Late Exclusive | Wang Huiwen officially retired today, and Meituan also announced a new round of organizational adjustments

Wang Huiwen officially retired today, Meituan established the Senior Management Development Department, and began a new round of organizational adjustments

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At the beginning of 2020, Wang Huiwen has announced his decision to retire at the end of the year. This year, Wang Huiwen still manages many businesses of Meituan, including directly responsible for the transportation, reviews and service experience department. The person in charge of the Meituan platform, Al platform, and basic R&D platform also needs to report to him.

"LatePost" learned that in the past six months, Wang Huiwen's Meituan platform-related business has been gradually transferred to Li Shubin. After Wang Huiwen retired, Xia Huaxia took over the related business of the original transportation department, Yu Jianlin took over the comment department, and Zhang Jinmao took charge of the basic R&D platform. Li Shubin, Xia Huaxia, Yu Jianlin and Zhang Jinmao all turned to Wang Xing to report.

Li Shubin came to Meituan in December 2019 as the vice president. Yu Jianlin is a former employee of Dianping . He has worked for Dianping and Meituan for 13 years. The appointed Xia Huaxia and Zhang Jinmao are also seniors who have worked in Meituan for six or seven years.

It is understood that Wang Huiwen will not completely leave Meituan. He will continue to serve as a director of the company, as a lifetime honorary consultant of Meituan and a special lecturer of "Internet + University", responsible for the company's strategic planning, organizational inheritance and talent development.

A Meituan employee said that Lao Wang has "three highs", "thinking height, execution height, and Wang Xing's high degree of cooperation. It is difficult for this kind of person to find a second one."

A Meituan management Said: "Lao Wang is gone, meetings will not be so interesting in the future."

Meituan founder, chairman and CEO Wang Xing said in an internal letter at the beginning of the year: "Lao Wang and I are classmates and roommates who share common interests. He is a partner and a comrade-in-arms who work together to start a business together, and is a lifelong friend who can collide with ideas and talk with souls."

Wang Huiwen is called "Lao Wang" and once founded the school intranet together with Wang Xing. Wang Xing once explained the origin of the name in this way: "Wang Huiwen was the first classmate I met when I came to Tsinghua University at the end of August 1997. Two of the six people in our dormitory were surnamed Wang. He was a few months older than me, so he He became a king.”

In 2006, after the school network was acquired, Wang Huiwen continued to start his own business. In 2010, he launched the second-hand housing website Taofang.com. In the same year, after Fanfou.com and Hainei.com, Wang Xing founded the group buying website Meituan.com.

On December 18, 2010, Meituan acquired Taofang. Wang Huiwen and Lai Binqiang brought a team of more than ten people into Meituan. In the first few years of Meituan, Wang Huiwen was responsible for marketing and products. Since 2012, he led a team to explore innovative businesses. In 2013, Meituan Food Delivery was officially launched, and Wang Huiwen was in charge.

For ten years, he helped Meituan survive the Thousand Regiment Wars, founded Meituan Takeaway and made it a pillar business, and helped the company continue to expand the local life business scene. He has been responsible for most of Meituan's business including group buying, takeaway, shop, home, travel... He has also been responsible for PR, customer service, research and development, etc.

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in Meituan, Wang Huiwen mainly invested in organizational capacity building and talent training. In the autumn, Wang Huiwen opened the "Meituan Product Class" in Tsinghua University, and at the same time cooperated with school recruitment, attracting many people from inside and outside the school. In class, he wore black sunglasses and his style was as witty and vivid as ever.

In October this year, Wang Huiwen's last large-scale internal speech at Meituan was to share "Growth is not a ladder" on the "Better Star Project". The "Better Star Project" is an induction training program for Meituan school enrollment. Emphasizing school recruitment and internal training is one of Meituan's important strategies this year.

In this speech, Wang Huiwen mentioned one of the annual buzzwords "involution"-he believes that the current is not involution, but the market-driven effect is weakened. When leaving, Wang Huiwen told these young people: to practice basic skills hard, growth is not a ladder, the path is very tortuous.

Regarding what to do after retirement, "I haven't had time to think about it", Wang Huiwen told "LatePost", "Sleep a few days first." At 5 pm on the 18th, Meituan issued an internal letter announcing a new round of organizational restructuring.

In this milestone adjustment, Meituan established a new strategic department-the Senior Management Development Department, which is headed by Meituan co-founder Mu Rongjun. The Senior Management Development Department is geared towards mid- to senior managers of Meituan, and supervises cadre training and development, selection and deployment, evaluation and assessment, and incentives. The adjustment of

is aimed at strengthening the leadership echelon construction proposed at the beginning of the year and attaching importance to the cultivation of internal talents. In January of this year, Wang Xing proposed in an internal letter that he decided to launch the "Leadership Echelon Training Plan" to promote the orderly development of a series of work such as talent inventory, rotation exercise, and succession planning, and to provide organizational and institutional guarantees for talent echelon training. Employees and the company develop together to create better conditions.

The internal letter at the beginning of the year also added Guo Qing and Li Shubin as members of the S-team (Senior team). Guo Qing joined Meituan in March 2014 and is mainly responsible for hotels, ticket vacations, and homestay businesses. Li Shubin was formerly the founder and CEO of Haolebuy, a vertical shoe e-commerce company. He joined Meituan in December 2019 as a vice president.

In the adjustment of the business department, Meituan adjusted the service experience department, Meituan search and voice related teams to the Meituan platform. Li Shubin was in charge and reported to Wang Xing.

The original AI platform was dismantled, and part of the business was merged with the Transportation Division to form a new platform department—Smart Transportation Platform, responsible for the construction of LBS infrastructure, including transportation, maps, unmanned vehicle distribution, and visual intelligence. The person in charge is Xia Huaxia, reporting to Wang Xing. The distribution of drones under the original Al platform was adjusted to the home business group, and the person in charge reported to Wang Puzhong.

In addition, Li Shubin and Zhang Jinmao were appointed as the chairmen of the product committee and technical committee respectively. Xia Huaxia was appointed chairman of the newly established Al Committee. The committee is also one of the important institutions for personnel training, independent of the business department. Z5z

Meituan is in a critical period of development, and this structural adjustment can be regarded as an organizational evolution of this company.

, Meituan currently has nearly 60,000 employees, and management is extremely difficult and complex. The establishment of the middle and senior management development department can be used to ensure the unity of Meituan's overall strategy and cultural continuity.

outside, Meituan faces multiple competitions,In the field of local life, there are Ali who are determined to fight a must-win battle, the community group buying field has crazy investment Didi and Pinduoduo , and the wine travel field has Ctrip. A clearer organizational structure can ensure that the team responds quickly in execution and management, and responds more flexibly to competition.

(Reporters Cheng Xiaoyi and Guan Yiwen also contributed to this article)

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