The private non-enterprise organization "Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan" has been involved in a storm. Its closed-term training with the main content of Wang Yangming's Heart Learning was accused of forcing students to share their experiences, sell books and attract new members, and confiscated their mobile phones throughout the process, which was suspected of spiritual pyramid schemes.
html More than 0 corporate employees and executives who have participated in the "Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan" training and secondary training confirmed to The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) the aforementioned model of developing new members of the organization. One of them was persuaded to withdraw by his company because he could not accept the relevant concepts.A corporate executive interviewed told The Paper that Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan had voluntarily asked for 3 million yuan in sponsorship from its company, and the company has since withdrawn.
Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan’s official website information shows that its predecessor is Beijing Zhixingheyi Yangming Education Research Institute, which was registered and established with the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce in May 2014. In December 2017, the Beijing Zhiliangzhi Public Welfare Foundation was registered and established, mainly engaged in public welfare activities such as poverty alleviation and education assistance.
information shows that the chairman of the foundation, the legal representative, Liu Fang, is the founder of Shenzhen Fangzi Beauty Co., Ltd., and is also the legal representative of more than 30 branches of the company. It is worth noting that Article 23 of the "Regulations on Foundation Management" stipulates that the legal representative of the foundation shall not serve as the legal representative of other organizations at the same time.
In response to the company's statement, on December 29, The Paper asked Guo Hongbo, executive secretary-general of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan by text messages and phone calls. The other party said that he was in New York, USA and it was not convenient to respond.
Screenshot of the news that the Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan promotes within the Zhiliangzhi learning group. Image source of this article: Screenshot of Zhiliangzhi official website, photo provided by the interviewee
read Xiaohongshu and shared his experiences with tears, claiming that the chairman of 28 famous companies participated in
"I have no learning thoughts about Zhiliangzhi (Siheyuan)." As soon as he said that Mao Xu (pseudonym) knew that he could not stay in the company anymore. A home improvement company in Sichuan where he works has joined the ranks of "to achieve conscience" since the Spring Festival in 2019.
Zhijing is the abbreviation of the students' public welfare culture promotion center for Beijing Huairou Zhijing Siheyuan. This private non-enterprise organization, established in March 2019, claims to be a public welfare culture promotion institution with Chinese culture as the source, spiritual construction as the purpose, entrepreneurs as the main body, and family construction as the platform. In the five years of development, the chairman of 28 core members including Kangenbei, Kingdee, Great Wall Property, Baixiang Group, Hisense Group, and Focus Media have participated, and more than tens of thousands of entrepreneurs have participated in the study online and offline.
But in the eyes of Mao Xu and other students who have participated in the training, the so-called "to achieve conscience" is closer to "brainwashing". In the learning group of
, the supervisor pushes screenshots of reading materials to students every day
Mao Xu told The Paper that after the Lunar New Year, the company purchased a batch of books called "Cultural Confidence and National Rejuvenation" from Zhiming Conscience. The red cover was inlaid with golden titles and distributed them to every employee. Since then, every morning at 8:30, Mao Xu and his colleagues have been asked to line up in the company to recite. "You must stand up straight when reading, hold the book with both hands, and look at the book and eyes in a straight line," Mao Xu told The Paper that the company's explanation of this practice is to use a little time before work to purify the minds of employees.
In order to ensure the implementation of early reading, the company has also formulated a strict attendance system for employees. Those who are late for less than half an hour are fined 20 yuan, and those who are late for more than three times a month are fined 200 yuan each time from the fourth time.
But this is just the beginning. Not long after, the company also invited lecturers from Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan from Chengdu to hold a "three-hour training meeting" for employees, and continued to study in the conference hall rented by the hotel. Mao Xu recalled to The Paper that before entering the venue, everyone was asked to wear white shirts and black pants, and hand in their mobile phones at the same time, and the sitting posture must be upright after entering the venue, "only half of the bench can be sat on the bench." After the opening, all the staff read the aforementioned red book together. After the recitation, the host will introduce the origin of conscience and play tear-jerking family short videos for the participants. After the broadcast, each person is asked to write down his or her crimes on a piece of paper and repent.
