Although Chen Siwei transferred all his life’s work for just one yuan, the state awarded him a special outstanding contribution prize of 10 billion yuan. When he returned to Shanxi with his family, all the technologies he transferred were returned to him, marking the beginning of their civilian applications.
In early March 2020, Chen Siwei, now over fifty, founded Dinxin Construction Company again. This time, he returned to his old profession of demolition.
The new technologies were applied, and what other demolition companies saw as the biggest obstacle – construction waste – became a valuable resource in Chen Siwei’s hands. While other companies only extracted steel bars from buildings, Chen Siwei didn’t let go of a single brick!
When demolishing a thirty-story building of 700 square meters, his company would leave nothing behind: Rusty steel bars would be melted, purified using new technologies, producing strength and flexibility almost superior to new steel bars from other companies, with extended usage life.
Demolished concrete, sand, stones, and bricks would be broken down by a large machine into small pieces, then further separated by multiple machines. Sand and cement would be decomposed into substances that could replace new sand, while stone and cement would have broader applications, serving as road base filling or being ground into powder and re-fired into bricks.
After eighteen years, these dozen new technologies finally brought Chen Siwei returns beyond imagination. In just three years, with strong government support, Dinxin became China’s largest demolition company, leading the industry. While other companies’ demolitions inevitably pollute the environment, Dinxin not only avoids pollution but recycles all construction waste into more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly building materials, earning media praise as an “environmental giant”.
In 2029, with personal assets of 32.7 billion, he ranked third on the Asian wealth list and nineteenth on the global wealth list.
However, in 2033, this environmental giant fell to illness. According to Chen Siwei’s will, all Dinxin company assets were donated to social charitable organizations. His wife subsequently published the technical documents of those dozen optimized technologies, spreading them worldwide in a short time. From then on, the global building demolition industry officially entered a high-growth stage of environmental protection. The name Chen Siwei resonated worldwide – a giant rising from Chinese soil, an environmental hero who sacrificed everything for environmental causes!
