From the Beast Tower.
On the evening of December 18, Wanda Hotel announced that from September 1, 2023, the board of directors will not be able to contact Ding Benxi. In other words, Ding Benxi, the former No. 2 person of Wanda Group, has lost contact for 108 days.
Ding Benxi was born in 1955 and is a top student who graduated from the National People's Congress.
Before joining Wanda in 2001, Mr. Ding had been a senior executive for many years in large companies such as Hong Kong Yifeng Group and Dalian COSCO, and Wanda was still a nationally owned enterprise in Xigang District, Dalian, with annual sales of 3 or 4 billion yuan.
After Mr. Ding joined Wanda, he successively served as the general manager of Wanda Commercial Management Company and the senior vice president of the group. Wanda began its transition from residential to commercial real estate and initiated the privatization process.
In 2009, Mr. Ding was promoted to the president of Wanda Group and officially became the second person in Wanda Kingdom.
During his tenure as president, Mr. Ding participated in almost all major changes in Wanda's work.
He launched the talent model process to solve the problem of Wanda's talent shortagePromote the listing of Wanda Commercial and Wanda Film and Television, and set up a special team internally, with Mr. Ding as the team leaderWanda de-real estate, he completed the establishment control.
During the 11 years that Mr. Ding served as the president of Wanda, Wanda has developed from a medium-sized company with an annual revenue of less than 40 billion yuan to a global business giant with an adult revenue of 300 billion yuan, spanning real estate, cultural tourism, film and television, and finance, and has sent Wang Jianlin to the throne of the richest man for three consecutive years.
In January 2020, without warning, 65-year-old Mr. Ding suddenly retired. There are many versions of rumors about why he retired, and there are many versions within Wanda after that.
Some people say that this is a power bank caused by **;Some people say that the second chief was written a whistleblower letter;Some people also said that before Mr. Ding retired, he had a very fierce quarrel with the richest man.
Rumors are rumors, after Dante retired, a lot of things did happen to Wanda.
On the morning of August 3, 2023, the richest man held a group meeting involving real estate business at Wanda's headquarters. ** from Shanghai suddenly broke into the venue halfway and took away several executives in full view.
Most of these executives are from the Wanda Group Development Center. The highest position is Liu Haibo, the group's chief vice president and head of the development center.
After graduating from Beihang University in 1991, Liu Haibo became a teacher in the Department of Electronic Engineering of the university. For more than 10 years after 1994, Liu Haibo served as the deputy general manager of Eton Development, a commercial real estate company invested by Chen Yongzhi, the richest man in the Philippines. In 2010, Liu Haibo joined Wanda and rose all the way up to the top vice president in charge of investment and land acquisition.
Except for his own national son, Lao Wang rarely praises people. But he praised Liu Haibo as the No. 1 talent of Wanda Group.
Two days before Liu Haibo's accident, the richest man also took Liu Haibo to participate in a work symposium with the leaders of Datong City.
After Liu Haibo was taken away, it was reported that Liu Haibo was self-examined by Wanda because of corruption, which is said to be related to the Shanghai project.
Wanda's audit department is well-known in the industry. The richest man does not care about any specific business in Wanda, and the only person in charge is the audit department.
But the richest man this time does not seem to give the meritorious veteran Liu Haibo the slightest hope.
Liu Haibo has just joined Wanda and is the general manager of Wanda's development department in South China. There are more than 800 senior executives at the general manager level in Wanda. The gears of fate turned in 2013, when he served as assistant to the president of Wanda Group, a level where there were only more than 60 Wanda.
In the second year of serving as assistant to the president, Liu Haibo was promoted to vice president of commercial real estate and officially entered Wanda's inner circle.
In this resume, the most important identity is the assistant to the president of Wanda Group, and the then president of Wanda is: Ding Benxi.
Similar to Liu Haibo's fate, there is also Qu Dejun, director and co-president of Xincheng Holdings, who has left the company. At the beginning of this year, Qu Dejun, who had been with Xincheng for more than three years, suddenly lost contact with him, because he was in charge of Wanda's financial technology business during his tenure at Wanda.
Qu Dejun joined Wanda in 2002 and has worked in Wanda for 17 years, serving as vice president of commercial real estate companies and senior vice president of the group. In those years, his top bosses were all Ding Benxi.
In 2015, Wanda Group de-real estate, Qu Dejun left the commercial real estate sector and began to take charge of Wanda Finance. In the second year, Wanda Network Technology Group was split from Wanda Financial Group, and it consisted of Feifan, Quick Money Payment, Credit Investigation, Network Data and other companies, which became one of Wanda's four major sectors, and Qu Dejun served as the president of Network Technology.
After experiencing the turmoil in 2017, the network technology quickly cooled down, and Qu Dejun was transferred to the marginal Baobaowang Group as the chairman. Ding Benxi left Wanda half a year before his official retirement.
Qu Dejun's ** person is Zhu Zhanbei.
In 2010, Zhu Zhanbei, an expert in the field of domestic informatization, entered Wanda and took over Qu Dejun's Feifan Company in 2018.
Zhu Zhanbei was taken away by Shanghai ** in 2020 on charges of seeking improper benefits in the bidding for IT equipment procurement. At the same time as him, there were four executives from the information management center of Wanda Group.
On January 30, 2012, the first day of Wanda's work after the Spring Festival, a group of senior executives of Wanda Group gave New Year's greetings to employees, and Wang Jianlin walked in the front with his hands in fists. It was followed by more than a dozen executives such as President Ding Benxi, Li Yaohan, Yin Hai, Zhang Lin, Qu Dejun, Qi Jie, and Xiao Guangrui.
In the era of fighting the world, the atmosphere is always free and relaxed.
In this year, Wanda registered 5 billion yuan and established Wanda Culture Group. It invested 2.6 billion US dollars to acquire the world's second largest cinema company, and also started construction of Changbai Mountain International Resort, which invested tens of billions of yuan.
At the end of the year, Wanda Group's revenue increased to 130 billion yuan, and a "ten-year strategy" plan to become a multinational group was formulated.
By the first working day after the holiday in 2013, there were only four executives left on Wanda's official website who followed the richest man to pay New Year's greetings: Ding Benxi, president of the group, Qi Jie, executive president of commercial real estate, Zhang Lin, executive president of the cultural group, and Yin Hai, vice president of the group.
Later, the New Year's greeting became a New Year group meeting in the conference hall, and Wang Shoufu stood in front of everyone to deliver a speech.
Counting on his fingers, the dozen or so veterans who paid New Year's greetings together and were born and died together in Wanda back then are now left with Qi Jie, Zhang Lin, and Xiao Guangrui.
Others, the resignation of resignation, the retirement of retirement, the disappearance of vanishing.