CHINT Chairman Nan Cunhui: Father'S Legacy

For me, there are two things that I can't forget in 2007.

One is that we win a patent infringement against a multinational company in court, and the other is the death of his father.

The two things are connected, one is happy and the other is sad.

The joy is that our enterprises have finally come to the fore after more than 20 years of struggle, and have shown their strength in the stage of international competition.

Sad is the gradual maturity of our enterprises, and the need for elders to take good care of them. The door of father's life has been closed.

The father, Nan Xiang Xi, was born in 1930 in Yueqing County, Zhejiang province (the county was built in 1993).

That is the era of China's domestic war and the decline of its people.

Like most of the rural children of that era, father's childhood and youth were full of hardships.

After he became an adult, he was unwilling to run around in search of life by his poor father.

After several months of migration, he finally took root in the garden village of Liushi town.

The park is located in the central area of Liushi town with relatively better conditions.

But for a person who has no family, he is always struggling.

While participating in productive labor, his father learned a skill of repairing shoes.

During the slack season, besides fishing in the lower river, prawns are picked up and shoes are repaired in the streets.

In the meantime, he also left his hometown and traveled to Hubei and other places, hoping to change his living condition through his shoes.

But contrary to expectations, his hopes failed again and again, and eventually he had to go back to earth, repeating the story of the majority of Chinese farmers who "go out and do things at sunset".

From the beginning of my memory, our house is the worst place in the world. The roof is covered with thatched grass. The wind blows, and it rains heavily in the sky.

In addition, almost every year there are typhoons in Wenzhou.

Eating is often eaten, and I don't know where the next rice is.

But no matter how poor it is, our father always teaches us to live on our own, and don't expect the sky to lose our pie, nor to greet other people's petty advantages.

And no matter how poor, father always optimistic and bold, never put the grievances on the children, so our family, though bitter, but also enjoy it.

The poor children are the masters of the family.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to help my family with pig grass and rice poles.

In autumn, the leaves of the trees fell all over the ground. I string them up with thin wires and circle them into a circle. After they are dried, they will be burned as firewood.

After a little larger, I went down the river alone to pick up the screws and sell them on the street in exchange for the oil, salt and vinegar that I needed at home.

Once, my father let me pick up two baskets of rice bran to sell in the street, and did not sell it for a whole morning.

At noon, I was tired and hungry, and I had no strength to pick up the rice bran.

At this time, it was hard for someone to ask the price.

According to my father's account, I reported a piece of 51 Jin.

The adult picked up a look and made a surprised look. Everyone else was two. Why are you so expensive?

I wonder if father has set the price high.

Unable to verify, I had to take my own view. After some bargaining, I ended up selling at a price of three.

When I returned to my home, I explained to my father one after another and emphasized that others sold it at a price of two.

The father smiled helplessly and told me that the bran of our house was fine bran, and that the other family had coarse bran. The rice bran was much better than the other rice bran, so it had to sell five yuan.

Finally, my father gave me the affirmative "small profits but quick turnover".

This event touches me very much, so there is so much knowledge in selling rice bran.

If business is a university, then my first lesson should be my father taught me, he made me know what is the quality of the price, what is a penny of goods.

The misfortune of life is always unexpected.

When I was thirteen years old, my father was accidentally injured in a collective labor, resulting in a comminuted fracture of his right leg and unable to work on the ground. His mother's body was always weak, and the burden of pulling his sister-in-law and raising his family was unshirkable on my eldest son's shoulder.

I didn't know anything but to follow my father's shoes to learn how to repair shoes.

For the sake of my father's illness and for the sake of family life, I had to take up the burden of my father's shoes and set up a shoemaker walking around the street.

At first, I felt embarrassed. When I saw my familiar classmates and partners coming far away, I hurried away.

The father knew and said, "repairing shoes is not a shameful thing. Repairing shoes is also a technical activity. Don't despise yourself."

Gradually, I no longer felt irritable, and I fell in love with the shoe repair business and became a local celebrity craftsman.

Three years of shoe repair experience, though I didn't earn much money, it made me understand the truth of being honest.

At the same time, it makes me understand that if a person wants to do something, he must pay attention to starting from trivial matters, and it is not easy to do anything trivial.

My father's influence on me is subtle.

When I was a child, I was very naughty. I often fought for trivial matters and children.

So, the adults led the children to come to the house to argue.

My father criticized me and sometimes beat me. He said good words to the other parents, paid careful attention, and asked his mother to bring some eggs to apologize.

Such a lot of things, I gradually understand that fighting is wrong, bullying others should not be, to get along with others, to understand humility.

Father is sincere to others.

When I repaired shoes with him, I found that he was very polite to all the guests.

Whether the other person is familiar or unfamiliar, and whether the shoes are dirty or clean, he treats each other with courtesy.

Sometimes, when the guests are too busy to pick up the goods on the spot, the father lets the guests go first, and sends them after repair.

Over time, many old customers graciously call him "ah Xi teacher".

After I inherited my father's career, my father told me the most words were "sincere" two words.

One day, when I was making shoes, I met a Shandong man selling donkey hide gelatin.

Because of speculation, I took him to my home for dinner.

The parents are very welcome, but the family is too poor to receive anything.

The mother went out from the back door, borrowed some rice flour from her neighbor's house, and then pulled out some vegetables from her field for entertainment.

