People may be unfamiliar with the name Zhang Lan, or they may be familiar with her because of her other identity - the mother-in-law of the actress Da S. The lavish wedding of Zhang Lan's son, Wang Xiaofei, to Da S was a sensation, and Wang's dependence on his mother, Zhang Lan, was the key to his success.

So how did Zhang Lan start from nothing? And how did she never give up after a few setbacks? Zhang Lan's determination and vigor as an entrepreneur is worth thinking about.

Zhang Lan, who was born in 1958, had her parents divorced when she was born, and was entrusted to her maternal grandmother's home without any care.

Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long, as her grandfather died not long afterward, and Zhang Lan then lived with her stepfather due to her mother's remarriage. However, the stepfather did not treat Zhang Lan well and demanded too much.

The young Zhang Lan began to bear too much of the family's burden from a young age. It is also because of this childhood experience that Zhang Lan's character traits are more tough and determined.

At the age of 15, Zhang Lan tried to escape from her stepfather's house and fled by train to her grandmother's house in Beijing, where she ended up living.

Zhang Lan, a serious and hardworking student, enrolled in the Beijing Institute of Technology with honors. During her college days, Zhang Lan met Wang Zeihan, and the two fell in love.

The two were later officially married, and a year after graduating from the university, 23-year-old Zhang Lan gave birth to Wang Xiaofei, whom we all know well.

Perhaps such a cozy and peaceful life is what many people aspire to, may not be rich and famous, but also absolutely no worries about food and clothing. But this is far from enough for Zhang Lan, who has dared to venture out since she was a child, and ultimately Zhang Lan is not willing to have such a turbulent life without ups and downs.

At the age of 31, Zhang Lan defected to her uncle in Canada. However, in a foreign country, Zhang Lan can only start from the most unskilled restaurant dishwasher, from morning to night, almost no rest time. It was this intense work that gave Zhang Lan the opportunity to accumulate some start-up capital.

Understanding that washing dishes abroad is not a permanent solution, Zhang Lan returned to Beijing after two years. With the original capital earned abroad, she opened her first restaurant - Alain Restaurant. Zhang Lan worked tirelessly and personally, and after a few years, the restaurant expanded to several restaurants.

In 1999, Zhang Lan decided to build her own restaurant brand and named it "South Beauty". "South Beauty" is based on the idea that it should be a high-end Chinese food brand, not only nationalized, but also internationalized.

Zhang Lan has also been working hard towards this goal, and the peak of South Beauty was in 2008, when there were 88 outlets across the country, for which she successfully opened a very luxurious clubhouse. "South Beauty also became the sole Chinese food supplier for the 2008 Beijing Olympics by virtue of its influence.

At that time, Wang Xiaofei returned home from his studies abroad, and Zhang Lan let her son take over the business.

But today's South Beauty not only lost its influence, but Zhang Lan also lost control of South Beauty.

Obviously, the investors are not doing charity work, but for the sake of obtaining benefits. Zhang Lan, in order to alleviate the financial pressure, signed a betting agreement with the investment bank, requiring "South Beauty" to be successfully listed by the end of 2012, however, in 2008, as we all know, at the time of the global financial crisis, the application for listing was a struggle.

At the end of 2012, the relevant policies introduced by the state even blocked the path of IPO enterprises in the catering industry to go public, and Zhang Lan once tried to go public in China or Hong Kong, but failed miserably, and had to trigger the betting agreement.

The investment banks demanded to recover twice the amount they had invested, but Zhang Lan could not possibly come up with such a large sum of money, so Zhang Lan could only sell her own shares in South Beauty and lost her controlling stake.

A few years later, Zhang Lan even quit the board of directors, and "South Beauty" was changed, not belonging to Zhang Lan anymore.

But Zhang Lan did not give up the opportunity to make a comeback after losing "South Beauty". At the age of 62, Zhang Lan did not give up and re-entered the catering industry, and with her son, Wang Xiaofei, she re-opened a catering restaurant in Beijing's China World Trade Center, called "Ma Liu Ji", which was very popular. The restaurant was very popular. After that, Zhang Lan set up a private equity fund "Easy Fund", which only does catering investment, and intends to explore new leading catering enterprises with the way of capital and investment.

Now Zhang Lan, after experiencing the trough, is determined to continue to cultivate the catering industry, and usually has time to do live broadcast with her son, Wang Xiaofei, to share some of her insights about cooking, or to share her life on social media platforms, and she is still insisting on her own entrepreneurial path at the age of sixty, which can be said to be both courageous and courageous.

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