Tongcheng Lingshan Xiushui, once immortal because of Tongcheng School, is known as the "Hubei, Henan and Anhui revolutionary base" of China's * * * production party, and is famous for Tongcheng people's pioneering and hard work in the reform and opening up in the new era. Xia is one of the typical representatives.
"Farmers from generation to generation", who became the "top scholar in the college entrance examination" still did not get rid of the status of farmers and lost the opportunity to continue their studies. The tenacity and wisdom of Tongcheng people who do not yield to reality and fate are best interpreted in Xia.
"No.1 in the college entrance examination" didn't go to college.
1977, the state resumed the college entrance examination system. Xia, who graduated from high school for one year, signed up, 30.5 points higher than the undergraduate score, and became the champion of the college entrance examination for three classes in their school.
After filling in the volunteers of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nankai University and Fudan University in turn, Xia hesitated in the column of "marital status".
It turns out that my father and my father-in-law are family friends. When Xia was 6 years old, two adults quietly decided on a young marriage. That year, the woman was only 3 years old.
"If you don't fill in' married' after taking such a high exam, you will definitely not be my son-in-law." At that time, my prospective father-in-law told Xia sadly.
"If you don't fill in' married', it's not my son." My father made a great contribution to Xia.
"At that time, I didn't know if I loved it or not, and I felt very shy." Xia said that he had no choice but to listen to his father, so he missed the university.
It's a pity that Xia failed to enter the university. Now, Xia has realized his college dream. Since June 65438+ 10 last year, Xia has been attending the EMBA class for international presidents in Tsinghua University.
Inherit the father's business and provoke the burden of selling husbands
Xia was born in the countryside and his family was poor. When he was a sophomore, his father got cancer, and his mother was ill for many years and couldn't afford it. As the eldest son, Xia has several younger brothers and sisters. In order to survive, Xia is duty-bound to provoke the heavy responsibility of the family.
"My father is a retailer." Xia told reporters that the only thing he could do was to take over his father's hawker burden. From then on, he shouldered a pair of peddlers' shoulders, shook his rattle, and shouted to sell retail goods-Xia began to walk around the village. In addition to selling some small commodities such as matches, small sweets and needlework, there are two large laundry baskets under the hawker's shoulders, which are specially used to hold goose feathers and duck feathers collected from various households.
This is where Xia's road to depravity began. However, there was an episode. As a rare high school graduate in the village, Xia was invited by the village to be a middle school math and English teacher. 198 1 year, after he worked as a teacher for two years, his seriously ill father died. In addition to the burden left to a hawker in Xia, my father has 18 creditors, with debts of more than 2,000 yuan. The most creditors owe 100 yuan, and the least owes 4 yuan.
As a teacher, the monthly income 14.7 yuan can't make a living at all. One year in the first month, my aunt went home. After lunch, Xia's mother secretly took her aside and said, Son, you have finished all your lunch, so there will be nothing to eat at night.
Looking at the wall at home, in desperation, Xia reluctantly left her classmates who lived together day and night and began to return to her old job. While selling retail goods, he keeps bees and beetles, and buys honey, royal jelly and animal skins. Even cut bamboo and wood in Jiangnan. Xia said that at that time, there was no goal and I didn't feel tired, as long as I could ensure that I had food at home.
"You can do anything to make money, but it's best to buy it." Xia, who was interviewed, said that this industry was handed down by his father and has become a craft for him. Touch it and you will know whether it is goose feather or duck feather. In addition to supplying down jacket manufacturers, Xia also bought "three hairs" from the cock's neck to make pens for the writing brush factory, and bought "knife feathers" from the goose's wings to process badminton.
All the feathers bought are handed over to the local supply and marketing cooperative. Xia, with his own cleverness and hard work, has attracted the attention of the leaders of supply and marketing cooperatives and put forward cooperation with Xia. He changed the door-to-door purchase to sitting on the floor, and hawkers in four townships and eight towns gave the feathers they bought to Xia's purchase point every day, and then they sold them to foreign manufacturers in batches. In fact, Xia had already replaced the function of rural supply and marketing cooperatives, and the supply and marketing cooperatives were willing to cooperate with him. And renting the warehouse to Xia, they can also share it in proportion.
It is the experience of poor life that summer always plans to recruit some children from poor families in mountainous areas to work in the factory every year.
Husband and wife didn't say a few words before marriage.
"If you can choose, what do you want to breed?" The reporter asked.
"Have a good relationship!" Xia, 50, added with a shy smile, "With my family, of course." . Xia still doesn't know what it's like to be in love. "Since my parents decided to get married at the age of 6, my family and I have never said a word since I graduated from high school." They didn't say a few words during the four years from graduation to marriage. Xia said that their marriage is to cultivate feelings after marriage.
"In the most difficult time, she also suffered a lot with me." Speaking of his wife, Xia boasted that "she is fine".
