This year's events about Lenovo can be described as endless, in which the issue of the company's senior salary has attracted much attention, but Ni Guangnan, who has made great contributions to Lenovo, has not shared any interests in lenovo's big cake.
According to the financial report released by Lenovo this year, the salaries of many senior executives, including Yang Yuanqing, Zhu Linan and other senior executives, have reached nearly 100 million yuan, or even exceeded the standard of 100 million yuan.
Taking Yang Yuanqing as an example, throughout 2020, Lenovo Group issued an annual salary of up to 170 million yuan to Yang Yuanqing, while the company's dozen senior executives accumulated an annual salary of about 1.18 billion yuan, which is about 30.7% of Lenovo's annual net profit.
Lenovo's financial support for technology accounts for only 3% of all revenue, and it does not even meet the minimum standard of 5% for listing on the science and technology innovation board.
However, Yang Yuanqing also has his own set of explanations, he believes that he has been continuously involved in the donation cause since 2011, and has donated 150 million yuan in 10 years, so it is not too much to get a "sky-high annual salary".
However, it is worth mentioning that as of the first half of this year, Yang Yuanqing's cumulative annual salary in 10 years is about 1.26 billion yuan, which seems to be not proportional to the 150 million donations.
What is even more lamentable is that Ni Guangnan, who has made great contributions to Lenovo, now has a monthly salary of only 10,000 yuan, and he can get a salary of 120,000 yuan without eating or drinking for 1 year, compared with Yang Yuanqing's annual salary of 170 million yuan, the gap is as much as 1416 times.
Speaking of Ni Guangnan, everyone should not be particularly unfamiliar, when Liu Chuanzhi invited Academician Ni Guangnan from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to participate in the research and development of lenovo group's technical products.
In 1983, Ni Guangnan, who had just joined Lenovo, directly took out 80,000 US dollars, that is, all the savings of about 500,000 yuan, and bought a large number of equipment from abroad for research and development.
It is with the support of these products that Ni Guangnan developed Lenovo's computer products and Hanka chips.
However, the good times did not last long, and in the future, because of differences with Liu Chuanzhi's business philosophy, Ni Guangnan was forced to leave the group, and the equipment he spent all his wealth to buy in the past also became the company's assets, and he could not take it away at all.
It is worth mentioning that after leaving Lenovo that year, the company once offered Ni Guangnan a reward subsidy of 5 million yuan, but Ni Guangnan flatly refused, and dissolved the relationship with Lenovo.
Today's academician Ni Guangnan is still a scholar of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the basic salary of an academician is only 10,000 yuan, and Ni Guangnan rents a small house in Beijing by relying on this 10,000 yuan salary.
It is reported that the monthly rent of this house is about 12,000 yuan, fortunately, Ni Guangnan has a set of dormitory buildings issued in the courtyard, but there is no elevator, and the 82-year-old has to rent out the house to subsidize his rent.
Ni Guangnan's wife died early, his son also worked in Canada, he lived alone in Beijing, even a nanny did not dare to please, in Ni Guangnan's original words, "Beijing nanny is too expensive, I can't afford to invite, but fortunately, my body is OK, I can hold on."
In fact, as early as before joining Lenovo, Ni Guangnan already had a job at the Canadian Research Institute, and at that time, he could even get an income of 210,000 yuan a year.
Such treatment is not to say that at that time, even today is a valuable salary, but after learning that the domestic union wants to create Chinese technology products, Ni Guangnan still returned without hesitation and spent all his savings.
Nowadays, Ni Guangnan has not only been swept out of the house, but also has not even a large house with an elevator, and such a living condition is incompatible with the sky-high annual salary enjoyed by Yang Yuanqing and others.
However, Ni Guangnan seems to be calmly accepting of everything, in some public occasions, he never complained, in an interview, when he learned that he was selected as the "most beautiful scientific researcher" in the industry, Ni Guangnan behaved very indifferently, not only did not have the slightest joy, but also said "I am an old man, can not talk about any beauty, let's continue to talk about chip technology."
Ni Guangnan is such an old man who dedicates his life to technology and can always be spoiled.
Nowadays, Lenovo Group is going farther and farther on the road of commercial development, so that it has spawned a sky-high annual salary, and Ni Guangnan, who once single-handedly supported the Lenovo technology system, is still renting a house in Beijing for a living.