Three years ago, Xiaoliang made a decision that surprised his classmates and teachers: taking a break from school. Last year, Xiaoliang gave another surprise: return to school. Xiao Liang said, his suspension and return to school are for a **** the same purpose: entrepreneurship.
In the fall of 2001, from the rural areas of Xiaoliang with 531 points was admitted to a university secretarial program, but Xiaoliang initially filled in the volunteer is the international trade program. Although he went to college, but he could not get motivated to study secretarial, in September 2003, he decided to take a break from school and went to Beijing to work.
The days of working are not comfortable. When he first arrived in Beijing, he ran out of money and went around asking for help. But the difficulties did not defeat him, he sold his beloved cell phone at a low price of 200 yuan, and relied on others to write manuscripts, go to the computer company to solicit work to repair computers, and help others distribute publicity advertisements to support themselves. Later, he worked part-time while attending software engineer training, and finally obtained the qualification of software engineer, and at the same time was employed by Beijing Tsinghua Purple Company.
It's better to work for someone else than to work for yourself. A few months of training gave Xiao Liang a new idea, and in November 2004, he started his own company in Beijing. A few months later, he earned nearly 200,000 yuan.
On one occasion, when Xiaoliang was working on an e-commerce platform for a company in the south, the company's boss did not look favorably on Xiaoliang's planning and viewpoints, and his reasons were convincing. At this point, Xiaoliang felt that his knowledge was not enough. in September 2005, Xiaoliang went back to college to recharge his batteries for his own business venture.
What I fear most is that I will waste my time
When I was working in Beijing, I had no money to buy food for two days in a row, so I read "Dream of the Red Chamber" and drank hot water in a small, dark basement. He was physically and mentally exhausted.
Talking about this experience, Xiaoliang appeared very calm: "I have never regretted, but on the contrary, it is worth celebrating, in the school want to suffer can not eat. Such an experience will become my future entrepreneurial motivation. I'm not afraid of suffering or getting tired, but I'm most afraid of wasting my time."
In Xiaoliang's eyes, what he can't stand the most is doing nothing. He returned to school last year, and already had nearly 200,000 yuan in his hands, so he could have comfortably studied on campus and enjoyed himself happily. But instead of doing so, he invested all this money and started a business website. Xiao Liang every day on time to class, the other time is also full of: entrepreneurial activities, to participate in forums on and off campus lectures, visit experts and scholars, into the library "recharge".
Small Liang's company is now doing very well, and he makes money every month. But he is still living a simple life, eating and living with students have no difference, even the phone is to spend more than 100 yuan to buy a second phone. Xiao Liang said: "The software industry is a youthful meal. Opportunities are fleeting. If you do not seize the time now, do not try to lay a good foundation, in the future they will be difficult to get a foothold in the market."
On February 7 this year, China National Offshore Oil Corporation donated 10 million yuan to the province to set up the Hainan Provincial Education Poverty Alleviation Fund, of which 6 million yuan for the implementation of outstanding poor college freshmen bursary program, 4 million yuan for the implementation of orphan bursary program.
Excellent poor college freshman student aid program implementation period of four years, for the ordinary high school admitted to the second batch of undergraduate colleges and universities, with the province's permanent household registration and family financial difficulties of the new students to provide gratuitous financial assistance. The financial aid program is a one-time funding, in principle, each year to arrange funding 1.5 million yuan, funding 300 students, the standard is 5,000 yuan per person. This year *** there are 1533 people declared CNOOC excellent poor college freshmen bursary.
Poverty, is a double-edged sword, it brings suffering at the same time, but also sharpened the human will, make people stronger, more love for life, more positive face to life. There are many poor students in our province, despite the poverty of the family caused by their schooling path is very difficult, but they do not fall in the poverty of the will of the clouds, study hard, hoping to change their fate through knowledge. The following are a few poor students who are typical of them. I hope their experience can give other poor students some enlightenment.
