China Merchants Group is the first of the four super consortia. The history of this enterprise can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty.

After the Opium War, China suffered a "change that has never happened in a thousand years", and the situation of "change and unchanged, unchanged and changed" was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Some westernization officials even strongly advocated the establishment of national enterprises to counter the encroachment of foreigners in the commercial field.

In this context, in A.D. 1872, Li Hongzhang founded the first shipping enterprise in modern history, which is the predecessor of China Merchants.

At first, the role of China Merchants was to change the monopoly of foreigners on inland canals and oceans in China, and almost monopolized river transport. However, after the establishment of China Merchants, the Qing government suddenly found that this enterprise could not only "benefit the interests of Neijiang and the sea, but also successfully complete the task of transporting grain from the south to Beijing." At the same time, this enterprise was founded by Li Hongzhang, which is equivalent to the "pro-son" of the imperial court, and it is particularly gratifying to use.

In this way, China Merchants has become a key enterprise supported by the state and has rapidly grown into a giant enterprise that can compete with foreign transportation companies. Unfortunately, instead of feeding back Chinese businessmen, China Merchants Bureau has joined hands with foreign businessmen to monopolize business, making Chinese businessmen continue to suffer from slow delivery and high freight rates.

In the blood and tears of China Merchants, China Merchants brilliantly counted the first bucket of gold they earned. Since then, China Merchants has extended its reach to Hong Kong for a hundred years, becoming the first batch of Chinese businessmen in Hong Kong, earning countless wealth, and is still one of the four largest Chinese-funded enterprises in Hong Kong.

However, making money belongs to making money, but the bottom line of China Merchants' patriotism is always there. 1950, China merchants followed the historical trend and resolutely launched the "port and shipping uprising", breaking through the numerous obstacles set by the British Hong Kong government and returning to the embrace of new China.

Since then, the history of China Merchants has turned a new page. In 20 18, China merchants responded to the "One Belt, One Road" strategic plan, participated in the development of China-Belarus Industrial Park, and invested in the construction of 35 ports in 18 countries along the "Belt and Road", which greatly promoted the rapid development of logistics at home and abroad.

Not only that, but now China Merchants' business also involves finance, navigation, real estate and other industries. For example, China Merchants Bank, Ping An Insurance and other famous financial giants are inextricably linked with China Merchants.

Because of this, the wealth of China Merchants is amazing enough. Among the 20 19 Fortune 500 companies, China Merchants Group ranked 244th with revenue of US$ 45.9 billion and net profit of US$ 4.468 billion, while its China Merchants Bank ranked 65438th with revenue of US$ 55 billion and net profit of US$121800,000, helping China Merchants rank among the Fortune 500 companies.

China resources.

When China Merchants Group ranks among the four major consortia in China with its long-standing accumulation, another super consortium has also unveiled its mystery, revealing the wind, frost, rain and snow it has experienced for decades.

This is China Resources, one of the four consortia. Now speaking of China Resources, many people first think of commercial real estate. After all, in the era of record-high housing prices, it is hard to ignore the gold digging ability of China Resources Real Estate.

It is true that real estate has now become one of the important profit sources of China Resources Group, for which China Resources Group even established China Resources Land. However, when China Resources was born decades ago, its mission was not to develop business, but to serve as an underground traffic station in Hong Kong.

Unexpectedly, as the cover of China Resources, the business actually developed very well in that year full of fireworks. After the founding of New China, China Resources moved from Hongkong to the Mainland and set up a business wholeheartedly.

Today, apart from the familiar real estate, the business of China Resources also includes many necessities of people's daily life. For example, Ipoh mineral water in major supermarkets is a famous product of China Resources. Many people like to have a sip of Snow Beer in hot summer, which is also one of the important profit sources of China Resources.

Even people who cook a meal on weekdays may unconsciously contribute profits to China Resources. Because many people use the gas of a company called "China Resources Gas", which is also an industry under China Resources.

