The first doctoral degree in computer science trained in China, and the founder of Neusoft, China's first publicly traded software company. As the chairman of Neusoft Group
Born in August 1955 in Dandong City, Liaoning Province, he graduated from the Northeast Institute of Technology in 1980, majoring in computer applications, and went to the U.S. in 1986 to study at the National Laboratory for Computer Systems of the Computer Research Institute of the National Bureau of Standards. He was the first doctoral degree in computer application trained in China, and was promoted to professor at the age of 33, one of the youngest professors in the country at that time. He now wears many hats: member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), chairman and president of Neusoft Corporation, chairman of Shenyang Neusoft Software Co., Ltd. and vice president of Northeastern University, director of the National Engineering Research Center for Computer Software, vice president of the China Software Industry Association, and vice president of the Internet Society of China.......
In 1988, the Northeastern Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Software and Network Engineering Research Laboratory was established, Liu Jiren just came back from abroad full of ambition to join the Research Laboratory, but the reality is despairing: one and a half of the Research Laboratory room, three broken computers, the funding is penniless. At that time, Liu Jiren could not face to do business, so Liu Jiren's first goal was not to do business, but to try to do a technology transfer center, the slogan is "to build a bridge between the school research and the social application". As a result, after a period of time, one of the biggest problems is the conflict between ideals and reality, there are not many enterprises living well, they do not have money, who can give Liu Jiren money to spend. And all desperately do short-term, so then forced Liu Jiren himself tried to set up such a long-term ideal company, Liu Jiren's own technology transfer to this company, and then slowly do up. The biggest problem is still no money, do a period of time Liu Jiren very frustrated. Although Liu Jiren was a doctor who stayed in the United States, and at the age of 33, he was promoted from a lecturer to the youngest professor in the country at that time, Liu Jiren still did not have the money to do what he wanted to do. One day, the university notified Liu Jiren of a meeting, saying that Japan's Alpine Co. had come to China to
People's recent photos (12) to check out, hoping to find a research group to undertake a software system inside a car, and to collaborate with Northeastern University on mechatronics. Liu Jiren made a presentation as one of the representatives like the others. Liu Jiren talked about some of his views on this research program, which at the time energized the Japanese, who thought Liu Jiren's presentation was unheard of. After the meeting, the Japanese said that they wanted to cooperate with Liu Jiren and wanted him to go to Japan to talk about this topic. Liu Jiren was embarrassed and told him that he had no money, not even for the airfare. So they paid for the whole trip and invited Liu Jiren to Japan to talk about this topic. This trip to Japan led to the cooperation between Northeastern University and Alpine. This was the first step taken by Liu Jiren and his team at Neusoft. When seeing Alpine has the intention to cooperate, when it comes to the development of funds, Liu Jiren gritted his teeth and opened a sky-high price - 300,000 U.S. dollars. I did not expect the other side agreed, but let Liu Jiren some surprise. In fact, Liu Jiren's company equipment is not good, there are not a few people, can show that Liu Jiren's scientific research capabilities; followed by entrepreneurial hunger and passion, a group of professors were scolded to do immodest, but also day and night to do. Liu Jiren insisted on honesty. When Liu Jiren cooperated with the Japanese, no money means no money, where it does not work is not. Alpine people questioned Liu Jiren people, said Liu Jiren people will not operate, Liu Jiren very frankly, Liu Jiren people are university professors, really not. Liu Jiren does not like to overstate the case.
Attendance at the event meeting (20 photos) Scholars and people who engage in business are essentially not very different. For example, if you want to be a professor, you have to think about how fast you can become a professor; if you compare it to a business, it's the speed of your business growth and turnover. In fact, Liu Jiren began not very willing to do business, the psychology is still very rejected. This psychology is reflected in the initial establishment of the entity called Dongda Alpine Software Research Institute, rather than call it a company. But in the registration, not a company can not be registered, then Liu Jiren reluctantly in the Institute behind a bracket - plus "Limited". But the real use of the time but rarely add that bracket. And Liu Jiren has always been to do academics, do research, and now to make money and open the company, frankly speaking, the psychology of self-doubt is very heavy. And at the beginning of the venture, Liu Jiren in addition to R & D almost nothing. For example, do not understand finance, the accountant said "this equipment is worth 10,000 this year, next year can only be 5,000 counted as depreciation" reason, Liu Jiren always do not understand. In order to understand the five thousand dollars in the end where to go, Liu Jiren turned over a lot of financial books. Liu Jiren's idea was not only to live, but also to eat. At that time, no one believed that Northeastern University, Shenyang people can engage in software. In order to establish an image, Liu Jiren had to establish offices in Beijing and Shanghai. When people asked Liu Jiren where the company was from, Liu Jiren stammered and said that Liu Jiren was from Beijing or Shanghai. Most of the employees had just graduated from college and had very little training time. Liu Jiren has no requirements for these young people, the only requirement is to allow them to make mistakes and allow them to waste. Liu Jiren gave each of them a few thousand dollars to live in hotels of less than three stars and buy a bicycle to visit customers from morning to night. And the list of customers made a form, which is visited, which has the potential to need public relations, are labeled. This experience was quickly copied and standardized among these young people. The market value of Neusoft Group is now around 15 billion dollars, and at high times it may be more than 20 billion dollars, in which Northeastern University owns at least 3 billion dollars of assets. It is quite a rare thing for a university to invest in a company that can get so many assets. When there are now billions of dollars of wealth contributed to Northeastern University, the voice of the original accusation of Liu Jiren is no longer at all. A few years ago, the school let a long time "not work" Liu Jiren went back to report on his duties, hot irony and cold ridicule have disappeared, he unexpectedly won the cadres above the middle level dozens of times of unceasing applause.
