China News Service, March 10th. On March 9th, "Fortune" (Chinese version) "Chinese Businessman of the Year" was announced, and Chairman and President of BYD Co., Ltd. Wang Chuanfu was selected.
Since Fortune Magazine entered China in 1996, every year, a person who has promoted the progress of Chinese commercial civilization in the past year has been selected as the "Chinese Businessman of the Year" and an in-depth and large-scale cover report has been selected.
"Fortune" affirmed that Wang Chuanfu, as an entrepreneur, developed his win-win model in solving social problems, and considered it to be an "inherent hero" who did everything by following objective laws.
In August 2019, "Fortune" released the "Change the World Enterprise List", BYD ranked third, the only Chinese company in the top ten list, and the only car company in the entire list. The reason for the list is that BYD "expands the electric vehicle market, promotes the development of the global electric vehicle industry and has a profound impact."
In fact, as early as ten years ago, Fortune began to pay attention to this Chinese new energy vehicle company. At that time, after an interview with Wang Chuanfu by a Fortune reporter, he published an article entitled "Warren Buffett's participation in shares-why he favored an unknown Chinese electric car company and a CEO who drank his own electrolyte". At that time, Wang Chuanfu attracted global attention because of Buffett's investment. Today, Berkshire Hathaway has achieved more than 600% return. Charlie Munger's evaluation of Wang Chuanfu is not outdated so far: "He is a combination of Jack Welch and Edison. I have never met such a person."
Ten years later, "Fortune" once again talked to Wang Chuanfu, learned its journey in the past ten years, explored the story behind its creation of a green and new energy industry, and revealed how it "from obscurity to becoming China's global competition in the new energy vehicle era important role".
Zhang Wen, the executive editor of the Chinese version of Fortune, commented, "The annual businessman we launched this year is a very special innovator. He is a young member of the '92 faction '. Maverick. He is not only a selector, but also a radical selector, and even promotes the choice of the country in the process. Russell described the existence of a person as an individual: like a river, at first it was small and narrow, limited to Between the two shores, they then rushed across the rocks passionately and began to reach the estuary. His future, we will watch together, and his choice will also be our choice. "