Cao Dewang, born in May 1946, a native of Fuqing City, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, is the founder and chairman of Fuyao Glass Group.
Founded Fuyao Glass Group in 1987, he is currently the No. 1 auto glass supplier in China and the second largest in the world. He is an entrepreneur who doesn't pay bribes, claiming that he has never sent a box of mooncakes, and works with his personality; he is a Buddhist who does good deeds, and since his first donation in 1983, Cao Dewang's cumulative personal donations have amounted to 8 billion yuan, and he thinks that financial assistance is just "small goodness".
In May 2009, Cao Dewang was the first Chinese recipient of the Ernst & Young Global Entrepreneurship Award, the Oscars of the corporate world.
In December 2014, his first autobiographical book, "The Heart is Like Bodhi," was officially published.
In September 2018, Cao Dewang was selected as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Chinese Business People in the World".
On October 24, 2018, he was selected as one of the "List of 100 Outstanding Private Entrepreneurs in 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up" by the Central United Front Work Department and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.
Expanded Information:
Cao Dewang's "self-confidence":
"Without the ability to be confident, everything is nonsense" Cao Dewang once had dinner with the chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, the other party to give Cao Dewang was given a very high evaluation: "You are the most confident one of Chinese people I have seen. But such self-confidence needs to be backed up by the ability to do a lot of work behind the scenes.
From 1976 to 2000, it took 24 years to learn how to make glass. In the last few years, Fuyao has started to grow at a rapid pace because of the decades of technological refining and laying a good foundation to get to where it is today.
In the early days of the business, Cao Dewang could not recruit college students, so he went to learn to manage financing, capital management, management tax reporting, capital scheduling, collection, accounting management accounting ...... Cao Dewang said that later, when the general manager, some people want to snub him when he was asked to go down in one sentence, he said with a smile: "He knew it was finished."
But for the business operation of this matter, Cao Dewang very serious, "to go to create a great enterprise must have the conditions, this is as an entrepreneur must have the ability to confidence, no ability to confidence, everything is nonsense."
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