"The children did not let us down"
Wen Anyu, 19, is a candidate at Ledong Middle School, and in this year's college entrance exams, he became Ledong's top science student with a total score of 722 points and was admitted to Sun Yat-sen University. Meanwhile, his second brother, Wen Anwen, also entered Chongqing University with 623 points.In 2001, their elder brother, Wen Anping, had already entered the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) as the top scorer in science in Ledong.
When I first met Wen Anyu, it was in the first-floor lobby of the Ledong Employment Building. Along with Ayu was his father, Wen Zhensheng.
Wen Zhensheng was very enthusiastic about talking to the reporter, and the slightly shy Ayu sat quietly on the side, listening carefully to our conversation. Wen Zhensheng said, he is Ledong Lizu autonomous county epidemic prevention station an ordinary driver, Ayu's mother is a pure housewife. The family's daily living expenses rely on his income alone and the help of relatives.
"The children have not let their parents down." This is one of the most touching words Wen Zhensheng said.
Ayu said that for so many years, his father worked hard every day, while his mother prepared meals for the three brothers on time every day, and the family did not have to worry about them at all, their task was just to study and work hard to get into college. The power of the older brother's example is the driving force behind their studies. Going to college is his only goal in high school. In order to find more time to study, the original hobby of sports, he seldom appeared in the field again. And every day's study usually lasts until 12 p.m.
Ayu's homeroom teacher, Mr. Wei Jizun, said Ayu is a diligent student, and in the three years he has been with him, his grades have always ranked in the top three in his class. On weekdays, Ayu did not study and neglect the relationship between students, in the class, Ayu has a very good people.
Not everyone enjoys the joy of going to college. Although Ayu has a tender face, but said the general children do not have the feelings, he said, although his older brother now applied for a student loan without the burden of the family, but he and his second brother tuition and miscellaneous fees add up to 13,000 yuan, coupled with living expenses and travel expenses, 20,000 yuan may not be enough, the family's pressure is really very big.
Wen Zhensheng, however, said calmly, the child can go to school, is to give us a fight. Parents do not want them to return anything, this is the responsibility of parents, believe that our difficulties can be overcome. At the same time, he would like to borrow this newspaper to donate Wen Anyu 5,000 yuan of CNOOC and 2,000 yuan of Haikou Ledong fellowship to express their family's gratitude.
When the reporter asked why not go to seek personal help, Wen Zhensheng said, our difficulties are realistic, with other people's money, owed to other people's love, a lifetime can not be finished na. He has given Ayu two brothers to apply for a student loan certificate. He said, "There are people who are more difficult than us, we have to be self-improvement, and this is what I often teach their three brothers."
Toward the end of the interview, Ayu said, he has inquired, in Guangzhou to do tutoring an hour can get 60 yuan money, then he will have to do it, but will not affect the study. Achievements already belong to yesterday, in the grueling pursuit of education, perfect life on the road, he will be unswervingly towards the ideal.
"I'm going to earn my own money to finish my studies"
Li Juan 19 years old, Hainan High School senior (9) class graduates. In this year's college entrance examination, Li Juan was admitted to Sun Yat-sen University with a score of 726 points, and she is a golden phoenix flying out from the "vegetable basket".
In the afternoon of September 3, a reporter came to Li Juan's house in Haikou City's Haidian Second East Road, People's East. Li Juan and her mother and brother live in a small house of more than 30 square meters.
Li Juan's family's economic condition is not good. Her mother and father were laid off in the 1980s, and have been relying on their meager income from selling vegetables to support their family and their younger brother's education. Li Juan's family of four had a hard life but they were very happy together. However, Li Juan just started her senior year of high school, and at 5:00 a.m. one day in September last year, her parents pushed the car to sell vegetables, and when she was crossing the street, her father was hit by a bus, and he was sent to the hospital for one week, and then he passed away. The death of her father left the family without a breadwinner, and the family's already difficult financial situation was further aggravated. Li Juan's mother couldn't do the heavy work of selling vegetables on her own, so after her husband's death, she could only sell coconuts and do odd jobs to support her children and her elderly mother-in-law.
