He is one of the earliest employees of Huawei, known as "one person can top 10,000 people"; Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly praised his contribution in public, and he has become one of the few Huawei dare to directly One of the veterans who drove Ren Zhengfei out of the meeting room. Today, the editor will show you the story of Huawei's veteran Zheng Bao using .
Zheng Baoyong was born in an ordinary family in Yutian Village, Fujian, and is a typical "child from a poor family." His father worked as a cook in the local health center to support his five brothers. In a tight life, Zheng Baoyong's father insisted on frugal clothing and food to let the children study, because in their hearts: reading is the best way out.
In order to live up to the expectations of his parents, he gets up at five o'clock every day to read, and he never stops between the cold and the heat. Finally, the effort paid off, and he was admitted to the Changle No. 1 Middle School with excellent results. Because he is far away from home, Zheng Bao has become a high school boarding student and can only go home once in half a month. Every time he went home, he would walk back to school carrying sweet potatoes on foot.
Later, he worried that the shoes would be damaged by such a long journey, so he went back and forth barefoot. This trip took two years. For many years thereafter, whenever someone asked him how smart his brain was, he always answered wittyly: "It's because when he was in high school, he went back and forth twice every two weeks for more than four hours of free foot massage!"
Although the conditions of rural children are difficult, they cherish learning opportunities very much. They want to change their destiny, so they work hard day and night.Of the 43 students in Zheng Bao's class, 39 were admitted to the university, which was an unimaginable acceptance rate that year. In the year of the college entrance examination, Zheng Bao used the exam to be the first in the city. His college entrance examination scores are still recorded on a yellowed middle school student record card: graduation scores in mathematics, physics and chemistry, 99 in mathematics, 97 in physics, and 97 in chemistry. With such results, Zheng Baoyong can freely choose almost all universities in the country.
But because Zheng Baoyong is very interested in laser major, he directly chose Huazhong Institute of Technology (later Huazhong University of Science and Technology). On the day of college, he took the 100 yuan rewarded by Putian City , and vowed to tell his father: The 40 yuan is for you, and I only need 60 yuan to go to the whole university. Others’ universities are either having fun or studying hard, while the universities used by Zheng Bao are full of part-time jobs.
Different from ordinary part-time methods, the part-time jobs used by Zheng Bao have a certain technical content. In order to help his classmates repair computers and make money, he taught himself computer major; in order to be able to repair bicycles and tinker with household appliances, he taught himself automation major . Even sometimes, if there is a problem with the school circuit, he will come to him, because Zheng Baoyong also taught himself electric power early.
At the Huazhong Institute of Technology, Zheng Baoyong did not have a cross-professional program, but he studied five or six majors by himself. Because of them, Zheng Bao's part-time job is also very successful. With such intensity of study and part-time job, Zheng Baoyong has never taken down his professional courses. After graduating from undergraduate, he was admitted to the university for postgraduate and successfully obtained a master's degree.
Because of his excellent grades, Zheng Baoyong was exceptionally detained in school. He stayed in school while preparing to take the Tsinghua Ph.D.During the 9 years of studying and working in Wuhan, Baoyong Zheng has always been at the forefront of the optoelectronics field, which became a solid foundation for him to join Huawei later.
After Zheng Baoyong was invited by Ren Zhengfei to join Huawei in 1989, Zheng Baoyong quickly joined the research and development of the switch, participating and hosting the whole process from the framework. Later, Li Yinan joined and this problem was finally overcome.
Huawei's first self-developed switch HJD48 was successfully developed. Once it was put on the market, it caused a huge response and directly broke the original "7 countries and 8 systems" situation. Later, Huawei's communications products continued to be updated, refined technology, and enhanced experience. They were welcomed by people all over the world and sold to more than 50 countries and hundreds of millions of users around the world.
For Huawei, this is the world’s first signboard.
Since then, Zheng Baoyong has presided over several important R&D projects of Huawei, and gradually took the top spot in Huawei R&D, becoming the second person of Huawei under Ren Zhengfei.
