One day in February 2006, the military leader introduced Xu Liuping to all the middle and high-level leading cadres of Changan Automobile, and the last sentence of the military leader was that Comrade Xu Liuping would work in Changan Automobile for at least 4 or 5 years. Everyone present did not comment, can the airborne hand do a good job of Changan Automobile?
11 years have passed, and Changan Automobile has taken the first seat in the position of domestic automobile independent brand. Xu Liuping, with more than 4,000 days of hard work, handed over an excellent answer to 80,000 Chang'an people. The fate of entrepreneurs is to meet the challenge, and they are always on the road. Today, Xu Liuping has taken up a post at FAW, and he is bound to lead FAW people to get out of the predicament and create brilliance again.
Xu Liuping
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Party Committee of FAW Group
Former general manager of the company and deputy secretary of the party group of China Ordnance Equipment Group
Success seems to be only a result, but this result is premised on an incomparably lonely diligence, and behind it are countless setbacks, pains, troubles and disappointments, which are woven by blood, tears, sweat and a lot of time. Greatness is boiled out in the process of growing up, and no one in ancient and modern China and abroad is an exception.
I remember that many years ago, at 7 o'clock in the evening, I was working overtime in the office, and Xu Liuping's secretary called me and asked me to go to Xu's office immediately and say that there was something important to do. It was the first time I was called by the general manager, and I was sincerely afraid and very nervous.
I went to know why he directly assigned it to me, because there was no time to issue it layer by layer. Xu Instructed: Immediately notify all foreign experts of the company, and each person will write a work report on the problems existing in the current work and the improvement measures. He was asked to deliver all paper materials reported by experts to his office by 8 a.m. the next day.
Ah, all the expert reports, isn't that fatal? I want to cry.
Domestic experts are fine, plus a shift can be driven out, but some experts are part of the time, are taking vacation abroad, the time is already 8 pm after 8 pm, this is to open the world to find people in the formation ah!
Changan Automobile was born in a military enterprise, emphasizing execution and must not say "no".
That night, the English and Japanese translators stopped sleeping, so they called and emailed together, and finally at 7:50 a.m. the next day, the last report was received.
When I printed out a thick stack of expert reports and handed them to General Secretary Xu's hand, I suddenly found that the phrase "there is nothing that cannot be done, only the unthinkable" is extremely correct.
Since then, the senior experts employed by Changan Automobile have one more job, writing a work report to General Manager Xu Liuping every week, reporting the work they have done during the week, existing problems and suggestions for improvement, referred to as "Weekly Report".
This "weekly newspaper" makes the experts feel embarrassed, the work is not done well, the task is not completed, and they are not capable; Resources are not in place, departments do not cooperate, and others do not cooperate. Writing it out is either harmful to oneself or to others.
Of course, Chairman Xu also knows the ideas of experts, he invites experts to eat breakfast, talks about the problems, difficulties and good prospects of the company's independent research and development, and throws out a closing sentence after various encouragements, and the report must be completed on time.
Experts are miserable and have to point out their problems every week, so what about so many problems? But I had to write ah, the task assigned by the chairman, how dare not do it.
Later, there were more and more experts, and I used my wisdom to help them come up with a solution: under the premise of ensuring that Chairman Xu had expert reports every week, the experts were divided into four groups, and a group of experts wrote a report every week, so that each expert only wrote once a month. Until now, the "Weekly Monday Newspaper" still exists.
"Weekly Newspaper" is definitely not a formality, just write, Chairman Xu will carefully read each report, grasp the real first-hand information, and give instructions for the content of the report, and the office will supervise all departments to complete rectification regularly. Leaders and experts of various departments did not dare to relax, which played a good role in promoting Changan Automobile's independent research and development. This is also one of the reasons why Changan Automobile can enter the first of its own brands and enter the four major from guerrillas.
Pictured: Job fair scene
In late 2008, Changan Automobile went to Detroit, the United States to recruit high-end talents, and Xu Liuping wanted to go on stage in the evening to give a corporate culture lecture. When I was done with arranging the attendees and other things, I found a corner to sit down and prepare to listen to his passionate speech.
Why is it a passion speech? Because Changan Automobile has to hold a meeting of the cadres every quarter, Xu Liuping's speech will always make all the cadres passionate, the blood boiling, eager to immediately shake off their arms and do a big job, this passion will often continue until the next cadre conference.
Because of the previous comparison, when I heard Chairman Xu's speech that day, I felt that I almost had a momentum of ups and downs, and my mental state was not good. Later, I learned that he had a high fever the day before, let Chinese friends pull around in the middle of the night to find drugstores to buy medicine, almost did not sleep all night, and his body temperature and blood pressure had not yet dropped before he went on stage to speak. Later, I talked to a leader about this matter, he said, doing business is not fun at all, Chairman Xu is fighting for his life.
The fate of entrepreneurs is to meet the challenge, and they are always on the road. Today, Xu Liuping has taken up a post at FAW, and he is looking forward to leading 150,000 FAW people to get out of the predicament and create brilliance again.