Zhang Xin: The Most Outstanding Woman In The Construction Industry

"So I think the next three or four years will be the most interesting, when people are doing what they are doing now, that is to draw the eyes, nose and mouth to future Beijing - to give Beijing a center."

In 1994, Zhang Xin returned to Beijing for 17 years.

She is faced with such a China: the coexistence of a vibrant economy and an old institutional framework, and the establishment of a new company in Beijing must cover a maximum of tens of official seals. 14 years of social differentiation have resulted in a rich class, but few people have enough knowledge of these sectors; amazing foreign investment growth and alarming information asymmetry; the number of returned overseas students is increasing by an average annual growth rate of 13%, and will reach 140 thousand people in the next 8 years, most of which will choose the two cities in Beijing and Shanghai.

Zhang Xin's experience is a Chinese version of David Copperfield, but the protagonist is a woman.

In the cultural revolution, parents drew a clear line. At the age of 5, they went to school with their mothers. The toys were a few small live pigs; 14 years old in Hongkong, they worked as female workers in the electronic component factory; they spent money from work to go to Britain to read secretarial schools, read all the way to Cambridge, went to Wall Street Goldman Sachs bank as an investment adviser, married Pan Shiyi, and became the most outstanding woman in China's construction industry today.

In 1994, Zhang Xin, who lived in Hongkong's "big house facing the Gulf of Vitoria", entered the garden of grace in Pan Shiyi. After a family and cultural run in period, she left Goldman Sachs and devoted herself to the business of Pan Shiyi.

The next year, the SOHO modern city plan was officially launched.

Before that, Zhang Xin never involved in real estate development, nor did he draw much conclusions about what a good building was.

At the early stage, her definition of "good architecture" was: comfort, no waste.

SOHO the "big glass" of several residential buildings behind the modern city is the replacement of the landing glass windows of the open-air balconies, which once led the trend of residential buildings and attracted many imitators.

However, the focus is still on fine decoration.

In the second phase of "SOHO", "I began to realize that people's life is closely related to space. What kind of space can be created to create what kind of possibility?" at this point, we began to consider the Small Office and Home Office part.

The most dynamic companies in China are small companies and private enterprises.

What these people need is a modern form and convenient location. The spirit of SOHO is modern, fast, young, energetic, small, and knowledge-based.

When people came in, they found that everyone in every aspect had it.

Gallery, website, new weekly, advertising agency, printing house...

The only common feature is extraordinary vitality.

35% of the houses are still lit at night after work. "

In 1998, the development and construction of SOHO modern city, the entire project 400 thousand square meters, sales revenue of more than 4 billion yuan.

In the third phase of Zhang Xin, she began to yearn for something more "spiritual level". In her view, "beyond the toilet handle" to keep the eyes from being too trivial and practical details.

The change began in 1997, and Zhang Yonghe, the designer of Hongkong, shocked her greatly by designing the mountain villa for her villa.

4 years later, she decided to bring her inspiration to the "common people" so that they could understand the rich possibilities of architecture.

Zhang Xin expressed his national concept in a unique way: "we need to provide opportunities for Asian artists."

Mr. and Mrs. Pan Shiyi sent invitations to 12 Asian young architects, asking them to participate in the design of an architect's corridor at the foot of the Great Wall.

In May 2002, the first Chinese Modern Architecture Museum, named "commune at the foot of the Great Wall", won Zhang Xin's "personal Architectural Art Promotion Award" for Venice Biennale.

Zhang Xin and Pan Shiyi are the representatives of China's new cutting-edge businessmen.

They have experienced the hardship of difficult times, but have not wasted all their youth like their parents. They are keenly aware of the opportunities given by the times and strive for the best conditions for education and entrepreneurship. They are not constrained by occupation and industry rules, and dare to innovate, but they are not divorced from the needs of the local market.

Of course, their experience is not universally representative. Zhang Xin's long overseas life experience and educational background made her way of thinking, knowledge structure and information occupy quite different from Chinese "native products" merchants. For this reason, she fought with Pan Shiyi on the eve.

But when they understood and accepted each other, the pair became the most perfect business combination in China.

Because of Zhang Xin's long experience of building several major cities in the world, she introduced a more sophisticated, open and relatively pioneering architectural concept for Pan Shiyi.

Pan Shiyi has put these concepts into practice with his 15 years of experience and resources in China's real estate industry.

It is because of this complementarity that they can become the protectors of Asian artists while advocating the Western metropolis life, and do not give up the principle of a successful businessman.

Their combination has caught up with a golden age.

From 1991 to 1997, China's FDI continued to grow at an alarming rate. Thereafter, the growth curve began to fluctuate with the global economic situation. By 2002, China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest foreign investment country, and FDI would reach 50 billion dollars.

When F.J. Frank, the Asia head of the world economic forum, repeatedly stated that "China will replace the United States as the engine of world economic development", an important index that he used frequently was the number of FDI in China.

A large amount of foreign investment means relative opening of information, opening of borders and increase of international tourists, including the increase in the number of students travelling abroad and studying abroad.

The pnational movement of these funds and personnel has made urban residents, especially the well-informed urban residents, have a richer, more intuitive concept and more diverse demands on other countries' buildings.

These requirements are targeted at urban buildings and private villas.

Zhang Xin himself's "inter mountain" is an example. It has gone beyond a private building and has the reputation of former public buildings. The designer Zhang Yonghe wrote the name of the building together with the new mathematics building of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in his every resume.

