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Chen Ailian, a girl who drove a tractor back then, is now worth billions
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Preface. From an open-top tractor to 100 billion yuan, Chen Ailian's turn is legendary.
This boss is also very generous to his employees. For those employees who have made great contributions to the company, Chen Ailian even directly sent luxury cars, often called"The owner of someone else's house"。
But who is this Chen Ailian? How did she make a comeback?
A strong woman in business.
In October 2023, Hurun's 23rd 100 Rich List was released, including Zhong Guanghui, Ma Huateng and other bigwigs, but there was also a couple that attracted people's attention.
The couple is Chen Ailian and her husband Wu Liangding, and they jointly made it to the Hurun Report with assets of 12.5 billion yuan, ranking 471st.
Although this ranking is not high, it is enough to prove the strength of Chen Ailian and his wife, Chen Ailian has become a well-deserved strong woman in people's mouths by virtue of her wealth in Wanfeng Auto Holding Group.
Chen Ailian's company is even more impressive, and although it sounds like an investment company from the name, it is actually a serious high-tech company.
The whole core of the company is advanced manufacturing, and it is with advanced manufacturing technology that Wanfeng Auto can open up a world in the prosperity of the domestic manufacturing industry.
Of course, the company's development to this day is also inseparable from Chen Ailian"Unique"The management style and method, she once said such a small thing in an interview.
At that time, the company was undergoing transformation and modernization, and at the same time, there were several major investment projects abroad.
Right now, as the chairman of Chen Ailian, we have to make the most critical decisions to get the company out of the predicament, embark on the right path, and control the lifeblood of the entire company.
Because of this, during this time, she would often wake up in her sleep, not knowing whether it was a nightmare or just stress, her husband would be very worried at this time, and Chen Ailing would respond easily.
In fact, the company is in such a difficult situation that Chen can only play the role of part of the decision-maker, and the most critical part is that the investment does not achieve the expected return.
However, fortunately, the money was successfully recovered in the end, and Wan Feng naturally faced the crisis, and during the entire crisis, Chen Ailian did not make any out-of-the-ordinary moves.
But when she woke up and slept alone, this little thing could show her concern for the company, a kind of heroic feeling, and this feeling of putting herself in Chen Ailian's shoes was also the key to the rise of her career.
With this spirit, Chen Ailian and her husband have also made Wanfeng Group bigger and bigger. Whenever she appears in the public eye, Chen Ailian always takes herself seriously, dresses up carefully, and is elegant and beautiful.
Chen Ailian's meticulous and serious approach to everything seems to be not surprising at all.
But no one would have thought that now on the Hurun Report, Chen Ailian's career is on the rise, and before that, he was a rural tractor driver.
From tractor drivers to female entrepreneurs.
In fact, Chen Ailian's strong femininity was already evident at a very young age.
At that time, Chen Ailian was still an ordinary laborer in the countryside. After graduating from high school, Chen Ailian returned to the team to join the production team and work with everyone.
However, Chen Ailian, who graduated from high school in the township, has already achieved very good results, so Chen Ailian naturally received an invitation from the team, whether it is a cashier or an accountant, Chen Ailian can be competent.
Shockingly, Chen Ailian gave up such an easy job and chose to work in the field. Her parents also didn't understand her actions, but in the end they respected Chen Ailian's idea and let her join the production team.
Chen Ailian is a girl, but she is not ambiguous at all when she works in the field, and she is not inferior to the boys in the team. So far, Chen Ailian has shown it"Strong woman"temperament.
His outstanding performance was also seen by the team leaders, and everyone was more determined to make Chen Ailian**, but because there was no suitable opportunity, this matter was delayed again and again.
With the gradual popularization of farm tools, in order to improve the production efficiency of the production team, Xinchang County distributed a tractor to the township to increase production.
After all, the tractor was still a new thing for people at that time, and the people in the team, let alone driving a tractor, saw a tractor for the first time, and it was unprecedented.
Therefore, the city can only organize a number of study classes and call on young people in the city to actively sign up. After Chen Ailian learned the news, she also hurriedly conveyed the name of the class.
But Chen Ailian was rejected because the municipality made it clear that they needed young men, that young women were not suitable for the job, and that driving a tractor required not only skill but also physical strength, which Chen Ailian could not meet the requirements.
Later, the team took the initiative to stand up, Chen Ailian was raised, and the study class promised to give Chen Ailian a place, everyone thought that a girl would not last long, but Chen Ailian's performance shocked everyone.
She performed very well and quickly mastered the basic essentials of operating a tractor, much better than many young people in the apprenticeship class, which made people let go of their prejudices against Chen Ailian and look up to her.
