I am not a rich man, but an entrepreneur .
Recently, Mr. Cao Dewang has attracted widespread attention from the society and won wide respect for his huge investment in the United States for building factories, as well as his true and alert talks about China-US industrial policies and environment.
Mr. Cao Dewang has long been called one of the most respected entrepreneurs and industrialists in China. At the same time, he is also a self-taught business management master. is a great philanthropist who has donated more than 6 billion yuan to China's charity and charity undertakings, but does not regard himself as a great philanthropist.
His entrepreneurial experience has been ups and downs. He has sold tobacco, sold fruits, pulled a cart, and repaired bicycles on the street. He has not eaten two meals a day for many years and has experienced all kinds of hardships that ordinary people can't imagine.
After he was tempered, he obtained more than a few billion worth of numbers. Compared with successful experiences, is committed to charity and has won glory for China when suing overseas. Every action of his actions carries a strong spirit.
He said: I am not a rich man, I am an entrepreneur.
1. has experienced ups and downs, and several business failures have almost dried up tears for the rest of their lives.
1947, Cao Dewang's mother hugged him, who was one year old, and returned to her hometown in Fuqing from Shanghai. Also traveling with him is an iron boat bought by Cao's father, which is loaded with the wealth of business accumulated over the years. people arrived in Fuqing, but the iron boat that transported the property sank, and most of the Cao family's property went to the bottom of the water.
From his memory, the six brothers and sisters in the family often have not had enough food. According to Cao Dewang's recollection, my mother and our six siblings often go hungry, often having two meals a day, or soup. Perhaps from then on, Cao Dewang understood that wealth and honor were impermanent.
Because of his family's poverty, he went to school at the age of 9, but was forced to drop out of school at the age of 14. In order to make a living, he worked as a cook, repairman, and agricultural technician at the educated youth company. He pulled a cart, repaired bicycles, and planted white fungus. is like this, he cruelly challenged his physical strength every day.
Cao Dewang, who hopes to change his poor family by planting white fungus, found that no matter how hard he works, planting white fungus will not make much money. He gradually realized that he could not make money by planting himself. However, he discovered that the price difference between white fungus in different provinces gave a lot of room for imagination in the profits of selling white fungus.
"I'm planning on selling white fungus in Fujian for 1 yuan, but in Jiangxi it can sell for 3 yuan. If I only resell it, I will make a difference."
Soon, Cao Dewang made 300 yuan. You know, at that time, you could build a house for 2,000 yuan. Just when he was about to make another profit and go home for the New Year, he was investigated by the militia and almost got charged with "speculative".
didn't make any money, and he lost everything. "I almost drained my tears for the rest of my life when I came back from Jiangxi."
At the age of 28, he saved his first pot of gold of 60,000 yuan by buying saplings.
At that time, he was thinking about a simple truth: relying on hard work to change his destiny, he wanted the whole family to "live a better life."
The sufferings in his early years made Cao Dewang experience the warmth and coldness of the world too early, and also tempered his tenacious character.
1976, under my father's insistence, I returned to Fuqing Gaoshan Town special-shaped glass factory as a buyer. Because of this, the later Fuyao was created.
2. Chinese people should have their own car glass .
The typical state-owned enterprise portraits in that era are like the ones. This glass factory is inefficient, has suffered losses for years, has a lot of unrevitalized resources, and cannot afford to eat with a golden rice bowl.
Cao Dewang contracted this township glass factory, and the company quickly made money.
He saw huge profits in the automotive glass market. In the 1980s, the price of a piece of automotive glass was thousands of yuan. However, in this profitable market, China does not even have an influential brand, and the Chinese automobile glass market is completely monopolized by Japanese and European and American companies. Foreigners sell this price and believe that Chinese people cannot make such things, so they sell it so expensive. No matter how expensive they are, they can only buy theirs.
The upright and stubborn Cao Dewang was dissatisfied, "Can China only rely on imports and be forced to accept this unfairness?" Cao Dewang was indignant. "Chinese people should have their own piece of car glass."
1985, Cao Dewang switched to car repair glass. In order to break through the technical barriers of Japanese companies, Cao Dewang tightened his belt and introduced the most advanced production equipment from Finland. He collected technical talents from all over the country to research and research. After countless failed tests, he finally developed special glass for automobiles.
At first, the automobile factory did not recognize his products, so Cao Dewang started from the maintenance market. Because the price is cheaper than the glass produced in Japan and the quality is not bad, it is very popular. In 1986, he made 700,000 yuan and 5 million yuan in 1987.
Then, Fuyao continues to introduce new technologies and new equipment. By the early 1990s, Japanese glass in the Chinese market had disappeared.
Cao Dewang grew into China's largest automotive glass supplier at a lightning speed. Later, the maintenance market entered vicious competition, and Fuyao Glass was forced to transform into the supporting market.
to 7 years later, in 1993, Fuyao became the automotive glass supporting provider of 84 automobile manufacturers including FAW Jetta, 2 Automobile Citroen, and Beijing Cherokee, with a market share of more than 40% of the domestic market. It was also in that year that Fuyao was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and it was the first listed company in its industry.
3. protects Fuyao's interests and spends 40 million US dollars to buy back the shares.
Playing a bad hand into a good card always depends on some persistence and luck. And his true courage is to find the greatest vitality every time the chips change.
