Changjiang Business News ● Changjiang Business News Public Welfare Reporter Jiang Chuya

from clothing factory, real estate to hyaluronic acid, Zhao Yan, founder of Huaxi biology (688363.SH), has accurately stepped on the wave of wealth creation for three times and led Huaxi biology to develop into a leading hyaluronic acid enterprise.

the development and growth of enterprises do not forget to practice social responsibility, Zhao Yan led Huaxi biological to carry out diversified public welfare activities. A few days ago, Huaxi Biotechnology's "Cloud Public Welfare" entered Xinjiang with the theme of "Seeing the Silk Road · Xinjiang", digging along the Silk Road and discovering the intangible cultural heritage on the land of Xinjiang, so that more people can see the Chinese nation. The charm of multiculturalism.

Zhao Yan has been committed to using the cultural characteristics of different regions to create different cultural charm. "Public welfare in the cloud" is proposed under this vision. After 13 years and a journey of more than 130000 kilometers, the footprints of "Cloud Public Welfare" have spread all over Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou and other ethnic gathering places in more than 10 provinces and autonomous regions and more than 50 cities, helping more than 300 inheritors of ethnic culture and intangible cultural heritage to the stage at home and abroad.

In addition to "public welfare in the cloud", Huaxi Bio practices social responsibility from multiple dimensions and fields, and tries to mobilize more people and social resources to join it.

From a rich woman in real estate to a king of hyaluronic acid

Zhao Yan, who was born in an intellectual family, has been a "child of other people's family" since she was a child. With excellent grades, she was successfully admitted to the Department of Biology of Shanghai East China Normal University and stayed on as a teaching assistant after graduation.

Zhao Yan, who dares to think and venture, is not satisfied with a comfortable and stable life. She wants to go to the outside world to see and realize a bigger dream. In 1987, Zhao Yan went to Hainan to start a business and became a "Nanpiao clan". She was keen and smart. She bought 700 or 800 second-hand idle refrigerators from the factory at a low price. She asked the master to repair them and then sold them to make a profit. She successfully saved the first bucket of gold for starting a business.

since then, Zhao Yan has set up a clothing factory in pursuit of victory, and its operation has been prosperous, achieving the original goal of "not earning 2 million yuan and not going home.

Zhao Yan, of course, did not go home. She set her sights on the rapid development of the real estate industry at that time. In 2001, Zhao Yan moved from Hainan to Beijing and established Huaxi Xinyuan. According to the official website of Huaxi Group, Zhao Yan won a piece of land in the southwest corner of the core of Guomao CBD in the prosperous area of East Chang'an Street in Beijing, and then developed and built the Central World Trade Center. The building helped her gain a foothold in Beijing, where she was unfamiliar.

in 2005, huaxi new garden successfully transferred blocks a and B of the world trade center in central to Singapore's developer cade land in the form of construction in progress at the price of 1.837 billion yuan. the building was renamed cade building. Huaxi Group is currently the owner of Block D of the World Trade Center in Central. Data show that the house price around the World Trade Center in Central is 100000 yuan/m2.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Yan, who has become a rich woman in real estate, has joined the medical beauty market again.

in 2000, Zhao Yan studied MBA in Peking university and accidentally met the scientific research team of Guo xueping Shandong research institute. "One hyaluronic acid molecule can lock 1000 water molecules." When researchers introduced her to hyaluronic acid products, Zhao Yan decided to invest.

in 2001, Zhao Yan injected more than 1200 million yuan and took a 50% stake in frida, then renamed it huaxi biology. Guo xueping later became the chief scientist of huaxi biology.

in the following seven years, Zhao Yan ranked first in the world in a continuous loss-making enterprise. in 2008, huaxi biology produced nearly 200 tons of hyaluronic acid raw materials, earning 36% of the global market and becoming the leading enterprise in the hyaluronic acid market.

in the year of listing on the hong kong stock exchange in 2015, huaxi biotechnology's turnover exceeded 100 million yuan to 0.116 billion yuan. Two years after the listing of Hong Kong stocks, it chose to delist from Hong Kong stocks and planned to land on A- shares.

