes. Several patriarchs gathered in the conference room of Fosun to discuss the business system that Fosun should choose.
This topic is of great importance to everyone here, because the outcome of the discussion will determine their future "identity" in Fosun.
Guo Guangchang lit a cigarette and choked on the first puff, coughing, and Liang Xinjun pushed a glass of water in front of him. Guo Guangchang looked at these several patriarchs with their own **** suffering, they seem to be a little fidgety, Liang Xinjun fingers gently tapping the desktop, Wang Qunbin eyes toward the window, Wang Wei lowered his head, his hands holding a cup, only the talk of the sword quietly looking at Guo Guangchang.
Talking about the sword for Guo Guangchang to ease the atmosphere: restructuring is not a bad thing, it is for the better development of the enterprise, we are a few so many years have come together, and now, only openly talk about it, is what should be done.
The silence was broken by the earnest tone of the talk of the sword.
How to restructure? What is the general direction? Several people began to actively express their ideas. They also talked about the plan after the restructuring: the group and its many companies listed; to be China's most powerful investment group; involved in all major industrial fields.
In the same year, Fosun Industrial (now Fosun Pharma) landed on the A-share market, raising 350 million yuan. Since then, Fosun has been investing in other enterprises by way of equity participation or holding, entering various industries, and gradually building up a huge "Fosun system".
In 2001, Fosun acquired Yuyuan Mall, one of the eight "old stocks" (now Yuyuan), which is regarded as a typical case of industrial expansion through the capital chain; in 2003, Fosun acquired Nangang, which is the first tender offer in China's stock market! ......
More and more announcements of listed companies show the figure of Fosun, in addition to many international acquisitions. Fosun's capital map has expanded to include medicine, real estate, steel, retail, securities, insurance, leisure, tourism, sports, minerals, gold and jewelry, catering, wine and beverage, information, logistics and many other areas.
In the process of Fosun's diversification, Guo Guangchang is the soul of the whole enterprise, controlling the whole situation; Liang Xinjun is the vice chairman and vice president of Fosun, and has become the leader of Fosun's investment and information industry; Wang Qunbin is the general manager of Fosun's industry, specializing in biomedicine; Fan Wei is in charge of the real estate business, and is also in charge of internal affairs; and Tal Talent is in charge of the sports and cultural industries.
Guo became the richest man in Shanghai in 2007 when Fosun International, which combines many of Fosun's industries, was listed on the Hong Kong stock market. The Forbes 2007 Rich List showed that Guo Guangchang's fortune amounted to 36.23 billion yuan. As of June 30, 2020, the total assets of Fosun International has reached 744.986 billion yuan.
Nowadays, Fosun is still active in the capital market, and mergers and acquisitions have been made from time to time. 2020, Fosun has taken Jinhui Liquor and Shede Liquor, and recently, it is going to take Wansheng shares. Wansheng shares will become the eighth A-share company held by Fosun Galaxy.
Early private enterprises, many of which were founded in the name of the jungle brothers gathered, whether it is "Vantone six gentlemen" "New Oriental Troika", or "Tencent five tigers "
These are the first time I've ever seen a company like this, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a company like this.
However, after the development and growth of the enterprise, the separation could not be avoided. The ideal way, as Feng Lun said, is to enter in the way of the jungle, and exit in the way of the businessman.
Liang Xinjun once said: "We are five people, all on the highway, now five lanes of the same speed. However, if one person's car is out of order, obviously slow down, you can not always occupy the fast lane. At Fosun, there are only eternal corporate interests, not eternal personal relationships."
"Fosun Five Musketeers" at the helm of the Fosun galaxy sailing, there is a phrase they often mentioned - "like walking on thin ice, like the abyss, fear and trembling, conscientious". Finally, after 20 years of sailing, they too began to drift apart.
In May 2013, Fan Wei, executive director of Fosun International, withdrew from the company and no longer serves as co-president of the company, on the grounds of "taking into account physical health factors". At the time, Mr. Fan was 44 years old.
Fan had previously run Fosun Group and was its chairman from 2009 to 2010. Then, after just over two years as co-president of Fosun International, he left.
Not even four years after Fan Wei left, so did Liang Xinjun.
In March 2017, Liang Xinjun released "a letter to the students of Fosun", saying that since that day, for "physical reasons", resigned from the management and board of directors of Fosun. Previously, Liang Xinjun served as vice chairman and chief executive officer of Fosun International, and Guo Guangchang was the chairman.
In the letter, Liang Xinjun said: "Luckier than others, I think, first, was born in the reform and opening up of the era of encouraging intellectuals to start their own businesses; second, there is a warm climate and soil such as Shanghai; and most importantly, is the beginning of the business, it is fortunate to have met Kwong Cheong, Wang and other entrepreneurial partners, as well as encountered all of you in the ensuing 20 years. "
Liang Xinjun and Guo Guangchang were the first partners of Fosun, and he accompanied Fosun for 25 years, and was the real "second-in-command" of Fosun.
Soon after Liang Xinjun released his letter of departure, Guo Guangchang also released a "letter to Fosun's classmates", reviewing his entrepreneurial experience with Liang Xinjun at great length.
Guo Guangchang said in the letter: "In the company, I am quite polite to others; but to the letter of the army, this twenty years I have not been polite, the said that on the said, the criticism on the criticism. At that time, I felt sure that I was right, but in fact it may not be true. Such a second-in-command, Xinjun how much tolerance, how difficult to adjust, in order to accept and face in front of everyone this kind of criticism. In my place, I must not have such stoicism as his. There are just too many apologies, it's too much."
In addition to these two, a long time ago, talk about the sword faded out.
Talking about the sword and Guo Guangchang met on campus, when Guo Guangchang want to run the company, but also because and talk about the sword all night long after the courage. However, their marriage did not go to the end. 2008 published in the "Chang Yun Fuxing", mentioned that the two divorced. The two have been divorced for many years.
After that, Guo Guangchang married Wang Zinyuan, the host of Oriental TV. By coincidence, Wang Zinyuan is also the sister of Guo Guangchang, who is about four years younger and graduated from Fudan University with a degree in journalism.
Now, Wang is the chairman of the Fosun Foundation and the Fosun Art Center, and Jian Tan is still the chairman of Fosun's Star Fitness Club and holds a stake in the company.
The "Venture Five" once worked together to lead Fosun from a small company to a giant ship, and now only Guo Guangchang and Wang Qunbin remain in the core team.
After Liang Xinjun left, Guo Guangchang said in that letter, "We are all passers-by, Xinjun is a passer-by, I will also be a passer-by, everyone will be a passer-by, but we *** with the same hope is to make the cause of Fosun go farther."
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(Author Lei Yanpeng, Editor Liu Xiaoying)