In that era of ups and downs, millions of people would leave their hometowns due to fate, and could only look at their homeland in a small area of water, Taiwan. Some people chose to keep their thoughts in their hearts, and could only express their unhappiness in their hearts when they dreamed back at midnight.
There are also people who ruthlessly cut off the past and treat their hometown as their hometown, fully integrating themselves into their new life. There are even more people who are decisive and do what they say, even if they cross the Taiwan Strait, they also want to return to their motherland and steadily contribute to the development of the country. For the people to live and work in peace and contentment, they forget to eat and sleep.
This person is Zhou Zhende. From a passionate young man in the military to a courageous and visionary president of Canghua Industrial Group, he has worked hard every step of the way. Difficulties are always there. What supports him is the belief of revitalizing the motherland. , let’s start from the beginning about the specific experience.
1. Who is Zhou Zhende? Why cross the sea?
In August 1945, the heat was blowing in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province. Zhou Liben, a young soldier in the National Army, was blessed with a baby boy and named the child Zhou Zhende. The reason why I carefully considered the word "Zhende" for my son is inseparable from a rather unfulfilled experience in his early years.
Zhou Liben, whose original name was Ji Shixiang, followed his parents and four sisters from Xian County to Taiyuan to make a living.
At the time of the Anti-Japanese War, the situation everywhere was very tense. He mistakenly entered the base area and was captured by the Eighth Route Army. He was almost executed as a spy. Fortunately, he explained the reason in time and made it down the mountain without any danger.
However, he turned around unscathed from the secret location, which attracted the attention of the suspicious Yan Xishan subordinates. They decided that it must be a spy released by the Eighth Route Army, and sent people to arrest him in various ways.
Ji Shixiang was speechless. In order to escape pursuit, he had to change his name to Zhou Liben. On the way to escape, he was deceived by his friends, so he had no choice but to join the Kuomintang Youth Army. His fate was out of control, so he was taken to Taiwan soon after. ......
Zhou Zhende's mother waited for her husband for a long time and did not come back, so she could only take her daughter and three-year-old son to Taiwan to join Zhou Liben.
Although the family lives in Taiwan, they still remember their homeland. As soon as Zhou Zhende remembered, his father would often take him to the beach to reminisce about Cangzhou .
The mainland on the other side seems to be an elusive dream. Zhou Zhende has been very curious about it since he was a child, and he has longed to one day be able to set foot on his homeland again.
A few years later, Zhou Liben passed away, and the family situation took a turn for the worse. The mother struggled to survive with her children alone.
Zhou Zhende is studious and smart. After graduating from high school, it was not easy for him to understand his mother. He deliberately chose the Taiwan Military Academy ( Huangpu Military Academy ), which has no tuition fees, to attend. Gold shines everywhere, and he performed particularly well in the army.
——At that time, he was promoted to lieutenant in a very short time. During a confrontation exercise, a reconnaissance platoon was added. Zhou Zhende temporarily became the reconnaissance platoon leader. After the exercise, he was stationed in Kinmen on standby.
As a platoon leader, his future was obviously bright, but Zhou Zhende had never forgotten the mainland for a day. Instead, he felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go back and build the motherland.
By checking the terrain with his comrades, Zhou Zhende took note of the locations of the real and fake minefields. Taking advantage of the dark moon and high winds while the troops were resting, he resolutely jumped into the sea on August 3, 1969 and swam four times. After many hours, he successfully returned to his hometown.
htmlWhy is 224-year-old Zhou Zhende so determined? He dares to risk his life to swim to the mainland in the dark, and endures countless waves without looking back.
First, his parents have missed the motherland since he was a child, which made him want to fulfill his late father's dream; second, he has longing and curiosity about the mainland.
Since joining the army, the Kuomintang has described the mainland in an extremely unflattering light. The People's Communes have been described as concentration camps, and the People's Liberation Army escorts and guards local people with guns day and night. Zhou Zhende thinks this is a rumor. He does not believe that in such a bizarre environment, Mainland China can build atomic bomb .
He expressed doubts about the illogical fabrication method of the Kuomintang. He was also extremely inconsistent with their views and was unwilling to endure it for another day. Curiosity prompted him to eagerly go to the mainland to find out for himself, so he finally decided to swim back to the motherland alone...