1993 Fuyao Glass was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. At that time, Fuyao also had businesses in real estate, automotive glass, international trade, decoration and other fields. After its listing, Cao Dewang was inspired to cut off all non-main business businesses and focused on making automotive glass. This was unique in the era when diversity and popularity at that time, and thus embarked on the road of rapid development.
html In the early 390s, Cao Dewang led his troops to the United States and entered this largest overseas market.
In 1996, the international leading automotive glass company French Saint-Gobain invested US$15.3 million and Fuyao invested US$14.7 million. The two parties jointly established Wanda Automobile Glass Co., Ltd. At the same time, Fuyao Group transferred 42% of its overseas corporate shares to Saint-Gobain.
Due to the different operating principles of both parties, Fuyao Group has also suffered losses that have never been seen in history.
Cao Dewang immediately decided to end the three-year cooperation and buy out all Saint-Gobain's shares in Fuyao for US$40 million, and make three rules: Saint-Gobain is not allowed to enter the Chinese market again before July 1, 2004.
Cao Dewang eliminates a strong competitor to win the time and space of development for Fuyao within 5 years. His courage and loyalty to the cause of Fuyao have also won the respect of international peers.
4. 8 months of overseas lawsuits eventually defeated the United States and Canada, shocking the world.
Another 7 years later, at the end of 2001, facing the Canadian Court of International Trade launched an anti-dumping investigation into the Chinese automobile glass industry, including Fuyao Glass, Cao Dewang established a special anti-dumping response office and won the first anti-dumping case since my country joined the WTO, causing a sensation all over the world.
Cao Dewang brought his irritable and tough style to the climax, and staged the most magnificent scene in his business career. He spent more than 100 million yuan to defeat the two anti-dumping cases in the United States and Canada, shocking the world. Fuyao Glass has also become the first Chinese company in China to sue the US Department of Commerce and win the victory. When the U.S. Secretary of Commerce visited China in 2006, he was invited to the embassy to hold a party.
Speaking of anti-dumping lawsuits, Cao Dewang said:
"This kind of thing is my favorite thing. Don't you think you are very stylish?" "He Americans have big fists, so can they bully me? I just stabbed the matter so that the whole world can judge! Even if I lose everything, I will do it with him too!" "At that time, many people sympathized with me, and I said no, I was very careless, and I was not a lawsuit with the vendor selling vegetables on the street."
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"I must keep it excellent, otherwise it will cause shame, not only to the judges, but also to the whole of China."
On May 30, 2009, at the award ceremony held in Monte Carlo, Morocco, Cao Dewang defeated all the heroes and stood out from more than 10,000 entrepreneurs from 43 countries around the world, and won the "Emergency and Young Global Entrepreneur Award" known as the Oscars in the business world. This is also the first Chinese entrepreneur in since the award was established 23 years ago. Cao Dewang's speech at the award ceremony also moved the whole world.
5. 8 has been starting a business for 40 years and donated 6 billion yuan. It is a true charity.
Since returning to the glass factory in 1976, Cao Dewang has donated more than 6 billion yuan. According to the Hurun Rich Ranking, his net worth in 2013 was 7.5 billion.
According to the report of Southern People Weekly: A few years ago, he specially went to Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University to set up a scholarship. "I don't know them either, but I just think agriculture needs support and don't hurt poor students."
"I have today's career, which cannot be separated from the government's policies and the help of all sectors of society. I owe too much to society; people must have a conscience, I always have a grateful attitude towards society, and I help society through my own strength."
Cao Dewang also has a set of theories for his huge donations: participate in social distribution and regulation, and avoid polarization from ever-greatization."
Big, maintain the balanced development of society and the country. "I am a man, I have the responsibility."
talked about Cao Dewang donating 200 million yuan to the Business School of Xiamen University, and Wu Shinong said : "I only mentioned this to President Cao four times before and after. Our president mentioned it twice, and President Cao agreed. The name of the Business School Dewang Business School was proposed by ourselves."
Cao Dewang said: "I just happened to have some dividends. If they don't want this money, I will donate it to someone else." He grabbed a hand from the air with his left hand and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, squeezed his fist with his right hand and stretched out his trouser pocket, spread his palm.
After donating 300 million shares to the Heren Foundation, the Cao family still has 400 million shares left. Cao Dewang frankly said that he kept some shares just to control Fuyao for the Cao family. This is the government's intention and it is also in line with Fuyao's long-term development. "If it weren't for this, I'll donate it to you, I won't want it."
"Southern Weekend"'s evaluation of him is also China's true best. And he himself still treats the kindness he has done with a humble heart:
I have always felt that there is no one who thanks whom to do charity, no poor and weak need your help, and you want to accumulate merit and do good deeds without this opportunity. It’s that simple. Charity is not big or small. I donate eight or nine billion yuan, which is no greater than those who are harder than those who are still helping others.
Cao Dewang himself is a powerful person with multiple complex and opposing temperaments. He strives for progress and develops his career, but often wants to "let go"; he makes money and accumulates wealth on one hand, and distributes money on the other hand.
He acts decisively, uprightly and courageously in business, and is committed to charity in giving back to the society. Cao Dewang's actions over the years have made the world admire him.
He once told his employees and children: Every minute of every day in life is every brick that you are building the historical building. A certain section of brick is broken and does something bad. When you build it very high, the height is cold and the pressure is too great. That place cannot stand the scrutiny, and the building is destroyed like this.
"I have always believed that there are three responsibilities for entrepreneurs: the country is strong because of you, the society is progressing because of you, and the people are prosperous because of you. Only by doing these three points can you be worthy of the title of entrepreneur."
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