At that time, there was a saying in Huawei: "As long as the product is not produced or delivered, Zheng Baoyong will be responsible for all products that are not produced." Cherish talent and love talent,I also trust Zheng Baoyong very much, and always call him "A Bao" in public.
Among all the high-levels of Huawei, Zheng Baoyong is also the only person who has no distance from Ren Zhengfei. Former Huawei engineer Li Jianbo once recalled that sometimes in high-level meetings, Ren Zhengfei always teased Zheng Bao before the meeting: "Who will tell a joke today? Baby, is it your turn? Or you will talk about one?" In front of him, Zheng Baoyong is also very real. The two are as close as brothers and have no grudges. For meetings that Ren Zhengfei can not attend, Zheng Baoyong will unceremoniously say: "Mr. Ren, you don't need to participate in this meeting."
In Huawei, if you dare to treat Ren Zhengfei like this, I am afraid that only Zheng Bao will use it.
However, two people who are in such a good relationship once had a grudge because of one person. This person is Li Yinan. Li Yinan was originally Zheng Baoyong's subordinate, but under Zheng Baoyong's leadership, he became mature in the next step. Later, Zheng Baoyong was promoted to the president of the strategic planning department, and Li Yinan succeeded Zheng Baoyong as the president of the Central Research Department.
was originally a happy situation, but this Li Yinan is too unstructured to do things, and sometimes he is proud of Ren Zhengfei's trust and favor. According to common sense, it is normal to have friction at work, but Li Yinan is reluctant, and, relying on Ren Zhengfei's favoritism, deliberately suppresses Zheng Baoyong and sometimes takes away Zheng Bao's favorite subordinates.
Ren Zhengfei always believes that this is a gradual slapstick among young people, who are very tolerant of Li Yinan, but he does not know that such "tolerance" and "partiality" directly hurt Zheng Bao's intentions. The relationship between Ren Zhengfei and Zheng Baoyong also fell to a freezing point because of Li Yinan.
In 2000, Li Yinan left Huawei and left Huawei to create harbor network , which became Huawei’s rival company, and Ren Zhengfei was very sad. In the same year, Zheng Baoyong also began to be hospitalized because of cancer.
In the next three years, Ren Zhengfei's former right-hand man was not around. Facing the important crossroads of Huawei's development, he almost made a life-long regret decision-to sell the terminal business. Fortunately, Zheng Baoyong, who had just improved, stopped in time: "The future telecommunications industry will be a trinity of clients, pipelines and clouds. The terminal determines the demand. If we abandon the terminal, we will abandon the future of Huawei."
Soon, the facts proved the role of Zheng Bao's admonition. Huawei developed a terminal and quickly regained the stolen market share from , ZTE and UTStarcom, and reversed it in time. A loss-making situation.
In 2019, Huawei’s annual shipments of mobile phones exceeded 240 million units, ranking first in the world in terms of shipments, and sales were also close to 500 billion yuan, directly forming Samsung, Apple, and Huawei in the world. Situation. Huawei's current status as an enterprise is indispensable for its terminal business, and Zheng Baoyong, who resolutely maintains its terminal business, is even more rewarding. Today, Zheng Baoyong has retreated to the second line due to physical reasons and rarely appears in the public's field of vision.
However, he is still the backbone of Huawei.As the leader of the Blue Army, stand with Ren Zhengfei and work hard for Huawei's development.
Zheng Baoyong, walked out of a small mountain village in Fujian, used persistence and wisdom to overcome difficulties and overcome diseases. His brilliant life began when he gave up his Ph.D. in Tsinghua and joined Huawei. He has made Huawei, and Huawei has made him. Today's Huawei is facing the full suppression of American technological hegemony, and it is in another most difficult moment.
As Ren Zhengfei said: "You don't know how to get on the right path without setbacks. Suffering is wealth, and we have not gone through it. This is our greatest weakness." I believe that under the guardianship of Ren Zhengfei and Zheng Baoyong, Huawei will surely survive the hardship and move on to the most correct development path.
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