Li Chenglin, who is only 28 years old, will become Ganfeng Lithium (002460.) with a market value of 78 billion yuan in the futureSZ) is basically ironclad.
On March 6, Ganfeng Lithium announced that Shen Haibo, vice president of the company, resigned from his position as vice president of the company and continued to serve as a director of the company. Li Chenglin and Wang Bin were appointed as vice presidents of the company.
According to the public resume information, Li Chenglin, who was born in 1996, is the son of Li Liangbin, the actual controller and chairman of Ganfeng Lithium, and has served as the manager of the company's investment department and the assistant to the president.
Wang Bin, 38 years old this year, has joined Ganfeng Lithium for 15 years, from factory technician all the way to the position of factory director and assistant to the president.
Past public information shows that Shen Haibo, who has just resigned, is 56 years old this year, and during his tenure as vice president of the company, he was mainly responsible for sales in the Chinese market.
In fact, as early as last year, Ganfeng Lithium has experienced a round of high-level fine-tuning of the old and the new. Chairman Li Liangbin no longer holds the position of president, while executive vice president Zai Deng Zhaonan and vice president Yang Manying have both retired due to age.
Today, last year's high-level fine-tuning of Ganfeng Lithium seems to be a prelude to Li Chenglin's gradual takeover of the company's operations.
Coincidentally, due to the great changes in the overseas energy storage market, Ganfeng Lithium's performance trend last year was also like a roller coaster, providing the best annotation for the company's high-level adjustment.
According to the performance forecast released on January 31, Ganfeng Lithium made a profit of 4.2 billion yuan to 6.2 billion yuan last year, a year-on-year decline of about 80% to 70%. In the first three quarters of last year, Ganfeng Lithium's net profit was 60100 million yuan, down 59% year-on-year.
Compared with the above figures, it can be basically judged that Ganfeng Lithium's performance in the fourth quarter of last year was all the way to the west, either not on the verge of loss, or impossible to lose one billion yuan.
Ganfeng Lithium's explanation is that due to the cyclical impact of the lithium industry, the growth rate of terminal demand has slowed down, lithium salt products have declined sharply, and the decline in lithium ore raw materials has been smaller than the decline in lithium salt and downstream products, resulting in a decline in the company's gross profit margin. In addition, the company made an asset impairment provision for related assets in accordance with accounting standards, so the company's performance decreased significantly year-on-year.
Since the beginning of this year, Ganfeng Lithium's share price has also been hovering at a low level of about 40 yuan.