After 1,028 days of illegal detention by the Canadian government, Meng Wanzhou finally returned to the embrace of her motherland on September 25.
The incident also came to an end with the unremitting efforts of the Chinese government and Huawei Group.
Many people believe that after this experience, Meng Wanzhou should become the most likely successor to Huawei in the future.
While welcoming Meng Wanzhou's return to China, everyone is also full of worries about Huawei's road ahead: In the face of increasing commercial competition and friction, where will Huawei's future go? Will Huawei have a better successor in the future?
In fact, a long time ago, Ren Zhengfei said that the eldest daughter, Meng Wanzhou, could never become Huawei's successor. Because she is from a non-technical background, Huawei will not let a financial officer decide the development direction of technology.
Even Meng Wanzhou, who has outstanding ability and is very good, is not qualified to become an heir, so how powerful is the heir that Ren Zhengfei chose? Will his son be the only successor?
I believe that many people are looking forward to the answers to these questions.
In 1975, Ren Ping was born to Ren Zhengfei's father and his mother was Ren Zhengfei's first wife, Meng Jun.
Ren Zhengfei and Meng Jun have two children, the eldest daughter Meng Wanzhou and the eldest son Ren Ping.
Meng Jun's family is rich, he is the son of a high-ranking cadre, and the conditions in all aspects are far beyond that of the poor boy Ren Zhengfei. When they first got married, the two had a very good relationship. Ren Zhengfei also worked hard with the support of his wife, and his career improved.
Later, Ren Zhengfei suddenly lost his job when he was an executive of a state-owned enterprise, and there were millions of debts to be repaid, so he chose to draw a clear line with Meng Jun and did not want to involve Meng Jun, and the two divorced.
Ren Ping, like his sister Meng Wanzhou, was originally going to be surnamed Meng, but Meng Jun considered that Ren Ping was a boy and considered Ren Zhengfei's position and his face, so he changed his surname to Ren.
He is also the only of Ren Zhengfei's three children to bear his father's surname.
The breakdown of the parents' marriage is the most important reason for the formation of Ren Ping's rebellious personality. When he was young, he could never understand why his parents divorced a good family. He resented his father and was afraid of him.
When he was a child, Ren Ping was very naughty and stubborn, and he was a typical bear child.
Uncovering the tiles in the upper house, touching fish in the river, fighting with the children of the neighbors, and pranks that make the neighbors angry. Ren Ping often did these things, which made Ren Zhengfei have a headache when he thought about it.
As long as Ren Zhengfei is busy and returns home, there are always neighbors in front of the door to sue Ren Ping.
At that time, Ren Zhengfei's work was very busy, Huawei was on the rise, and there was not much time to discipline Ren Ping, and many times he could only pay lip service to education.
Later, Ren Zhengfei found that verbal criticism education did not work for Ren Ping at all, and he deserved to be well-behaved in his mouth, turning his head and continuing to be mischievous. In no way, Ren Zhengfei had to put up the set of filial piety under the stick and pull out a leather belt to teach Ren Ping a lesson. Ren Ping was much more honest.
It can be said that Ren Ping's childhood was spent under Ren Zhengfei's stick.
As Huawei Group gradually moves toward the right track and has one of the top two positions in the domestic technology field, Ren Ping, the "Huawei prince", has also begun to live a bit like many rich second generations.
As the grand duke of Huawei, Ren Ping's side gathered a lot of people who tended to be inflamed and oblivious. In order to please Ren Ping, these people took him to drink and sing K, to extravagantly squander, to play around.
When he was a university student in Hefei, Ren Ping often went to Huawei's office in Hefei to borrow a car and drove around. The number of times, Ren Zhengfei knew, he was very angry to reprimand Ren Ping, and also issued an order "No one in the Hefei office shall lend a car to Ren Ping."
Ren Ping's absurd things made Ren Zhengfei very angry, and he immediately decided to send Ren Ping to the United Kingdom to study for an MBA.
