There is a high-tech enterprise in Zhongshan Torch Development Zone, a national high-tech zone in Guangdong Province. It has just 12 years since its establishment, and has gone from an unknown small enterprise with a registered capital of 300,000 yuan to a professional precision optical component manufacturer integrating R&D, production, sales and service. Its products have entered Singapore's Leica Group, Singapore Wanli, Germany's Carl Zeiss CARL ZEISS, Germany's SCHOTT, South Korea's Digital Optics, Taiwan's Baosheng BASO, Japan's Fuji, Canon and other internationally renowned enterprises.
The person who created this miracle was Zhang Youliang, a representative of Zhongshan non-public economic craftsmen and chairman of Zhongshan Everbright Optical Instruments Co., Ltd. in 2017.
From an employee of the garment factory to an executive of a state-owned enterprise, he chose to resign
In 1971, Zhang Youliang was born in a rural area of Lu County. In the 1980s, Zhang Youliang's uncle and aunt's children both worked in Guangdong, and often sent home thousands or tens of thousands of yuan in income. Working on the coast became a dream in Zhang Youliang's heart when he was young. In July 1995, Zhang Youliang, who graduated from a normal school, came to Zhongshan City to start his working career with a yearning for a better life.
When he first arrived in Zhongshan, Zhang Youliang was introduced to work at a garment factory at a relative's house. Unexpectedly, due to his unskilled operation and his hands were naturally sweaty, a shirt collar was rubbed repeatedly by Zhang Youliang's hands and turned black. The processing quality did not meet the requirements and the orders were too late. Zhang Youliang was forced to resign from the garment factory. After that, he was taken in by his fellow villager's construction site. Zhang Youliang, wearing glasses, was gentle and gentle, but he was dark and thin. Due to his lack of physical fitness, he did not do his work on the construction site for a long time.
Then, after a friend's recommendation, he joined Zhongshan Mingjia Company, a state-owned enterprise under the Ministry of Ordnance Industry, a military enterprise under the Ministry of Ordnance Industry, and Zhongshan High-tech Development Zone.
has entered the high-tech industry for producing optoelectronic products. Zhang Youliang started from scratch and humbly learned optoelectronic technology and the processing and design of optoelectronic products. He worked hard and was serious and responsible in his work. A fire broke out in the company's workshop. Zhang Youliang participated in rescue despite his personal safety and recovered millions of yuan in economic losses for the company. He was burned and hospitalized for several months, leaving permanent burn scars on his arm. Due to his outstanding work performance, Zhang Youliang was named "Outstanding Employee outside Zhongshan City" in 1997, and was later promoted to procurement and marketing positions, gradually mastering the processes of optoelectronic products from raw material procurement, production technology management, and marketing.
Working in a factory for a lifetime is far less tempting than starting a business by yourself. In 2005, Zhang Youliang, who had become a senior executive of a state-owned enterprise, resolutely joined the "military (military technology) for civilian use" tide, and used his years of savings of 160,000 yuan and borrowing from relatives and friends to purchase a batch of optical instrument production and testing equipment, and founded Zhongshan Everbright Optical Instrument Co., Ltd. The company is not big and occupies a floor in the Torch Development Zone in Zhongshan City, but it is the starting point for Zhang Youliang to start his own business in life.
Google Glasses has Everbright Optics products
With the 9 years of work experience and excellent technical background accumulated in military enterprises over the past 10 years, Zhang Youliang quickly found his products to the market.
"In the past, working in a state-owned enterprise was relatively easy and earning a monthly salary. Now, I am the boss myself and I have to pay others a salary, which is of course more stressful." It is said that starting a business for three years is a hurdle, and Zhang Youliang encountered a mountain of Tai. The global financial crisis hit in 2008, and the global physical industry encountered a tsunami. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to Everbright Optics, which is still immature and has no ability to deal with risks.
"Orders shrink, resulting in the company being unable to organize production, the hearts of the entire enterprise will fluctuate, and some technical employees will be lost." Zhang Youliang admitted that there were no orders during that period. He and his partners watched the large equipment in the workshop being idle and unable to start construction every day, so anxious that they could not eat or sleep every day. In the end, less than 10 people were left to survive, all relying on their original entrepreneurial dream and their unsuccessful feelings for the small translucent glass containing high-tech.
