Ren Zhengfei is an extremely low-key person, and we rarely see his interviews in retrospect, but he said in a CCTV interview in 2019 that he was not a "national hero" and self-derided as a "bear". Netizens praised him as a real wise man, who doesn't care about fame and fortune, acts in a low-key manner, pays more attention to the strength of the company, and is a person who really does business.
In a 2019 interview**, there is a close-up of Ren Zhengfei's office desktop: there is an ordinary enamel teacup. This enamel teacup has been with him for many years, he uses it to drink tea and medicine, and he never thought of changing it.
In addition, Ren Zhengfei has been interviewed or publicly stated only a handful of times, according to relevant reports, since the establishment of Huawei, he has been interviewed no more than 10 times. He doesn't care about the praise and disapproval of him, these are all things outside of his body to him.
Ren Zhengfei seems to be mysterious, but on the contrary, it may be easier to meet him in life. Huawei employees can often see him in the cafeteria, queuing up to eat together, and passers-by will see him taking a subway taxi or train alone.
He has repeatedly expressed his disgust at business leaders in all walks of life and their burden of success: "Don't always think about the glory of being a leader, don't put heavy slogans and burdens on your back, what is the use of honor for us." ”
So how much money does Ren Zhengfei have?Why is he not on the rich list?Ma Yun once said that Ren Zhengfei was too low-key, so he didn't know at all.
But it can be said that Huawei's revenue last year was more than that of Tencent and Alibaba combined.
The reason why Huawei has only entered the field of vision of the general public in recent years is because it has always wanted to keep a low profile, but its strength does not allow it.
Although Ren Zhengfei claims that he is not a hero, he is actually a hero.
Ren Zhengfei was born in 1944, a special era when the Chinese people struggled for the establishment of New China, and people highly admired heroes and had a strong sense of family and country. He grew up listening to heroic stories, so to speak.
His father told him the story of the battle hero, and his mother told him the story of Hercules, and Ren Zhengfei planted the seed of a hero in his heart. So, after graduating from university, he went to work as a construction soldier for 14 years.
In the army, Ren Zhengfei worked as a technician, and at the age of 33, he developed a small instrument called "air pressure balance", which filled the blank field of China's instrument industry at that time. At the age of 34, he was elected as a representative of scientists in the army to participate in the National Science and Technology Conference.
After being discharged from the army, Ren Zhengfei went to work as deputy general manager of an electronics company, but he was cheated, dismissed and saddled with a debt of 2 million yuan. So, he helped his friends sell equipment to make ends meet. In the process of selling equipment, he found that China is passive in the program-controlled switch market, and almost all the communication equipment used in China depends on imports, and Ren Zhengfei, who has a hero complex, feels the importance of developing China's communications industry. With his strong patriotic enthusiasm and sensitivity and determination to defend the territory, he no longer simply bought and sold equipment, became a leading businessman, and began to start his own business.
In 1994, Huawei launched the C C08 machine, which gradually gained a firm foothold in the communications industry. But Ren Zhengfei is not satisfied, he said: "Ten years from now, the world's communications industry will be divided into three, and Huawei will have one." ”
Ren Zhengfei's ambitions don't stop there. He believes that Huawei must go abroad and take the initiative to attack in order to survive. Familiarize yourself with the market and win the market by constantly trying. In this way, we will not be defeated by those strong companies.
In 1996, Huawei began to enter the international market, using Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen as a base and migrating overseas. Starting from Laos, it has gradually expanded the Southeast Asian market, the Middle East, Africa and other markets, and won several large orders in the Thai market. After successfully expanding the market in developing countries, Huawei began to cooperate with Western European countries to continuously complete its internationalization deployment.
This is a miracle, a miracle made in China, and a microcosm of the 30-year development of China's technology industry.
Now Ren Zhengfei is 77 years old, he founded Huawei at the age of 43, is burdened with a debt of 2 million, divorces his wife, and lives in a small shack in Shenzhen with his family. He has no capital, no resources, and no connections and market experience, but none of these hardships have brought him down.
In 1991, Ren Zhengfei began to develop program-controlled switches on the third floor of a building in Shenzhen, when the company had only more than 50 people. This square area is not only a R&D base, a production workshop, a warehouse, but also a staff kitchen and dormitory. The beds are next to the wall, and even when the beds are not enough to sleep, they are made with foam boards. But Ren Zhengfei never feels bitter and tired, and often motivates employees: as long as we succeed in research and development, we will develop.
Ren Zhengfei has experienced childhood poverty and various setbacks, but still believes that as long as he works hard, he can achieve achievements. Not only was he not defeated by suffering, but he also seized the opportunity at that time, and with his enthusiasm and pure heart, he turned Huawei from a small workshop into a top 100 company in the world's top 500 companies, creating a miracle in the history of world enterprise development.
Ren Zhengfei started a business in middle age, and although he has reached retirement age, he still leads Huawei to develop step by step. It is Huawei that gives China more capital to compete with the rest of the world, and gives China the strength to dialogue with the world. Even if he does not recognize himself as a "national hero", in the hearts of every Chinese, he is our contemporary hero.
It is Ren Zhengfei's heroic complex that has made him what he is today, he doesn't care about fame and is not afraid of suffering, high debt, divorce from his wife, and middle-aged frustration can't hinder his enthusiasm, founded Huawei, developed chips, created the 5G era, and went from Shenzhen to the world.