Liu Yonghao on Founding and Origins

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 started his career teaching at a technical school; in 1982 he and his three brothers quit government jobs to invest in breeding quails and chickens for sale to Sichuan farmers.