"At a very young age, my parents deliberately cultivated my ability to live independently." Xi Huilin grew up in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, in a high-level intellectual family, because her parents always traveled, "I often wore a key chain around my neck and stayed at home with my younger brother, who was 4 years younger than me." Xi Huilin clearly remembers that when she was 4 years old, her mother was going to give birth to a younger brother, and her father was out of town on business, so she was the one who opened the door to take care of things. As grandma and grandpa's family in Beijing, 10 years old, Xi Huilin in the summer and winter vacations with her brother, traveling between Xi'an and Beijing on the train. "I was born with a heroic spirit." Xi Huilin said.
"I have been designing my own life goals since I was a child, hoping to grow up earlier than others, work earlier, and succeed earlier." So, Xi Huilin treasures her time so much that she started elementary school at age 4 and jumped into third grade six months later.
She not only excelled in her studies, but also in all other aspects of her life. She was the flag bearer of the school band in elementary school, the conductor of the choir in junior high school, and often took part in various competitions organized by the school, such as recitation, sports and dancing. Xi Huilin said, which laid the foundation for her future activities in school organization, as well as running a business.
At the age of 14, Xi Huilin was admitted to Beijing Normal University, becoming the youngest student in her class at the time. "I wanted to stand out from the crowd, I wanted to stand out from the rest." So, in the freshman conference, Xi Huilin dressed in a beautiful yellow jacket, coupled with their own 1.7 meters tall, attracted the attention of all teachers and students.
"People need to be brave to show themselves, only their own strong to help others." In the eyes of Xi Huilin, life is everywhere there are opportunities that need to be seized in time. "In the eyes of others, I may be out of touch." Xi Huilin said that during college, she spent most of her time in the library, while organizing students to find tutoring jobs.
So she graduated at 18 with degrees in foreign language and literature and international trade, and was proud that she earned her own bus tickets to and from home during those years.
After graduation Xi Huilin became a lecturer in international business economics at the Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology. In her spare time she utilized her foreign language skills to translate books for publishers and work as a tour guide for foreign tour groups.
When she did simultaneous translation for foreign enterprises' investment promotion meetings in China, she won a lot of favorable comments from foreign businessmen. Several foreign companies have taken the initiative to ask her to represent them in the Chinese market.
Xi Huilin was moved. In spite of her parents' opposition, she threw away her "iron rice bowl" and set up her own company --- "Jizida Economic and Trade Co. Ltd.", for the production of medical equipment for five foreign enterprises in the Chinese market agent. More than a year, the company, for her to earn 1 million yuan.
"For those who speak good English, it is a waste not to go abroad"; "I am used to traveling since I was a child, and I hope very much that I can have the sky and the earth at my disposal." These two reasons make 22-year-old Xi Huilin with 20,000 U.S. dollars to break into the U.S. Wall Street, began the creation of her business miracle. One summer in 1993, the plane landed in the United States, Chicago International Airport, Xi Huilin took a look at this strange place, determined, "I want to challenge myself to conquer the Americans, to climb up here to the paradise of knowledge and business."
"Opportunity always favors those who are ready at the right time". Xi Huilin's persistence made her the lucky one of the times. That year, she set up a joint company with First Chicago Bank's First Option in both New York and Chicago, providing asset management services for a number of private and state-owned companies in China. In the U.S. as many as the hair of the daily life and death of the enterprise, this small company, although unobtrusive, but for Xi Huilin is really the most important step in life, but also a new starting point, she began to have the first exciting insomnia.
From then on, the young woman's footsteps gradually accelerated towards capital. Based in Hong Kong, the center of business in Asia, and in California's Silicon Valley, she founded and runs Gardism Investments, which manages Chinese companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and their inbound investments. As expected, the company went public within two years, and Xi, like many of her successful contemporaries, struck her first gold in the stock market.
By 1997, at age 27, Xi had amassed $10 million. And that's when she started thinking about a new beginning. She chose to go back to China, and in 1998, when the world's Internet fever reached China, she chose Internet multimedia education and set up the Campus Online Education Group. And this made her inadvertently become the first person of online education in China. "I felt that I should put my dream of becoming an education entrepreneur and all my business experience into very harmonious play, so I chose education, and online education at that." Xi Huilin said.
The Campus Online Group's main business, number one, is multimedia English learning. Xi Huilin and the world's top-ranked Pearson Education Group signed the exclusive agency rights in China to promote Longman Success English. The multimedia product is the result of 10 years of research and development by Longman at a cost of 50 million dollars.
"With this well-known brand, you have the tools to get rich." Xi Huilin said confidently.
In order to promote her products and the concept of lifelong learning, over the past few years, she has traveled to more than 1,000 schools and colleges across the country, providing a large amount of distance learning equipment and funds for those students in poor areas without compensation. She has always believed that changing society starts from changing education, and changing education starts from changing children. Doing what she can to improve the teaching conditions of children in poor areas is one way to realize her dream of education in addition to pursuing business interests.
When she was 26 years old, Xi Huilin traveled to all the big cities in her country, "having the wealth is having the desired life." Xi Huilin after work will drive his sports car gallop, will go to live can get the stars of the mountaintop cabin.
"I was worried that a life of ease would sap my will, so I rented out my carefully furnished house and lived on my own in a rented room." Xi Huilin often deliberately seeks out challenges, for which she has traveled to Tibet three times.
Xi Huilin finds her greatest joy in giving speeches to college students. Her ideal future life is to become a teacher in a university, and in addition, to adopt many more poor children in mountainous areas.