[Changjiang Business Daily-A32 Edition Elite Life] Chen Songwen, Chairman of Chutian Electric: Wuhan is a land that intoxicates me
Release Time：2015-07-14
In 2015, the A32 edition of Changjiang Business Daily published "Wuhan is a land that intoxicates me; A 24-year growth history of Zhejiang businessmen and Wuhan hand in hand-Chen Songwen, chairman of Hubei Chutian Electric Co., Ltd., tells the story of Chen Songwen, chairman of the board, who adheres to the simple belief of loving his family, working hard and being kind to others. The story of starting a business in good faith and being grateful to the society. His style of hard work and honesty has been praised and recognized by his peers. At the same time, he has contributed to the accumulation of Chutian Electric's corporate culture and has also written a brilliant movement for the development of the enterprise. The full text is as follows:
Changjiang Business Daily News: A 24-year Growth History of Zhejiang Merchants and Wuhan
□ Our reporter Tang Shiyun
Moving the household registration of the whole family from Yueqing, Zhejiang Province, where welfare and subsidies are abundant, to Wuhan will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan every year. Many people in his hometown say he is stupid. This "stupid thing" in the eyes of outsiders, for Chen Songwen, is still very fortunate. All this is because he "looked at the eyes" at the beginning ".
On July 6, in Wuhan after the early afternoon, the air was filled with unbearable heat. In Chen Songwen's office, a reporter from Changjiang Business Daily saw this "Yueqing person with Wuhan ID card". In front of reporters, what he talked about most was not his company or his life, but his land with Wuhan.
Here once let him lost, also let him think and epiphany, also let him harvest a brand-new Chen Songwen.
From renting a store in Wuhan to do electrical accessories business, he has now become the chairman of the two companies. He said proudly: I am a Yueqing person with Wuhan ID card!
Now he has his own house and investment in Wuhan, Shanghai, and Zhejiang. His son is studying in a university in the United States, and his daughter is studying in a foreign school. He is going to study in the UK soon.
At present, he is only 42 years old, a man's best years. He confidently said: I hope to make the company a group, hire professional managers to manage it, and then replace the current BMW X3 with a saloon car, and spend a year driving the country. I'm sure there will be the tomorrow I want.
When it comes to the stock market, he says he never speculates in stocks. He said with a smile that when he was a child, the rural old people in Yueqing described the economic situation as follows: when the economy is good, they should do business and work. Only when business is not good, they all gather at the entrance of the village to gamble.
Wuhan let him achieve his dream
On July 6, the reporter walked into the office of Chen Songwen, chairman of Hubei Chutian Electric Co., Ltd., and placed green plants everywhere, and a fresh coolness suddenly hit.
This kind of feeling is just like the elegant middle-aged man in front of him, with a LV blue T on his upper body, BOSS pants on his lower body and BALLY shoes on his feet. It is not luxurious but very decent. Facing the reporter, the first sentence of this "Zhejiang businessman" who came to Wuhan to start a business 23 years ago was: "I like Wuhan and thank this city. Today I am proud of being a Wuhan native."
In 1992, Chen Songwen came to Wuhan to sell electrical accessories. He reluctantly said: "Our hometown Yueqing is a well-known low-voltage electrical capital in the country. Almost all relatives and friends around are doing this, so I had to come out and do it." So young Chen Songwen began to go out on a long journey. During this period, he also walked through some large and small cities, but only Wuhan gave him an idea, stopped in a hurry, and took root here.
Wuhan not only allowed Chen Songwen to dig the first pot of gold in his life, but also made him feel the loveliness and beauty of this city.
To this day, he is still grateful for the choice he made that year: "This is a kind of fate, see the right eye. Wuhan's temperament of paying attention to its own inheritance and not particularly exclusive attracted me. She can make a foreigner quickly integrate into this atmosphere and develop his own career to the fullest."
This kind of love for a city is not only verbal. Chen Songwen said that because of the development of industry, there is no arable land in the village of Yueqing's hometown, and the welfare of the villagers in the village is particularly good. "but I not only bought a house in Wuhan, but also moved the household registration of the whole family. In this way, our family of four will lose almost dozens of dollars every year, and many people in my hometown say I am stupid."
Chen Songwen said that he also specially took out his ID card to show the reporter, "Look, I am now a justifiably Wuhan person."
In 2000, Chen Songwen bought three houses in Wuhan in one breath. He said that he especially liked East Lake and often accompanied his wife to go there on weekends. On one side, he was fascinated by the noisy and fashionable city and on the other by the exquisite scenery and countryside. Of course, the prosperity of Hanzheng Street also attracted him. "When I first came to Wuhan, I often went to Hanzheng Street to look for clothes. After so many years, the owner of a store and I have become good friends. Get together."
Chen Songwen likes Wuhan, and Wuhan has also made a group of entrepreneurial young people like him from all over the country.
At the beginning of his business, he only had a small shop. But because of his integrity management, soon attracted the attention of Siemens. Siemens took the initiative to come to him to recommend important customers, and also made him the core distributor of Siemens in central China. In this way, young Chen Songwen began to pursue his dream in Wuhan.
Trust is a simple faith
Speaking of "Zhejiang businessmen", Chen Songwen believes that if measured by wealth, many people who came out of Zhejiang have indeed achieved success.
Chen Songwen said that there are many factors for this success. "Zhejiang people's spirit of being able to bear hardships and stand hard work, no matter where they go and how bad the environment is, the first thing he thinks of is not to complain about anything, but how to overcome it. Then there is unity. Zhejiang businessmen trust each other and do things together, not to dismantle the stage, but to support it, like a simple belief."
