Recently, some media reported that Li, the founder of Hanergy Department, was taken away by Jinzhou Public Security Bureau to assist in the investigation, which may be related to the loan from Jinzhou Bank. 65438+1October 1 1, the reporter of China Business Daily asked Jinzhou Public Security Bureau and Jinzhou Bank for verification, but the Public Security Bureau failed to get in touch, and Jinzhou Bank indicated that it would give a formal reply by mail.
Li was taken away by the police, and it is still difficult to be confirmed from official authoritative channels. However, the reporter learned that Li is now closely related to Sinon Group and Hanwa Technology Co., Ltd.
A salesperson of Hanwa Company said that its leader confirmed that Li had been taken away by the relevant departments in late February 2022.
According to official website of Sinon Group, the company focuses on thin-film solar technology and application, and its main products include Hanwa and Han Qiang. Whether it is the main business or the product name, it is highly coincident with Hanergy Film, which was delisted from Hong Kong stocks. However, at the same time that Li was taken away, the operations of Sinon Group and Hanwa Company also broke out: a large number of employees were owed wages, but customers could not deliver the goods after paying the full amount.
CCTV prime-time advertising words of "Let Everything Generate Electricity",
Hanergy, once known as the world's largest solar photovoltaic company, is now heavily in debt, with constant lawsuits, broken promises and execution lists frequently appearing.
"Hanergy Department" puts on a new vest
The reorganization failed to regenerate.
In the summer of 20021,the headquarters of Hanergy Group in Beijing Orson Park was relocated, which became a footnote for the former giants. Since then, Li and the "Hanergy Department" seem to have gradually faded out of people's sight. What happened to Hanergy Group in the past two years? What does Li do?
A recent rumor revealed the latest development of the former richest man in China. According to many media reports, Li was taken away by the police in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province from June 5438 to February 2022 to assist in the investigation, but the specific reasons are still unclear.
Some media said that this may be related to the loan from Jinzhou Bank, but it was not confirmed by Jinzhou Bank.
At the same time, the news that Li was taken away began to spread in Hanwa Technology Co., Ltd. ... Although Hanwa Company and Li did not overlap in business information, there was a close relationship between them, and Li's "loss of contact" also triggered a chain reaction within Hanwa Company.
According to the internal mail file provided by a senior sales expert of Hanwa Company, Hanwa Company belongs to Sinon Holding Group Co., Ltd. Through the equity penetration of Tianyancha, Sinon Group can finally be traced back to two natural persons, Kuang and Li Wuqing. However, the aforementioned senior sales expert revealed that "Shinong Group is the original Hanergy, and it should still be Boss Li behind it."
June 2022 1 1 Photo courtesy of the interviewee who participated in the video conference in Li.
The senior sales expert said that all the thin-film battery products sold by the company are Hanergy's original product series. In addition, Li will also host the company's video conference and deliver a speech. Another salesperson from Hanwa Company also said that he met Li in the video training in June+February 2008.
According to official website of Sinon Group, the thin-film solar products developed by the company mainly include Hanwa and Han Qiang, which are highly coincident with the product types and names of Hanergy Thin Film, a listed company of Hanergy. According to the 20 18 annual report of Hanergy Film, the company is mainly engaged in the thin-film solar energy industry, and its products Hanwa, Han Qiang, Hanbao, Han Zhi and Hansan were all listed in batches that year. In addition, the "special" copper indium gallium selenide thin film solar technology and high-efficiency gallium arsenide thin film solar technology of Sinon Group are also the main technologies of Hanergy thin film.
From this point of view, Li intends to start a new stove through the world agricultural group, but "this fire" may not have been "burned". At the same time that Li lost contact, many employees of Sinon Group and Hanwa Technology were told to stop paying social security and wages. The reporter joined the rights protection group of Sinon Group and Hanwa Company with nearly 100 employees.
Some employees said that in June 5438+10 this year, the company forcibly terminated the labor contract between the two parties on the grounds that it could not continue to perform the labor contract for objective reasons. The company refused to pay its salary for the past two months and the expenses paid for its business activities on the grounds that it had no money. Some employees also said that many customers paid the deposit, but the company has been unable to deliver the goods at present.
Ms. Huang told reporters that she signed a contract to purchase a set of Hanwa roofing system equipment in early February last year and paid the full amount of about 48,000 yuan. The other party promised to deliver the goods before October 3rd, 65438/KLOC-0, and install them before October 9th this year, but the company has not delivered the goods so far.
The employee receives the notice of terminating the labor contract. Photos provided by interviewees.
