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Exclusive interview with "Private Shipping King" Ren Yuanlin: How did China become the most profitable private shipping company?

Ren Yuanlin·Yangzijiang Shipbuilding/Yangzijiang Financial Holdings/Yangzijiang Maritime
Daily Economic News · 2026-03-12 ·Reporters Huang Hai, Liao Dan
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Generally speaking, the cycle of the shipbuilding industry is 5 years to 8 years.
The current situation is different from the situation in 2008 when the BDI index soared to 12,000 points. Although the BDI index dimension is not "crazy", I think from the perspective of geopolitics, aging ships, new energy green shipping and the trend of large-scale ships, now is still the summer of shipbuilding.
Shipbuilding is a very comprehensive industry. To build a ship, there are 70 supporting industries. China can do this. I have visited Vietnam and India, and I think they do not have this advantage.
Many young people are unwilling to take off their "long gown" to work as skilled workers, and are more inclined to pursue emerging industries that seem to "make quick money". This is an objective reality.
I gave him some rules: start from the grassroots level and don’t touch finance.
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Exclusive Q&A interview, Ren Yuanlin answered 12 paragraphs. The judgment given on the same question seven years later can be directly compared with the 2019 article.
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