Chen Pingsheng's words were very plain, but when he finished speaking they were like thunder from out of the blue.
Countless wealthy families were shocked.
The Chen family is such a powerful business family in Shanghai, and they have several outstanding children. Now they are going to give away everything they have created in their later years.
To completely transform into an open system is equivalent to giving up the family's influence.
Use a family to achieve more people.
Although there was no interview session, countless reporters stood up at this moment, including Mu Qingqing, a financial reporter who became famous for interviewing the retired vice president of Tengying Group.
"Mr. Chen, may I ask why you suddenly made such a decision?"
Chen Pingsheng looked at her. She still looked familiar to him, but he hadn't seen her for some years.
"This is actually quite simple. The main thing is, I personally believe that our Chen family is no longer short of money. Even with our current accumulation, we can easily be wealthy for ten or even a hundred generations. But business is different. If I only think about passing on the business to my family, sooner or later these businesses will quickly decline because each generation is inferior to the previous one."
Chen Pingsheng smiled and said, "Although I don't want to admit it, it's really easy for people's descendants to be worse than the previous generation. For example, among the three generations of my Chen family, there are actually star chasers. This behavior is very outrageous in our eyes, but it is very normal for them. I believe that it is not just my Chen family that is like this. This is the case among wealthy families. Private enterprises are different from monopoly state-owned assets. They are market competition. We must always maintain a sense of crisis. As long as an unsuitable business heir appears, the company may soon be gone.
"This is the answer from a market perspective. Another key point is that I always believe that only when the Chinese people are doing well, will we really do well, and our companies will also do well.
"If we continue like before, with money being concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy individuals and them spending it abroad, it will be an endless vicious cycle.
“So, I, Chen Pingsheng, am here today to call on everyone that when a company grows to a certain size, it should not just be one or two companies, but should become a social enterprise, serving its employees and fulfilling its social responsibilities.
"Everyone sitting here is actually not short of money. If you are not short of money, then the only thing you can pursue is power. In China, it is very dangerous to pursue this thing too much.
"I hope everyone can be vigilant."
This was a reminder, but he wouldn't say too much.
Mu Qingqing still got the answers she wanted from two aspects.
But she immediately asked the next question.
"Mr. Chen, after Economic Research Island opens, can we journalists also visit the island? Also, do we really need to involve those working at the bottom of the industry in the decision-making process?"
“This question still has some meaning.”
Chen Pingsheng said, "I don't know if you've noticed in recent years, but many expert comments have sparked public outrage. Why? Mainly because they're so out of touch with reality. Reforms involving grassroots industries, including welfare design, are designed without involving these people, and only rely on professorial economists sitting in air-conditioned offices. I personally think this is a bit ridiculous."
Many people laughed. What he said made sense, but it was still quite humorous when it came out of Chen Pingsheng's mouth.
The main reason is that he has the world's top team of high IQ people under his command.
He also said that relying solely on these people to design welfare benefits for the grassroots industries is far less effective than inviting those grassroots workers to come up.
It’s like designing benefits for the food delivery industry. No matter how much you ask experts, it’s better to ask the deliverymen who have been working for several years.
This is being down-to-earth. It is best to be down-to-earth in everything you do.
The lives of the Chen family's descendants have begun to become increasingly out of touch with reality, which is why boring star-chasers like Chen Wuyou have emerged.
There are also unreliable ones like Chen Youcai.
Afterwards, many reporters asked some related questions.
Starting from May, Economic Research Island will transfer at least hundreds of grassroots workers from various industries to the island every month to discuss some industrial development directions, including product design and other issues.
As for the senior management changes at Economic Research Island, Zhang Wanyi's ten-year term has expired, and the selection of the next dean still needs to be done through an open and fair vote.
Whether An An can take over is still a big question.
But no matter whether she takes the position of dean or not, as long as Chen Pingsheng is there, no one can have more influence than him.
His words always matter most.
So, he has to stick with it for another twenty years to ensure that Jingyan Island can continue to develop for another hundred years.
As long as Jingyan Island exists, the Chen family's influence will not disappear.
On the contrary, it will become bigger and bigger. On the contrary, once Jingyan Island is gone, the Chen family still has so much money. This is the real danger.
Not only is there a risk of property disappearing, but the Chen family is also in great danger of their lives.
Chen Pingsheng's current situation is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.
His foresight is no longer limited to the past ten or twenty years.
I wonder why Du Yuesheng tore up all the IOUs in his family when he left.
If the IOUs were not torn up, the descendants of the Du family would go to the rich and powerful to ask for money.
Guess what the result is?
When Chen Pingsheng does things, he never does them just to satisfy one or two reasons.
He must be thinking in many ways.
This includes donating all the family's money after he leaves, which also sends a good signal to the outside world.
All their money must be returned to society.
In this way, we can go further and further safely.
Human hearts are complicated, and Chen Pingsheng only stated some of the superficial reasons.
It doesn't involve too deep a family heritage.
He was definitely right about one thing: there was no need to worry about the future of the Chen family in Shanghai. No matter how many descendants they had, they would all live a wealthy and luxurious life.
The rest of the cocktail party time was naturally a private gathering.
All those who can form a small circle with Chen Pingsheng to drink are among the richest people in the country.
Or a well-known entrepreneur who is number one in the industry.
But no matter which circle he is in, he is the undisputed leader.
This is inseparable from his low-key style of doing things over the past few decades.
It can be said that Chen Pingsheng is the one who dislikes exaggeration the most, and he also dislikes fooling his friends in the circle.
Some people are very boring. When their investment projects suffer huge losses, they try every means to ask their friends to pay for it.
Once this happens, they will all be excluded.
It is said that Tong Zelan and Shen Nanpeng have made a lot of money overseas in recent years and are thinking about returning to live in China.
It must be said that after living to over 70 years old, Chen Pingsheng had very few true friends left.
Basically everyone who should have left has left, even his wife who has always been with him!
(End of this chapter)
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