From the richest man in the past to the crisis of unpaid wages
Can you pull back a city by thin-film batteries?
The title of "the richest man in China" has alternated countless times, but Li's story is quite different.
Ma Yun and Wang Jianlin were left behind with a net worth of 654.38+060 billion yuan. He was in the limelight for a while, but three months later, he "fell off the altar" in just 20 minutes. Looking back at Li's family history, it is not surprising that he and Hanergy Group have retreated.
Li's hometown is Heyuan, Guangdong. 1984, Li, 17 years old, was admitted to department of mechanical engineering of Beijing Jiaotong University from Beijing Heyuan Middle School. According to people familiar with him, Li came from an ordinary family and began to earn his own living by doing multiple part-time jobs. No matter what you make money by, you are a famous "rich man" on campus if you don't graduate from college.
Later, he dropped out of graduate school and started a business. From 65438 to 0989, Li borrowed 50,000 yuan from a university teacher to establish Hanergy Group. In just five years, Li earned the "first bucket of gold" with 50,000 yuan of venture capital-80 million yuan. In an interview with the media, he said that by 1994, he and his team had earned 80 million yuan by "transporting mines by railway", which was the starting capital of his later "grand" dream of Hanergy Empire.
Li did make a fortune in the hydropower business. In 1990s, China was at the peak of the development of private hydropower stations. Li initially invested in a small hydropower station in Heyuan, his hometown, and after tasting the "sweetness", he expanded the hydropower map. Among them, Li's most famous hydropower station is Jin Hydropower Station with a total installed capacity of 3 million kilowatts. After nearly ten years, the project invested more than 20 billion yuan and became the largest private hydropower station in the world at that time. After the completion of the Golden Hydropower Station, it became Hanergy's "cash cow" and the "bottom asset" for him to obtain credit and other funds through repeated mortgage.
Li once said bluntly that hydropower stations are printing presses.
The huge cash flow brought by the Golden Hydropower Station has created confidence for Li to continue to expand outward. This time, he put his "treasure" on the orbit of photovoltaic cells.
At that time, the photovoltaic cell industry was mainly divided into two routes: thin film and crystalline silicon. With the sharp drop in the cost of raw materials, crystalline silicon batteries with higher conversion rate and stronger stability occupy most of the global photovoltaic cells in one fell swoop, while thin-film batteries are not favored by the industry because of technical and cost problems, and their market share is gradually shrinking. However, Li chose the latter.
Li firmly believes that the application prospect of thin-film batteries is broader than that of crystalline silicon batteries, but his persistence has not been rewarded. Although the company's technology is in a leading position, the sales of thin-film batteries are not good. Hanergy Film has relied on "self-produced and self-sold" related party transactions for many years to maintain its performance and share price.
Until May of 20 15, there was a sudden short selling, and the share price of Hanergy Film was directly "halved" in just 25 minutes, so Li fell from the throne of "the richest man".
Since then, the "Hanergy Department" has suffered a series of negative events, such as the financial crisis, the delisting of Hong Kong stocks, the storm of unpaid wages, and the demolition of its headquarters. Until recently, Li was told to be taken away by the police, and the story belonging to Hanergy seemed to be over.
Judging from the new vest of Sinon Group, Li has never given up his thin-film battery business. According to a sales employee of Sinon Group, the company began to recruit people in major recruitment websites from June, 2022165438+1October, claiming to be the crown sales of recruitment and sales, with high salary, and focusing on the middle and high-end villa market. "At the on-the-job training meeting, Li told us earnestly that people are being laid off all over the country, and stone farmers are doing the opposite, recruiting people and being ambitious to do something big."
But a few months later, history repeats itself. The aforementioned senior sales experts said that the sales performance of the company's products was average. At the same time, employees are owed wages and face layoffs.
According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, on 20 12, Li, Chairman of the Group and Chairman of Tongwei Group participated in CCTV's "Dialogue" column.
Li looked very proud, and kept crossing his legs during the broadcast, in sharp contrast to the posture of sitting side by side with him. May 20th, 20 15, happens to be the shareholders' meeting of Hanergy. Li declared to shareholders ambitiously: "Hanergy will keep pace with Tencent and Ali in the next three years, and its market value will be one trillion US dollars in five years, surpassing Google and Apple!"
20 12 Li participated in CCTV programs with the chairman of the group and the chairman of Tongwei group.
Today, seven years later, GCL and Tongwei have really grown into world-class photovoltaic giants. Li became a "naked swimmer" in the tide of global photovoltaic industry.
Reporter | Yang Qianyun
Editor | Cheng Peng Chen Junjie Gai Yuanyuan