The family's financial difficulties did not diminish Li Juan's desire for knowledge. She has been a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Berkeley, for over 20 years. When she entered high school, she was admitted to Haijhong, and from her first year of high school, Li Juan was awarded the "Three Good" student award every semester. According to the school's regulations, she received a full exemption from tuition fees every semester, and the school also gave her a scholarship of 280 RMB. Because she was one of the top students in her class and her family was poor, Li Juan also received a monthly subsidy of 30 yuan from the school for special hardship cases. In this year's college entrance examination, Li Juan, who has always had excellent grades, was admitted to Sun Yat-sen University.
On the evening of September 3, the reporter dialed the phone of Li Juan, who is far away from the school. Li Juan said, is a lot of good people let me into the university door. When it comes to how to solve the problem of tuition fees, Li Juan told the reporter: "The society has given me too much help. I want to complete my studies through my own efforts. I plan to work part-time during the school year, and I also want to stay in Guangzhou to work during the summer and winter vacations, so that I can earn my own living expenses and make up some tuition fees."
Being a nanny and working as a laborer to save up for tuition
Yang Mei, an ethnic Lai and a student at Lingshui Middle School, was admitted to the preparatory class of the education department of the Hainan Normal College with a score of 549 points, becoming the first college student to come out of her poverty-stricken Lai family.
September 1, the reporter from Lingshui County, Lingshui County, half an hour by car to Timon Township, by the village entrance to walk nearly 15 minutes, to be located in Timon Village, Timon, six teams of Yang Mei's home. A less than 10 square meters of simple hut, two simple beds, a bedside table and a relative sent a black and white TV is Yang Mei's family's entire home. There are no windows in the house, and staying there for just a few minutes can make you sweat like a pig, which is where Yang Mei and her grandmother live.
In the spring of 2001, Yang Mei's father died and her mother remarried, leaving Yang Mei and her young siblings, who had just graduated from junior high school, to live with their elderly grandparents. The grandparents are very sick, and their income from farming is only about 1,000 yuan a year. Poverty forced her siblings to drop out of school soon afterward, and Yang Mei also faced the fate of dropping out several times. Through her own tenacity and the help and encouragement of her teachers and classmates, Yang Mei finally finished her three-year high school education.
Three years in high school, no matter how poor the family, no matter how difficult life, Yang Mei always firmly believe that only knowledge can change destiny, the faith of insisting on studying has never wavered. In order to earn three years of high school tuition, Yang Mei has been to the tailor store to do temporary work, to primary school students to do tutoring, to the Wuzhishan a tea store as a waiter, the farthest once to Guangzhou to work. 2003 summer vacation, in order to earn the tuition of the third year of high school, has never traveled out of the province of Yang Mei by the teacher's introduction, all alone in Guangzhou to work as a nanny. "I was a little scared at the time, but the desire to work hard and earn money to study has far overcome the fear."
The family could only provide Yang Mei with about 50 yuan a month for living expenses. In order to save money, Yang Mei's daily meal was a 50-cent portion of rice with some 1 yuan 3 packets of squash.
Because of her family's poverty, Yang Mei had felt pain and disappointment. But the love and care of her teachers and classmates at Lingshui Middle School gave her the confidence and courage to laugh at life. Thinking back to the three years of high school, Yang Mei will never forget the class teacher Wang Wanqin teacher in the study and life of the meticulous care given, classmates Zhu Jin in the life of the help and encouragement, will never forget classmates Wang Xiaorui, Pang Chunxiu in the senior year for her to prepare a delicious breakfast. School leaders learned of Yang Mei's family situation, will be Yang Mei's senior year tuition remission of 500 yuan, and will be the school radio room free of charge to Yang Mei live. Yang Mei told the reporter: "It is unfortunate that my family is poor and my life is difficult, but it is fortunate that there are still so many people who care about me in my life. If I don't study hard, how can I stand up to these people who care about me?"
