Entrepreneurial Heroes In Wheelchairs

It is hard for a healthy person to start a business. It is more necessary for a disabled person to start a business than to pcend the spirit. This is to set up the ideal of life, strive to overcome the hardships of adversity and actively participate in social life.

Not all disabled people are weak. As long as they have firm self-confidence and constantly explore their potential, they can achieve their ideals.

We need a lot of self starving entrepreneurs like Wu Ning. A successful person will affect many vulnerable people and encourage them to create their own future.

I hope that among the disabled, there will be more entrepreneurial heroes like Wu Ning.

Zhang Haidi held the idea of "I can do it in my life". Wu Ning said goodbye to his parents who had been penniless because of him, and said goodbye to his girl friend who had taken good care of him. He decided not to become a burden to them. He decided to live in a decent manner.

Starting from selling vegetables, selling watermelons, selling ice cream and selling melon seeds, Wu Ning started a hard business starting from 10 yuan a day.

At that time, I didn't have a wheelchair.

Early in the morning, friends and I would sell things to the market or cinema doorway, and then push back in the evening.

In this way, regardless of hot summer or cold, in the streets of Shenyang, Wu Ning sits for a whole day.

At that time, because of paralysis of the lower extremities, he suffered from incontinence. He could only eat a little food at night and not dare to drink water.

When he meets rainy weather, others can avoid the rain, but he can't walk away. He can only sit there and let the heavy rain be drenched.

In March 11th, Wu Ning, in a spacious office in the south wind group of Shenyang, was called by his colleagues and friends as a man of temperament. He talked to reporters about the scene of his pioneering work 19 years ago. The conversation was interrupted by silent tears several times.

He was only 24 when he started business.

At this time, I can feel that he is trying to calm himself.

He forced to tear down the tears, lit a cigarette, and smoked a few mouths.

The first pot of gold has been used for 8 years. For entrepreneurs, "first pot of gold" means success and joy.

For Wu Ning, the meaning of "the first pot of gold" is more than that. He spent 8 years in this way, and suffered the hardships and sufferings that ordinary people could not bear.

It sells more than 20 yuan a day, sells melon seeds for 10 yuan a day, and buys beer for 100 yuan a day. During the Spring Festival, wholesale beer earned thousands of yuan a day.

From earning 10 yuan a day to earning 100 yuan a day, Wu Ning passed nearly two years.

When he first walked out of his house, he lived at a friend's house. His body was not very good and his mood was relatively low. He was miserable all day.

Fortunately, he finally persevered and could earn his own living.

Since 1986, Wu Ning has accumulated "one point and one corner" from the daily income of around 20 yuan, and finally accumulated several thousand yuan by 1988.

He rented a more than 10 square meter Street bungalow and hired 3 young men to start a beer business.

"The more than 10 square meter street house is not only a facade for my business, but also a warehouse, a kitchen as well as a place for me to live," he said.

In two years, Wu Ning has won a new starting point and a space of his own.

He also has a dilapidated tricycle.

During the day, Wu Ning and his partners drove three wheeled lorries to wholesale beer, sent them to some small restaurants and small shops, and returned to the little house at night.

One winter day, the boy he hired could not stand the cold of the four winds, burning the hot Kang and burning the mattress, and the flesh on Wu Ning leg lying on the Kang was burnt.

But on the second day, Wu Ning still sat on the rattling lorry and ran in the snow.

It is hard to say that it is hard for them to eat. Fortunately, the business is getting bigger and bigger. "Beer is sold as a car". He made hundreds of thousands of yuan a year.

In 1989, Wu Ning rented more than 150 square meters of a facade room, opened a store at the same time of wholesale beer, and started a packaging pport team.

The business has finally got a bit of scale. "The total income of a year is over a million yuan."

In the words of Wu Ning now, since 1990, his company has entered the stage of primitive accumulation of capital, and its business has been further widened. Besides business companies, food companies and pportation companies, taxi companies and construction companies have also been established.

By 1994, Wu Ning accumulated about 10 million yuan of funds.

This is his "first pot of gold", which has laid the foundation for his entry into the real estate market. So far there is no investment failure experience. Dan Dan, a 18 year old girl who was born in a remote mountain village in Heilongjiang, has been sitting in a wheelchair for many years because of polio.

Singers, who are very fond of singing from childhood, have won the best prize in the second national contest of disabled singers.

For the song star dream of round Dan Dan, her parents raised their family to Shenyang to practice singing.

However, how hard it is to make a living in a strange city and to sing with Dan Dan.

A chance, Dan Dan met Wu Ning, her parents told Wu Ning the difficult situation, Wu Ning said very simply: "rest assured, your difficulties I will manage."

After Wu Ning, she not only contacted the teacher of Shenyang Conservatory of Music for Dan Dan, paid her tuition, bought her an imported wheelchair, and helped Dan Dan find a job that could both sing and earn money.

During the Spring Festival last year, the theme song of the TV drama "Ma Da Shuai" was written by Dan Dan.

Wu Ning has been influenced by his parents since childhood. He has contributed about 5000000 yuan to the public welfare activities and the cause of disabled people since 1992.

Chen Jinhao, who entered the company in 1992, is the first university student recruited by Wu Ning. He is now the Minister of Engineering Department of Shenyang Nanfeng group.

He recalled the situation when he first entered the company. At that time, there seemed to be a lot of disabled people in the company every day. For these people, Wu Ning was subsidized, some offered free food and lodging, others stayed in the company.

