Song Zhiping

Professor of Management Practice, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)

PhD in Engineering Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Dr. Song Zhiping is a Professor of Management Practice at CKGSB. He earned his PhD in Engineering Management at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Song is a well-known entrepreneur, business reformer, and thinker who has worked at the forefront of enterprise management and reform for 40 years. While he was Chairman of China National Building Material Group and China National Pharmaceutical Group, he led them to become top 500 global companies. Dr. Song has also made a significant contribution to state-owned enterprise reform and the improvement of corporate governance of listed companies. His experience and corporate foresight are widely admired by the business community.

Dr. Song Zhiping was the representative of the 15^th and 18^th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He received the “Special Government Allowance” granted by the State Council, “National Model Worker”, “Golden Globe Award for Outstanding Chinese Entrepreneur”, “Yuan Baohua Gold Award for Enterprise Management”, “Ishikawa Kano Award”, “China Securities Golden Bauhinia Award”,  “CCTV Economic Person of the Year Award”, “Top Global Leaders Award”, Fortune’s “Chinese Entrepreneur of the Year Award” and “CEO Lifetime Achievement Award”, and the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Entrepreneur for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of New China”. He has also been included in lists such as “China’s 40 Most Influential Figures Since Reform and Opening Up” and “China’s Top Ten M&A Entrepreneurs”.

• Chairman of China Association of Public Companies (CAPCO), Chairman of the China Economic Reform and Development Society, Chairman of the World Cement Association.
• Served as Chairman of China National Building Materials Group Corp. Ltd. (CNBM) until 2019.
• Served on the China’s Management Schools’ governing committee for three terms.

• Dr. Song successfully pioneered several advanced management models, including “State-owned Enterprise Market Management”, “Integration and Optimization”, “Grid Control”, “Eight Major Construction Methods” and “Three Essence Management”, which have become lauded as the “Song Zhiping Model” in China’s business community.
• Pushed forward mixed ownership for eight state-owned enterprises and approximately one thousand private enterprises. He introduced the formula that “corporate competitiveness = the strength of state-owned enterprises + the vitality of private enterprises”, which spearheaded mixed ownership reform in China.  
• Introduced large-scale regionalization and integration of China’s cement enterprises, which has been used as a case study by Harvard Business School.
• Dr. Song’s principles on the “Three Essences of Management” won first prize of the “National Enterprise Management Modernization Achievements Award”.

“The Power of Inclusion”, “State-owned Enterprise Market Management”, “Integration and Optimization”, “National Progress”, “My Business Concept”, “Management Strategy”, “Persevere and Succeed”, “Business Experience”, “The Reform Mindset” “Interviews on Reform”, “Interviews on Innovation”, “Enterprise Myths”, “The Heart of the Enterprise”, “Management Success”, “Three Essences of Management” etc.