Born on April 29, 1944 in Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province, Liu Chuanzhi studied at the Xi'an Institute of Military Telecommunications and Engineering (Tongyuan) from 1961 to 1967, and founded the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing in 1984 as the New Technology Development Company (predecessor of Lenovo). In 1984, he founded the New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lenovo). He is currently the President of Lenovo Holdings, Inc. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lenovo Group. As of December 2003, Lenovo Holdings Ltd. has paid 5.45 billion RMB in taxes to the state.
As for his military career, Liu Chuanzhi, today's "godfather" of China's corporate sector, has never been shy about saying that it was the military that shaped him.
Liu Chuanzhi said, "The success of the enterprise has a certain relationship with me, but not all of them; this certain relationship, and I have a certain relationship with the character of the army and have a certain relationship."
The so-called forward-looking, in the eyes of Liu Chuanzhi is not blindly forward-looking, but to think things through, to determine whether it is certain to attack, once the determination to go forward.
Guo Fansheng: "good defeat" of the Confucian business
Born in 1955, experienced the mountain to the countryside, as a soldier for four years, graduated from the People's University of China, is now the chief executive officer of the Huicong Group of companies (CEO), was known as "the father of the classified ads in China. " The first time I saw Guo Fansheng, if not speak, would never have thought that the body permeated with a scholarly flavor of his will have four years of military background.
He enlisted as a telephone soldier carrying a wire crutch, and in less than a year he became a squad leader and joined the party. ...... These special experiences have forged his tenacity.
In 1991, Guo Fansheng resolutely resigned from the "sitting in the office of the iron rice bowl", from the National Reform Commission of the researcher transformed into a bicycle riding the streets of the unknown. At the beginning of the venture, he and all the company's employees rode bicycles, every day in the city's streets, collecting home appliances, computers and other commodities dealers offer information, and then the collection of information for classification, processing, and then the latest prices published in the newspaper. However, this "invention" in the eyes of many people at the time, but some small street ads, many businesses have refused to publish their price information. But at this time, Guo Fansheng did not retreat, but from the temporary defeat, analyze the market direction, and ultimately convinced that he will win.
It is true that the market, after all, need to quote information, information out of a few issues, some of the size of the bosses have no choice, one side of the anger, but on the other side of the money into their accounts.
And this anti-defeat triggered a beautiful and profound revolution in China's information services industry. Today, HC is a group of companies with three independent companies - HC360 HC.com, China Search Online, and Huamedia Shengshi - a business data center and the HC Research Institute, more than 2,000 employees, and more than 20 branch offices.
Wang Shi: a soldier who doesn't love to be a soldier
Born in January 1951 in Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, he graduated from Lanzhou Railway Institute, majoring in water supply and drainage. at the age of 17, he enlisted in the army in Xuzhou, and was demobilized after 5 years of military service. he went to Shenzhen in 1983, and then served as the chairman of the board of directors and general manager of Vanke Enterprises Company Limited, Shenzhen, where he was a great figure in the real estate market.
Business veterans from the ranks of many, Shenzhen Vanke boss Wang Shi is one of them.
But Wang Shi is not the same as other bosses, although he admits that "the army's life is of great value to my future success" - but, from the bottom of his heart, Wang Shi is not very much in love with the military life: "After I arrived at the army, I found my When I arrived at the army, I realized that my personality traits might not be very suitable for the military, because I like to be in the limelight and have my own independent opinions, but the military is a vocation of obeying orders. So after five years as an automobile soldier, I left the army."
It's true that Wang Shi is different from other comrades from the army, he is free, he is dashing, he lives according to his own preferences, and he is frequently exposed like a star in the financial media, outdoor magazines, TV screens, and radio stations.......
However, whether he wants to or not, the army's experience has infused Wang Shi's
But whether he wants to or not, the army experience has injected Wang Shi's blood into his blood until it affects his life and career later on, and he looks serious and hard when he takes off his uniform.
Ren Zhiqiang: The General of Pattern Thinking
Born in March 1951 in Yixian County, Shandong Province, he enlisted in the army in 1968-1981 and served as a platoon leader and staff officer successively, and then served as the deputy general manager of Beijing Yida Company until 1984, and then became the general manager of Beijing Huayuan Economy Construction and Development Company in 1991. In 1991, he became the general manager of Beijing Huayuan Economic Construction and Development Corporation, and is now the president of Beijing Huayuan Group.