Mao Xu said that many colleagues came on stage to share, "all of them were crying", including the company's boss.The above statement has also been confirmed by many trainees from Jiangxi, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places to participate in the training of Zhiliangzhi Sihe Academy.
Mao Xu told The Paper that if he does not participate in closed training, he will be regarded as an automatic resignation. During the entire training process, the most puzzled part was that after the "repentance", the host also asked the students to write down the names of 10 relatives and friends around him, and asked them to influence them and achieve conscience together. "At that time, the company also stipulated that each employee was required to invite 80 WeChat friends to follow Zhiliang's official account."
does not promote WeChat group chat screenshots for deducting penalties
Promotion tutorial of Zhiliang's official microscope
In recent public opinion storms, this practice has also been questioned for suspected "spiritual pyramid scheme".
A person interviewed by a pharmaceutical company in Jiangxi (pseudonym), an internal "promotion document" of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan provided to The Paper: Zhiliangzhi is the culmination of Chinese culture. With the help of its WeChat public account, it can not only convey love in society, but also enhance the company's pattern and realm. The promotion plan requires that before 9 pm on February 1, 2019, all employees within the company must pay attention and promote it between relatives and friends. To this end, the company even designed specific promotion goals and supervisors, and the company designed graphic posters uniformly. If the plan fails to complete the plan within the specified time, the employees who fail to meet the standards and department heads will be deducted according to the standard of 50 yuan per person.
participated in the internal documents of Zhiliangzhi Enterprise on promoting Zhiliangzhi, and deducted employees who failed to complete the indicators
Wang Xin told The Paper that as employees, they could not understand this practice.
Wang Xin provided Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan learning group chat to The Paper shows that every day, supervisors (i.e. some persons in charge) push reading materials to members in the group, and require replying to "read" after reading is completed. At the same time, it is recommended that reading multiple times improve understanding or "forward to the circle of friends to benefit more people." Wang Xin said that the method of the unit to check whether employees read is to ask them to directly send the audio and experience of reading in the group.
A group chat record shows that a student wrote in his experience: "In Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan, every time we talk about the following passage, we will burst into tears: we are deeply grateful for this era, participate in the great cause of unprecedented success, and follow the sages to move towards light. Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan is a platform for achieving society and serving the people. Here, awakening more lives with the new look of one's own life is the supreme glory." Wang Xin said that such experience is still not profound enough in the company's opinion, and is just to complete the task.
In contrast, because he did not agree with the concept of conscience, when he was asked by his boss during a random inspection of his experience, he replied directly, "I have no learning feeling about conscience." Mao Xu, who did not complete the task, received the consequence of being persuaded to withdraw by the company.
In response to the question of closed training suspected of spiritual pyramid schemes, Peng Zhiying, the head of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan, told The Paper that it is indeed not allowed to bring mobile phones during the day, and explained that this practice refers to the practice of government departments and all walks of life to participate in learning. "With the phone, there is constant ringtone ringing and playing WeChat, and the course is not much gained."
Peng Zhiying said that during the tea break, lunch break and get out of class break, the students are completely free. "If you don't know how to define it is considered closed, people have different opinions, and I can't say right or wrong."
Peng Zhiying also said that the main line of Zhi Conscience is to make every entrepreneur lead employees to work hard. "Everyone has many incorrect things in life. If we remove the incorrect things and make the right things work better and better, this is reflection, and human life will bloom more and more."
registration fee is tens of thousands, and executives of the participating companies said they were asked for a sponsorship fee of 3 million yuan
Before becoming a civil unfair, Zhi Conscience Siheyuan was the predecessor of the "Beijing Zhixing Yi Yangming Education Research Institute" established in 2014, and the legal representative is Bai Lixin . Public information shows that Bai Lixin graduated from , Zhejiang University, and received a doctorate in engineering. He joined IBM in 2005.