A month before the college entrance exam, she was always plagued by the thought that "even if I got in, I couldn't afford to go to school," and she didn't have the heart to study at all, and she was under a lot of psychological pressure. "I could have done better," Yang Mei said with some regret. Yang Mei said with some regret.
A month after the end of the college entrance examination, Yang Mei and door-to-door to relatives for help, non-stop for the collection of college tuition around, but finally always return empty-handed. When Yang Mei was worried about the expensive tuition fees, on August 31, she received a scholarship of 5,000 yuan from CNOOC for new students.
Almost in college, Yang Mei is still at home to help her grandparents collect cow dung, planting seedlings, pulling grass, planting beans and sweet potatoes. Yang Mei told reporters, the university five years of schooling is still long, I have to study hard in school, and strive to get a school scholarship. I hope to rely on their own efforts to let their grandparents spend a peaceful old age, to help their younger siblings to live a happy life.
2, the old textbooks read out college students
Gao Changqi 19-year-old, Hainan Railway Middle School students, with a high score of 647 points to the China Agricultural University of electrical information class. This is since 2002, Gao Changqi's brother went to Tsinghua University, from the high family out of another major university students.
September 1 morning, the reporter came to the Dongfang City, eight town Hengli printing plant in the home of Gao Changqi. A more than 10 years of Nanbao color TV, a since the installation can only receive can not dial the telephone, this is the reporter in the high family can find the most valuable items.
The high family lived in the house for a long time, the walls of the house has been many places to fall off; the house is large, but three plank beds occupy a lot of space, in addition, books, cabinets, fertilizer bags, bicycles, grain tanks and other miscellaneous items also "cut a side", so that the house was still quite large all of a sudden appeared to be narrow. As my brother was studying in Beijing, there were only three beds in the house, and the three members of the family slept in the same room. Despite the family's financial difficulties, but for the convenience of contact with his brother, the end of last year, the high family installed a telephone, only 10 yuan a month to pay the cost of the phone can only answer the phone can not be dialed out.
Gao Changqi's parents have been laid off for many years. Father is already half a hundred years old this year, almost every day to run around outside looking for miscellaneous work to do, but repeated disappointment and return, in recent times is no work to do; mother is now 45 years old, but 5 years ago to go out to work accidentally broke the cervical vertebrae, resulting in the body of the right half of the body is paralyzed, the right hand and foot can not be flexed freely, and even simple chores can not be done. In spite of this, her character is still cheerful and optimistic, see the reporter is still smiling. Talking about the family income, Gao Changqi does not seem to mind very much, "also more than two hundred dollars a month," said he scratched his head.
The high family's daily meals are very simple, every day to eat green vegetables, a week before buying meat once, once to buy a catty, the day can be eaten, and sometimes two weeks to eat on a time. As Gao Changqi eat and live at home, every day ride a bicycle to school, usually also basically do not consume. Relatives of the family usually also occasionally subsidize it, the days are very frugal, but also very hard.
Perhaps because of his mother's influence, Gao Changqi's mindset is surprisingly calm despite his family's poverty. The lack of material can not become his learning "roadblock", he has not complained. He said, during the school year, in addition to the summer and winter vacations, usually do not dare to play, every time after school home to do housework, the rest of the time will be used to study. In order to save money, Gao Changqi did not buy new textbooks during the school year, but used his brother's previous books and other learning materials.
Life is hard, but Gao did not choose to escape: "Even if you escape, the reality is still the same, it's better to face it head on, so it's the right attitude towards life."
The Gao family is poor, but Gao Changqi is also one of the more fortunate among the students.