On August 3, 1969, on a dark and windy night, he came to the turbulent coast. Pretending to check the sentry, seeing that no one was watching around him, he resolutely jumped into the sea under the cover of night. The turbulent waves obviously could not stop Zhou Zhende's will to return home.
After four hours of life and death struggle, he finally set foot on the mainland. He was just 24 years old that year. Then did Zhou Zhende, who was high-spirited and high-spirited with , have everything go smoothly later? What is the attitude of the party and the people towards this Taiwanese soldier who swam over?
2. The journey of life with steady accumulation
After Zhou Zhende returned to the mainland, he quickly applied for further education and was assigned to work on the farms of the Jiangxi Military Region with a group of college students. However, due to his special origin, some superiors would inevitably pay more attention to him. On his weekends, Zhou Zhende wanted to visit Nanchang City, so he was worried about sending a soldier to follow him closely.
Over time, Zhou Zhende felt aggrieved. While waiting for work assignments in Beijing, he passively stayed in the hotel and slept with his head covered. A young officer from the Liaison Department of the Beijing Military Region came to talk to him and only said that he wanted to see the head of the General Political Department, but he was rejected.
Senior officer Sun came forward and affectionately called him "comrade". After hearing this title, Zhou Zhende quickly sat up and said, "You called me comrade? You don't think I'm a spy?"
received Director Sun's affirmation that he risked his life to defect to the motherland, which was a patriotic act, and he opened his heart and was honest with him. chat. Once, Zhou Zhende went to the CPPCC auditorium to watch " Takes the Power of Tiger Mountain ", and was pleasantly surprised to find that there were foreign guests present.
He immediately put aside his grudge and was moved by the party's trust in him. After all, if he really wanted to treat himself as a spy, he would not be allowed to attend such a sensitive occasion.
The young and energetic Zhou Zhende had a pure heart. Seeing that the party did not regard him as an "outsider", he immediately ignited his enthusiasm for serving the country. He not only actively obeyed the distribution, but also planned to do his best to do something for the country.
In September 1970, Zhou Zhende came to the Cangzhou Paper Mill. His salary was similar to that of the Kuomintang platoon leader. There were constant complaints among the workers, but the factory leaders did not care about his special background. After discovering that he had strong learning ability and motivation, the instructor took care of him. Teach pulp shop maintenance techniques.
Zhou Zhende learned very quickly by applying inferences and was transferred to the design team half a year later. The problem came. He knew nothing about chemical engineering. In order to be able to participate in the research and development project of a device to eliminate toxic waste gas pollution, he bought a bunch of books and learned from scratch.
In fact, according to his background, learning can easily be regarded as taking the "white professional path", but Zhou Zhende plunged headlong into the ocean of knowledge, turned a deaf ear to what was happening outside the window, and did not use his special qualifications to avoid suspicion. Internal friction.
The factory appreciated his down-to-earth and dedicated work attitude and arranged to go to a brother unit for inspection and study. Zhou Zhende went without saying a word and humbly asked questions about drawings and materials. The technicians were very satisfied. The atmosphere in the first teaching and first learning was particularly high-spirited. Professional knowledge is improving rapidly.
In just one year, he went from "layman" to "expert" and gained some experience in both design and production.
When the paper mill was preparing to build a chemical workshop, Zhou Zhende took up the position of design director of the core department with his outstanding personal abilities. Like a sword unsheathed, he took action to improve various technological processes and received a series of commendations from the leaders.
's career is progressing smoothly, and the spark of love is blooming at the same time...
When Zhou Zhende was in charge of the project, he always worked hard on the front line. His eyes were often red and swollen due to sampling, but he never put on any leadership airs, attracting high school students. I have a crush on Su Tongzhen, a female laboratory technician who was assigned to the factory after graduation.
When Xiao Su was just starting out, she sometimes asked for help when she encountered difficult problems. Zhou Zhende not only patiently answered them, but also went back to find some relevant books and gave them to her.
Su Tongzhen was even more moved, thinking that Zhou Zhende was not only down-to-earth and responsible in his work, but also modest and patient with people. As the interactions continued, relationships were born naturally.
Talented women and beautiful men inevitably attract gossip mixed with jealousy. The news reached the ears of Su Tongzhen's father, but unexpectedly he was very opposed to the matter.