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When people began to do outsourcing, Liu Jiren decided to go back to school, into the field of education. 2000, Dalian Neusoft College of Information was established in 2001, Neusoft in Nanhai, Guangdong, and two years later in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, respectively, set up a software college, completing the layout of the whole country. By 2004, these three colleges had 20,000 students, and in addition to meeting Neusoft's own needs, they also cultivated a large number of software talents for society. Liu Jiren participates in the conference "The Way of Solution Integration"
On the surface, although education is listed as one of Neusoft's major business divisions, it will not be able to bring much profit to Neusoft in the short term. And Neusoft's investment in education is huge: Dalian Institute of Information, for example, has a campus with 350,000 square meters of floor space, more than 30 full-time foreign teachers, air-conditioning in all buildings, projection in 90 percent of classrooms, and more than 30,000 wireless hotspots all over campus, all of which are no less impressive than those at major universities. Many people within the company were puzzled by Liu Jiren's decision, and even said that he was caught up in a "campus complex". In fact, as early as before 1995, Liu Jiren accompanied the national leaders to India and Ireland to visit the circle, has already had a deep impression of the lack of Chinese software talent. At that time, in order to ensure an adequate supply of talents, Neusoft had taken the approach of customizing graduates in cooperation with Northeastern University. Therefore, he felt that education is the key to open up the whole software industry chain in China, and the "talent shortage" in the software outsourcing industry nowadays has also confirmed his judgment. Here, art has given him great inspiration: it is not important whether a single color looks good or not, the key is to look at the overall final effect. The same applies to education. While others run education for the sake of teaching and educating people, Liu Jiren's thinking on education is different - although education itself is limited in terms of making money, if it is combined with Neusoft's core software business, it can greatly enhance Neusoft's brand and bring more business opportunities. Liu Jiren believes that viewing schools as customers is a better bridge to build with them. Through this approach, Liu Jiren made education a platform built by Neusoft and an important part of the company's entire business system. Since then, more and more multinational companies have chosen to cooperate with Neusoft because of its strong ability in talent cultivation. In his view, education is his ideal, but now it is also definitely a major opportunity in a business sense. In June 2004, Neusoft will celebrate its 15th birthday, and the company, which was once described as not knowing "who I am," is likely to become the first domestic software company with more than 10,000 employees. The company was once said to know "who I am", but is likely to become the first domestic software company with more than 10,000 employees. He feels that Neusoft today still can't be Microsoft, but at least it can learn from IBM and be a SolutionProvider. In 2005, due to the conflict with Neusoft's solution positioning, Liu Jiren sold Abacus, a financial software company he had acquired six years earlier. In Liu Jiren's view, what to do or not to do, grasp what opportunity to give up what temptation, between obsession and speculation, the key is still to see their own sense of the whole.
It is true that over the past 18 years, Neusoft, under the leadership of Liu Jiren, has taken a very unique path: in the years when software was still unsellable, it put forward the concept of combining software and product engineering, and implanted Neusoft's software into the world's major brands of car stereos, cell phones and even CT machines in hospitals; entered the Japanese market at an early stage, realizing the transnational operation of Chinese software enterprises; and foresaw the talent bottleneck in China's software industry at an early stage, and then sold Neusoft to Abacus. Foreseeing the talent bottleneck in China's software industry, he took the lead in opening Neusoft Information Engineering Schools in Dalian, Chengdu and Beihai to cultivate software talents. ...... Liu Jiren's actions were unintelligible and incomprehensible at the time, but a few years later, they made people come to their senses.
Attendance (8 photos) As Liu Jiren's good friend, management guru Kenichi Ohmae has witnessed Neusoft's growth, and every time he comes to China or Liu Jiren goes to Japan, the two have in-depth exchanges. Kenichi Ohmae appreciates the concept of "Beyond Technology" put forward by Liu Jiren: "As Liu Jiren said, to go beyond technology is to create an 'ecosystem' that can achieve a ****-win situation, which is what I've learned from any business book I've read in my 35 years of management consulting. This is an innovative concept that I have not seen in any business book in my 35 years in management consulting." It is said that every time Liu Jiren goes out to meet a client, he says very directly, "Look, I can bring you this value, what value can you bring me?" In 2009, when the economic crisis was raging and companies were hugging each other through the winter, Liu Jiren did a few big things: Neusoft set up a European company and increased its expansion efforts in the United States. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire Dalian Huaxin, the second-ranked software outsourcing company in China, Neusoft decisively acquired 100% of the shares of three cell phone software companies under Finland's Sesca, which is expected to cost up to 12 million euros. Neusoft's new software park in Dalian sits on two hills, connected by a bridge in the middle. The grayish-brown stone facade, together with the domed complex, resembles a castle, which was also Liu Jiren's idea. In the past years, he did not take the ordinary road; in the future, he will lead Neusoft to continue to go so far.