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One day in 2018, a burst of firecrackers came from a poor mountain village in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province. 258 villas were arranged in an orderly manner next to the mountain village path. The villagers happily chatted with the keys of the villa. The atmosphere was very happy!
In this poor mountain village, not only does living conditions be backward, but also transportation is inconvenient, and there is no opportunity to communicate with the outside world. What’s even more outrageous is that there are a large number of young men with marriageable roles as bachelors. Building a villa is simply their unattainable dream.
But today is different from the past. Every household can receive their own villa. At the same time, they can also receive five acres of lychee fields or local pig breeding bases to achieve a well-off life.
Who is helping this poor mountain village? Why did he separate villas for them? What has changed in the lives of villagers?
Chen Sheng
Peking University Student crowdfunding tuition fees
1962, an ordinary couple in Guanhu Village, Guangdong Province welcomed their first child. Because it was the first child, the couple loved their son very much and named him Chen Sheng , hoping that he would stand between heaven and earth and have endless motivation.
At the same time, the couple also hold high expectations for their children, hoping that their son can change the poverty of the family, get out of the mountains and go to the world.
They would not have thought that Chen Sheng not only went to the world, but also led the entire village to a well-off society, which really changed the living conditions of the village.
When Chen Sheng was three or four years old, his parents gave birth to another younger brother for him. The two brothers were very harmonious and their parents also doted on their two children very much.
Old house in Guanhu Village
In such a family environment, the two brothers have very lively and cheerful personalities and are very friendly to their neighbors.
The two children are also very successful after studying and have always been among the top students in their studies. They never need to worry about their parents. They complete their homework independently. The teachers like them very much. The neighbors often use the grades of the brothers to spur their children. They are the celebrity children in the village.
I thought that the happy life of the family of four would continue, but unexpected events in the world, Chen Sheng's father still failed to resist the threat of death and left his lover and child in advance.
After losing the pillar, the mother and son were very helpless. They didn't know how to face the next life, or even how to survive. Chen's father's death took away the happiness of the family. They were depressed and lived in pain every day.
Today's Guanhu Village
After more than half a month, Chen's mother felt that life could not be so decadent, and her two children still need to be raised by themselves. Although her husband is dead, she must raise the child.
She firmly believes in the power of education and knows that she must rely on education when she goes out of the mountains, so she works harder, hoping to exchange for enough funds for her work to ensure the study of her two children.
In order to give her children a better life, she took on the burden of her family. She went out before dawn every day and went home late at night, and gradually became a man.
Fortunately, the Chen brothers knew that it was difficult for their mothers, and they were very sensible and knew how to help their mothers share the pressure.
In the countryside, they not only learned to wash laundry and cook, but also learned to feed pigs, feed sheep, and cut pig grass and other farm work.
Chen Sheng’s mother
Every year during the autumn harvest season, they will go home in advance to help their mothers to reduce their pressure.
The people in the village know that it is difficult for mother and son, and they often help them. They not only help them do farm work, but also take care of them in life and give them some food and seasoning oil.
Chen Sheng, who had experienced the various aspects of life early, was very moved. He remembered the behavior of the villagers firmly in his heart. He decided to do something and repay the villagers in the village well.
In 1979, seventeen-year-old Chen Sheng came to the watershed of the college entrance examination step by step, and the villagers were sweating for him.
But he seemed to have not realized the advantages of education and did not seize the opportunity to take the college entrance examination. He only scored 167 points and successfully missed the university.
Chen Sheng
At that time, the educational resources in the village were relatively backward, the teachers' teaching ability could not keep up with the city, and the educational knowledge that students were exposed to was also limited. Therefore, although Chen Sheng had good grades in the village, he could not do it in the city and was directly crushed to death. After failing the
, Chen Sheng could only stay in his hometown to do farm work. He would chop wood and feed pigs every day, and his life was boring and boring. More than 0 years later, Chen Sheng once lamented the hard years and said that if he had not been admitted to university, he would probably have to do this in his life.
The boring life soon became tired of it. He lost his way while chopping wood day after day and feeding pigs, and gradually lost the motivation to live.
The mother couldn't stand it anymore, so she asked the child to think about his future life and said that she would fully support him.
1980s classroom
Under the guidance of his mother, Chen Sheng made a happy life decision, that is, repeat the reading.
He told his mother that he wanted to go to school again and repeat the school, and he must take the exam to a university, get out of the mountains, and change his life. After deciding to repeat the exam, Chen Sheng almost lived in the school. He was the first to arrive at school every day and the last to leave school. He ate books day and night. The original brand new books slowly became worn out in his hands. The books were filled with notes he made, densely packed with almost no blank space.
