The Best Innovation Achievement Award
Qiu Guoqi Innovation Achievement Award Owner

Change the crisis to be the larger development spaces—report the Qiu Guoqi(No. A117 class industrialist &manager high grade studies), general manager of Hangzhou Hangzhou Qida Leather Co.,Ltd.
Hangzhou Qida Leather company is on the Jinhua Town where is on the junction of Xiaoshan and Zhuji. In order to short our way, Qiu Guoqi invite me to his branch factory near Xiaoshan. This branch factory is on the south suburban of Xiaoshan and is very old. This factory merger from a sino-foreign joint leather venture in 2001 and mainly do the process. The business area are all in the main factory so that Qiu Guoqi are rare come here.
23 Years Old Young Village Head
Qiu Guoqi has strong wish on do great business when he was a child. When he was in the high school, Qiu Guoqi had joined the social business as be a Secretary of CYL Branch. After graduate high school and the states had practice the opening and reform policy, Qiu Guoqi began to open the individual enterprise and do business on hardware. As the year of open the venture, he has been selected to be Jinhua Village head. At that time, he was only 23 years old and unmarried. He is the youngest village head in history in the village and three years later he has been selected to be village secretary.
In order to open the village venture, Qiu Guoqi closed his hardware factory and built a water supply and discharge equipment factory. Because the good appearance in the water supply and discharge equipment factory, he was be selected to be factory of Jinhua Town Leather factory which is Qida Company’s predecessor.
Qiu Guoqi said that, he was born in a farmer’s family and be many year’s village secretary; Whether the villager or the worker are all will to talk with him. The personal character and experience made he passed hard time again and again.
The Last Venture Of Over 20 Ventures.
At the first 2 years of Qiu Guoqi be the leather factory’s head, the venture developed fast. But then the leather business line has experienced a hard time than before.
Leather business line is very special which need high theoretical knowledge and practice experiences. The process and formula are all will be changed with the season and water quality so that the quality was hard to control. At the time of short goods, customers have not high demand of the quality and the venture does not have much problems. In the middle of 90s, the foreign leathers goods are flood to China. The foreign venture has advanced management, low cost, good quality and wins the market in a short time. Many domestic leather company invested large money in this business and enlarge the production and the raw materials prize are all raised. In the later period of 90s, 80% domestic venture is closed. Hangzhou Qida Leather Company has been the only one venture of over 20 ventures.
Qiu Guoqi said that at that time the venture is nearly closed. He cannot sleep night. He do the business in the area of the foreign and large venture do not want to do and join hands with some foreign trade company and made the company reduce the cost and strengthen the management and get profit.
Make Venture Is Just Solve the Problems Again And Again
The cries solved are change to be the larger development space room. After the hard time, Qida Company is on the fast development road. In 2000, Qiu Guoqi merger a sino-foreign joint leather venture and opened the Wenzhou Fengyu Leather Company cooperate with a friend in 2001. In the years of 2006 the two company total capital had reached to nearly 4 billon Yuan. In 2002, Wenzhou Fengyu Leather Company and a Hongkong company joined the capital to buy 200mu earth and established Shandong Binhai leather Industry Company.
Qiu Guoqi said that do the venture is just solving the problems again and again. From the first half 2006, on one face the raw material price are raised in the world and be the about 25% rate. On the other face, the products have too much in the market and the sales price could not rise as he would like. 80% of Leather Company is on the conditions of loss. Because of keeping innovation and products innovation, the products and sale volume had raised 30%
Qiu Guoqi said, as an industrialist need personal characters. This could help you get the support and help from the social group and get good clients groups and has cohesion inside of venture.