Seventy years of ups and downs, there are too many people worth remembering; seventy years of vicissitudes, there are too many things worth remembering. Now when it comes to entrepreneurs, the first thing we think of is Ma Yun, Li Ka-shing and others. In fact, in China, there is such a class of entrepreneurs, who are called red capitalists. So what is a red capitalist?
The red capitalists, as the name suggests, are those capitalists who are inclined to the red regime and support the revolution, they are patriots, and they do not hesitate to donate their own possessions for the independence of the country, the liberation of the nation, and the construction of society. Not only do they have a rich side, but they also have a red background.
As early as the Republic of China period, the red capitalists were already inclined to revolution, they contributed a lot to the revolutionary cause, and after the founding of New China, they changed China's destiny and changed their own destiny with their own diligence and wisdom.
The Chinese nation started from poverty and whiteness, and has achieved a great leap from standing up to getting rich and then becoming strong, and these entrepreneurs are witnesses, participants, and beneficiaries.
Merchants since ancient times to seek profits for the purpose, can not fall for a hundred years is even rarer; but there is such a family, breaking the "rich but not three generations" iron law, let the wang flag change, the mountains and rivers change color, still in the limelight, no one can match, this family is the chinese history of the incredible business family - the Rong family!
Rong Yiren, the second generation head of the Rong family, the most representative figure of the family, relies on industry to rejuvenate the country, supports the three major transformations of the Chinese government, and writes a glorious history in China and even the world; his father Rong Zongjing and Rong Desheng, the founder of the Rong family's parents, the flour mill and cotton spinning factory they founded are the pioneers of Chinese national enterprises; his son Rong Zhijian, the third generation of leaders, actively participates in the development of emerging enterprises and has also made great contributions to the Chinese market economy.
Rong Yiren was born in 1916 in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Because of his family's wealth, he received a good Chinese and Western education from an early age, and graduated from St. John's University in Shanghai in 1937. When the war broke out in full swing, the family had to take refuge in Hong Kong, and the head of the family, Rong Zongjing, died of a sudden illness in the second year of his arrival in Hong Kong.
The sudden death of the head of the Rong family has once again seriously impacted the Rong family business that was originally damaged, and Rong Yiren, who is only 22 years old, began to help his father Rong Desheng run a huge Rong family and assumed the responsibility of a part of the family.
Around 1949, the collapse of the Chiang Dynasty, the jiangsu and Zhejiang areas of the giant Jiafu, merchants have moved abroad or Hong Kong and Taiwan to take refuge, the Rong family also because of whether to stay or stay, so major changes occurred internally. Many people in the family went overseas with a large amount of funds, which seriously hurt the vitality of Rong's enterprise. Only Rong Yiren insisted on staying in Shanghai, and the Rong family group has since moved to a low tide period.
In 1954, Rong's enterprise ushered in a new vitality. Rong Yiren took the lead in responding to the national policy and implemented public-private partnerships in his own enterprises, which played a leading role in the transformation of private industry and commerce. Two years later, he made a decision that caused a sensation throughout Shanghai, and he handed over the entire business empire to the state free of charge.
At the end of the 1970s, Rong Yiren presided over CITIC Corporation, which was the first window for China to open up to the outside world in the early stage of reform and opening up, laying a very solid foundation for the country's future international economic cooperation. Therefore, Rong Yiren was very much treated by the CCP leadership, and the chairman repeatedly praised Rong Yiren by name in public, and when he arrived in Shanghai in 1956, he also visited Rong Yiren's Shenxin Ninth Factory, which was the only public-private joint venture company that the chairman had inspected.
Rong Yiren and Yang Jianqing were engaged in 1932. In 1936, the two completed a grand Chinese-Western-style wedding under the arrangement of the two parents, and the marriage of Rong Yang was called a combination of wealth and wealth in the world at that time. One is the son of the Shangjia family, the other is the daughter of the famous door of the book, the two can be described as golden children and jade girls, the door is right, since then they have experienced the only marriage for half a century, which has been rumored to be a good story.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the two settled in Beijing, where they spent their 50-year-old golden marriage and 60-year-old diamond marriage in Beijing. They knew each other, loved each other, stayed together until they were white, and they walked happily through their lives. In 2005, Rong Yiren died of illness in Beijing at the age of 89, and Yang Jianqing died in Hong Kong at the age of 96 six years ago.
Rong Yiren and Yang Jianqing have five children, namely the eldest daughter Rong Zhihe, the second daughter Rong Zhiping, the fourth daughter Rong Zhiyuan, the younger daughter Rong Zhiwan and the only son Rong Zhijian. Among them, the fourth daughter, Rong Zhiyuan, was misdiagnosed due to encephalitis when she was in middle school, and fell into the sequelae of dementia, and died of lung cancer in 1993.
Nowadays, the eldest daughter Rong Zhihe and the second daughter Rong Zhiping are already grandmother-level figures, they both live in Shanghai; the younger daughter Rong Zhiwan is married to a rich man in Macau, although they are rich, but their lives are simple and low-key, and few people know their recent situation. Compared with the four low-key sisters, Rong Zhijian, as the only male in the family, is much more high-profile.
Rong Zhijian was born in Shanghai in 1942. Because the only eldest son in the family, he is much loved and is the famous young master of Shanghai, but Rong Zhijian prefers to play baseball and is obsessed with baseball. During his university years, he represented the provincial team in many national competitions and achieved excellent results.
After graduating from Rong Zhijian University in 1966, he was sent to work in Sichuan, during which time, starting from the grassroots level, he experienced many tribulations that the elders did not experience, and the eldest son, Rong Mingjie, was also born here. Eight years later, he returned to Beijing and gave birth to his eldest daughter, Rong Mingfang; in 1978, he took his wife and children to Hong Kong to settle down, and with his wife gave birth to his youngest son, Rong Mingdi.
After settling in Hong Kong, Rong Zhijian first invested in the electronics industry, which was very successful. Subsequently, with the family's accumulated funds and contacts over the years, CITIC Pacific was established, and the company has penetrated various industries in Hong Kong.
In 2005, he was listed on the list of the richest people in mainland China by forbes, an American financial magazine. As the saying goes, life is impermanent and unpredictable. In 2008, Rong Zhijian broke the news of the earth-shattering loss, and thus resigned as the chairman of CITIC Pacific Group.
After Rong Zhijian's three children graduated, he also assisted his father in running the company. Although the eldest son, Rong Mingjie, was born in Sichuan, but was brought up by his grandfather Rong Yiren and lived in Beijing, so he is very similar to Rong Yiren, after going to college, he went abroad for further study, and after returning from studying abroad, he has been assisting his father to run the company.
Daughter Rong Mingfang also graduated from a well-known foreign university and also ran the family business in CITIC Pacific after returning to China. The youngest son, Rong Mingdi, according to people familiar with the matter, Rong Mingdi should also be under the leadership of his family and run the family business in CITIC Pacific. As it rarely appears in public, there is little relevant information on the latest situation. It has to be said that the Rong family is very planned and far-sighted in the way of doing business, in addition to the vein of Rong Yiren, other families also have different outstanding achievements in all walks of life.
Text/Shi HaiGuanfu