At that time, he had his mind set on becoming an official, and wanted to take Li Zehou's aesthetics graduate school, and later wanted to take Fei Xiaotong's sociology graduate school. But for some reason, he didn't make it in the end.
In 1989, it was "going abroad fever", Yang Zongyi also wanted to go abroad, and reportedly passed the TOEFL exam, and was admitted to the University of Pittsburgh.
But in the end, he did not go abroad, some people say that because the situation has changed, and others say that the family to prevent him from going out.
After barely working in the unit for another year, Yang Zongyi resigned and decided to go to Hainan to make a breakthrough.
But in Hainan, he is also high not low. A month of suffering, he used only a little money left, bought a return ticket.
On the plane, he met a Singaporean boss, the two talked very much. When they parted ways, the other invited him to join his company.
In 1991, Yang Zongyi went to work for the Singaporean boss at the terminal equipment company in Jinan, Shandong Province. The next year, he was sent to Nanjing to work as a salesman for color monitors.
He often rode a bicycle to make deliveries and dealt with all the computer companies on Zhujiang Road in Nanjing. At that time, Zhujiang Road was a famous electronics street, the industry has "Zhongguancun in the north, Zhujiang Road in the south," said.
Once, Yang Zongyi went to collect a sum of 50,000 yuan in arrears. After arriving, he found that the other side set up a table of gross bills. But he still held back his anger, sat down and counted one by one. Two hours later, when he left, a wild laugh came from behind.
At the end of 1995, Yang Zongyi was not willing to work for others, not far from Nanjing Zhujiang Road, Taiping North Road, opened a computer company called "Fuzhong", an area of less than 20 square meters, only three employees.
It is said that the meaning of "Fuzhong" is "Fuze people in the meaning of the family".
After a few years on Zhujiang Road, Yang Zongyi knew that consumers had many concerns about buying computers.
At that time, the price of compatible machines is cheap, but the quality is not guaranteed, the merchants at most committed to "half a year replacement, half a year warranty". The brand-name machines are good quality and too expensive, a machine is not moving to one or two million dollars, many consumers can not afford.
So, he introduced the "3 + 3" service: computer parts within three years of natural damage, free replacement, after three years of repair. This will be the computer warranty period from the original 1 year, extended to 6 years.
This move immediately caused a huge reaction. In fact, Yang Zongyi did the math, the normal life of the computer in 7 to 8 years, "3 + 3" service is not a substantial risk.
In that year, the sales revenue of Fuzhong was up to more than 40 million yuan. 2001, Fuzhong out of Jiangsu, opened more than 200 franchises across the country, with more than 1,000 employees and annual sales of more than 1 billion yuan.
Yang Zongyi also in the internal cultivation of the so-called "sales wolf culture". He once said: "I hope that through training, everyone will be armed to the teeth, think others dare not think, do others dare not do, eat others dare not eat the bitter, into others dare not become a thing."
He called himself the most diligent boss on the Pearl River Road, 365 days a year, in addition to the Spring Festival 4 days of vacation, in addition to business trips, he will appear in the office, every night of the middle leadership of the head-to-head meeting, he will also be on time.
There is a saying circulating inside Fuzhong: "A woman in Fuzhong is a man, and a man in Fuzhong is a superman".
In 2003, Yang Zongyi decided to enter the field of commercial real estate. He bought the Jindu Hotel in Nanjing Xinjiekou and transformed it into Fuchong Cyberport.
Next, he entered the field of medical devices, acquiring the Nanjing New Technology Application Research Institute under the Nanjing Science and Technology Bureau to carry out research on medical microwave technology.
He also ventured into the development of industrial parks in Xuanwu, Jiangning and Pukou districts of Nanjing.
In May 2012, Yang Zongyi donated 10 million yuan to build the Yang Zongyi Building at Nanjing University. At the inauguration ceremony, he recalled his study experience in the Chemistry Department of Nanjing University 30 years ago and his entrepreneurial journey after graduation, expressing his gratitude to his alma mater and giving back to it.
From 2015 to 2018, Yang Zongyi has been on the rich list every year. in 2018, his wealth value on the rich list is 4 billion yuan.
In the "2019 Jiangsu Top 100 Private Enterprises" list, Fuchong Group is ranked 13th.
As reported by local media in Jiangsu at the time, Fuchong has developed into a diversified and globalized conglomerate with more than 30,000 employees, more than 100 subsidiaries, 4 overseas intercontinental headquarters, 8 industries, and 12 regional groups.In 2018, Fuchong's annual sales exceeded 80 billion yuan.
Now look, these data or not, achievements or not, it is likely to be just a mirage, like a dream like electricity like a bubble.
In May 2020, Fuzhong Group Sichuan Co., Ltd. was listed as an executor for breach of trust by the local court in Sichuan, and Yang Zongyi, the actual controller, was restricted from high consumption.
By November, Jiangsu Yangzhou police issued a notice that Jiangsu Fuxin Wealth Asset Management Co. Ltd. is suspected of violating the law, and Yang Zongyi, as the actual controller of Fuxin, has been taken by the police to take criminal compulsory measures according to law.
Hulalah building will fall. And in 2018, Yang Zongyi had also won the "40 years of reform and opening up? The most respected Su businessmen meritorious figures" title.
When the official WeChat public number of Fuzhong Group released this news, it commented, "Founder, businessman, entrepreneur, vice chairman of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, and a doctorate in economics from Peking University, among the many titles, Chairman Yang Zongyi attaches the most importance to a doctorate in economics."
Yang Zongyi believes that all successful enterprises are the earliest to enter the rise of the market, entrepreneurs do any business and any industry, must seize the historical opportunity. Fuzhong is to seize such a historical opportunity to grow up gradually.
"And to know where the market is and where the time opportunities are, the precise judgment and forward-looking prediction brought by economics is a must for success."
When Fuzhong Group was shortlisted in the "2019 Jiangsu Top 100 Private Enterprises" list, Yang Zongyi summarized the success experience in this way: "Every enterprise in the process of development must adjust itself with the changes in the market environment, and the only constant is change. "
Nowadays, the headquarters of Fuzhong Group (located in Fuzhong Hi-Tech Industrial Park, No. 699, Xuanwu Avenue, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, China) is a cold place in front of the car. Even on weekdays, you can't see many people going to and from work. Only on weekends (occasional weekdays), the industrial park will sometimes gather a group of elderly people in front of the door, demanding that the Fuzhong Group to return the money.
Around 2000, Yang Zongyi attended a reunion, and when he handed his business card to his classmates from NTU who hadn't been in touch for many years, many of them were surprised that they thought he was still delivering goods on a bicycle, and they didn't realize that the famous Fuzhong Group was owned by him.
Later, Yang Zongyi accepted the media interview, not without emotion, said, really should thank the company that let him point a gross ticket for the afternoon, without them, he may still be in the delivery.
I don't know how to evaluate Yang Zongyi's friends in Nanjing. "Fuzhong", really did "Fuze people in the intention of ten thousand families"?