Chapter 168: Successor
There are talented people in the country!
Joining TO, Chinese companies are facing strong competition from global capital, and they are also ready to move on the huge foreign market.
TO has built a channel connecting China and the world, others can come in, and Chinese can naturally go out.
Boldly going abroad and embarking on an international journey is a strategic choice for many far-sighted Chinese entrepreneurs.
"This step will have to be taken sooner or later, and it is better to take one step earlier than one step later, and if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent! At home, you are crossing the river by feeling the stones, and when you go abroad, you are going out to sea by feeling the reefs, and the ocean in front of you is full of fog. In the end, the outcome can only depend on their respective creations!"
A well-known domestic financial media said.
In the past year, 2004, Chinese companies started a frenzy to test the waters overseas.
Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's personal computer business, Haier's cross-ocean expedition to the United States, Huawei's fight for the European communications market, TCL's acquisition of Thomson and Alcatel, and the opening up of a new battlefield for automobiles in third world countries by the Zhonghua Group, the mighty five giant ships set sail at the same time, becoming the most eye-catching event in China's business circles.
Liu Chengzhi of Lenovo Group and Zhang Simin of Haier Group have long been recognized as the two business leaders with the greatest achievements, the highest public visibility and the best personal reputation since the reform and opening up. Born in the 40s, they have been up and down in the business world for more than 20 years, enjoying a reputation as stable as Mount Tai in the business community, and belong to well-deserved entrepreneurial leaders.
Now that their positions have been strongly challenged, many young entrepreneurs have become giants in the new segment of Chinese business, enjoying public praise and applause no less than theirs. With the rapid development of China's economy, it has been fermenting in the hearts of many young people.
Especially when Lenovo's Liu Chengzhi decided to take a back seat for physical reasons and handed over the huge Lenovo Group to Yang Guoqing, a young marshal who was nearly 20 years younger than him, at the helm, people realized that these gangsters had entered the age of sixtieth and ushered in the legal retirement age.
Among the five giant ships that set sail to sea, the heads of Lenovo, Haier, and Huawei are all born in the 40s, and TCL's Li Xiaodong is younger than the younger generation but was also born in 57, and only Han Hao is the youngest and belongs to the well-deserved post-70s.
Therefore, some media have begun to argue about who will take their place after the retirement of the old generation of bigwigs.
While Han Hao's CPPCC proposal has once again refreshed his new reputation among the younger generation, his emergence as the successor to the leadership of the new generation of Chinese business circles has been recognized by the majority of the people. This people's entrepreneur, who grew up with the reform and opening up, has already laid a large commercial foundation despite his youth, and has firmly sat in the front row of China's business circles.
As for the other successors, whether it is Liu Yonghao of New Hope, Li Shufu of Geely, Huang Pengrun of Gome who has just emerged, or Wang Junlei, the CEO of Vanke who climbs and reshapes his image after a serious illness, they are far less than Li Xiaodong, the CEO of TCL, one of the representatives of the five giant ships going to sea.
Despite the dominance of China's state-owned enterprises, the entrepreneurs at the helm of large state-owned enterprises have not earned the same reputation as their private counterparts. After all, a single appointment can remove them from their positions at the top of the hierarchy, and the innate competitive advantage of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) has greatly diminished their success in the public and even in the business community. Not to mention the deliberate low-key brought about by the seamless switch between government and business, which makes the public performance of state-owned enterprise CEOs much inferior.
"People worship the owners of business empires, not their stewards!"
This simple but mean sentence expresses the helplessness of many CEOs of state-owned enterprises. No matter how great their merits are, they are only working for the country.
There are gains and losses in everything, and if you enjoy a superior platform, you have to endure the loneliness of being inferior.
Having said that, it is not easy to gather the leaders of the five major ships that have gone to sea and gather together.
The "CCTV China Economic Business Leaders in the Past Decade" selection party kicked off, and after the evaluation of the majority of netizens and the expert organizing committee, the business leaders who have led China's economic development in the past ten years were selected.
This selection is known as the Oscar of China's economic circle, full of gold, and every candidate is covered with honors. They have won numerous awards, big and small, but none of them have been as big as this one. Many well-known entrepreneurs claim that making it to this shortlist is a victory, and they don't care what the end result is. From their speeches, we can see the intensity of this competition.
Almost all entrepreneurs who are slightly famous in China have participated in this selection, even if you have not signed up, there will still be netizens who recommend you to participate. Like a filter, the big waves are filtered layer by layer, and many well-known entrepreneurs have been eliminated.
The real choice of one out of ten thousand is to select from tens of thousands of candidates the leading figures who can best represent the vane of China's economic development in the past decade.
After rigorous selection, 10 big-name leaders who have led China's economy in the past decade were released.
There is no doubt that the CEOs of the five giant ships, including Han Hao, were all selected, and the remaining five seats are divided into Vanke, China Merchants Bank, Baosteel, China Mobile and the slightly controversial Internet representative Sohu.
