Chapter 49 Series of surveys: Coal boss business model survey

The coal boss can have today, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages on the road to success. There is a saying that “all roads lead to Rome”. In our investigation of the entrepreneurial models of coal bosses, we found that there are mainly the following types: The first type: "self-struggle" type. Digging coal and soil is the "ancestral stunt" of Shanxi people.In the early 1980s, all over the mountains and plains in the southeast of Shanxi Province were "coal hunting teams" carrying coal picks on their left shoulders and dry grain bags on their right shoulders.

Wang Sheqing, who is in his early fifties, has been an "old man" in coal mines all his life. In his early years, he first worked in the coal mines run by the communes at the time, then he went to the county to run state-owned coal mines, and then he worked in small privately contracted local coal mines.In this way, he drilled in the corners of the pits in the local coal-producing mountainous area for decades. Over time, he knew the distribution of local coal seams, geology and hydrology like the palm of his hand.In the words of an old miner of the same age as him, "Everyone has become a 'fine'. He has not saved anything for his children and grandchildren in his life, only a belly of 'coal classics'".

Later, the state allowed farmers to "go it alone."He hurriedly took his three sons with him and went up the mountain to find a "hole". Within half a year, the "hole" with the largest coal reserves in the area was dug in his hands.Within a few days, they sold it for 500,000 yuan, and the four of them continued to work.In just four years, they had earned 8 million yuan. In the fifth year, Old Man Wang dug up another one. This time, he didn't want to sell it. He wanted to be his own boss. The second type is the "public power lease and rent" type. Liu Chengsheng was the branch secretary of the Liujiazhuang brigade, when the country had just opened up the coal market.

When the Liujiazhuang Coal Mine was booming, Liu Chengsheng hurriedly reported to the town, saying that he wanted to "invigorate the rural economy" and that he wanted to "take the lead", and then "naturally" became the owner of the Liujiazhuang Coal Mine. The third type is the "comprador" type of market. This is the shortcut to the success of the coal boss in the early stage of his career. Its core idea is to use third-party funds to seek business space through the operation of the coal mine market on the basis of sufficient research and mastery of market information.

In the early days of coal mine operation, the "black hole" trading market was extremely hot, and it was developing in the direction of specialization. Those who sold were just sold, and those who bought were bought first. They operated for a period of time and resold at the right time. The "broker group". Some of them bought pits for coal mine investors in the "Heikouzi" market. Over time, they also "transformed" into coal bosses.It's just that there are not many such lucky ones under normal circumstances. The fourth type is the "shade under the tree" type.

There is a saying that "it is easy for someone in the court to be an official".In the process of coal operation, some people rely on marriage and family relationship as the core link of career development, and have made great progress on the road to entrepreneurship. There are two situations. One is that the coal boss obtains a key position in the operation of the coal mine under the care of relatives in the government department.For example, Kang Yuning, the coal boss of Tuanjie Village, became the coal boss of Tuanjie Village under the care of his uncle who was the deputy secretary of the town at the time.At the beginning, he only appeared as a contractor, and later, through capital operation and mining rights combination, he became an individual coal boss "justifiably".

The other is that some coal bosses get funding, equipment, and technology from a relative of another coal boss in the "poor and white" stage at the beginning of their careers.For example, Zhao Chenggong, the coal boss of Shengli Village, has been farming at home after graduating from junior high school, then married a wife and had children, and lived a life of working from sunrise to sunset.Later, there was a wave of coal digging among the people in Shanxi. His elder brother, who had been successfully operating mines for many years, really didn't have the energy to manage the many coal mines under his banner, so he had to be invited out, and he was trained to be a "coal boss" in a "coal boss" style.

So, Zhao Chenggong finally "successfully" became a coal boss.