On October 31, the 2019 Zhejiang Enterprise Leadership Summit & Zhejiang Entrepreneur Activity Day was held in Hangzhou, with over 600 representatives from Zhejiang attending the conference. The summit was jointly sponsored by Zhejiang Federation of Industrial Economics, Zhejiang Enterprise Confederation, and Zhejiang Entrepreneur Association. Gao Xingfu, vice governor of Zhejiang Province, attended the summit and delivered a keynote speech.
At the summit, the 18th Zhejiang Excellent Entrepreneur, 2019 Zhejiang Top 100 Enterprises, the 1st Zhejiang Excellent CIO, 2018-2019 Excellent Culture Achievements of Zhejiang Enterprise, 2019 Innovation Achievement Award for Enterprise Management Modernization in Zhejiang Province, and 2019 Excellent Industrial Products of Zhejiang Province were commended. Zhu Zhangquan, chairman and general manager of Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd., was awarded the “18th Zhejiang Excellent Entrepreneur”, who was also the only entrepreneur in Zhuji City to win this honorary title.
Zhu Zhangquan, member of the Board of Directors of Hailiang Group, chairman and general manager of Zhejiang Hailiang Co., Ltd., has won dozens of honorary titles in Zhejiang Province, including Thousand Secretaries of Zhejiang, Outstanding Zhejiang Businessman from 2004 to 2014, Model Worker of Zhejiang Province, and Outstanding Leader of Chinese Enterprises in Transnational Operations by Forbes
In his 30 years’ experience in the company, the best time of his life, Zhu Zhangquan has been devoted to the Chinese non-ferrous metal industry and Zhejiang copper processing. He has started from nobody in procurement, sales and production to somebody who has always outperformed the targets every year. In 2012, he took the position of general manager and started to implement refined management, technological transformation and product innovation in a comprehensive manner. By focusing on both “refined management” and “intelligent manufacturing”, he led the company to head for the “intelligent” modern industrial development and aimed to transform into a higher-end, smarter, more technological and more globally competitive enterprise. Under his leadership, Zhejiang Hailiang has become a new benchmark for industry development.
“Where there is a market, there goes Zhejiang businessman, but our root always lies in Zhejiang!” During the rapid growth of the enterprise, Zhu Zhangquan with an international strategic vision took consideration of various factors to facilitate a bigger and stronger Zhejiang production base. In addition, he also contributed to the self-building and acquiring of production bases in Shanghai, Anhui, Guangdong, Chongqing, Vietnam, Thailand, and the United States. Through these endeavors, Zhejiang Hailiang has rapidly implemented its globalization layout strategy and achieved high-quality development and transformation.
In the future, under the guidance of the goal of “achieving leap-forward development in non-ferrous materials intellectual manufacturing”, Hailiang will upgrade its traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing by stepping out of the product and application ends, thereby contributing more to the social and economic development.