Zhiliangzhi Public Welfare Fund Registration Information Screenshot
On November 15, 2012, he and 28 business operators and managers initiated the establishment of the "Zhiliangzhi Study Group" in Xiuwen County, Guizhou Province. In 2014, the group members jointly established the Beijing Zhixingyi Yangming Education Research Institute, claiming to free training and popularize Wang Yangming's Heart Studies. According to industrial and commercial data, the company type of Beijing Zhixing Heyi Yangming Education Research Institute is collective ownership (share cooperation).
In December 2017, Zhiliangzhi registered and established the Beijing Zhiliangzhi Public Welfare Foundation in Beijing Civil Affairs Bureau . Its main business is to fund poor students' schooling, poor elderly people and difficult families' lives, and to fund natural disaster relief charity activities. The supervisory unit of Zhiliangzhi Public Welfare Foundation is the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Pengpai News found out on the Foundation Center website that the total donation income of Zhiliangzhi Foundation in 2018 was 2.78 million yuan and public welfare expenditure was 490,000 yuan, mainly used in the Conscience Cloud Project of Shandong Dezhou .
According to the training plan and charging standards disclosed by the WeChat official account of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan, the cost of participating in Zhiliangzhi is not low. Take the Future Star Study Class as an example. For a 15-day course, each person needs to pay 10,000 yuan, and the first-term students are about 500. Even for the lowest-priced Future Star Store Manager Class, each person needs to pay 300 yuan for a 5-day course.
promotional materials show that the Yanqi Lake Entrepreneurs Forum held in Huairou, Beijing on October 28, 2019, a total of 4,000 entrepreneurs, Chinese and foreign scholars and representatives from all walks of life participated in the 7-day meeting. Tens of thousands of distance learning classes were studied simultaneously, and the ginseng fee was 10,000 yuan per person. According to previous media reports, the above list is only course fees, and the travel and accommodation fees are all borne by the participating companies.
Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan official website information shows that Jiang Chengguo, deputy general manager of Rui Technology, chairman of Aokang Group, Wang Zhentao, chairman of Kingdee Group, Xu Shaochun, , and chairman of Yezhifeng, , have all participated in the "Zhiliangzhi" study. The Paper noticed that in the 2018-2019 Yanqi Lake Entrepreneurs Forum published on the official website of Zhiliangzhi, videos of Jiang Nanchun, Hu Jiqiang and Xu Shaochun attending and giving speeches can still be found. In addition, experts and scholars from many well-known universities in China participated in the Yanqi Lake Entrepreneurs Forum.
Regarding the training costs, the volunteers of Zhijingzhi said in response to the Interface News interview: "We are a public welfare fund, which is public welfare, and are all AA-based. When we go outside to give lectures and rent others' venues, the cost is transparent, and the employees below know how much it costs." After the storm involving
broke out, why entrepreneurs joined "Zhijingzhi" became the focus of attention.
On December 28, an executive of a top 500 domestic private enterprise who participated in Zhiliangzhi told The Paper that the company's senior management department learned about Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan through introduction and participated in the 2019 Yanqi Lake Entrepreneurs Forum. Since then, the company has begun to conduct secondary training internally, and the form is consistent as mentioned above. In his opinion, some of the content of Zhiliangzhi does play a role, such as: through reflection, resolve communication problems between employees and superiors, "to facilitate everyone to open the knot in their hearts."
More than one well-known entrepreneurs have attended the Zhiliangzhi Yanqihu Entrepreneurs Forum
More than one well-known entrepreneurs have attended the Zhiliangzhi Yanqihu Entrepreneurs Forum
The executive of the top 500 private enterprises in China said that Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan began to ask for money from the company in disguise, which made them begin to suspicion. After investing funds to participate in Zhi Jingzhi, the other party began to make a request to his company, requiring additional volunteers to go to the Beijing headquarters, and at the same time requesting 3 million yuan in sponsorship fees from his company.