Fortunately, God pays off. After a year of hard work, Chen Sheng's learning ability has been greatly improved, and he successfully passed the exam for Peking University . When the college entrance examination was released, the whole village was very happy: "The Chen family boy was admitted to university, but it was still Peking University. That was the best university. It was so amazing. A college student finally came out of our village."
Chen Sheng's college entrance examination happened to when resumed the college entrance examination. It was difficult for a village to produce a college student, let alone an Peking University entrance examination. That was an extremely rare event.
His mother was so happy after hearing that her child was admitted to Peking University and was so excited that she almost fainted.
She pulled the neighbor and said excitedly for several hours, full of pampering and pride.
In the face of the villagers' praise, Chen Sheng was not proud and complacent, but shared the family pressure for his mother as usual.
While happy, the mother and son also felt other pressure. Although the tuition fee at Peking University is not high, it is tantamount to injury for families who have lost their pillars.
They don’t know where to go to earn high tuition fees, nor do they know how to contact the school.
Can you stop studying without tuition? Has Chen Sheng’s one year of hard work been wasted? They are unwilling to give up.
When the mother and son were in sorrow, the villagers who were silently paying attention to them began to take action.
They took out their only deposits, one cent after another, and gave them 21 yuan to Chen Sheng.
It seems that one cent can’t even buy a candy for a penny, but in the rural areas of the 1980s, one cent was a month’s living expenses for a family.
After receiving the 21 yuan village sponsorship fund, Chen Sheng burst into tears and silently put the tuition and living expenses in his heart, swearing to repay the villagers well.
Just like that, Chen Sheng embarked on the road of studying with the hope and blessings of the entire village. He also successfully realized his dream and returned to the village to repay everyone. How did he do it?
abandoned his iron rice bowl and started his own business
0 After coming to Peking University, Chen Sheng started to study professional courses. Because he applied for the economics major at Peking University, his university life was extremely busy.
He spends a lot of time every day in the library to check materials, and constantly studies the study of professional courses.
After coming to Beijing, he knew the gap between him and other classmates and also understood the urban educational resources. He secretly made up his mind to become a capable backbone in society.
Four years in college, he never missed classes and his grades never fell outside the top three.
After graduating from university, he worked in the General Office of the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Zhanjiang Municipal Party Committee Office, becoming a national civil servant with a "iron rice bowl".
At that time, everyone wanted to enter a national unit and become a person with a "iron rice bowl" and their lives could be stable.
But this is not Chen Sheng's goal. He feels that working in a national unit is very boring and boring. Although the work is very decent and can bring a lot of convenience to his family and himself, the work content is really too single, and the salary is fixed, but it is only 100% possible. Although there is no problem with basic life, it is impossible to realize his wish to repay everyone in the village.
So, he decisively proposed to resign!
After leaving the national unit, Chen Sheng did not succeed in starting a business as soon as possible, but fell into endless confusion.
For life, he could only sell vegetables, clothes, shoes on the street, and meet his daily needs through some simple items.
Over time, he began to doubt his approach and began to think about how to do his future life?
After a period of precipitation, he finally found the direction!
Through the way of making the difference between goods and middlemen again and again, he earned about one million yuan in funds and successfully changed his current life.
After having the start-up capital, Chen Sheng began to look for suitable industries and planned to implement his own entrepreneurial actions.
After careful observation, he smelled business opportunities in the real estate industry through his years of study.
He resolutely invested in the real estate industry with more than one million yuan from him.
Hard work pays off. In 1993, Chen Sheng successfully established his own real estate company - Zhanjiang Xinguanghui Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. After the establishment of the company, he relied on his strong professional knowledge and perseverance to develop his company into a leading leader in the real estate industry in just three years, firmly controlling the market.
Although his career has been very successful, Chen Sheng does not like this industry. He does not like social engagements and does not like drinking outside with other leaders.
After a long time, he wanted to change his industry and engage in a career he really liked.
In 1997, when Chen Sheng was having a party with his friends, he saw everyone adding aged vinegar to Sprite. He looked at his friend puzzledly. His friend told him that everyone likes to add aged vinegar to Sprite, and there are many such customers in the restaurant.
The words of a friend were like enlightenment, which made him suddenly realize. Chen Sheng immediately decided to open a beverage company specializing in the production of aged vinegar drinks and named it " Tiandi No. 1 ". After a year of research, the product of "Tiandi No. 1" was successfully launched and received unanimous praise.
