President of Wentong Group, a CCP member born in 1954, has a loud and clear name Li Gang. He is the team leader of the potassium salt expert team in the Inorganic Potassium Salt Committee of Chinese Chemical Academy. Now he is pursuing his degree on Master of Business Administration.

In 1985, Li Gang began his voyage on the small boat of Wenshui Chemical Factory. After twenty years, Wentong became an internationalized group with headquarter located in Shanghai by overcoming hardship and frustrations, winning over fierce competitions, conquering the difficulties caused by Chinese economic reform from the planned economy to market economy and going through the low tide of chemical industry around the world. The Group now has 3,500 employees and ten production enterprises and there are twelve sales companies in main cities in China. At the period, the Group merged several state-owned enterprises and activated state-owned capital 150 million yuan. There is a saying that ¡°It is Li Gang who built up Wentong. No Li Gang, No Wentong.¡± Acted as a factory director from 1988, Li Gang pushed the reform actively and steadily and took great efforts to establish a marketing system and an operation mechanism adapted to the market economy. He also carried out capital operation, capital recombination, and activation of deposit capital and enlargement of production scale. A special management model was also come to shape by strengthening the management.

Li Gang paid much attention to R&D work and developed Calcium Nitrate, Ammonium Calcium Nitrate, potassium nitrate Pill and potassium carbonate Prill etc. More than ten products filled the industry gaps in China. These technologies reached the leading level in China and made the products as the new point of economic increase. The company became the largest potassium salt enterprise in China soon and was rewarded as a Leading Enterprise of Foreign Exchange Earning of Shanxi Province, one of the Forty-four Key Enterprises supported and protected by Shanxi government and a National Large Scale Enterprise. It had been awarded to scientific and technological guide enterprises of Shanxi by the provincial scientific and technological commission of Shanxi for three years in succession.

President Li Gang was awarded to " the scientific and technological entrepreneur of Shanxi " successively, " national outstanding enterprise's administrator ", " outstanding entrepreneur of national light industry ¡°, " outstanding Communist in Shanxi ¡°, " expert model worker of Shanxi " and ¡°national May 1st labor medallist¡±.

His farsighted and exceptional courage and insight make enterprises develop at full speed changing with each passing day. The development of the new project has settled firm foundation for the development in the future; enable Wentong to become a leading enterprise in potassium salt industry. In 2002, the company realized the sales revenue of 812 million yuan, profits tax is nearly 90 million yuan, exported goods and earned foreign currency 20 million dollars, which established a rich material base and strength for opening up the domestic and international markets. President Li adheres to principles, seeks truth from facts, fair and just in handing affairs, he focuses on evidences and investigations; He has a democratic style of work, devises strategies at the headquarters; He has a unique personality glamour and there are extremely high prestige and influence power within the group. Have played an irreplaceable role in Wentong's development.