The guest was very glad to leave two bags of donkey hide gelatin for his thanks when he left.

The word "integrity" is now popular in society.

In retrospect, in fact, when I was young, my parents taught me about this.

At that time, I often borrowed and borrowed from each other in the neighborhood. I didn't understand such economic behavior, because the teacher told us that we must write an account for borrowing things.

The father said that there was no need for such a neighbor to look down, but because everyone trusted each other.

My mother also told me the truth of "cowhide writer's honesty".

It means that if a man does not keep his word, even if it is written on the cowhide, it will be useless. Everyone is a good and honest man. He will always remember what he owed to his family.

"The first and so on," said the two men, who wrote the book. "Three people said that they did not calculate!"

My parents told me that people who really trust their credit are the same.

From then on, the concept of a person to speak credit, like "cowhide writing", was deeply engraved in my heart, so that I had benefited in the course of my subsequent business.

In the early 80s of last century, I worked with my friends and started a struggle in the field of electrical appliances two.

When he first built a factory, he could not build a factory building.

Later, one room was not enough, and the room that the old couple lived in also accounted for half of it.

The kitchen and kitchenware at home were also "confiscated" and used to cook for the staff.

But they have no complaints, and are always happy to bear with us all the hardships of the primitive accumulation period.

1993 is a very unbearable winter in my life.

That was when my career flourished. Almost overnight, a number of rumors and rumors of some competitors attacked me. Some people even put the detonators used in our factory gate.

I was overwhelmed by the sudden blow and my parents were restless.

At this time, my father advised me not to worry, as long as a man is magnanimous, a clear conscience, there is no pass.

And I distinctly find that my parents are much thinner than before.

With the understanding of parents and the support of many leaders and friends, we have withstood the test and successfully resolved the storm and made the enterprise develop rapidly.

Since then, in order to attract more talents to join CHINT and promote the faster development of enterprises, we have adjusted the shareholding structure of the company several times.

This is bound to touch on the interests of some relatives and friends. Some people find my parents and hope that they will come forward to discourage them.

But my parents knew my difficulties and patiently persuaded their relatives and friends to support my work in a clear-cut way.

On the weekdays, father is always running around the company without any trouble. He will find out the place that is not pleasing to the eye, and he will bring it up in time.

If he is right, of course we will adopt it.

If we say something wrong, we can tell him gently that he can accept it.

He has never interfered in the major measures set by the company, and has strongly supported it.

This is also an important factor for our business to emerge from the family and get rid of the fetters of the family system.

There is a saying in our hometown: "there is an old man in the house, which means there is a treasure in the house."

I often joke with my friends. I have a selfless father, which means that the company has a free senior consultant.

The three filial piety is not as good as the father's kindness.

This is my deepest experience.

To run an enterprise is like being bound with a chariot. Only by advancing bravely can we get the chance of survival and development.

When my father was alive, I always thought when I was free. I should accompany him to go all over the country and around the world.

On one occasion, we managed to get him a visa to the United States, but we finally ran aground because we could not afford the time to accompany him.

When we were looking for opportunities to repay our parents, our father was diagnosed with cancer.

After admission to the hospital in Shanghai, the doctor advised the operation.

On the second day of my admission, I went to the Middle East with Vice Premier Wu Yi.

This is the schedule that was arranged earlier. The leaders of the country are so concerned about us that they will take us out to introduce us to foreign customers, show the development of China's private enterprises to the world, and set up the image of China's reform and opening up before the world.

This is an honor and a responsibility. There is no reason not to go.

When I arrived in Dubai, my brother called and said my father would have operated today, but now he doesn't agree to do it.

I was very anxious at that time and tried to persuade my father, but my father could not hear my voice for thousands of miles away.

Sometimes I feel guilty.

The father's condition is very bad and often goes to hospitals in Shanghai and Wenzhou.

I sometimes fly in the air, sometimes at home and abroad, rarely in my spare time.

As long as I have a little time, I will try to catch a glance at him or accompany him to have a meal.

But in any case, as far as possible, I met my father for a very limited time.

A month before his death, I also attended the Sino Russian forum held in Russia and the China Africa Forum held in Russia, along with Vice Premier Wu Yi of the State Council and vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, Xu Kuangdi.

One day before I went abroad, I received a phone call from my sister in Beijing, saying that my father was in a strange situation and asked me to go back to see it anyway.

I pushed off some work and hurried to Wenzhou, and I talked to him for ten minutes, only ten minutes!

I consoled him for wanting to be happy and take good care of his illness.

Seeing that he was getting better, I left for France for Monaco.

Before leaving, I asked my brother and sister to arrange for him to be hospitalized in Shanghai.

My father knew I was busy, and usually he wouldn't call me if he had nothing special to do.

But in France this time, I received a number of calls from him.

He asked me where I was and when I would be back.

I know, he is worried that he can not survive.

I came back from France in a hurry and went straight to my father's Pudong dawn hospital.

Seeing me, he sat up in a spirit and said he wanted to go back to Wenzhou.

I asked the doctor what was his opinion. He said that the doctor's advice was to leave the hospital next week.

After a simple settlement, I flew to Beijing to take part in the reply of the national enterprise technology center.

CHINT has declared its state-level enterprise technology center.