"In order to reduce the burden on society, Wu Ning specially recruited unemployed and laid off workers in the society."

Although Wu Ning didn't want every employee to lag behind, he said, because of the growth of the company, some employees have been unable to adapt to the pace of the company's development.

For those he helped, Wu Ning gave them some investment so that they could make a small business to make ends meet, or arrange suitable jobs for them.

Wu Ning believes that now the company has developed and needs some professional talents to promote the company's "two pioneering work". Although it is generally not arranged for the disabled to work, "as long as I can do anything I can".

Since 2000, the south wind group has invested more than 10 real estate projects, and adheres to the enterprise concept of "building affordable housing for the common people".

Because of its good quality and low price, Nanfeng group's real estate project has become the best seller in Shenyang. "Although every project is not big, our company is not the most profitable real estate company in Shenyang, but we sell the house the fastest."

Last year, the south wind group paid 60 million yuan to the state and made over 1000 laid-off workers.

Starting from selling vegetables, wholesale beer, to the establishment of a company, and now making the company a famous brand in Shenyang, Wu Ning has experienced the difficulty of changing roles.

It is commendable that, as a businessman, he has no experience in investing in projects.

"Wealth can make a person smarter or make a person more stupid."

Wu Ning insisted that the wealth he created should serve the society as much as possible.

"Honesty, making friends, making profits!"

This is not only the business philosophy of Nanfeng group, but also the simplest business way Wu Ning has been following for 19 years.

"To be an enterprise is to be a man."

Wu Ning believes that only in this way can enterprises become bigger and stronger.

The life of a disabled person is a miracle in itself. Many friends urge Wu Ning to go out for a walk this winter. But this winter, he did not wear a cotton padded jacket, and he was in the office all day.

Wu Ning, who was strong and strong from childhood, revealed to reporters for the first time: "when others pick up my moment, it is the most painful time for me, especially when people are many."

He did not want to be seen by others. He was lying on the back of others.

When he said this, his tears could not help falling.

He said that there was a picture that he remembered so far. "It was when the NPC deputies were in Shenyang, when all of us stood up to sing the national anthem, when we all stood up, I sat there, tears fell down, and the scene was photographed by a reporter and published in the city newspaper in the name of" solemn moment ".

Wu Ning revealed that he was inspired by the spirit of Zhang Haidi when he raised the sail of life again. He was especially pleased when he met Zhang Haidi in 1991 when he was introduced by his friends.

Since then, Zhang Haidi has always had a hard time communicating with him in his pioneering work, and Zhang Haidi has always encouraged him, "we must have a spirit of self-reliance and self-reliance, not to be intimidated by any difficulties".

"When you see him, you will often be attracted by his cheerful laughter, but you do not know that his legs are swollen every day, and his kidneys are not very good.

I know how tired he is in a wheelchair for a long time.

In such a pain, do not say that entrepreneurship is to overcome their own pain is not easy.

Zhang Haidi received an exclusive interview with reporters through telephone and email.

He talked about Wu Ning's pioneering deeds. "Knowing Wu Ning's friends will be moved by his spirit of hard work and pioneering spirit."

Zhang Haidi said that Wu Ning is an ordinary person. He has gone through every bumpy day since he started his own business. But he is extraordinary. He can overcome all difficulties with a strong will and turn a small business into a large conglomerate with a certain scale. He is also eager to help the disabled and solve difficulties and to share social concerns.

"We need entrepreneurial heroes in this era," he said.

Zhang Haidi said that whenever he saw the news of Wu Ning's donation to some public welfare activities and listened to his calm speech, "I would think of those past events he did not know for people".

With the spirit of self-improvement and social concern, Wu Ning gained the honor of "national self strengthening model", "Liaoning model worker" and "ten outstanding young people in Liaoning". In January 2002, she was elected deputy to Shenyang Municipal People's Congress.

The greatest joy of all is working, "how I wish my mother could see what I am now!"

Next to Wu Ning's bedroom, there was a house with a portrait of his mother.

In 1997, Wu Ning's career just started, and his mother died.

His mother once gave him a white head and was penniless for his treatment. Wu Ning's father had been a vegetable for 5 years, but every weekend, Wu Ning would sit in front of his father for some time.

What is more surprising is that Wu Ning has not established a family since he broke up with his first girlfriend.

"I have to give up the problems of life."

He said, "I still have a lot of things to do, I have no time to finish it, and I have no time to think about it."

In the eyes of ordinary people, the company's fixed assets are 100 million yuan, Wu Ning should enjoy life.

But for Wu Ning, there are cities with frequent business dealings, and no scenery is known.

"I have traveled many cities, but many cities are strange to me.

A person's life always has some helplessness, life gives you pain, you have to bear it, you must bear your happiness, and you must bear your misfortune and sadness. "

There was a pair of iron crutches in Wu Ning's room which was placed by the wall. When the reporter asked whether he had tried to stand up again, he said, some friends said that they would go to the United States for surgery, and after 10 years of recovery, they might get up, but "I can walk, and I have lost everything in my life".

Wu Ning was even more relieved that "my health has not allowed me to go on like this. Now the management company has been very tired."

To start a business is to gain wealth and create the value of life.

If we say that when we first started our business, Wu Ning wanted to be independent and self reliant. Now, he feels more responsibility and obligation.

"So many people in the group, so many businesses, what if they operate wrong?"

Wu Ning hopes to use 3 years' time to invite some highly qualified people to come in and form a stronger company. "As chairman, I will not participate in the daily management of the company, so that everyone can work together to build this enterprise".