Because it is particularly delicious, the drinks produced by "Tiandi No. 1" have become the leader in the catering industry and become a hot commodity in the eyes of diners.
Later, the company also launched pure water, apple cider vinegar and other products, which also received a lot of praise.
When Chen Sheng saw that the company was developing better and better, he planned to expand the company's business and develop a new industrial chain.
Because of his career, Peking University also invited Chen Sheng to give a speech. When he visited Peking University, he met a 2000 alumnus Lu Buxuan , and learned that he was engaged in selling pork.
Because of netizens’ doubts, Lu Buxuan once suspected his actions and once stated many times that he had embarrassed Peking University. Only Chen Sheng always believed in him and comforted him.
Lu Buxuan
After careful investigation, Chen Sheng develops the pork market belongs to a profit-making industry, with hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue every year.
In order to expand the company's scale, he found Lu Buxuan, and the two launched the " No. 1 Local Pig " pork brand in 2007.
The pork under its name occupies half of the market with its advantages of delicious meat and fat and thinness!
After the development of "No. 1 local pig" has been on track, they have opened many chain stores in first- and second-tier cities, specializing in serving high-end and sophisticated people.
With the blessing of "No. 1 Local Pig", Chen Sheng's company has become larger and larger, and his value has also increased!
After he succeeded, he did not forget his fellow villagers who were still in the mountains, knowing that they were still working hard for life.
He understood that without the selfless efforts of the villagers, there would be no Chen Sheng today.
In order to better improve the lives of the villagers, he decided to return to his hometown to repay his kindness!
Chairman returned to his hometown to repay his kindness
After returning to the village, Chen Sheng immediately began to improve the living conditions of the villagers.
At the beginning, he thought of the most direct method, which is to donate.
He knew that for those villagers, instead of finding a job, it is better to give them a considerable subsidy so that they can realize their dreams and have the capital to do what they want.
However, after a field investigation, he found that the living environment of the villagers poses great safety hazards. Some villagers do not even have a safe shelter, and even if it rains, there is no place to hide from the rain.
So, Chen Sheng decided to give the villagers a villa first so that they can have a place to settle down and a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
In 2011, Chen Sheng invested 200 million yuan to contact the local government and began to build the first phase of the villa in Guanhu Village.
After seven years of hard work, the villa has finally come to completion.
However, just as the villa is about to be completed, a problem arose.
Originally, Chen Sheng planned to follow the principle of one villa and let every household have a place to shelter from the wind and rain.
When separated, these villagers began to have conflicts. Some people think that they have more people in their families and that one villa is not enough to live in, so they must be divided into two houses. Some people think that they should choose a villa with a better geographical location. Some people think that their children have already started a family and are not a family, and they should not divide houses according to the principle of one villa.
Amid the fierce quarrel, the 258 villas that had been built have become hot potatoes and cannot be divided.
Watching the villagers quarrel endlessly, Chen Sheng felt very uncomfortable. His original intention was to change the lives of the villagers, not to let them quarrel over several villas.
In order to adjust the conflicts among the villagers, Chen Sheng could only find the local police station. After three years of mediation and negotiation, everyone finally reached an agreement and chose to collect the villa by drawing lots.
After the house was arranged, Chen Sheng began to think about the life issues of the villagers again.
Based on the land in the village and the local climatic conditions, he promised villagers five acres of lychee fields and some local pig breeding bases.
Chen Sheng said that as long as the villagers are willing, "Tiandi No. 1" will be responsible for the sales of all products and all the profits will be distributed to the villagers.
Under his leadership, the villagers happily accepted his suggestions, entered the pace of modern agricultural construction, and successfully achieved common prosperity and entered a well-off society.
Nowadays, he is still paying attention to the development issues in the village and goes back to guide them from time to time. His repayment has brought endless benefits to the villagers, allowing them to successfully get rid of poverty and become rich.
Not only that, he also pays great attention to children's education and tells them to study hard and be a four-good young man who stands tall and upright.
The reason why Chen Sheng was successful is inseparable from his persistent efforts, diligent work, and keen insight. At the same time, his mother also made great contributions. If it weren't for his mother's support, he would not have had the possibility of success.
Of course, he is also a kind person who is grateful. After receiving the help of the villagers, he always thinks about repaying them.
He also knows that "it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish." Only by letting villagers do it themselves can they achieve sufficient food and clothing.
Whether it is the villagers or Chen Sheng, they always go to each other in both directions and give each other!