1980, I got married in the summer, and the new house at that time was a semi-thatched house. "In order to have a shelter from the wind and rain, she, a lesbian, built a warm home with my hands; We farm and raise pigs together, and the family is so poor that she doesn't dislike me at all. " When I mentioned that year, Xia always sincerely felt that there were many temptations in the outside world, but people could not live without conscience. Now that living conditions are good, they can't dump others. "Life is a one-way trip, so people should cherish the past life journey."
"In the management of the enterprise, she also understands and supports me." Xia said that he has a principle that he has not talked about work at home for many years, and he is not allowed to talk about things other than work at work. Since her career, she has never interfered in any development and affairs of the company. This is very valuable.
Don't be a family business, feed back the society.
"Don't smoke or drink, don't see the chairman have any hobbies. If you want to talk about hobbies, you are in business and busy with work. " Hongrun Group employees commented on Xia in an interview with reporters.
"I came out to do business, purely to make money, in order to survive. Now I'm worth over 100 million. Wealth does not belong to me, but to the whole society. " Xia held up her mobile phone and told reporters: I have used it for many years and I can't bear to lose it. And a Buick I used. At that time, it was nearly 600 thousand kilometers. Many people suggest a better one, but these things have been with me for many years, and I always hate to lose them.
Xia has deep feelings for things, villagers living in this land and farmers. Xia not only paid off all the debts left by her father, but also gave more rewards in different forms, such as arranging children's work. He made the enterprise into an international market+company+farmer model, and invested in Tongcheng Hongrun Egg and Duck Industry Development Company to help farmers get rich. More than 654.38 billion geese and ducks are used every year. He initiated the establishment of Tongcheng Minsheng Guarantee Company, which provides loan support totaling more than 70 million yuan for six or seven hundred small enterprises every year. Xia said that this has a lot to do with his past experience of difficult loans.
Xia said that the scale of Hongrun's development today has been deeply rooted in Tongcheng. We should try our best to take a responsibility for this family, so the company headquarters will never move to a big city with the growth of the enterprise.
Now, in order to seek the development of the capital market, Xia, who has devoted herself to her work, has completed the shareholding system reform of the company. Unlike most entrepreneurs who maintain absolute control, Xia personally holds only about 40% of the shares. He told reporters that both sons are still in college, and one of them is still studying to earn living expenses while working abroad. When the two brothers came back from vacation, Xia consciously asked them to go to the factory for exercise. They dragged sacks and ground ten fingers to blood.
"Suffering is the real wealth," Xia said more than once in an interview with reporters. "At present, I don't have the idea of doing family business. I hope that children can start their own businesses, even if they can't succeed at first. "
■ Two or three things in summer
Give 30 million, don't sell patents.
130,000 yuan for a quilt, each bed is only 500 grams. Well, one gram of 260 yuan is more than one gram of Huang Jingui.
When Xia decided to develop this patented product "loop velvet", it caused a shock in the world down industry. When the successful research and development of technical products was just announced, merchants from all over the world wanted to set up a joint venture with Hongrun.
"You can buy our raw materials, but it must be Hongrun's brand and use Hongrun's trademark brand." Xia didn't give in at all, and the foreign businessmen retreated. At this time, another Japanese company came to the door, and the opening was 30 million yuan to buy out the patent of loop velvet at one time. Xia didn't agree. "I am not an enterprise that transfers patents for a living. In that case, Hongrun has long lost its development potential. "
"We need to build Hongrun's own brand with core products." Xia said that it is difficult to create a brand, but it is easy to be eaten by people. To this end, the group registered the Hongrun trademark in 10 countries and regions. In China, Hongrun Group has also become the only enterprise in the industry that integrates China's well-known trademarks, China's famous brand products and national inspection-free products.
The story of honest duck
In the product exhibition hall of Hongrun Group, the reporter found a picture of a duck hanging in a conspicuous position. Behind the photo is the story of the honest duck.
1997, Xia signed an order worth $7 million with Danish businessman Harry, but the price of raw materials rose sharply later. If we continue to ship at the original price, Hongrun will suffer huge losses. According to the contract text, Xia can renegotiate with the other party to sell the company's inventory of down at a good price, but Xia chooses to keep his promise and bear the loss of 2 million yuan caused by the price increase of raw materials alone.
Harry was very moved when he heard about it, and specially brought a duck from abroad to show his respect and gratitude to Xia. This duck is also named "Honest Duck". Since then, the trade volume between Hongrun Group and Mr. Harry has been fixed at more than $6,543,800+million every year. Xia He also changed from a partner to a friend. Ducks became the witness of their friendship. "As an enterprise, credit is very important, especially doing business with foreign businessmen, which represents the image of China enterprises and pays more attention to integrity."
It is because of this belief that Xia has won more foreign friends. In Hongrun's base factory, reporters can always see "blue eyes" from different countries. When they saw the Xia Ji countries, they embraced them very warmly.