The Internet is the next outlet, and many Internet companies have been born in China, but there are different opinions about who is the leader of the Internet in China. With the bursting of the NASDAQ bubble, the three major portals collapsed, Baidu just listed with limited qualifications, Alibaba is still only showing its edge, Tencent wants to cross the border from chat software, and finally the organizing committee still chose Zhang Yiyang of Sohu, who opened the first year of China's Internet and guided the development of the domestic Internet economy.
Computers, home appliances, automobiles, communications, mobile phones, real estate, banks, iron and steel, mobile operators and the Internet represent industries with a new level of scientific and technological content in China's economy, and all of them are hot areas of the national economy.
CCTV broadcast the awards party live, and all the eyes of the domestic business community converged on the capital, waiting for the stage of the award-winning guests.
Basically, this can also be regarded as a ranking of the status of the rivers and lakes, Lenovo and Haier, the two leader-level CEOs, took the lead on the stage, and they are still Taishan-level bosses in the business world.
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Han Hao sat in the audience, dressed in formal clothes, and smiled as he watched the bigwigs take the stage to receive the award.
He was both surprised and mentally prepared for this election.
Although there are many powerful people in China's business community, as the richest man for many years, it is not an exaggeration to occupy a top 10 position with his proud record in the automotive industry. In the past ten years, no matter who writes China's economic history, it is impossible to bypass the miracle of the China Group, let alone the richest man.
Soon, the hostess read out another award speech.
Under his leadership, a township enterprise with almost zero assets has developed rapidly, and it has only taken 10 years to become a new force that is not inferior to the three major state-owned automobile groups in China, not only in the confrontation with foreign brands, but also stepped into the door of the world's top 500. In the history of China's automobile industry, an incredible myth has been created!
Whether it is to overcome the core automotive technology that has been monopolized by foreign giants, or to boldly go abroad to promote China's independent automobile brands to the world, the team he leads is worthy of the praise of leading China's economy!
In many countries, he has single-handedly raised the brand image of Chinese products to a new height, and Chinese products are no longer the representative of low-end names.
Next, let us welcome with applause the seventh winner tonight, Mr. Han Hao, Chairman and President of Zhonghua Group. ”
"Bang Bang—"
As the youngest winner at the award ceremony, Han Hao, who is about to turn 30 years old, generously waved his hand to thank everyone and walked quickly to the middle of the stage.
He is 11 years different from Zhang Yiyang, the second youngest Sohu boss, and belongs to a well-deserved young elite.
In terms of fame, Han Hao is the most well-known among the 10 winners; in terms of net worth, he has been the richest man for many years and deserves to be at the top of the list; in terms of contribution, the achievement of breaking into the world's top 500 speaks for itself.
Therefore, when Han Hao stepped on the stage, he received the highest applause in the audience, and even the ratings of the entire live broadcast party reached its peak at this time.
Whether it is in Hushan Hospital, or the family building of Yuzhou University, or the women's dormitory of Huaqing University, there are many pairs of eyes staring at the screen motionlessly, waiting for Han Hao's speech.
"Excuse me, Mr. Han, what do you want to say most at this moment?"
The CCTV hostess routinely raised the above questions.
"First of all, I would like to thank my parents and sister for their strong support for my work, and I would like to say to my fiancée, Miss Chen Lingxi, that meeting you is the greatest luck in my life!"
Han Hao did not give a career acceptance speech like other guests on stage, but thanked the people he loved.
"Wow, Mr. Han, are you announcing your good news? It seems that you are treated with double happiness tonight. ”
As one of the highlights of tonight's awards, the battle-hardened hostess quickly grasped the point.
"Yes, I hope that I can get rid of the title of China's biggest diamond king as soon as possible and let a new candidate take over. Everyone has things that must be done at different stages of life, and it is extremely happy to be able to live with the person you like. Here, I also hope that there are lovers in the world who will eventually become married. ”
If Han Hao's announcement of his girlfriend before broke the hearts of many female compatriots who had illusions about him, now that the news of his fiancée is announced again, the remaining half of their hearts will be broken to pieces mercilessly.
On a serious platform like CCTV, Han Hao's private life is just a tidbit after all, and it quickly got to the point.
"In the past 10 years, we have solved the problem from scratch, and in the next 10 years we will solve the problem from the beginning. In the future, the competition will not only be in China, but also in foreign countries, taking the global market as a comprehensive consideration goal to realize the internationalization of China's own brands.
Innovation has always been the magic weapon for our company's survival, and we will continue to increase investment in scientific research in the future, and strive to achieve the automotive industry to catch up and even catch up with the fashion trend.
Hopefully, in 10 years' time, I'll be able to stand here and accept the award with a lot of grace, instead of being a failed case study in a business school textbook.
Also, thank you to those consumers who have been supporting the independent brand of Zhonghua Group! Although our products still have many shortcomings, please believe that if you give us a certain amount of time, we will definitely give back satisfactory products in the future.
Finally, I would like to say a word to all employees and partners of Chung Wah Group:
The hope of China's automobile industry, who else will wait, but when!"
Han Hao's domineering words stirred up waves in the domestic automobile industry like a battle text.
As the older generation of business leaders gradually grew old and retired from the rivers and lakes, the new leaders led by Han Hao began to come to the fore and lead Chinese entrepreneurs to the next new era.