When he was in high school, he learned that his family was in great financial difficulty, and Hainan Railway High School waived his tuition for three years. Since last year, the Dongfang Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has been sending him a monthly living allowance of 300 yuan. on August 31, Gao Changqi went to the provincial education department to receive 5,000 yuan of CNOOC's education poverty alleviation funds for the cost of his college education, and expressed his gratitude for the community's concern for him and the help he has received.
Gao Changqi said his biggest wish is to graduate from college early, find a good job in the future, work hard to earn money to cure his mother's illness, and then take his mother, who has never left Hainan, out of the island to see the outside world together.
3, a poor college student entrepreneurial legend
He, once a poor college student; he, soon after college by tutoring to earn tuition; he, from the first year of college began to entrepreneurship; he, once because of the "black class" was whisked away to hide; he has become a multi-million dollar assets Entrepreneurs---People file Hu Zhongwei, born in 1976 in Sujiatun District, Shenyang City, an ordinary farmer's family, was admitted to Shenyang University in 1994. 1995, the poor Hu Zhongwei when working as a part-time tutor, found a huge business opportunity for children's English training. He used his spare time to start his own business, with 3,000 yuan to set up a "Primary School Pavilion Children's American Language Class" with only 20 students. Now, the small English training class has developed into an educational group with tens of millions of fixed assets and more than 400 employees. In the eyes of many people, Hu Zhongwei's business is a miracle. Unknown college students, the first year of college entrepreneurship, 9 years of struggle to become a millionaire, Hu Zhongwei's entrepreneurial experience is so magical that some people exclaimed that he is simply "Shenyang's Bill Gates".
February 24, the reporter interviewed Mr. Hu Zhongwei, asked him to introduce his entrepreneurial experience and experience. Mr. Hu spoke eloquently, summarized his six aspects of entrepreneurship "secret sauce".
Transformation of the mindset --- when others for the employment and annoyed, Hu Zhongwei thought of their own entrepreneurial experience: to solve the problem of mentality, is the first step of entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial consciousness of people, to jump out of the traditional concept of career choice and mode of thinking. The traditional concept of choosing a job so that people always put the "treasure" on others; they do all the hard work, is to be recognized by others, and then be reused by others, and through this to get the hope of getting the benefits. And entrepreneurs need to consciously change this mentality, believe in themselves, recognize themselves, for their own use!
I had a sense of entrepreneurship early on, and have been saving up for it for a long time. Growing up in the countryside, I learned to write brushstrokes like a city child. Some people told me that if you learn calligraphy well, you will be able to do more than others, and it will be easier for you to find a job in the future. In fact, what I had in mind was to become a business leader in the future, and to sign my handwriting nicely. I took the driver's license test in my senior year of high school, it was 1993, and there were not many people in the city who took the test for driver's license. Another person said to me, you took the driver's license in the future to the leader of the unit as a driver is also a good job, I was thinking of driving is a business manager must master the skills. This is the contrast between the two mindsets.
Crisis awareness --- people do not have far-flung concerns, there will be near worries. When others are satisfied for today's comfort and ease, Hu Zhongwei saw the crisis of the future life experience: Chinese college students are often extremely relaxed in college after experiencing the extremely exhausting high school stage. Many college students mistakenly believe that finding a job is something they need to think about only in their senior year. In fact, from the first day they cross the university, they should put pressure on themselves, strengthen the sense of crisis, and consciously prepare themselves for entrepreneurship, such as knowledge reserve and social experience reserve.
In 1994, I was admitted to Shenyang University. Because my family could not afford to pay tuition, I was faced with the dilemma of only being able to pay for one of my sister and me to study. I thought twice, let the family for me to pay the first year of tuition, the subsequent by myself to pay. In the first year of college, I did tutoring work, a winter and summer vacation down to a few thousand dollars in income. Crisis awareness prompted me to engage in tutoring work, this job brings me not only the solution to the economic difficulties, more is the observation of society and understanding of the market.