Chen Songwen said that this kind of credit between each other is particularly important. "Letter" is the premise, and "use" is the result.
Today's Chen Songwen has already gone from a small shop owner in the past to the chairman of Chutian Electric and Zhongshan Electromechanical. In addition to these two chairman positions, he also has a "title" that he values more: Secretary-General of Wuhan Yueqing Chamber of Commerce.
He said: "This city has given me a lot. I just want to do something for her."
This kind of gratitude makes him leave most of his company's affairs to his wife, and he is more likely to wander in the interaction between Wuhan and Zhejiang businessmen. The identity of this civilian trade "ambassador" also took up a lot of his time.
"Just before you came to interview, I just sent a group of Yueqing merchants to a hotel for a rest. I accompanied them to talk about several projects in Wuhan in the past two days, and I will accompany them to Enshi for a tour on the early flight tomorrow morning." Chen Songwen told reporters.
When asked how he was elected secretary-general by Yueqing businessmen in Wuhan, he smiled shyly: "my enterprise is not large in this circle, probably because people think that I am more honest at ordinary times." Indeed, in his company's honor room, the reporter saw the most medals of "abiding by contracts and valuing credit", from the district level, municipal level to the provincial level, which did not fall for a year.
Having been an enterprise for so many years, Chen Songwen said with deep feeling: "An enterprise is like a child. No matter how carefully you take care of him, he will get sick." In order to let the child grow up healthily, in addition to educating him from an early age to be honest, but also to let him continue to be strong, "At the beginning of the business, I didn't understand the balance sheet, profit statement, cash flow statement and profit model. I had no choice but to learn from the beginning. Now I have to take these things and basically understand at a glance."
He also told reporters several entrepreneurial stories when he was young like a joke. "I started my business successfully and felt that I was very talented in business. I was a little amazing. I invested in breeding long-haired rabbits. In the end, the rabbit skin could not be sold and the rabbit meat was given away free of charge. I also took part in liquor management. Finally, many liquor was brought back to my employees for the New Year as welfare."
Chen Songwen said that now he is no longer as ambitious as he was when he was young, and he is very satisfied to do a good job in the most familiar industry. "running a business is like drilling a well, one meter wide and 1000 meters deep. If you have a good choice, you must focus on doing fine and deep."
The ragged believer made himself aware of the shame of squandering
Now Chen Songwen has done his own business very well, but he is still not satisfied with the current state. He explained that the legitimate pursuit of wealth is the basic mentality that every social person should have. It is this pursuit that promotes social progress and civilization. "In the end, you will find that wealth is actually only a healthy body and the family around you."
Chen Songwen explained to reporters: When there is no necessary choice between money and health and family happiness, you will find that the three are very harmonious, and all the money obtained by your hard work is worthy of respect.
Chen Songwen said that the pursuit of wealth is a very important part of life, no matter what the outcome, we must pay attention to the wonderful process, "the two words of life, apart, 'life' is the state of speaking, 'living' is the way of speaking. The world is so big, people probably only live this life, so we must be colorful, all kinds of ways to try."
When he was young, Chen Songwen also experienced some other "wonderful". "When starting a business, he often watched his friends play cards. At that time, money was no longer money but paper. Everyone used a ruler to estimate the money on the table. It is tens of thousands."
This kind of life is very exciting and crazy, but Chen Songwen soon got tired of such excitement, "From the poker table, the exhaustion after the stimulation is not only physical, but also spiritual."
A chance to let Chen Songwen walk down from the card table completely. It was the weekend, and he sent his wife to the church at the gate of the company. There were some believers who were very poor in their clothes. "It was these rags-dressed but energetic believers who made me feel that my profligacy at the card table was really a great shame."
In this way, Chen Songwen's spare time shifted from friends' card tables to desks and gyms. "Now I run when I have troubles and need to decompress. I run for an hour on the treadmill."
In addition to his good health and financial freedom, he also plans several holidays to travel with his family every year.
Chen Songwen likes to travel and also likes to take the people around him to travel. "My staff and I have almost traveled all over the famous mountains in Hubei. The next goal is to enter other provinces."
These big things in life cannot be sloppy, and many details should also be paid attention. Chen Songwen said, "I don't pay attention to the brand of clothes, but my clothes and shoes must be clean so that I can feel comfortable when I go out. I really can't work with a person who doesn't change clothes often."
Life needs to grow and change. Chen Songwen also asked himself to change frequently, "Like I took a Burberry (Burberry) handbag today, tomorrow may be a Dupont (S.T. Dupont). I change my hairstyle every year, and it feels like a change of lifestyle." Chen Songwen believes that such constant changes are a surprise for himself. Although it is small, it is an indispensable part of a colorful life.
Of course, behind this long-term change, there are also some eternity that cannot be changed. The radar watch on his wrist has been worn for 20 years. Because it was given by his wife, he has never changed it. Now he does not have a second watch. He said that the watch is "all the time, never give up", just like his lover.
For the future, he said that he hopes to group the company, invite professional managers to manage it, and then replace the current BMW X3 with a saloon car, and spend a year driving the country. He is sure that he will have what he wants tomorrow!
the history of the development of personal entrepreneurial experience:
Since 1992, Wuhan has rented stores to sell electrical accessories.
Subsequently, he became the core distributor of Siemens in central China.
Now he is the chairman of Chutian Electric and Zhongshan Electromechanical Company
At the same time, he is also the Secretary-General of Wuhan Yueqing Chamber of Commerce.
Chen Songwen, a native of Yueqing City, Zhejiang Province
Chairman of Hubei Chutian Electric Co., Ltd. and Secretary General of Wuhan Yueqing Chamber of Commerce Chen Songwen. Photo by our reporter Fu Jian
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