Liu Yongxing on Founding and Origins

Liu Yongxing — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: one of four siblings from a family stigmatized as wealthy landlords before the Cultural Revolution, he and his three brothers built a quail-and-chicken-hatching business in 1982 into the Hope Group, which split into four sibling-led companies in 1995, with Liu Yongxing retaining and building East Hope Group into a major player in agribusiness, chemicals, and non-ferrous metals. The profile is grounded in the 1 sources indexed for this founder.

Liu Yongxing and his three siblings (Liu Yongyan, Chen Yuxin, and Liu Yonghao) started as farm workers of low social standing due to their family's designation as wealthy landlords before the Cultural Revolution; in the late 1970s, they founded an electronics company that had to close soon after because such ventures were regarded as 'too capitalistic' at the time.

In 1982, the four siblings pooled 1,000 RMB to start the 'Hope Group,' raising quail and hatching chickens in Sichuan province, and established the Hope Research Center for animal feeds in 1986.

Co-founded the Hope Group with three siblings in 1982, starting with quail and chicken hatching, then agreed to split the group into four separate sibling-led companies in 1995, retaining and building East Hope Group.