Documentary: He piled up a mountain of cash, "disappeared" after a high-profile donation of 2 billion, and now he appears but farms at home.
Because I've been drenched in the rain, I want to hold an umbrella for someone else. ”
It is really appropriate to use this sentence to describe China's first good Chen Guangbiao.
When he was a child, Chen Guangbiao's family could only be described as a family with four walls, and even his family had starved to death due to extreme poverty. But after growing up, Chen Guangbiao became a billionaire with assets of more than 100 million yuan by virtue of his talent and hard work, and donated more than 2 billion yuan to China's charity.
However, after a high-profile donation of billions of yuan, the successful entrepreneur, known as China's richest man, disappeared from public view overnight, and when he was known again, he was wearing old clothes and a straw hat, and he was working in the fields with his family with a sickle...
Became famous because of charity, and fell into controversy because of charity, what has Chen Guangbiao experienced in the past ten years?
1. From a poor family to a billionaire.
In 1968, Chen Guangbiao was born in a poor farming family in Nanangang, Sihong County, Jiangsu.
Chen's father and mother are just ordinary farmers, but they have raised five children under their knees, and the pressure on life is not small. When Chen Guangbiao was four years old, one of his brothers and one of his sisters were starved to death in front of him because of extreme poverty, which brought a great shock to Chen Guangbiao and made him determined to get rid of poverty.
Chen Guangbiao's determination is not false, at the age of ten, he began to start his own small business as a child, and by the age of 17, he had become a rare 10,000 yuan household in the township, with a net worth of 20,000 yuan.
At the age of 28, Chen Guangbiao saw business opportunities and founded the first company in his life, and in 2000, he founded Jiangsu Huangpu Renewable Resources Utilization *** to bring his career to a new height.
From trying to start a small business at the age of 10 to starting a company at the age of 28, Chen Guangbiao has not had any shortcuts in the past few decades.
Poverty is a mountain in his heart, and his background does not provide him with any help, and Chen Guangbiao can only rely on himself on the road to wealth, which is completely different from many entrepreneurs who claim to be self-made and have a background behind them.
What is commendable is that while developing his career, Chen Guangbiao did not fall behind in learning.
When he was a teenager, Chen Guangbiao studied hard in addition to trying to make money in his daily life. When he decided to start a business in earnest in 1991, he was one of the few college students of that era.
In 1999, Chen Guangbiao, who was already the CEO of a company, also applied for a graduate degree in the Business School of Nanjing University and graduated with an EMBA degree from Nanjing University, which shows that he attaches great importance to learning.
It is not easy to maintain a positive attitude towards learning, but what is even more commendable is the kindness of Chen Guangbiao who has never changed.
In fact, when Chen Guangbiao was only 10 years old, he was already committed to helping others.
At that time, although Chen Guangbiao was young, he could earn two or three cents a day by carrying water and selling it by himself. Later, when he saw that some of his classmates couldn't pay the book fee, he didn't ask for anything in return, so he paid the other party's book fee together.
As he grew older, Chen Guangbiao earned more and more money, and the scope of his help became more and more extensive. As of 2012, Chen Guangbiao has helped more than 700,000 extremely poor households out of poverty and donated a full 2 billion yuan for free. Even on a global scale, this is extremely rare.
It's just that when Chen Guangbiao continued to donate to the outside world, the ** whirlpool gradually involved him.
Second, to do charity, can't be high-profile?
In January 2010, at a charity event, Chen Guangbiao took a photo in front of a "wall" made of 100,000 yuan banknotes.
The total number of banknotes used to form this wall is 33 million yuan, and in addition to these banknotes, there are also a large number of checks. According to statistics, in this charity activity alone, the charity amount reached a full 43.16 million yuan.
Donating so much money to the people in distress is a commendable good thing, but after the release of **, Chen Guangbiao immediately fell into the criticism of netizens.
In addition to a small number of people supporting his good deeds, a large number of netizens thought that he was showing off his wealth, and even began to question Chen Guangbiao's original intention of doing charity.
And with the gradual fermentation of **, all walks of life who are not too big to watch the excitement have also joined this "carnival" against Chen Guangbiao.
There are ** claims that Chen Guangbiao has fraudulent donations, ** questioning the illegal operation of Chen Guangbiao's company, and ** publishing an article saying that don't look at Chen Guangbiao putting out so many banknotes, he will only donate a small part of them.
For a time, Chen Guangbiao's reputation fell from the peak to the bottom, and almost everyone was angry about his philanthropic behavior, thinking that he was selling his reputation.
Chen Guangbiao is aware of malicious speculation from the outside world. But even if he was misinterpreted and questioned, he still did not give up doing charity.
In April 2010, when netizens' malicious attacks on him reached their peak, Chen Guangbiao donated a full 23 million yuan of materials to Yushu to help build 46 hope primary schools here.
In August 2010, Chen Guangbiao donated 10 million cash and 5,000 computers to education in remote areas such as Xinjiang, Qinghai and China.
In 2011, Chen Guangbiao donated about 12.7 billion yuan in materials, including 87 million in cash, 150,000 sets of down stocks, etc....
On the road of charity, Chen Guangbiao has never stopped. It's just that the malicious arguments from the outside world still hurt Chen Guangbiao, and gradually, he is no longer as high-profile as before, and later, he disappeared directly from the public eye.
And after the "richest man in China" quietly disappeared, those so-called "sober netizens" who used to abuse Chen Guangbiao for fun and speculated about Chen Guangbiao's motives for charity with dark psychology also gradually stopped scolding and put this matter behind them.
In terms of charity, at that time, Chen Guangbiao was definitely the first in China, but even so, he was still attacked by **, and those entrepreneurs who had more wealth than him and were not keen on charity could gain a lot of gratitude for their occasional kindness, how ironic.
What is touching is that although Chen Guangbiao rarely takes the initiative to appear in the public eye, he still silently adheres to his original intention.
After the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, during the worst period of the epidemic in Wuhan, Chen Guangbiao personally rushed to the front line to volunteer, and also donated hundreds of tons of rice and vegetables, one million masks, 50,000 sets of protective clothing and goggles to the place.
After the heavy rain disaster in Henan, Chen Guangbiao donated another 50 million yuan to help the people in the disaster area rebuild their homes and get out of the predicament as soon as possible.
What is a true philanthropist? Chen Guangbiao has already told us with his personal actions.