Unfortunately, he died shortly after his birth, which made Mr. and Mrs. Shi Jia very sad. After all, the child they finally conceived did not survive. When they are sad, they are especially looking forward to having a child.
So, after two consultations, Chen's twin brother gave the Shi family a name, and his fate changed for the better. Shi's family is not rich, but it is naturally much richer than the family of Shi. In addition, the Shi family was generous. Although they later gave birth to their own children, they still regarded Shi as their own children, not only distressed him, but also constantly provided him with education.
Shi knew his life story from an early age. Although his adoptive parents are very kind to him, he always feels insecure. Therefore, he was very sensible from an early age and was very filial to his adoptive parents. Especially in his studies, he is diligent and his achievements are second to none.
Shi, 16 years old, is the first batch of college students to resume the college entrance examination. He successfully entered changchun university of science and technology to study optical instruments. After graduating from college, 20-year-old Shi was admitted to Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences to study for a master's degree. At that time, China was short of talents and spared no effort to cultivate talents. Talented people like this naturally attracted the attention of the whole country. So, after he got his master's degree, he went to the University of New South Wales at public expense and studied under Professor martin green, an international authority on solar cells.
During his study abroad, Shi got the attention of Professor martin green for his good performance. After discussion from time to time, he not only published many high-quality doctoral theses, but also obtained many patents.
1993, after receiving his doctorate, Shi did not want to serve the motherland, but became a researcher in a research institute on the recommendation of Professor martin green. Later, he became an Australian citizen, married and had children there, and lived a fairly wealthy middle class life.
However, Shi is not satisfied with this quiet and rich life in his later years. He is still young, and this ordinary life obviously makes him feel too bored.
At that time, in the tide of China's reform and opening up, many people went into business, and many of them were successful. Watching these people get on the rich list, I also hope that one day, I can become one of them.
Compared with those lucky people in business, Shi thinks he has an advantage over them. On the one hand, I have in-depth research on photovoltaic specialty, and there are more than 10 patents alone. This is equivalent to his technology is not available to others, and it is still in a blank category in China. In other words, he will be the first person to eat crabs, which certainly makes it easier for him to win.
Therefore, in 2000, Shi quit his job as a well-paid researcher, sold his property, took $400,000 and returned home with his wife and children.
At first, Shi lobbied around. He said to others, "I can invent the largest enterprise in the world with only 8 million dollars."
Although some people made a lot of money at that time, 8 million dollars was not a small sum. In addition, the word "photovoltaic" is very strange. Businessmen who are ups and downs in the business world understand that people will never earn wealth beyond their cognition unless they rely on luck. And this kind of wealth gained by luck is often lost by strength, so they are very cautious about investing, and the stone looks so fantastic and very temperament.
Not only businessmen don't trust Shi, but also government officials don't like him and think he is a liar, so they often drive him out of the office.
However, the ambitious history is not discouraged. After repeated efforts, he finally met a person who was willing to believe him-Li.
Li, former director of Wuxi Economic Commission, retired to the second line and planned to invest.
Therefore, when Shi described the bright future of photovoltaic industry to Li, Li's eyes lit up and he immediately decided to cooperate with Shi.
Li Yannian made use of his contacts for many years, which not only won the support of Wuxi government, but also won the state-owned enterprises to stop financing. Finally, with his efforts, a family raised 6 million dollars. Together with Shi's $400,000 and his patented technology value of $6,543,800+600,000, the funds for the establishment of the company have been put in place.
Subsequently, with the support of Wuxi municipal government, Shi not only granted industrial land for free, but also won preferential policies in taxation and other aspects. As a result, Wuxi Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd., a Sino-Australian joint venture, was formally established.
Although everything is in disorder, in Shi's view, starting a business is not like doing scientific research. At the beginning, he also experienced many difficulties, so that he faced operational difficulties several times because there were only a handful of orders from enterprises. People in the company are also very active, and several important center technicians have also changed jobs.
What impressed Shi most was that, at that time, because he could not make ends meet, not only the enterprises he cooperated with had to move the company's equipment to pay off debts, but even the employees of cleaning company pointed bad words at him because of the contract of 20 thousand yuan.
Just when he was at a loss, Li took another step forward. Under his lobbying, a group of enterprises such as Little Swan and He Shan Pharmaceutical invested 50 million yuan again. In order to set an example of attracting investment, the Wuxi municipal government has also drawn a low-interest loan of 50 million yuan for Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. ... Within our capacity, we have given stone 1 1 consumer goods. After many efforts, we finally got through the difficulties.
With the full support of the government, there are also many enterprises' financial blessings. Fortunately, however, Germany has just announced a new energy law. This not only greatly increases the demand for photovoltaics in various countries, but also adds fuel to the flames with considerable government subsidies.
Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. mainly consumes photovoltaic cells and components. Because the quality and quantity are excellent, and the value is 2 points lower than that of foreign companies. Therefore, many foreign companies signed orders with Suntech Solar Power Company, which enabled Suntech Solar Power Company to quickly turn losses into profits. And in the third year of the company's establishment, the performance has increased dozens of times, and the sales in just one year have reached billions. Such a performance myth shocked everyone at that time.
As a leader in the photovoltaic industry, Shi naturally attracted the attention of the media. He is not only called "the first photovoltaic person in China", but also praised by everyone when he is mentioned. Indeed, he introduced the strange photovoltaic industry to China, which shortened the gap between the domestic photovoltaic industry and the world level by 15 years. So in everyone's eyes, he is not a simple industrialist, he is a scientist-style industrialist.
For a time, the photovoltaic industry has become the most promising green industry. More than 300 cities across the country are scrambling to build photovoltaic industrial parks with an output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, and the country has also listed the photovoltaic industry as one of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan". And in order to encourage the photovoltaic industry, the state has also given higher subsidies.
