Lu Guanqiu on Founding and Origins

Lu Guanqiu — founder profiled in the Chinese Founder Ledger — is documented as follows: peasant-born former ironsmith who co-founded a small agricultural-machinery factory with six other farmers in 1969 and built it into Wanxiang Group, a major auto-parts and components conglomerate, leading the company until his death in October 2017. The profile is grounded in the 2 sources indexed for this founder.

Lu was born into a peasant family, dropped out of school at 15, and worked as an ironsmith before co-founding a small factory with six other farmers in July 1969 to produce small agricultural machines.

Co-founded a small agricultural-machinery factory with six other farmers in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou in July 1969.