In 2019, Huaxi Bio landed on the SSE's board, with its share price surging 78% on its first day of listing, and the market value of Zhao Yan's holdings reaching 24.1 billion yuan. Huaxi biological market value high was close to 150 billion yuan. In 2020, Zhao Yan ranked 74th on the 2020 Forbes China 400 Rich List with a fortune of 44.97 billion yuan, becoming a veritable "Queen of Hyaluronic Acid".

in 2022, huaxi biology will achieve a business income of 6.369 billion yuan, up over 28% year-on-year, with a rapid development momentum. In March 2023, Hurun Research Institute released the 2023 Hurun Global Rich List. Zhao Yan still ranked 395th with 46 billion yuan of wealth.

Brand public welfare towards social welfare

Zhao Yan was a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist on Forbes China's 2020 Most Outstanding Women in Business list.

Zhao Yan is a native of Yunnan and has a special complex for national culture. She has been committed to using the cultural characteristics of different regions to create different cultural charms.

Since 2011, Zhao Yan has launched a large-scale public welfare project-Huaxi "Public Welfare in the Cloud", which is a public welfare project focusing on China's original ecological culture. It is committed to discovering, excavating and protecting the intangible cultural heritage of various ethnic groups scattered in China, and inheriting and promoting these cultural treasures through art exhibitions, interactive experiences, singing and dancing, food and other forms of expression.

A few days ago, "Public Welfare in the Cloud" walked into Xinjiang with the theme of "Seeing the Silk Road · Xinjiang", along the Silk Road to excavate and discover the intangible cultural heritage on the land of Xinjiang, so that more people can see the diversity of the Chinese nation The charm of culture.

In the past 13 years, it has traveled more than 130000 kilometers. The footprints of "Cloud Public Welfare" have spread all over Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Yunnan, Guizhou and other more than ten provinces and autonomous regions, and more than 50 cities. The culture and art that have been passed down from generation to generation but have no written records have helped more than 300 inheritors of ethnic culture and intangible cultural heritage to reach the domestic and foreign stages.

Zhao Yan said that enterprises are one of the social citizens, and it is the unshirkable responsibility and obligation of enterprises to participate in public welfare undertakings. "Cloud public welfare has developed to the thirteenth year, and it is moving from brand public welfare to social public welfare. We must mobilize more people and social resources to join it."

In addition to "public welfare in the cloud", Zhao Yan and Huaxi are also duty-bound to fulfill their social responsibilities.

In 2008, after the Wenchuan earthquake, Zhao Yan immediately organized 29 contemporary realistic artists to create a large-scale oil painting "Blood May 2008", and donated all the 33.5 million yuan taken to the disaster area in Sichuan. It will be used for the reconstruction of Mianzhu New Year Painting Museum and Beichuan Qiang Museum.

In 2013, at the initiative of Zhao Yan, Huaxi Biology launched the "Huaxi Guangming Walk" public welfare activity, which provided free surgery for cataract patients in poor areas of China and viscoelastic agents for surgery to help cataract patients in poor areas see the light again.

During the new crown epidemic in 2020, under the leadership of Zhao Yan, Huaxi Bio has donated medical supplies and living supplies, including disinfection products, protective clothing, goggles, masks, etc., to more than 20 cities and more than 50 hospitals across the country, with a total donation of more than 70 million yuan.

in addition, huaxi biology has joined hands with its sub-brands to help rural education. He has participated in many national east-west cooperation and counterpart support projects, helped to improve primary health services, and carried out counterpart support projects such as rural revitalization. Leading the construction of the world's first synthetic biological science museum, etc. Practice social responsibility from multiple dimensions and fields.

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