Who is Pan Shiyi?

Name: Pan Shiyi Gender: Male

Unit position: Chairman and Co-President of SOHO China.

In China, it is almost impossible to talk about the real estate situation without talking about Pan Shiyi of SOHO China Company. His real estate development accounts for nearly half of the sales in Beijing CBD area, and his unchanging signboard image constantly appears in various forums, media and outdoor advertisements. 1 September is the anniversary of Pan Shiyi's founding of SOHO China 10. He had a "memory" of the reporter, telling the story of his hard road to gold before he became popular.

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Sitting in the spacious office of SOHO Modern City18th floor, Pan Shiyi, the chairman and co-president of SOHO China, is like a storyteller, telling the history of the lonely gold rush many years ago.

199 1 In the second half of the year, Hainan's economy is experiencing its first low tide. Like many gold diggers, Pan Shiyi and Feng Lun hang out on street stalls and beaches in Haikou all day. "When I was bored, I rode my bike around the island for a week and came back with a beard." There was once a lady who was very close to them. Everyone thought they hit it off and often drank and chatted together. Until one day, the lady came to the office of Vantone Company registered in Pan Feng and left without saying goodbye. Many years later, when Pan met this lady by chance, he didn't forget to ask the truth. The lady said frankly, "Your only desk is covered with a thick layer of dust. I'm really afraid of making trouble with such people! " Make money from you and me.

Before the establishment of Hainan Wantong, Feng Lun, Pan Shiyi and others planned to contract a small state-owned enterprise named Dida Company. The two sides agreed that Pan Feng would pay the factory director several thousand yuan management fee every year, and Dida Company would be operated by Pan Feng. When the contract was signed, Pan Feng accepted the seal of Dida Company and was ready to start business. Unexpectedly, the old factory director came by bike the next day, demanding the seal back and tearing up the contract. It turned out that after a night of introspection and thinking about Pan Feng's situation, the sedate old factory director still felt inappropriate. "You can't get into big trouble because of thousands of dollars!" This is also the "Wantong" that was re-registered later. Many years later, the old factory director deliberately ran to Pan Shiyi's office, which had already made a fortune. "If I had known, I would have let you do it in those years, and now the earth has become a big enterprise!" The two sides smiled at each other.

Listening to Pan Shiyi's story, everyone's laughter echoed from time to time in the office area of several hundred square meters. On the road outside the window, on the construction site, there are nervous and busy figures everywhere. Who knows, which one of them will tell his "lonely story" in a luxurious place with laughter many years later!

In Qingshui: Pan Xiaola food and others come to help.

From 65438 to 0963, Pan Shiyi was born in Tianshui, Gansu. His father was a rightist when he was a child, and his mother was ill in bed all the year round. The first change of fate occurred in 1977. In the autumn of this year, my father was rehabilitated, and the family changed from a rural hukou to an urban hukou and moved to Qingshui County.

Before returning to the city, Pan's family should hand over all the food at home to the county grain depot and replace it with food stamps in Gansu Province. This task fell on the shoulders of the eldest son Pan Shiyi. More than 200 kilograms of grain, a flatbed truck, and more than 20 miles of dirt roads, the adult "Laopan" is only 1.6 meters tall. For Pan Xiao, who was 0/4 years old at that time, the hardships of this grain transportation road are self-evident. "How to pull two ramps can't get up, so we have to wait for rescue on the side of the road."

Soon, Pan Shiyi transferred to the county high school, which was the first time in his life. "From the countryside to the county seat, I feel that life is very promising!" Pan Shiyi believes that this is the beginning of his life. A year later, Pan received an admission notice from a technical secondary school in Lanzhou, the provincial capital.

In Lanzhou: self-introduction caused laughter.

Due to the backward communication, Pan Shiyi got the admission notice very late. When he stumbled to Lanzhou alone, the school had been open for more than a month. Standing in front of the teaching building, Pan Shiyi, who packed everything, didn't know who to report to.

"I was too tired to catch the train for more than 10 hours, and I fell asleep after sitting on the stairs for a while," Pan Shiyi recalled, and was woken up in a daze at noon. "You are in our class, come with me!" It was his head teacher, Mr. Jin, who woke Pan up.

Teacher Jin took the late student to the classroom and introduced him to the students. "I forgot what I said at that time. I was so impressed that the whole class burst into laughter as soon as I opened my mouth. " Pan Shiyi guessed that it might be related to his accent. To this day, his northwest accent has not changed. Make money from you and me.

"At that time, I walked with my head down all day and never looked at the sky. When I graduated, I didn't know how tall the school building was. Unlike now, when I go to a place, I must first look at his tall buildings. " Pan said that it was an era of burying one's head in reading.

Two years later, among the 600 students in the whole grade, Pan Shiyi was admitted to Hebei Petroleum Pipeline College with the second place. After graduating from college for three years, he was assigned to the Economic Reform Research Office of Pipeline Bureau of Langfang Petroleum Department.