Market awareness---when you find a market opportunity, you should grab it like a tiger pounces on it Experience: Market awareness sounds like a vague axiom, yet it is really the key to entrepreneurship. The university campus should not become an ivory tower that traps college students, who should set aside part of their energy to strengthen their understanding of society and take the initiative to analyze the market Example: Through tutoring, I learned that parents attach great importance to their children's English learning, and it will become a trend. After obtaining such market information, I made the move to run an English training course. Speculating in stocks, dumping goods in Wu Ai market, practicing stalls, such industries were first considered as not doing their job. However, those who seized the first opportunity in these industries became market gold diggers. Some people say that my success is because I was lucky to catch the early stage of the popularity of English learning, however, who can deny that this kind of chance is actually a kind of inevitable? The most important thing in a successful business is to seize the first opportunity to succeed. I have not been running classes for long, and my income has actually reached more than 10,000 yuan per month.
Active adaptation --- When some college students complained about all kinds of problems in society, Hu Zhongwei wants to adapt to this society, so that society for my use, patiently waiting for society to change experience: society is not made for you, to adapt to it. Instead of complaining about the social environment is not good, it is better to change the mindset, every crisis is a turnaround, every change means opportunity. Always stay excited about the changes in society is a good mindset for entrepreneurship. College students should not focus on cynicism.
I had a lot of difficulties at the beginning of my business. At that time, it was not allowed to run English tutorial classes, and my behavior was regarded as unprofessional, and my class was a "black class", which was often investigated and punished. Because I didn't have an urban household registration, I couldn't run classes as a legal person; hiring foreign teachers to teach English was considered illegal....... In the face of difficulties, I insisted that as long as there was a need in the market, no matter how much pressure there was at the beginning, it was still a good industry. The facts proved my judgment, it did not take long for the policy to change, and all these difficulties that lay in front of me were solved.
Firm conviction --- when the enterprise is facing a desperate situation, Hu Zhongwei did not collapse, but tenaciously survive the past experience: the road of entrepreneurship can not be smooth sailing, in the face of difficulties to have a normal heart.
In 1998, due to the situation at that time, including some peers of the exclusion, I opened the training center was found to be illegally employing foreign cultural and educational experts, was fined 100,000 yuan. At that time, I was still a college student, but I had to bear such a great pressure. However, with the spirit of tenacity, I survived, not only the cause did not collapse, but also gained the trust and recognition of the relevant departments at all levels.
During the SARS outbreak, the school was completely closed, and my monthly expenses for rent and staff salaries were enormous. Under such severe circumstances, I never thought of giving up. My staff also showed amazing team spirit --- the Chinese staff said they would rather not be paid than leave, and none of the foreign teachers went back to their home countries. This story was recorded by Liaoning TV for the program "We are still happy" and was picked up by CCTV.
Seeking new changes --- when other competitors are also scrambling to jump into the sea to swim, found that Hu Zhongwei has taken a big boat far away from the experience: the market competition is tit for tat, rather than tit for tat in the fight to the death, it is better to seek new changes. From this competition to jump out, not only their own easy, and better results. A person's success is the need to be able to take one step to see two steps, to constantly open up the horizons for development.
In terms of publicity, when others do newspaper advertisements in a brainstorm, I do roadside advertisements; when others also do roadside advertisements, I do TV programs. Today's business faces unlimited opportunities: do TV programs, publish teaching materials and audiovisual products, be a corporate trainer; professional training for employees of large enterprises, such as business communication, negotiation, etiquette, office and other aspects of the training ...... Interview Postscript: Throughout the interview process, we found that Hu Zhongwei was not willing to overly describe the entrepreneurship Experienced pain and hardship, even when talking about these difficulties, we feel more of his courage to face and overcome all the difficulties, from the heart of the confidence and happiness.
Hu Zhongwei said: I am not a career ascetic, just to be a complete person --- create a life, enjoy life!