Gree company chairman Dong Mingzhu is a leader among female entrepreneurs and a “net celebrity” with a very high reputation on the Internet. In fact, Dong Mingzhu can take the position of Gree’s chairman today. She is completely dependent on herself. She does not have any family background. She has step by step from a general worker to the most powerful person in Gree.
Dong Mingzhu was born in an ordinary family in Nanjing. He graduated from the Wuhu Cadre Education College in Anhui Province, majoring in statistics. In 1975, he worked as an administrative management job in a chemical research institute in Nanjing. Unfortunately, Dong Mingzhu’s husband died of illness when his son was 2 years old, . This incident was the first step to make Dong Mingzhu a strong woman.
Next, Dong Mingzhu started her open life:
- In 1990, Dong Mingzhu came to Zhuhai and joined Gree. Dong Mingzhu basically never took annual leave during his work in Gree.
- In 1992, Dong Mingzhu's sales in Anhui exceeded 16 million yuan, accounting for 1/8 of the entire company. Subsequently, he was transferred to Nanjing, where there were almost no market cracks, and signed a 2 million yuan air-conditioning order. Within a year, personal sales jumped to 36.5 million yuan.
- At the end of 1994, when Gree Electric was in the most difficult time, Dong Mingzhu took over the post of Minister of Operations.
- In September 2002, she was awarded the title of "Women in Chinese Enterprises". In 2003, she was elected as a representative of the 10th National People's Congress and won the honorary title of "The First Outstanding Female Entrepreneur of Nanyue".
- In November 2005, it was once again ranked in the "World's 50 Most Influential Business Women List by Fortune" magazine.
- was awarded the "Top 10 Most Respected Meritorious Entrepreneurs of Chinese Listed Companies" in 2010, and the United Kingdom Financial Times "The World's 50 Most Influential Business Women" (ranked fifth), "Business Weekly" "Ten Years of Business Women Leaders Award".
- In May 2012, Gree Electric announced that Dong Mingzhu, president of the company, was officially appointed as the chairman of Gree Group. In July, she won the Kano Ishikawa-Kano Award, becoming the first woman in ANQ to receive this honor.
- On March 3, 2017, Dong Mingzhu, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Gree Electric, stated in Beijing that the development of new energy technologies will help China realize its dream of becoming a powerful country, and only creativity can completely change Chinese manufacturing.
- In January 2018, he was elected as the representative of the 13th National People's Congress.
- On January 16, 2019, Dong Mingzhu was elected as the new non-independent director of Gree Electric's board of directors.
The hard work of a strong woman in the workplace
When he was young, Dong Mingzhu only slept for 5 hours a day. It is said that now Dong Mingzhu often thinks about problems during sleep or nap. At two o'clock, Dong Mingzhu would jump up, pick up the notebook and write it down, and even call the boss in the middle of the night. It is precisely her spirit of striving that many marketing tricks were born like this.
Advice for women in the workplace
Dong Mingzhu said: Women who work hard in the workplace must first be able to be humans. What is a human? That is, I have to do my best to do my best in my position. Well, this is the goal. Many people will say that you want to be a general manager in the future. That is not a goal, but a personal purpose, not a goal. It is not for professional purposes to realize the value of life, only in this way can we succeed.
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