I just learned for a day, and the next day I got to practice, but unexpectedly no one dared to get on the tractor, after all, such a big guy, with a single-cylinder engine, the vibration is enough to shake people up.
What's more, the tractor only has a basic frame, and there is not even the slightest safety measure, but when people hesitated, Chen Ailian still got up and climbed on the tractor to try it.
A few days later, she was able to skillfully operate the tractor to shuttle through the fields, and such an outstanding performance made the people in the town trust Chen Ailian, and directly handed over the position of tractor driver to Chen Ailian.
Later, with the development of the times, Chen Ailian came to the city textile factory and officially started her own business.
This strength also helped Chen Ailian to be promoted from logistics director to workshop director in the textile equipment factory, and with the promotion of her position, Chen Ailian's ability has also been greatly exercised and improved.
With the rapid development of the economy, Chen Ailian resolutely decided to leave the factory and set up her own company, but at that time, entrepreneurship was prevalent, and in such a torrent, there were many opportunities, but it was not easy to succeed.
Chen Ailian's first step in overcoming the bottleneck was not hesitating to apply for a €500,000 loan directly from the credit union without start-up capital, thus creating the current Wanfeng Group.
At that time, 500,000 yuan was a lot of money, and it was basically difficult to turn over if the company went bankrupt, but fortunately, Chen Ailian's vision and the company's management were very standardized and reasonable.
Once Wanfeng Group produces a batch of wheels, there are many places that do not meet the standards for quality inspection, but it is not good to qualitatively, and at the risk of scrapping the entire batch of wheels, Chen Ailian reworked without saying a word.
This also makes Wanfeng's products stand the test of the market, Wanfeng Group also began to get bigger and bigger, after the listing, Chen Ailian's generous shot, directly bought 100 BMWs, and sent them to key employees as benefits.
In order to support the company's transformation, Chen Ailian decided to carry out a series of mergers and acquisitions of two world-class giant companies, one is a leader in the world's magnesium alloy industry, and the other is a leader in the world's welding robot industry.
Based on the technology of these two companies, Wanfeng has risen rapidly in the field of general aviation, and has established a complete set of industrial chain platforms from aircraft manufacturing to airport construction and pilot training.
Such a large amount of money in exchange for rich returns, Wanfeng in the field of general aviation farther and farther, in the field of domestic shipping is one, but also built in Zhejiang 55 km from the featured aviation city.
Behind Wanfeng's success, everything is due to Chen Ailian's management and vision, which is really worthy of China's business master, worthy of his name, in fact, there is more than one legendary woman in the business world like Chen Ailian, and Dong Mingzhu is also one of them.
Dong Mingzhu's rebellious road.
As one of China's leading female entrepreneurs, Dong Mingzhu's path to success is very similar to that of Chen Ailian.
At the beginning, Dong Mingzhu was also very ordinary, doing administrative work in a research institute. After that, Dong Mingzhu entered Gree Group, starting from the sales side, step by step.
The death of her husband did not make Dong Mingzhu stumble, on the contrary, it gave her the motivation to struggle, she didn't want to waste time, basically did not take annual leave, and has been busy with her sales work.
Two years later, Dong Mingzhu's sales in Anhui alone exceeded 16 million, accounting for one-eighth of the entire Gree company's sales, and she began her own path to promotion.
Therefore, when Gree Electric was split, the company entered the most critical upward period, and it can be said that this stage went the wrong way, resulting in a total loss.
Dong Mingzhu resolutely came to the new company to take office"The most difficult session"Because the domestic air-conditioning industry was in the ascendant at that time, the competition among brands entered a white-hot stage.
At this stage, it is more difficult to successfully sell products, Dong Mingzhu analyzed the current market and took the initiative"Let the market not let **", with a small team, to match the marketing team of other manufacturers across the country.
Facts have proved that Dong Mingzhu was right, and the sales of Gree air conditioners have increased year after year, which is enough to confirm Dong Mingzhu's prediction, and with his brilliant performance, Dong Mingzhu has become the president of Gree.
From selling a company to eventually becoming the chairman of the company, Dong Mingzhu's counterattack story and her legend are no less than the cool articles spread on the Internet, and at the end of last year, she was named the most influential business woman in China by Fortune magazine.
Conclusion. I have to say that Chen Ailian and Dong Mingzhu's history of struggle is very similar, and there are many similarities between the two from their beginnings to their current achievements.
And the two of them can be called the reversal road in the first place, which fully shows that it is not easy for the two to get to this point, and I sincerely admire the unique vision and character of the strong woman.
I also hope that these two people will have a better future and contribute to the development of the country.