Beauty CEO Chen Xiaowei'S Vanity Life

She has a brilliant resume: he entered the youth class at University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 5, received a doctorate from University of Pittsburgh at the age of 26, and became a host for five years after he entered the CCTV at the age of 28, and then served as a consultant at McKinsey New York headquarters.

But sometimes you have to admit that a brilliant resume is not as impressive as a moment in a real person.

"What do you think of the phrase" life is long and we have to keep our resume short? "

I don't know what a philosopher said, I respect the philosopher, but I can only admit that my idea is just the opposite: life is too short to make our resume as long as possible.

Chen Xiaowei's resume is rated as "brilliant": he entered the youth class at University of Science and Technology of China at the age of 15; he received a doctorate degree in biochemistry from the age of 26 at the age of 26. He entered CCTV at the age of 28 and became a host for five years. He hosted a series of activities including the return of Hongkong, the return of Macao, the national day's 50th anniversary grand ceremony, and the 2001 APEC conference in Shanghai, and interviewed countless political figures, such as Bill Clinton, former president of the United States (JimmyCarter), Ted Turner (TedTurner) of the former US president of University of Science and Technology of China (CNN), and Yang Zhiyuan (JerryYang), one of the founders of the Yahoo Corp. Later, she was a consultant in the media and medicine industry at McKinsey New York headquarters, and is now the general manager of China network.

But after touching with Chen Xiaowei, she gradually filtered out this resume, because she had more touching things than it did.

It's a vanity, but it can be a driving force. The first time she saw her, her body was unexpected and petite. Her voice was so unexpected and round and soft that she could not help asking her accompanying staff: "is your Chen always speaking so softly in the office?"

Chen Xiaowei smiled. She acted with a restrained sense of propriety. "You are the first to say I am gentle."

At that time, the waiter asked her to order. She asked for a carrot juice, then slowly and steadfastly looked at the waiter and said, "no sugar, no more."

Such a small interlude answers my question just now: gentle is just her voice, in fact, she is very strict, strict, and speaks directly and clearly.

Frankly speaking, "frankly speaking, I was a vain girl since I was a child. I hope others will see my cleverness."

So though I like literature very much, I still choose science.

Because in that era, it was generally believed that smart children learn science.

Of course, the topic of the "Tan" is no longer around her teenage class. Her "learning experience" is really curious, but she did not expect Chen Xiaowei's answer to start with "vanity". She did not even think that the reason why she even jumped four from primary school to high school was because she was not in good health.

When Chen Xiaowei was born, she had congenital heart disease. The doctor said she would not live for 20 years without a knife.

Since childhood, her parents have been preparing for this "surgery": after the thoracic surgery, at least one year of rest at home can not go to school, that year will affect her homework.

Because of this worry, Chen Xiaowei began to skip the grade and prepare for cardiac surgery.

After jumping a grade, the homework not only did not pull down, but on the class leader, mother said it would jump again.

This left jump one level, right jump one level, jumped four, and then the heart was also miraculously good.

At the age of 15, she was faced with the problem of university entrance examination.

"People say that the Chinese Academy of Sciences is difficult to test.

Since so many people say it is difficult, then I have to go to the exam. "

In the fourth year of her youth class, she went to University of Pittsburgh and got her doctorate degree in molecular genetics and biochemistry. Later, she went to University of California to pursue postdoctoral research in anthropology. She won the US Government Research Fund Award for two consecutive years. She was the only one who got the award alone. Everyone admitted that she was a smart woman.

Chen Xiaowei is like a little girl who struggles for the best. After rushing to the top of the mountain, she has no interest in taking advantage of the mountain.

In fact, I like science, just like a husband and wife who love each other.

When I was in the lab, I did the same work mechanically every day, doing things I didn't like, including washing the tube and washing the beaker, just like washing my feet for a husband I didn't like.

She wrote a long letter to her mother, "when I opened the drawer, I felt that except for a diploma and a marriage certificate, all the rest was waste paper."

She felt that she should take the road she had always liked.

When she gets married, she has her own breathing space. She looks at Chen Xiaowei's resume and feels that she should be "first to become a family," but when she was 22 years old, she got married.

I will marry her if he is willing to marry me.

Chen Xiaowei said with a rare joke.

Later, he explained in earnest: "he is a man who is pure in heart. He is willing to give me lots of breathing space and his own space.

For example, I was going back to work in Beijing.

After deciding to split up with Dr. title and scientific research, Chen Xiaowei chose to go back to Beijing and work as a behind the scene reporter at CCTV foreign center's foreign language department.

As a returnee and temporary worker, she did not have the opportunity to be a reporter on CCTV, let alone a host. But Chen Xiaowei changed the rule. Eventually, she had an interview program called "SundayTopics", which interviewed countless world leaders. The most famous one was her interview with Clinton and the famous question: "which one do you think is more difficult in comparison with President Jiang?"

