Wang Jianlin grew up in a poor family in China's inland Sichuan Province. After serving in the army 16 years, 1986 retired and got a public office in Dalian. Later, he took over a heavily indebted residential development company. He knew nothing about real estate, but he turned the company around. Deng Xiaoping's southern tour speech, 1992 When the entrepreneurial craze swept across China, he renamed the company "Dalian Wanda" and took charge of it himself.
Since 1993 became the chairman of Wanda Group, Wang Jianlin has been in business for more than 20 years. In the past 20 years, Wang Jianlin led Wanda through four transformations, that is, 1993 for the first time, from a regional company to a national company. The second time was in 2000, from residential real estate to commercial real estate. The third time in 2006, from real estate to cultural tourism. For the fourth time, in the past two years, it has transformed from a domestic enterprise to a multinational enterprise. These four transformations, each time, Wang Jianlin went all the way with many doubts and satires.
March into the cultural industry
"It is even more terrible for a director not to talk about real estate or culture." Wang Jianlin once laughed at himself. Since 2005, with the construction of Wanda Cinema, Wanda has started to invest in cultural industries on a large scale. China Economic Net reporter learned that Wanda's cultural industries currently include cultural tourism city, film industry, stage performance, film science and technology park, theme park, chain children's entertainment, chain discount KTV and newspaper art collection.
According to Wang Jianlin's transformation plan, by 2020, the income proportion of Wanda commercial real estate will fall below 50%, and culture and tourism are its two major investment directions. Although the development funds of the cultural industry are mainly supported by real estate sales, he predicts that by 2020, the income of Wanda cultural sector will reach at least 80 billion yuan, and Wanda cultural "aircraft carrier" is expected to enter the top ten cultural enterprises in the world.
The title of sole philanthropist
His achievements in charity and public welfare have also become a leader in the business world. Under many dazzling titles given by the outside world, Wang Jianlin loves the title of philanthropist most. China Economic Net reporter learned that Wanda is one of the enterprises with the largest charitable donations from private enterprises in China, with a cumulative donation of more than 2.8 billion yuan. It is also the only enterprise that has won six awards since the seventh China Charity Award, the highest charity award in China.
Wang Jianlin has his own plan for charity. "Our recent plan is 20 1 1 to 2 billion in 20 15 years, with an average annual arrangement of 400 million. I once thought that if my commercial real estate is listed, maybe I will announce that I will donate this part of my shares in the commercial real estate group to make a big charity fund. This asset is about 90% of my commercial real estate assets. Charity is a major, and it is wrong for us to just regard it as fun. I will find a team to run this. " Wang Jianlin said.
Really love football.
Wang Jianlin made his fortune by investing in football. In the early days of his business empire, Wanda Group spread its fame and influence all over the country with "Dalian Wanda". However, unlike ordinary investors who regard football as corporate reputation and cooperative investment with local governments, Wang Jianlin's love for football is well known. "Although he cares about the development of the team, he never interferes with the management of the team. Whenever he has time, he will come to the stadium to watch the game. He really loves football. " Former Wanda head coach Chi Shangbin commented on Wang Jianlin.
Unique vision, love to collect.
Wang Jianlin claimed to be a collector before going to sea. Chairman of Dalian Wanda Group has long been famous in the collection field. The difference is that Wang Jianlin uses the thinking of entrepreneurs to make art collections. He pays attention to series collection and deep collection. Mr Fu Baoshi's representative works are all taken from his home. Liu Haisu's Ten Huangshan Mountains, he actually collected nine paintings. He spent millions to "package" dozens of works by Shanghai painters from many hotels in Shanghai at one time. He also spent 2 million in one breath and bought 200 paintings by a painter. He has an idea. He briefly listed a list of more than five famous artists in modern times 100, with a special collection of 10. If you can't get it at home, you can collect it overseas.
Top KTV equipment, love to sing.
Wang Jianlin has always maintained one of his greatest hobbies-singing. Practice when you have time. He will never sing in public until he sings to his satisfaction. According to employees of Wanda Group, every year at Wanda Party, Wang Jianlin always sings a song as the finale. Every year, the finale of Wanda party is the song of the chairman. Wang Jianlin is known as "the reappearance of Wu Yuansheng" in the company, and has a special liking for Zhang Yu and other vicissitudes singers who are good at soaring high notes. It is understood that in order to reach the highest level when performing in front of everyone, he will practice seriously in his basement before each performance, even if he is busy. Wang Jianlin also added a set of top KTV equipment in Asia to his basement.