On December 29, in response to the company's statement, The Paper asked Guo Hongbo, executive secretary-general of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan through text messages and telephone calls. Guo Hongbo said on the phone that he was in New York and it was not convenient to respond.
was once punished for illegal publication. The chairman of the affiliated foundation also serves as the legal representative of more than 30 companies. According to the on-site visit of Interface News, the Beijing headquarters base of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan is located in an exquisite Siheyuan northwest of Dongfeng Park. The plaque read "No. 1 Courtyard" and there are two stone statues of the divine beasts at the door. When you walk in, there are five plaques hanging on the right side of the gate, namely Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan Public Welfare Culture Promotion Center, Zhiliangzhi Public Welfare Foundation, Yangming Education Research Institute, Zhiliangzhi Yongquan College, and Family Construction Research Institute. Going further in, it is a "glorious lighthouse" countdown card for the ten-year appointment of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In this regard, the official explanation of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan is that, "On November 15, 2018, we solemnly established this glorious lighthouse and made a ten-year agreement to take the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as the glorious lighthouse in our hearts. We will move forward bravely in the future without any obstacles, and strive forward bravely!"
Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan WeChat official account information stated that the sales volume of many books, such as "Cultural Confidence and National Rejuvenation", "Zhiliangzhi is a Great Power" and "Mr. Yangming's Chronicle", have exceeded 30,000. Among them, "Cultural Confidence and National Rejuvenation" has been officially published in English, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Russian. The official introduction of Zhilianzhi stated that this is to let the world understand Chinese culture.
However, the road to striving for conscience and moving forward bravely and into the world is not smooth.
In addition to being accused of being suspected of spiritual pyramid schemes, The Paper consulted industrial and commercial information and learned that Beijing Zhixing Heyi Yangming Education Research Institute had been subject to two administrative penalties in 2018, one for the issuance of other illegal publications, and the other for the arbitrary compilation of internal materials without approval. The penalty decision agencies are all the Beijing Cultural Market Administrative Law Enforcement Corps.
In addition, the chairman of the Zhiliang Knowledge Foundation, the legal representative Liu Fang , is actually the founder of Shenzhen Fangzi Beauty Co., Ltd., and she also serves as the legal representative of more than 30 branches of the company.
It is worth noting that Article 23 of the "Regulations on Foundation Management" clearly stipulates that the legal representative of the foundation shall not serve as the legal representative of other organizations at the same time.
At the same time, what is more public attention and questioned is the flow of foundation funds. The first briefing of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan in 2019 stated that since its establishment, it has conducted three special audits for large-scale events and the second annual audit.
Among them, the revenue in 2014 was 96,800 yuan (the balance of learning activities expenses), with a loss of 43,100 yuan; there was no operating income in 2015, and 17 entrepreneurs donated to increase capital. In October 2015, the registered capital was changed to 4.26 million yuan, with an operating loss of 1.5695 million yuan; in 2016, the activity income was 3.01 million yuan, with a loss of 14,000 yuan; in 2017, the sales income was 29.5763 million yuan, with a loss of 2.6317 million yuan; as of October 31, 2018, the sales income was 103 million yuan, with a profit of 4.1097 million yuan that year, and a cumulative loss of 192,000 yuan. This means that Zhi Conscience has not made any profit in the development process of the first four years. The audit report of the 2018 Yanqi Lake Entrepreneurs Forum released by the official website of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan shows that the forum's revenue was 20.565 million yuan, the cost expenditure was 20.391178 million yuan, and the profit was 173,821 million yuan, but the expenditure details were not disclosed.
As of press time, Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan has not disclosed to The Paper the specific expenditure of the meeting and the use of the surplus funds in the foundation's account. Peng Zhiying, the head of the aforementioned region, said on the phone that the quarterly financial statements can be checked on the Zhiliangzhi official account. When asked about the details, she said, "For such a large financial expenditure, it is impossible to remember every transaction clearly. We will send financial statements to the supervisory unit every quarter."
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