中国的“钢铁公主”
, I: Z+ K8 G" Z4 C7 b$ D 作为中国最富有的女性之一,陈宁宁(Diana Chen)并不是人们印象中典型的钢铁大王。
: x0 y0 `) Z7 D! N" A8 P Diana Chen, one of China’s richest women, is not your typical iron industry baron. # Y& C: L% ]8 M! X. ~8 n# j
陈宁宁今年36岁,是受过西方教育的“高干子弟”她已故的外祖父吕东曾于上世纪60年代和70年代担任原冶金工业部部长。 8 C' l/ h' N. w+ g( ] l% {/ A
Ms Chen, 36, is a Western-educated “princeling”, as the children and grandchildren of China’s communist elite are known. Her late grandfather, Lu Dong, was China’s metallurgy minister in the 1960s and 1970s.
" x) z4 n1 Y. m3 F# r. H 今年夏天,陈宁宁对香港上市的中国东方集团(China Oriental Group)发起了敌意收购。此前,她与持有东方集团45%股权的主席韩敬远闹翻。东方集团控制着湖北省一座中等规模的钢铁厂。
: \/ m. |5 n& q* p" P This summer, Ms Chen launched a hostile takeover for Hong Kong-listed China Oriental Group, which controls a mid-sized steel mill in Hebei province. Her bid came after a falling out with Han Jingyuan, Oriental’s chairman, who controls 45 per cent of the company.
) B( H) _0 @3 Q$ T, v: y' N 在由陈宁宁外祖父等保守派中央计划官员打造出的钢铁产业中,这种举动颇不寻常。但这位中国“钢铁公主”的职业路径就颇不寻常。 - X$ K8 M9 C+ J& G
Such manoeuvres are unusual in an industry forged by conservative central planners such as Ms Chen’s grandfather. But then so is the career path of China’s “iron princess”.
& t+ n: U9 p$ D* L 上世纪90年代早期,陈宁宁到纽约理工学院(New York Institute of Technology)攻读MBA学位,毕业后回香港与母亲一同创办了嘉鑫钢铁集团有限公司(Pioneer Iron & Steel Group)。她的母亲在大学期间曾学习冶金专业,但此前从未涉足该行业。在此后短短10年时间,嘉鑫钢铁成为中国最大的铁矿石民营进口商。去年,《福布斯》杂志(Forbes)估计,陈宁宁个人财富高达2.16亿美元。 6 n4 C* s P$ |9 I4 X
In the early 1990s, Ms Chen studied for an MBA degree at the New York Institute of Technology before returning to Hong Kong to start Pioneer Iron & Steel Group with her mother, who had studied metallurgy in university but was not previously involved in the industry. In little more than a decade since, Pioneer has become one of the largest private importers of iron ore into China. Last year Forbes magazine estimated Ms Chen’s wealth at $216m. |