China Economic Times: Liu Hanyuan’s Life of Proposals
2013-01-30

Born in 1964, Liu Hanyuan was graduated from EMBA program of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. As a Senior Engineer, he currently occupies the posts of Board Chairman of Tongwei Group, Standing Committee Member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Standing Committee Member of the China Democratic National Construction Association (CDNCA) Central Committee, Executive Vice Chairman of China Feed Industry Association, and Executive Vice Chairman of New Energy Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Industry and Commerce.

Under the leadership of Mr. Liu Hanyuan, Tongwei Group - a leading technologically advanced private enterprise - focuses its core business on agriculture and new energy, and continues its development blitz with chemical industry, pet food, IT, construction and real estate. As China’s Key Leading Enterprise in Agriculture Industrialization, Tongwei operates nationwide as well as in Southeast Asia with its 110 branch/subsidiary companies and over 20,000 employees. Among these, Tongwei Co., Ltd is a listed company that manages an annual feed production capacity of over 10 million tons. The company has captured 25% of China’s market share for aquafeed, which makes it the nation’s industry leader for 19 consecutive years. As the world’s largest aquafeed manufacturer as well as major livestock and poultry feed producer, the company was the first agriculture listed company with its sales revenue exceeding ¥10 billion RMB in Sichuan.

With its healthy and fast development, Tongwei Group has built a formidable business that tallied ¥35.2 billion RMB in sales in 2011. To fulfill its grand vision of "Enhancing Life Quality of Mankind by Creating a World-class Brand of Aquatic Products", Tongwei perseveres in feed and aquaculture core business development, as well as its industrial chain build-up on its way to the world-class safe food supplier. Meanwhile, Tongwei strives to strengthen its competitiveness through huge investment in polycrystalline silicon and solar PV industry. It aims to become the world-class solar PV enterprise and the world-class clean energy company. With this, Tongwei Group’s sales revenue will reach ¥50 to 80 billion RMB in 3 to 5 years.

For the last 30 years, Tongwei Group has been widely recognized for its contributions to China’s aquaculture development. In recent years, Tongwei Group and its controlling Tongwei Co., Ltd. have received many honors and awards, including Top 100 Chinese Private Listed Companies, Top 50 Most Competitive Chinese Private Enterprises. September, 2004, the trademark of Tongwei Co., Ltd. received the title of China’s Well-known Trademark; September, 2006, Tongwei brand livestock and poultry feed won the honor of Chinese Brand Name by the State General Administration of Quality Supervision and Chinese Brand Name Promotion Committee. September, 2007, Tongwei Aquafeed Portfolio received the title of Chinese Brand Name. Till then, Tongwei were among the few agriculture companies in China to simultaneously own the three highest awards. July, 2006, Tongwei brand was selected the only Iconic Brand out of 13,000 candidate enterprises in the feed industry. Late in 2006, Tongwei Co., Ltd. received the title of 2006 China’s Feed Enterprise with the Most Competitiveness, and was selected Exemplar Company for China’s Feed Industry Standardization; 2007, Tongwei Group received China Brand ’Jinpu Award’ at the first Chinese Brand Festival. September, 2007, Tongwei Co., Ltd. consolidated its technological strength by its State Certified Enterprise Technology Center. December, 2007, Tongwei Co., Ltd. received the awards of Top 10 Companies in Public Welfare and Best Enterprise in Humanistic Management. 2009, Tongwei Group was listed Top 500 Information-based Companies for the 5th time. 2011, Tongwei was ranked as China’s 500 Most Valuable Brands for the 8th time with its brand value reaching¥11.086 billion RMB. Meanwhile, the company was awarded 2011 The Most Influential Enterprise for China’s Economic Achievements.

Tongwei Group has received many honors and awards, including China’s Key Leading Enterprise in Agriculture Industrialization, China’s Famous Trademark, State-level Technology Center, and Top China Brand. Mr. Liu Hanyuan has also received almost 100 awards, including the National Advanced Worker of Agricultural Science and Technology, China’s Top 10 Private Entrepreneurs, Outstanding Worker of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Chinese Leaders with Wealth and Wisdom, Goodness prevails ·Charity Star, and Hong Kong Redbud Cup Outstanding Entrepreneur. Under the leadership of Mr. Liu Hanyuan, Tongwei Group attaches great importance to its social responsibility and has been actively involved in charity and public service establishments including the Siyuan Project to support the development of aquatic industry and local construction. The company also made great efforts to help the people in need, and to support China’s education and scientific research. Up to now, Tongwei’s total value of donation has exceeded ¥250 million RMB.

While leading the company to gain continuing rise, Mr. Liu Hanyuan made in-depth analyses and researches on market, and extensively collected information based on the company’s actual needs. As the standing committee member of the CPPCC, he has been faithfully performing his duty by participating in the Two Sessions for 14 consecutive years with over 60 proposals and speeches for the CPPCC. Reflecting public views and concerns, many of his proposals actively affected the forming, unveiling and implementation of the country’s policies in socio economic area, and are published on the CPPCC Info Report and Dynamics of Political Participation, references sent to the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. In particular, the proposals of ’Developing Fishery Industry at the Three Gorges, Allocating Immigrants at the Reservoir Region’, ’Establishing Contra-flow Mechanism at Rural Areas, Improving Rural Financial System and Financial Service’, as well as the speech of ’Revitalizing the Economy by Tax Cut’, received recognition from Chairman Li Peng, and Chairman Jia Qinglin. Additionally, the proposals well received by the State’s related departments include: ’Breaking Monopoly and Introducing Competition to the Power Supply Industry’, ’Accelerating the Listing of Well-performing Companies for the Health of the Stock Market’, ’Incorporating Green Agriculture into China’s Agriculture Development Strategy’. The proposal of ’Establishing Feasible Standards and Norms for Road Construction and Traffic Management’ received The Excellent Proposal Award at the 9th CPPCC session.