It turns out that Xiao Su’s father was afraid that if his daughter found a husband with such a special background, he would bring trouble to the whole family in the future. Xiao Su was caught in a dilemma and went back to the factory to talk to the leaders about the matter. Everyone had a very good impression of the two and could not bear to break up the couple.
Deputy Commander Song, who was in charge of militia work in the Beijing Military Region, came to the factory many times to understand the situation. He learned that Zhou Zhende was 26 years old and had always been diligent and studious at work, so he specifically mentioned this to the director of the Political Department.
After much discussion, it was believed that the marriage of the two would not have any impact on the woman's family. Minister Xia of the Liaison Department even said that if the factory cannot solve Zhou Zhende's "settlement" problem, it will be reported to the military division to declare expenses; if it cannot be solved, it can be reported to the military division for expenses. If it is given to the Beijing Military Region, he must not be allowed to borrow money here and there for marriage.
Xiao Su's father saw the attitude of the leaders and learned how much they valued Zhou Zhende, and also tacitly agreed to the marriage. Finally, the two held their wedding at the end of 1972.
From his marriage, Zhou Zhende could see the cultivation of him by the party and the country. Every day he thought about how he could contribute to the motherland. After thinking hard for several months, he decided to go to university for further study.
Because as the work progressed, it was obviously difficult to rely solely on self-taught chemical engineering knowledge, but his request came a step late - the August enrollment period had ended.
Zhou Zhende was unwilling to give up and tried to report the situation to the leaders of the Provincial Military Region and Beijing Military Region. The reply was unexpectedly fast. The Ministry of Higher Education specifically gave Zhou Zhende the green light and granted him a quota to study in a chemical engineering college within Hebei Province. .
He is very grateful for the leadership's concern, but the chemical engineering college in Hebei Province is in the preparation period and the teaching staff is difficult to cope with the demand.
He believes that since he wants to learn, he must work hard to learn real materials. After some comparisons with major famous schools, he frankly said: The superiors approved the university because they considered the promotion of Taiwan. Which university should I go to? The more famous you are, the greater your influence.
The leaders liked Zhou Zhende’s frankness and approved him to study polymers in the Department of Chemistry at Peking University. Zhou Zhende cherishes this hard-won precious opportunity. Not only did he dive into the ocean of knowledge for more than three years, he also achieved outstanding results in various projects.
Of course, his classmates and tutors also liked him very much...
When he graduated in 1977, Xicai's tutor contacted him about job opportunities in scientific research units in Beijing and Tianjin. Faced with the olive branch of being able to stay in the big city, Zhou Zhende refused without any hesitation and returned to the chemical workshop in Cangzhou resolutely.
Because he has never forgotten his original intention of furthering his studies at that time, and the prosperous city will not change his original intention. He has been working hard for many years, and it is time to do something for his hometown.
3. Exhibiting great ambitions,
, the CEO of a listed state-owned enterprise, soon returned to the chemical workshop and was just in time to build another chemical plant. Zhou Zhende, who had met the professional knowledge standards, became the factory director and chief engineer.
However, although it has a stage to display its ambitions, the starting resources are not abundant. There are only 260 employees, the annual profit is only 50,000 yuan, and there are only three technicians.
Zhou Zhende led the technicians in the research direction and found that the breakthrough was that the product line was single and the output of resin and caustic soda was not high. So in order to increase the output, the existing old equipment was modified and innovated.
A few months later, the ordinary chemical plant underwent a makeover. The caustic soda capacity was fully doubled, and the productivity of the resin was increased by 2,200 tons. The increase was still good, and the resin was rated as a "provincial quality product." , exported to many countries such as the United States and India, bringing in foreign exchange of 1.95 million yuan.
's blockbuster report card not only made the leaders praise Zhou Zhende's ability, but also the employees in the factory changed their attitudes. From complaining about poor efficiency to everyone working hard and full of fighting spirit.
In the blink of an eye, the 1980s ushered in policies such as "opening up and invigorating". Zhou Zhende took stock of the situation and believed that the market would surely usher in a spring-like boom. If he wanted to have a place, he would have to innovate again.
In order to increase production, he plans to introduce the most advanced domestic technology, but there is a funding gap of 17.94 million yuan.
