Liu Yonghao

Liu Yonghao — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: former technical-school teacher who, with three brothers, quit government jobs in 1982 to raise quails and chickens, later founding the animal-feed business that became New Hope Group -- now China's largest animal-feed producer -- and co-founding China Minsheng Bank. The profile is grounded in the 1 sources indexed for this founder.

Wang Jianlin belongs to Group 2 - Reform-era pioneers. The reform-era pioneers group covers founders who built their businesses in the 1980s and 1990s opening of China's economy under Deng Xiaoping, spanning telecom equipment (Huawei), personal computing (Lenovo), home appliances (Haier), beverages (Wahaha), and automotive components (Wanxiang), often starting from township-enterprise or small-collective origins.

Liu Yonghao's role is documented as: founder and Chairman, New Hope Group; his daughter Liu Chang succeeded him as chairman of listed subsidiary New Hope Liuhe in 2013 Listed as Chairman/founder per Wikipedia's most recent (2024 photo-dated) update; his daughter Liu Chang has chaired the listed New Hope Liuhe subsidiary since 2013 (research date: 2026-08-23; role at parent New Hope Group unconfirmed beyond this source as of research date).

Liu told the Financial Times in 2011 that he was focused on organizing peasant farmers into roughly 100 agricultural cooperatives and setting up underwriting companies to help them obtain loans, framing his business as a tool for rural industrialization.