Some people may say, "I don't cook, but I go to the supermarket to buy fast food." China Resources can't make money, right? "

Of course not. Don't forget that China Resources also owns a supermarket named "CR Vanguard", which just meets the demands of lazy people who don't like cooking. It can be said that no matter entrepreneurs in first-tier cities or migrant workers in eighteenth-tier cities, no one can do without China Resources.

Of course, in the ubiquitous China Resources world, finance is indispensable. At present, China Resources Land, China Resources Power, China Resources Medicine, China Resources Cement, China Resources Beer and China Resources Gas under China Resources have been listed one after another, helping China Resources Group to rank 80th in the list of the world's top 500 enterprises in 20 19, with revenue of 91900 million US dollars and net profit of 3.474 billion US dollars.

03. polyester fiber (short for polyester)

While China Resources is making high-profile efforts in the financial and commercial fields, Poly Group, one of the four consortia, is quietly hiding in the dark and unswervingly following its own route of "quietly getting rich".

Some people may say, "Where is Paulie keeping a low profile? You can see Poly Real Estate everywhere in your life? "

It is true that Poly's real estate projects have developed strongly in recent years. At the beginning, Poly Real Estate was only a small local real estate company in Guangzhou, but Poly Real Estate was so lucky that it met the "golden decade" of the real estate industry at the initial stage.

With the east wind of the real estate industry, Poly Real Estate has easily developed into a well-known company in China. By 2020, the annual income of Poly Real Estate will be close to 400 billion yuan, which is the glory of Guangzhou real estate industry.

However, although Poly Real Estate has a strong ability to make money, the money is not worth mentioning at all for Poly Group. Because the real money-making project of Poly Group is to cooperate with the military to import and export military equipment.

These mysterious and profitable projects are mainly completed by Poly Technology, a subsidiary of Poly. This poly technology has always been the title of "the country has raised its own son". Although Poly Technology is a subsidiary of Poly, it was co-founded by CITIC Group and the former General Staff Department.

The initial state of a group of veterans of Poly Technology is even more amazing. They are not ordinary businessmen, but veterans under the call of "one million disarmament". No wonder Poly Technology knows all kinds of weapons like the back of its hand, which completely surpasses the cognition of ordinary enterprises.

Know weapons, not bad money, let gather technology to buy weapons and choose them. Foreign advanced high-tech products such as Black Hawk, Su -27 fighter and S300 Russian destroyer all entered the army through Poly. Of course, once in a while, Poly will not hesitate to buy a national treasure that has been lost abroad. For example, in 2000, Poly spent more than 28 million yuan to buy back the Yuanmingyuan treasure looted by Eight-Nation Alliance.

Such a domineering side leakage scene has also made many netizens feel: How rich is Poly?

This "eternal mystery" was finally revealed in the ranking of Fortune 500 in 20 19. In that year, Poly Group won the 242nd place with annual revenue of 46.2 billion US dollars and net profit of 1 49.5 billion US dollars, while the total assets of Poly Group exceeded1trillion yuan, which was really rich.

04. China International Trust and Investment Corporation

Super strength can't help but make netizens feel that Poly is "quietly making a fortune", and at the same time it is becoming more and more curious about CITIC Group, the "owner" behind Poly Technology.

It is true that CITIC can become one of the founders of Poly Technology. How can it not have two brushes? Although CITIC has a short history, its business involves banking, insurance, securities, funds, trusts and many other fields.

What's even more amazing is that CITIC Group is the largest enterprise group in China at present, with 175 first-class subsidiaries, including many well-known enterprises such as CITIC Bank, CITIC Securities and Huaxia Fund.

It can be said that as long as there is a place where China people live, there is CITIC. Strong penetration also makes CITIC's total assets exceed 6 trillion yuan, affecting all aspects of China people's lives.

According to incomplete statistics, Ali's annual income is about 700 billion today. From this point of view, any one of the four consortia can take out three streets in Ali.

This gap, no matter how much Ma Yun talks about "good luck", is far behind. After all, in front of these top state-owned enterprises, private enterprises like Ali are not "big factories" but "nouveau riche" at most.