Some time ago, a piece of news on the hot search:
Cao Dewang contributed 10 billion to build Fuyao University of Science and Technology.
In a screen full of entertainment celebrity topics, this phrase seems unobtrusive, and even many people do not have the desire to click on it.
Who is Cao Dewang?
He is the king of glass in China, Fuyao automobile glass to the world's first, step by step from scratch to tens of billions of dollars, and now 75 years old is still in the sea of business tossed.
There is a widely circulated saying that:
It is clear that his evaluation is very high.
But the controversy surrounding him over the years has never been small.
Put billions of assets are written in his wife's name, forcing the whole family to return the U.S. green card, insisting on running to the United States to build factories ......
Some people say he is stupid, some people say he is ruthless, and some people even scold him for pandering to foreigners and being a traitor.
In the domestic establishment of university entrepreneurs, Cao Dewang is not the first.
But the difference is that some people build private universities, training is commercialized, while Cao Dewang established a public university, can not make a profit. What he wants is to give the country the ability to produce top talent that can break foreign monopolies in certain fields.
While capitalists are chasing hot money, he is worried about the country's lack of really great front-line manufacturing technicians, which is not conducive to the sustainable development and upgrading of China's industries.
This initiative is entirely laudable, but unfortunately it failed to stir up any waves on the web.
And this isn't actually the first time Cao Dewang has donated money.
98 floods, he personally flew to the flood-hit areas of central China to visit, personally donated 3 million yuan;
08 Wenchuan earthquake, he rushed to the earthquake-stricken areas many times, has donated 20 million yuan;
2020 early, the new crown epidemic ravaged, he is not only the first to go around to raise supplies, but also the first to donate 100 million yuan, not enough to donate another 40 million after.
At every disaster juncture, he can almost always be seen.
From the first donation in 1983, as of 2020, Cao Dewang's personal donations totaled 12 billion.
How much money does he really have? The answer to this question, however, can turn most people's perceptions upside down.
The Fuyao Group, founded by Cao Dewang, is China's largest and the world's second-largest producer of automotive glass, but today the real industry is far less profitable than the Internet economy.
In fact, he's not even in the "rich" category.
In 2020, when China's Hurun Rich List was announced, Cao Dewang's personal wealth of $16.5 billion ranked only 325th.
But his actual personal donations are so far ahead of other entrepreneurs that they exceed his entire fortune.
For this reason, some people call him "China's top charity".
But Cao Dewang refused to do so:
It is rare to have a good heart and a sense of responsibility, and even more rare is that he has been low-profile and sober, and has a strong sense of national self-esteem.
In Cao Dewang's low-key life, there are two things that have caused a stir.
One is that he spent a billion dollars to build a factory in the United States; the other is that he warned his children not to inherit tens of billions of dollars of inheritance without surrendering their American citizenship.
At the end of 2016, Cao Dewang decided to invest $1 billion to build a factory in the U.S. This news caused a lot of controversy online.
Some people said:
Cao Dewang had publicly explained the reason for building a factory in the United States, but it still became a handle for many people to attack him.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand the reason:
The United States is the largest automobile manufacturer, if you build factories in the country, glass and then exported to the United States will need to pay high tariffs, local factories in foreign countries, there are subsidies from the local government, the cost is low and the profit is high.
Some companies are earning a lot of money from the people of the country, and then investing the money abroad.
But Fuyao, as one of the world's leading suppliers of automotive glass, has taken the exact opposite path, opening factories in the United States, Canada, Germany ......, and then investing the money it earns in the United States. And then invest the money earned in the country.
There are always people who worry that Cao Dewang, like many businessmen, will betray his home country and go to the developed world to enjoy himself once he earns money.
But what many people don't realize is that if he really wanted to be an American, he would have been one long ago.
In 1995, Cao Dewang chose to immigrate his family to the United States in order to sell Fuyao glass around the world, go to the United States to invest, and get a U.S. green card during this period.
Ten years later, Fuyao made it to the top of the world, and many people thought Fuyao Glass was an American company.
Cao Dewang, however, chose to return his US green card at this time, telling the Americans, "I'll give you back your green card, I don't want it."
And asked his wife and three children to go back to their home countries, one can not stay in the United States.
A lot of people spend their lives wanting things that he easily threw away.
Because in his mind: the glass of the Cao family, belongs to China.
Cao Dewang was once asked, what is an entrepreneur?
He said:
That's what he said, and that's really what he's always done.
Looking back on his life, Mr. Cao absolutely deserves the word "entrepreneur".
He was born in an era when the country was poor, and when he was a child, his family was so poor that he could only eat one meal a day.
He dropped out of school before graduating from elementary school, and became a cowherd, but insisted on self-education while herding cows.
15 years old began to do business, he sold tobacco, sold fruit, planted white fungus, did the glass buyer, until the reform and opening up, he contracted a glass factory, just one year, the factory from a loss into a big profit, and later it is the cause of all the way to take off, will be the glass industry development and expansion.
Because of personal encounters benefited from the development of the country, so Cao Dewang mouth often said:
"I do not do business for money, is for the country's prosperity. Because we are Chinese, the prosperity of our country depends on the efforts of our Chinese people themselves.
"It's not personal that I'm thinking about, because I've gone from being a small business owner to being a figure, possibly a historical figure in the future, to being responsible for the country."
He has always kept in mind that he is a Chinese entrepreneur, always always always remembers to give back to the community, and as long as there are charitable donations, there is always him.
In terms of feelings, Cao Dewang is also a clear stream.
His marriage to his wife, Chen Fengying, was not a love affair because of his parents' order, but the two of them have been honoring each other and supporting each other throughout their lives.
Chen Fengying was illiterate and didn't know how to manage a company, but Cao respected her so much that he even transferred all his assets to her name:
Probably, those who came out of poverty and suffering are better able to keep their original hearts.
Being poor does not shorten one's ambition, and being rich does not make one forgetful of one's kindness.
Whether it is to this country, society, or his wife, he has always been consistent, without shame.
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