The interview with Chen Xiaowei is somewhat difficult. She seems to be very concerned about these people's glare. Many details are supplemented by the staff on the side. She seems to care more about what is not done. For example, when she was in junior high school, she did not win the first prize when she was in the National English speaking contest.

Perhaps, in Chen Xiaowei's eyes, life is not as big as the setbacks that need to be engraved, nor is it worth standing in the past. What she says is only a small and small moment.

It is not that her life is more plain sailing than others, and there is no setback, but for her, the setbacks in life are only the price that must be paid to the road of dreams. If so, why should we never forget it?

After completing the 50th anniversary live broadcast of the founding of the people's Republic of China, Chen Xiaowei ended her CCTV program back to the United States because she was pregnant.

From the second years since her return, almost every time she called or met, her husband kept expressing hope that she would return to the United States.

"He was very reluctant to be separated for so long, but he respected my will and understood my longing and belief, and he supported me on this point.

I work in Beijing for three weeks, do six programs, and then return to the United States for 32 weeks to come to Beijing. I have been dragging away for two years and I feel I owe him a lot. So I decided to go back first.

Marriage is such a relationship that couples should understand each other and give in to each other.

But more touching, there was a visit to the United States to visit relatives. He went to work. I saw a CD in the stereo. I put it on my hand. It was a female voice I liked very much. It sang: "Jesse, comehome, here is very lonely."

I just want to feel what he feels when he listens to this song alone. I think I owe him too much.

After Chen Xiaowei gave birth to his daughter, he made a media company in the United States for a while, and then found that raising a daughter was a lot of money.

"Before I had my daughter, I was totally interested in things, and I was a person who had no need for material, so long as life was enough.

After having a daughter, I found that the children were dressed, dine, and educated.

Everything costs money.

So she went to McKinsey's New York headquarters office to do consultant.

It's simple, but it's best for you to say that Chen Xiaowei is conservative or open.

If you only look at her resume, it may be easy to make a judgement. She is an open and courageous person. She has gone through so many career roles: scientists, hosts, management consultants and general manager of IT company.

When she talked face to face with her, she found that she was very firm in her own style.

She has only been looking for a hair for many years, including when she was in the United States, she had to keep her hair back to Beijing to find the hairdresser to trim it. She had a fixed makeup artist. When we asked her to try the new makeup artist, though she agreed, she wanted to try makeup first.

When she tried makeup, she was very polite, but she said to the make-up artist directly, "I like this", "I'm sorry, I don't think this is suitable for me"; try clothes, she will also very clearly say: "I like this very much", "OK, I think I can try this," is still used in her very gentle but affirmative tone: "I think the simple style is the most suitable for me."

Her work experience in McKinsey completely reversed her direction in life.

"Before doing scientific research and doing media, the word" business "has never been stained with me.

The biggest gain in McKinsey is that I learned to do business thinking.

One of the most useful things is to find out the difference. Don't try hard to be the first in a crowded market. We should find another way to make the first difference on different roads.

In June of 2005, Chen Xiaowei joined the CN and became a professional manager. He found another way for CN to be different from other web sites. The first Nasdaq listed company in China's Internet industry retook the first place in 7 years.

Chen Xiaowei responded to her statement that she had decided to work in Zhonghua network and many people thought it was risky. "Chunghwa has more opportunities. I like to work in challenging places. I like to learn new things and accept new challenges constantly.

From this perspective, I think I choose the least risk.

Yes, I am very persistent. I have been committed to learning new things at any time. "

She has another thing she insists on doing all the time: let everyone in the company call her "Xiaowei" instead of "Chen".

In fact, after so many professional roles, "Xiaowei" has always been her favorite name, "so I think it's me."

At first, everyone in the company called me Chen. I would look back and think for a moment.

But I didn't tell them directly, don't call me Chen, call me Xiaowei.

I wrote "Xiaowei" to every E-mail that I wrote to them, hoping that they could be changed imperceptibly, calling me Xiaowei.

During a few days of filming interviews, the staff mentioned several times about Xiaowei's "Hawaii itinerary", hoping to complete all interviews, shooting and confirmation work.

Xiao Wei explained herself generously: "this is my private vacation with my husband and daughter. I will not be able to see a computer or a cell phone during this time."

"Then can you afford to work?"

"Of course.

When I was working in Beijing, I could not think of husband or child completely. It sounds a bit cruel, but it also means that I can completely leave my work on vacation with my family. I like to arrange life in this way.

Epilogue: when we released this article, we learned that Chen Xiaowei had resigned as executive director, inspector general, authorized representative and President of CDC due to other development opportunities and was approved.