"Dare To Innovate And Actively Change" Zhong Xue Lin's Entrepreneurial Concept

In a small pedestrian street in Ngau Tau Kok, Kowloon, Hongkong, there is only 60 square meters and unremarkable berths. From unpatronized visitors to the cloud, this shop is the starting point of Hongkong youth Zhong Xuelin.

15 years ago, Chung Xue Lin graduated from the master's office and began to work hard in the workplace. He started with the newly established Hongkong Special Administrative Region and wrote a new chapter about individuals and society.

"After Hongkong's return to the motherland, society is more stable than before, and there are opportunities." With this faith, Zhong Xue Lin opened up his own. Environmental protection cause 。

　　 Engineers transform themselves into "buying men".

stay Hong Kong People engaged in waste recycling are known as "buying men", specializing in collecting old newspapers and scrap metal, and dealing with scavengers and cleaners all day long. All in all, the industry gives people the impression that the working environment is dirty, and only those who do not read enough will have no future.

Waste recycling is bound to be hard work, but Zhong Xuelin is determined to turn the environmental engineer from the big institution to the "buying guy" of the small shop in order to achieve a more profound ideal than making money: changing the unhealthy image of the waste recycling industry, educating the public to sort out the rubbish and promoting environmental protection.

In 2005, Zhong Xuelin resolutely abandoned his highly paid position and participated with his colleague Tan Weijie in the first "Hongkong youth entrepreneurship plan" organized by the Hongkong Youth Association. Experts were taught the entrepreneurial experience and received a loan of HK $80 thousand, plus a large sum of savings of two people. The company established the waste recycling company limited, and opened the first recycling point in Ngau Tau Kok the following year. "We want to be entrepreneurs, not just looking at money, but doing something that has an impact on people." Zhong Xuelin said.

Heng Rui general store is located in a quiet street in Ngau Tau Kok, because the rent is relatively cheap. Compared with other recycling stores, Heng Rui is more neat and tidy. It also stores the types and prices of materials that can be recycled. Fair price and fair trade make Heng Rui appreciated by customers.

On the morning of the reporter's visit, the patronage followed, with the majority of housewives and elders. They are skilled in putting waste on scales, collecting money by weight, and putting waste into the large cages for classification.

"Many of our customers are households, who account for 6 to 7 of the total number of customers." Generally, the main source of the recycling shop is from the scavengers and cleaners. Zhong Xuelin has created a new group of customers. It is more important to inject the concept of garbage classification into the daily life of ordinary citizens.

　 Hard work pays dividends, not forget to give back to society.

Sorting waste, sending waste paper to recycle yard, collecting accounts... At the beginning of entrepreneurship, Zhong Xuelin and his partner had to do everything by force. "When you start your business, you can't get 5 days off in a year, that's all. No business, just to make a living." Looking back at the past, Zhong Xue Lin felt the taste in his heart.

Silently cultivated, will eventually return. Heng Rui started a year and a half after opening up to a break even. In 2009, he set up recycling points in Kwai Fong. In 2010, Zhong Xuelin and Tan Wei Jie beat young entrepreneurs from all over the world, including the United States and Russia, and won the green Entrepreneur Award, which was awarded by the youth entrepreneurship international program. Their contribution to the environmental protection industry was affirmed.

Zhong Xuelin and Tan Weijie did not forget to take up social responsibilities and make use of their own advantages in the industry to cooperate with social welfare institutions to help those vulnerable groups who earn their living by picking up junk.

　 Poverty changes.

15 years after returning to the motherland, Hongkong has undergone several changes. international financial crisis For many citizens and even big businesses, it is a great shock.

"I looked at the cheque that I got from the paper. After deducting the rent and salary, my partner and I had no income for the whole month." Zhong Xuelin said that later they took the opportunity to transform themselves and no longer rely solely on recycling waste paper as the main source of income.

Recently, Heng Rui specializes in recycling waste electronic and electrical materials and rare earth metals. He rented a Arts crafts emporium unit in Kwai Chung for a workshop, and spent more than 200 thousand HK dollars to acquire two machines to prepare for the new business.

"Why transformation? Because the original plan could not be implemented. Ideal is one thing. Reality is one thing. We have to pay wages and rent. " Constant change is the way for business people to survive. Zhong Xuelin played the role of "poverty changing and changing rules".

The figures of the Hongkong Youth Association show that as of 2011, the Hongkong youth entrepreneurship programme has supported more than 150 young people to create 97 businesses, of which 70% are still operating and 64% have been operating for more than 3 years.

Last year, a group of local youth who participated in the plan set up the "Hongkong youth entrepreneurship network". They are committed to contacting young entrepreneurs in 33 regions, including the mainland, and promoting mutual communication. As chairman of the Internet, Zhong Xuelin believes that young entrepreneurs need to be encouraged by the same people to continue to promote the spirit of youth entrepreneurship.

More than 6 years of entrepreneurship, the title of "boss" has not brought huge profits to Zhong Xuelin, and even to develop his business, he dare not save extra pocket money for himself. Speaking of the future, his goal is to set up a large refinery to extract rare earth metals from waste electrical appliances.

"From a small shop, now there are factories, see progress in all aspects, very happy." In the process of starting a business, there are hardships, happiness, ups and downs, ups and downs, and the sight of heart and soul.