The people in the factory were completely stunned by Zhou Zhende's outlook. This was twice the fixed assets of the entire factory. Everyone advised him not to take risks and bring the factory to ruin. It was better to stay safe and play it safe. After all, everyone is currently worried about the current situation of the chemical plant. The benefits are very satisfying.
But after hearing this, Zhou Zhende, who has always been good-tempered, changed from his normal state and said categorically: "If you don't take risks, you won't dare to explore! If you don't boldly explore how to develop the enterprise, eight horses will not be able to pull back what I decided." "
Zhou Zhende defied all odds to get the loan. The renovation project took 3-5 years. He once again made amazing achievements. It only took two years to complete the project. The output of caustic soda and resin increased tenfold. The factory's Assets also increased from 1.98 million to 18.01 million.
Seeing these results, everyone was completely convinced. After all, not everyone has the courage to turn a little-known new factory into a business in just a few years. Cangzhou people are struggling to think of it. The favorite to enter.
In the following time, Zhou Zhende worked non-stop to update the output and efficiency. On the other hand, he used the knowledge accumulated in further studies to develop many products such as paste resin. Through the introduction of new technologies, the pass rate of all products reached 100%, and the first-grade product rate is as high as 80%.
Zhou Zhende devoted his whole life to the chemical plant. He rode his bicycle to inspect the production stations every day. He wore work clothes and worked with the workers in the front-line workshops. Any worker who came to him with something was immediately warmly and patiently received.
His wife Su Tongzhen certainly understands her husband's grand journey. Trivial matters at home never bother him. Zhou Zhende can't even tell what grade his son is in. All his thoughts and time are invested in the factory.
In the 1990s, when he attended the National People's Congress, he learned that a set of nationally produced ion membrane caustic soda equipment was to be produced. In the past, it was imported from abroad, and a large amount of foreign exchange had to be spent every year.
Zhou Zhende's stubborn temper of not admitting defeat came back to him, and he was determined to do it. However, Canghua's strength was not among the best in the country, so the leaders of the Ministry of Chemical Industry gave the project to Guangzhou Chemical Plant.
He tried his best to fight for it. Seeing his perseverance, the leader agreed to Canghua's participation in the project. However, because it was unplanned, it could not receive support from state-allocated funds and could only raise funds by itself.
This result has made Zhou Zhende extremely satisfied. He just wanted to make a nationally produced device that would be proud of the country and no longer be controlled by others. After the concerted efforts of the entire factory, it was completed in just 14 months and was tested in one go. success.
ion membrane caustic soda plant was awarded the first prize for scientific and technological progress by the Ministry of Chemical Industry. Its output reaches 40,000 tons per year. It has signed a cooperation agreement with , a chemical factory in Singapore that came here to visit.
Zhou Zhende seems to never tire. In March 1994, he separated the backbone and core products to establish " Cangzhou Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. ". The stock was listed and was rated as one of "China's best stocks" by industry experts. In June, 11 companies including import and export were established, and Canghua became a large-scale group operation enterprise.
generated profits and taxes of 128 million yuan in 1995, becoming the first enterprise in Cangzhou with profits and taxes exceeding 100 million yuan.
Zhou Zhende is still pursuing his ambition to serve the motherland, and the country has also seen what he has done along the way. He was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress in the 6th, 7th, and 8th National People's Congress, and was elected as Vice Chairman of the Cangzhou Municipal People's Political Consultative Conference and Industry and Commerce Vice Chairman. President of the United Nations and received countless honors.
4. Summary
Looking at Zhou Zhende’s legendary experience of crossing Taiwan and returning to China, he has all the qualities that a successful entrepreneur possesses.
In terms of professional knowledge, he studies hard and has the courage to create opportunities for further study. When operating a chemical plant, he pays close attention to the two key points of efficiency and output. With the help of ever-changing technological updates, the factory will always remain energetic and prosperous. In terms of management, he attaches great importance to talents and puts forward the "three "Priority" treatment, promotion, , and bonuses are all based on ability, so that there is a continuous flow of talents.
The most important thing is his love for the motherland, which makes him dare to take the risk of jumping into the sea in Taiwan. This is a life-or-death choice. The ruthless waves may swallow his life, but Zhou Zhende has a belief that is more important than life. , supported him to cross back to China, and finally made a legendary career.
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