Since 1990s, the most famous buildings in China are mainly concentrated in Shanghai, such as the Bund, people's Square, N Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai Grand Theatre.

Most of these buildings are brilliant, magnificent, concentrated and functional, and are the main attractions attracting foreign tourists.

At the same time, new buildings in Beijing are restricted.

There have been many detailed municipal planning regulations. For example, some main roads can not exceed the width of the road width, and the whole city is mainly composed of gray.

The government's explicit examples and hints will cause real estate developers to build up a large number of duplicated buildings in a night, and large commercial buildings will be scattered and unable to weather.

In 80s of last century, the Tiananmen and the Imperial Palace were still a charming Center for the tourists who had just started to travel. In 90s, with the increasing interest and ability of the urban mass shopping and the weakening of the political complex, the charm of the Tiananmen was challenged by the affinity of the Bund in Shanghai. The clutter of the cluttered soil could not be compared with that of the Nanjing pedestrian street.

Since 1990s, the most famous buildings in China are mainly concentrated in Shanghai, such as the Bund, people's Square, N Pearl Radio and television tower, Shanghai Museum and Shanghai theater.

Most of these buildings are brilliant, magnificent, concentrated and functional, and are the main attractions attracting foreign tourists.

At the same time, new buildings in Beijing are restricted.

There have been many detailed municipal planning regulations. For example, some main roads can not exceed the width of the road width, and the whole city is mainly composed of gray.

The government's explicit examples and hints will cause real estate developers to build up a large number of duplicated buildings in a night, and large commercial buildings will be scattered and unable to weather.

In 80s of last century, the Tiananmen and the Imperial Palace were still a charming Center for the tourists who had just started to travel. In 90s, with the increasing interest and ability of the urban mass shopping and the weakening of the political complex, the charm of the Tiananmen was challenged by the affinity of the Bund in Shanghai. The clutter of the cluttered soil could not be compared with that of the Nanjing pedestrian street.

It is no coincidence that New York mayor Bloonberg has just proposed a plan to revive the lower island of Manhattan this month.

This section of more than half of the tall buildings on the island is a veritable workspace. It became a ghost town after work in the evening. In the morning, a large number of traffic flow caused traffic congestion and subway congestion.

By contrast, all kinds of buildings in the midst of chaos and chaos are thriving.

Mr Bloomberg plans to expand the green space of the island, add two commercial and residential areas, connect directly to J.F.Kennedy.Apt Airport and new world free international airport, and build a large public market to increase schools.

He said: now is the time to update Manhattan's lower island as a place to live, work and shop.

"Rebuild Manhattan island into what it looks like - a global innovation center, the city center of twenty-first Century."

It is no coincidence that New York mayor Bloonberg has just proposed a plan to revive the lower island of Manhattan this month.

This section of more than half of the tall buildings on the island is a veritable workspace. It became a ghost town after work in the evening. In the morning, a large number of traffic flow caused traffic congestion and subway congestion.

By contrast, all kinds of buildings in the midst of chaos and chaos are thriving.

Mr Bloomberg plans to expand the green space of the island, add two commercial and residential areas, connect directly to J.F.Kennedy.Apt Airport and new world free international airport, and build a large public market to increase schools.

"Now is the time to update Manhattan's lower island as a place to live, work and shop," he said.

"Rebuild Manhattan island into what it looks like - a global innovation center, the city center of twenty-first Century."

Zhang Xin's wish is much more than that. She remembers the charm of New York SOHO district with enthusiasm. "Why does New York's SOHO interest you? Because around it, museums, PRADA shops, dumplings, hot dog stands are all the result of the natural development of society.

What I was most worried about in building SOHO was how to make a popcorn near the LV store, but the rent was too high for him to get in. "

Zhang Xin is no longer a builder, but a small social designer.

Her ambition was constrained by reality, because she did not have the ability to change the social and economic environment, and at the same time she was inspired by hope: "so I think the next three or four years is the most interesting, when people are doing things now, that is, to draw eyes, nose and mouth for future Beijing - to give Beijing a center."

Crazy, no day and night, the bustling 700 thousand square meters of the center, this small society does not have the shadow of Zhang Xin's childhood paradise: "my hour Beijing gives me a special memory, a street without cars, a close proximity between people and people. I don't know what danger, danger and pressure are. I can never imagine what kind of social state can make me go through this kind of life.

In the dry school, too.

I don't know if it was because I was young. "

Zhang Xin's wish is much more than that. She remembers the charm of New York SOHO district with enthusiasm. "Why does New York's SOHO interest you? Because around it, museums, PRADA shops, dumplings, hot dog stands are all the result of the natural development of society.

What I was most worried about in building SOHO was how to make a popcorn near the LV store, but the rent was too high for him to get in. "

Zhang Xin is no longer a builder, but a small social designer.

Her ambition was constrained by reality, because she did not have the ability to change the social and economic environment, and at the same time she was inspired by hope: "so I think the next three or four years is the most interesting, when people are doing things now, that is, to draw eyes, nose and mouth for future Beijing - to give Beijing a center."

Crazy, no day and night, the bustling 700 thousand square meters of the center, this small society does not have the shadow of Zhang Xin's childhood paradise: "my hour Beijing gives me a special memory, a street without cars, a close proximity between people and people. I don't know what danger, danger and pressure are. I can never imagine what kind of social state can make me go through this kind of life.

In the dry school, too.

I don't know if it was because I was young. "

Zhang Xin and her contemporaries were forced to deviate from a collective memory, whether in society, culture or before.