In July 2004, as the Dongzhimen Transportation Hub project, the results of the equity transaction of the Donghua Plaza project surfaced, and Huayuan took over Beijing Urban Construction and became the "new owner" of this 2008 Olympic project.
In fact, as early as four months ago, Ren Zhiqiang transferred the Shangdu project to Pan Shiyi at a later stage, when he had already finished planning the acquisition of the Donghua Plaza project. "If Huayuan exchanged 'food stamps' in its hands for Pan's 'eggs' in its dealings with Pan, then the project at Donghua Plaza was Huayuan exchanging its 'eggs' in its hands The project in Donghua Plaza is that Huayuan exchanged the 'eggs' in its hands for the 'food stamps' of Beijing Urban Construction". Ren Zhiqiang frankly said.
For more than two decades, Ren has led the old and new Huayuan in a roundabout way, and every step has been taken to take advantage of the situation and to plan for the future.
Just as Ren said, "A soldier who can fight well is not necessarily a good general", 11 years of military service has given Ren the ability to think in a "pattern": to look ahead and recognize the big picture.
"Back then, Kong Ming should respect Sima Yi, a chess rival, often when others are still confused, Sima Yi has already withdrawn and recognized their own failure. Today's situation in China's real estate sector requires you to do dozens of steps away from thinking." Ren said.
Ren Zhengfei: Technology self-sufficiency can strengthen the enterprise
Born in 1944, he was transferred from the army in 1978, and founded Shenzhen Huawei Technology Co. in 1988, and the company has been growing rapidly, with annual sales of 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, and has become a leader in the Chinese market for GSM equipment, switching products, and access systems. 2000, he was selected by the U.S. Forbes magazine as the No. 3 of China's 50 richest people. In 2000, he was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 3rd of the 50 richest people in China. His personal fortune is US$500 million.
Because of his low profile, Ren Zhengfei has been called a mysterious figure by the media, and there is little public information about him, but his leadership of Shenzhen Huawei Technologies Co. is well known.
Ren Zhengfei is a military man, he often and staff talk about Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, talk about the three wars, the anti-U.S. and aid to North Korea, and talk about the group excited. He said that on the battlefield, the mission of the military is to defend the dignity of national sovereignty; in the market, the entrepreneur's mission is to defend the market position of enterprises. The modern business war, only technology self-reliance, is fundamental, without their own scientific research support system, enterprise status is an empty word. Therefore, Ren Zhengfei chose to take the road of technology self-reliance and development of high-tech industry. At that time, in China's switching market, large local and subscriber machines basically came from foreign telecommunication enterprises and their joint ventures in China, and people in the communication circle were very clear about the riskiness of this industry. That's why many people don't understand why Huawei is laboring over scientific research instead of making light and easy money.
Zheng Yonggang: the clothing "Patton"
China - Sugo Holdings Limited, vice president of the China Fashion Association, vice chairman of the China Fashion Designers Association, Shanghai Municipal People's Government decision-making consulting experts.
Born in 1958 in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, he joined the army after graduating from high school at the age of 18, and was demobilized in 1979; in May 1989, he took over the Yonggang Garment Factory, which had a loss of more than 10 million dollars, and renamed it "Sugo". Today, Sugo has 21 apparel brands, two listed companies, and total assets of nearly 5 billion yuan.
Cheng Yonggang was recognized as a pioneer in China's apparel industry for his foresight in implementing the brand-name strategy in the late 1980s. In addition to Zheng Yonggang bold, resolute personality, industry insiders sent him a title: China's clothing industry, "General Patton".
Patton said: "War is hell, but I love war." And Zheng Yonggang said: "Hell is suffering, but Patton like, since like, then there must be its joy, this joy in my opinion is 'planning in the tent between, victory in a thousand miles away'."
"If I had been born in the war years, I would have been a general or a marshal." Zheng Yonggang, who plays the most important strategic positioning role in the Sugo Group, explains the straightforward interpretation of "strategist" as "general", "I basically don't do any specific work, and I mainly study enterprise development strategy. ".