In China, there is such an entrepreneur, who made a fortune in the most difficult time, but also had the quality of being poor but not flattering, rich but not arrogant. He is honest and frank, openly choking Li Ka-shing, saying that Li Ka-shing only cares about businessmen seeking profits and lacks confidence in China; His national integrity is very strong, asking his children to give up their American green cards and return to China, otherwise they will not inherit the inheritance; He stuck to his heart for 40 years, and from beginning to end, he only made car glass. He is the "king of glass"-Cao.
On the Hurun Report, Cao's ranking is not high, but he is widely praised, because he is not only the "king of glass", but also the "first in China". Today, Cao is worth 654.38+05 billion yuan, and over the years, he has donated 654.38+065.438+00 billion yuan to the country, which is equivalent to donating more than half of his net worth to charity.
It is because of his childlike innocence that he is famous all over the country. Next, Teacher Jiang will take you to see the entrepreneurial road of this legendary national entrepreneur.
Cao, male, 1946, from Fuzhou, Fujian. His father used to be a shareholder in a famous department store in Shanghai, but because of an accident, all his belongings sank with the transport ship, leaving his family penniless.
In his memory, for a long time, a family could only eat one meal a day. Moreover, this meal is all soup, so Cao spent most of his childhood in hunger.
Cao Wangde didn't have a formal name until he was nine years old. It was not until Cao was 9 years old that his parents decided to send their children to school, even though the family was poor. At this time, I found this gentleman in the county seat and took the name "Cao", which means virtuous and prosperous.
But at that time, the name obviously didn't bring good luck to this poor family. Cao only studied for five years, but because his family was too difficult, he had to drop out of school and go home to herd cattle. But he didn't lose his love for learning, and even spent 1 year saving 80 cents to buy a dictionary.
After dropping out of school, Cao did business with his father. He poured tobacco, sold fruit, planted fungus, and worked as a chef and repairman at the reservoir site ... These experiences made him feel warm and cold, and also made him exercise strong willpower. His efforts also enabled him to reap the first fortune in his life-by the time of 1975, he had owned 50,000 yuan of assets in all directions by these small businesses.
From 65438 to 0976, Cao began to work as a buyer in Fuqing Gaoshan Special-shaped Glass Factory. By 1983, the factory was losing money gradually. Cao thought for a long time and contracted the factory with the money he had saved. In just one year, the township factory made a profit and became the director of the glass factory.
1984, Cao accompanied his mother to Wuyishan. Cao Wangde bought a crutch for his mother because he wanted to climb the mountain. So, the driver of the same trade reminded Cao: "Be careful! Don't let the crutches break the door glass, it will cost thousands of dollars! "
Cao himself is the director of the water meter glass factory. He is very aware of the cost of glass, so he feels very strange. Why is car glass so expensive?
In fact, automobile glass was a monopoly industry in Japan at that time, so Japanese companies forced the price of automobile glass to two or three thousand dollars. Cao's keen business sense tells him that this is a business opportunity. He immediately made a wish: to make his own car glass for the people of China.
After returning from Wuyishan, he immediately began to test water in the glass factory to produce automobile glass. At that time, although Cao had been called "the king of water meter glass" in China, its equipment and technology were far from enough to produce automobile glass.
But Cao did not give up. He even went to the workshop to personally probe into the furnace body in Shang Gao to adjust the temperature. In order to break through the technical barriers monopolized by Japanese companies, Cao scrimped and saved, introduced advanced equipment from Finland and recruited talents all over the country, just to create a piece of glass belonging to China people.
Success is never achieved overnight. After numerous failures, Cao finally developed special glass for automobiles. 1985 Cao auto glass was put into production, which was in short supply and earned him 700,000 yuan; 1987, Cao's joint shareholders raised funds to set up a company to produce tens of thousands of products of various specifications, which completely ended the history of China's automobile glass dependence on imports.
Over the past 40 years, rain or shine, Cao has gone from scratch to the top of the industry and paid unimaginable hardships. Many entrepreneurs of Cao's contemporaries have laid out their own industries in many other fields, especially the real estate industry. Almost every business tycoon wants to get a slice of this profiteering industry.
But Cao is the entrepreneur who hates real estate most, because he thinks that the high profits of real estate make many entrepreneurs go to real estate speculation, which seriously affects the development of manufacturing industry.
Cao also said: "The higher the house price, the more people speculate. In the end, real estate developers made money, and banks also made money, leaving only ordinary people unable to afford houses. " Therefore, his glass enterprise has never been involved in the real estate industry. For 40 years, he only made glass.
Regarding the principles of entrepreneurs, Cao believes that while developing, entrepreneurs must be independent and help the people. Some entrepreneurs do charity to add icing on the cake to the corporate image, and Cao does charity as he really said: "If an entrepreneur has no sense of responsibility, he is only a rich man at best."
Today, Cao's net worth is 654.38+05 billion yuan, ranking nearly 300 in China's rich list, and the money he donated over the years is actually 6543.8+0654.38+00 billion yuan. It is enough to see that Cao, as a business leader, is also actively repaying the society and benefiting the people. He is a serious entrepreneur and really puts the motherland first.