In a good situation, Shi set out to get rid of the public officials who bound his hands and feet, and the first person to separate the company was Li, who made great contributions to the establishment of the company.
As an official, after Li became the chairman of the company, he knew how to use political skills to establish prestige in the company and form his own power. Those executives who refused to give in to him were rejected by him and finally had to jump ship to other companies.
Moreover, Li often thinks that Shi only knows technology and basically doesn't know how to deal with interpersonal relationships. Therefore, he thinks that the company was established by using his relationship, which also makes him very disdainful of stone. Not only did he often belittle Shi's talent in front of employees, but he also nodded in agreement with some important resolutions many times without consulting Shi.
In Shi's view, there have been great problems in the internal management of the company, so he gradually removed the power to join the group from the beginning. For example, when Li Yannian left, he only took away 6,543.8+0,000 yuan and drove with him for many years.
Subsequently, Shi spent money to buy the shares of shareholders of eight state-owned enterprises that were originally financed, and let them withdraw from the board of directors one after another.
At this point, I feel that no one will tell him what to do. So with his efforts, Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. was successfully listed in the United States in the second half of 2005.
Speaking of it, Shi is really a legend at this time, because in just four years, he snowballed the funds and soon reached the assets of 654.38+08 billion. And he also refreshed the rich list and became the first generation of rich people.
Victory came so quickly that history seemed to get carried away. He said: "From today on, I won't make a penny, I will only spend money."
Shi carried out his decision. If we say that in the early days of his business, he often went to the workshop for inspection and ate lunch boxes with workers in the canteen, now he rarely appears in the company. He often stays abroad, or has dinner with US Vice President Al Gore, or goes on a business trip with British Prince Charles, or attends activities with Australian actress Cate Blanchett.
In order to be worthy of the title of "the richest man", Shi's trip is also very ostentatious. When he went to Davos Forum, he spent $200,000 to charter a business jet. At the same time, he hired six bodyguards to protect him and his family.
Stone, who has always liked luxury cars, has bought three Lexus, a BMW, a speeding S600, a top Bentley, a Land Rover and a Volvo. He pays attention to etiquette. When he meets different people, he always drives different cars according to their identity and temper.
After going abroad, Shi's reputation spread all over the world, and Guo Wei in Britain named him as one of the "50 people who can save the earth". Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd., which he founded, was also called "Microsoft in photovoltaic industry" by Wall Street in the United States.
At that time, stone was almost awesome in China. Every day, there are reporters waiting at the door of his house or company just to interview him. Many serious events and celebrity parties will invite him to add luster.
Enjoying the feeling that the stars are holding the moon, the stone's confidence is getting bigger and bigger. At the end of 2000, because the photovoltaic industry market began to decline, at the new energy industry summit, Shi pointed to government officials and colleagues in front of everyone and said, "Go back and reflect."
The extremes meet, and the brilliance of stone didn't last long.
Due to the rapid expansion of domestic photovoltaic industry, the price of silicon has risen from the initial $20 a kilogram to $200 a kilogram. In order to have a stable silicon supply company, after some negotiations, Shi signed a 10-year contract with the silicon supply company at a price of 80 to 100 USD per kilogram.
Who knows, the signing soon caught up with the economic crisis in 2008. This economic crisis has also highlighted the problem of overcapacity in the photovoltaic industry. Therefore, in order to alleviate this phenomenon, the state suspended subsidies to the photovoltaic industry. As a result, many photovoltaic industries have lost their economic subsidies, and the price of silicon raw materials has plummeted with the decrease in demand.
At this point, the blindsided stone had to terminate the contract with the silicon supply company in advance and pay a penalty of 2 1 10,000 USD.
But then, the anti-dumping and countervailing actions implemented in Europe and America made the domestic photovoltaic industry worse, and the market value of Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. also lost 60%. After that, Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. suffered serious losses every day and owed huge debts.
By 20 13, Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. is on the verge of bankruptcy.
At that time, Wuxi municipal government and Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. wanted to save them, but they asked Shi to use personal assets as unlimited liability guarantee, but they were opposed by Shi.
Later, the Wuxi government proposed that the state-owned company Wuxi Guolian take over Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd., which meant that Shi withdrew from his personal shares, which was also rejected by Shi.
Shi, who refused to sacrifice his personal interests, turned to the Wuxi government and said, "I have so many employees. If you don't save me, I will close the door. "
Because there is no difference between Shi and Wuxi municipal government, Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. is like a firework in the end. In just a few years, it experienced extreme glory and suddenly declined.
However, at the last minute, Shi did not think about saving the company, but used various techniques to transfer a lot of wealth of Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. to his own name, and then patted his ass and left. Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd. left this mess to the Wuxi government.
History's treachery accelerated the demise of Suntech Solar Co., Ltd.
At that time, the outside world was very despised for his behavior. A reporter asked him why he refused to use personal assets as a guarantee. He said indifferently: "I have separated from Suntech, why should I use my money to guarantee it?"
Entrepreneurs attach great importance to credibility, but Shi doesn't think so. Although he was insulted by countless people because of bankruptcy, he was not ashamed of it. He said: "I am a guilty person. Based on this, I don't feel wronged by silence. "
After that, Shi returned to Australia and was silent for a while. Just when people have gradually forgotten him, he came to the domestic new energy industry summit with a new photovoltaic product.
Soon after, it was discovered that Shi boarded the Hurun Report with a wealth of 2.5 billion, and once became the "Chairman of Shangmai New Energy".
Obviously, this once notorious man wants to make a comeback again, just don't know if he can be as lucky as he was at the beginning.