In Shenzhen: Spend 50 yuan "smuggling"

1At the end of 987, Pan Shiyi went south to Guangzhou and Shenzhen for the first time. "From the snowy north to Guangzhou with flowers and birds, I suddenly feel that this is really a paradise, especially Shenzhen. Everyone is so happy. "

After the Spring Festival, Pan Shiyi sold his property and resigned and went south to Shenzhen. When I arrived at Nantouguan, I had more than 80 yuan left, which was described by Pan Shiyi as "venture capital" many years later. As there is no border pass, this "venture capital" first spent 50 yuan to find someone to lead the way and sneaked into the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone from a hole under the barbed wire.

In reality, Shenzhen is not as beautiful and warm as you first saw. Pan Shiyi cooked three meals in a hurry and soon entered a consulting company. "In fact, it is a leather bag company, computer training, running errands for Hong Kong people, receiving mainland factory managers on business trips, and trying every means to make money!"

Because of the language barrier and unsuitable diet, life in Shenzhen has always made Pan Shiyi feel very depressed. Two years later, 1989, the company just set up a semicolon in Hainan, a newly-built province. Pan, who thought that "historical opportunity should not be missed", volunteered to go south to Hainan and ushered in what he thought was the most colorful stage of his life.

In Hainan: Real estate speculation has courage.

"When I first arrived in Hainan, I felt lively. People who fall in love, write poems and play guitar in the street have everything. Everyone has dreams but no money. " Recalling this history, Pan Shiyi's eyes lit up.

Soon, the company took over a brick factory in central Hainan, with Pan Shiyi as the director. There are more than 400 workers in this factory at the peak, and there are more than 100 at the peak. Located in the mountainous area, it is difficult to manage.

"Thieves often patronize, and the small generator that provides lighting at night is stolen three times in a month," Pan Shiyi said like a movie story. "The light suddenly went out as soon as people lay down. The generator must have been stolen, so they kept chasing it until the thief couldn't lift it and abandoned the plane. " What is more troublesome is the emotional problems of migrant workers. One day, Director Pan was resting in his bedroom. It was an abandoned water tower, and suddenly a brick broke the window. Under the water tower, hundreds of migrant workers gathered to talk about wages. "Want to run, can't run. You can only go down and talk to them! "

After half a year, the brick factory stopped production and Pan Shiyi returned to Haikou. With the arrival of the economic depression, most of the gold prospectors quit, and Pan Shiyi decided to stay and try his luck. "A two-dollar haircut will be cut into pieces. Sleep on the beach at night and bury your clothes in the sand for fear of being stolen. I watched the Spring Festival Gala in someone else's room and was driven away. "

199 1 In August, Pan Shiyi registered Vantone Company in partnership with others, and borrowed100000 yuan for real estate speculation with high interest. With the arrival of the second wave of economic boom in Hainan, Wantong has accumulated more than10 million yuan in just over half a year. "Although I lost it later, I found my courage again." 1August, 992, Pan Shiyi, who had a premonition that the real estate bubble in Hainan would not last long, left Hainan and went north to Beijing.

In Beijing: Sweating profusely when reporting work.

By chance, Pan Shiyi was eating in the dining hall of Huairou county government, and overheard people at the next table say that Beijing had given Huairou several targets for joint-stock companies to raise funds, but no one wanted to do it.

Pan Shiyi seized this opportunity. Soon, Beijing Wantong Industrial Co., Ltd. began to enter the establishment process. While secretly happy, Pan Shiyi received a phone call from the relevant departments: "You are mistaken. The leaders of several ministries should listen to your report together!"

Pan Shiyi came to the State Commission for Economic Restructuring. "As soon as I entered the door, dozens of' big shots' lined up. As I said before, when I was reading a book, sweat kept dripping on the material. "

A leader reminded Pan Shiyi: "Young man, don't be too nervous. We just came to listen to the practice of the new policy. " Finally, a director praised the sample of "stock certificate" brought by Pan, saying that Beijingers do things in a standardized way, and a stock certificate is so formal that some foreign companies take receipts instead, which is a positive praise for Beijing Wantong. This time, Beijing Wantong dug up hundreds of millions of yuan in profits, and Pan Shiyi began to emerge. Make money from you and me.

1In April 1994, Pan Shiyi met Zhang Xin, who worked at Goldman Sachs Bank on Wall Street, and they got married in June of the same year. 1September, 1995, Pan Shiyi left Wantong and founded Hongshi Industry with his wife, thus creating a big situation for SOHO China.

Pan Shiyi: Chairman and Co-President of SOHO China.

Resume:

1963 was born in Tianshui, Gansu.

After graduating from college, I went to work in the Ministry of National Petroleum.

Starting from 1987, he started his real estate development career in Shenzhen and Hainan.

1992, co-founded Beijing Wantong Industrial Co., Ltd., and developed a series of real estate projects in Beijing, such as Beijing Wantong New Century Plaza, China International Aviation Building and Beijing Wantong Ideal World.

1995, founded SOHO China (formerly known as Hongshi Industry), and successively developed SOHO Modern City and other works, becoming one of the most famous developers in China.