In 2008, through a friend's recommendation, Zhang Youliang was fortunate to come into contact with Mr. Chen, the technical director of Singapore Leica Group. Unexpectedly, the two fell in love with each other. Zhang Youliang's professional qualities, Everbright Optics' continuous excellence, persistent and innovative corporate culture and unique processing technology left a deep impression on the other party.
Not long after, Leica extended an olive branch to Zhang Youliang, not only giving a life-saving order, but also including technical cooperation. Leica, the world leader in optical science, who has always been famous for its superb and expensive, can choose the unknown Everbright Optics, and is interested in Zhang Youliang's strong professional ability and professional level.
The technical learning opportunities brought by Leica are undoubtedly a hot shot for Everbright Optics. At the end of 2008, Everbright Optics and Zhongshan Torch Vocational and Technical College carried out school-enterprise cooperation, embarking on the path of innovative development of "production, education and research". Since then, it has reached close cooperation with Singapore Wanli Company founded by Mr. Chen. The company's development is growing higher and better every year.
In the following years, this small company was unstoppable, and its products successively broke through internationally renowned companies such as Singapore's Leica Group, Germany's Carl Zeiss CARL ZEISS, Germany's SCHOTT, South Korea's HANSUNG OPTICS, South Korea's UNION COMMUNITY (VIRDI), Taiwan's Baosheng BASO, Japan's Fuji FUJI, Canon and other internationally renowned companies. In 2016, it was selected as a high-tech enterprise in Guangdong Province.
On May 8, when the reporter interviewed Zhang Youliang, he wore a work clothes with the Everbright Optical logo printed on it and talked about the application of corporate products in Google glasses, digital projection, laser ranging, endoscope, palm print recognition, etc., and his words revealed his strong confidence in the development vision of Everbright Optical.
"After 12 years, the company's number has exceeded 100. The company's annual profits are used to expand production capacity, grow healthily step by step, and achieve small and fine. The future goal is to have an annual output value of over 100 million yuan. This is not an empty slogan, but my confidence in the optoelectronics industry." Zhang Youliang told reporters, "The positioning of Everbright Optics Company is to be the first choice supplier for world-class enterprises in the optoelectronics industry. Our focus is not on scale and profit, but on technological innovation and customer satisfaction. We will continue to adhere to the two principles of professionalism and accuracy, and strive to become a benchmark in the optoelectronics industry."
Dialogue with Zhang Youliang: Don't forget your original intention and stick to your ideals
Reporter: Do you have any good suggestions for young people to go out to work?
Zhang Youliang: When I first came to Zhongshan to work, I also encountered walls everywhere, and I finally settled down from garment factories to construction companies and then to optoelectronics companies. Therefore, it is important to choose which industry to enter. It must be suitable for your own development and have a future, and you must also like it.
Reporter: The road to entrepreneurship has never been smooth. What do you need to do from a worker to an entrepreneur?
Zhang Youliang: From school to enterprise, and then to starting your own business, you must make good reserves in all aspects. My personal philosophy is that if I manage things I don’t understand, I will definitely not manage them well. I must let myself understand them, and I will be able to manage others easily. I now know every process of the company. When I manage it, I know where they are wrong and right, so that there is an entry point and can be corrected. Therefore, the management experience I have accumulated from working before has made me manage my own business very well and the factory atmosphere is also very good.
When encountering difficulties on the road to entrepreneurship, you must not forget your original intention. My belief is that I must stick to my ideals. Based on my experience accumulated over the years of work and my love for this industry, I believe in the direction I chose, so no matter how difficult the company encounters, I have never given up.
Reporter: Everbright Optics has developed smoothly now. What is your future development plan for the company?
Zhang Youliang: At present, Everbright Optics is very well-known in the industry, and the processing product accuracy is also very high. World-class companies also agree with our products very much, so I am quite satisfied with the company. At the beginning of this year, the company set a goal for the next three years, and plans to achieve a company output value of 35 million yuan in 2017, achieve a goal of 45 million yuan in 2018, and strive to achieve a goal of 60 million yuan in 2019.Another important task of the company is to accelerate its transformation and gradually upgrade from an OEM factory of internationally renowned enterprises to an enterprise with independent products.
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