In 2000, Ren Ping went to the United Kingdom to study. What he did not expect was that his father Ren Zhengfei actually cut off his financial resources.
Ren Zhengfei said that he must let him suffer a little in order to know who he is.
At first, Ren Ping thought that his father was just scaring him and would complain to his father that life was sad, but after a few days he found that his father was really moved and really didn't care about him.
Ren Ping had no choice but to rebel against his father, so he had to work while studying abroad. He would do odd jobs brushing dishes and delivering them, and would also help some companies with planning and planning to earn living expenses.
During those days, he had a very hard time, but in the same way, he also gained a lot, his ability has improved rapidly, and his personality has been sharpened and become much more stable.
Now when he mentions the experience of being cut off by his father in a foreign country, Ren Ping will sigh, thanks to his father's strictness to himself, otherwise he is still just a stupid boy who doesn't understand anything.
Ren Ping has also known that his father will not have special preferential treatment for himself, so he is more cautious in doing things.
Ren Zhengfei did not ignore Ren Ping, but only used sticks to educate. In terms of cultivating and educating Ren Ping, he also made great efforts. He invited Ren Ping to be a powerful enlightenment teacher.
This enlightenment teacher is Zheng Baoyong, a famous executive of Huawei, executive vice president of Huawei, and chief engineer of Huawei.
At that time, Zheng Baoyong asked Ren Zhengfei: "How big do you want to make the company?" Ren Zhengfei said: "40 billion." Zheng Baoyong said: "You have conservativeLy ren zong, Huawei must at least achieve 100 billion." ”
Under the personal guidance of Zheng Baoyong, Ren Ping's personality became more and more calm, and he became more and more sensible, and he made sufficient efforts in his study and work.
In 2004, after graduation, Ren Ping entered Huawei.
His starting point, like his sister Meng Wanzhou, was made from the grassroots level. He knew very well that in these matters, his father Ren Zhengfei would not give him any green light.
He took a salary of a thousand yuan a month, ran the market with ordinary colleagues to meet customers, and ran business outside regardless of winter and summer.
He worked in a down-to-earth manner, starting from the grassroots little by little, no longer willful and rebellious, and his vision and ability were very rich. These changes made Ren Zhengfei feel very pleased.
Ren Ping and his sisters and sisters are different, he rarely appears in front of the media camera, and he is also very low-key at work, for the public, Ren Zhengfei's son is very "mysterious".
He first worked in the purchasing department, then in the marketing department and other departments, and then went to Huawei's Huitong Commerce Co., Ltd. as a supervisor and became an important business leader.
However, even if Ren Ping has achieved a middle level from the grassroots level and becomes the main person in charge of the subsidiary business, it is not as good as his sister Meng Wanzhou's achievements. At that time, Meng Wanzhou was already Ren Zhengfei's right-hand man and Huawei's "goddess".
In 2018, her sister Meng Wanzhou became the vice chairman of Huawei at the suggestion of the board of directors.
With such a sister with outstanding ability and extensive connections, Ren Ping's achievements do not seem to be enough to see.
In 2007, there were rumors that Ren Zhengfei had made a proposal to let Ren Ping join the board of directors, but it was opposed by all Huawei executives.
Three years later, Huawei bought back Sun Yafang's shares, and Sun Yafang retired early, and it was said that Ren Zhengfei was paving the way for Ren Ping.
Huawei has always had the saying of "left and not right", which is enough to prove Sun Yafang's status in Huawei. If Ren Zhengfei buys back enough shares from Sun Yafang to give to Ren Ping, then Ren Ping will have more power in Huawei.
When Sun Yafang retired, many people speculated that Ren Zhengfei planned to let Ren Ping succeed him. But in the end, among the new members of Huawei's board of directors in 2018, it was Liang Hua who succeeded Sun Yafang as chairman.
These anecdotal rumors have also been self-defeating again and again.
Many people will compare Ren Ping with his sister, thinking that he is incompetent, mediocre in qualifications, and unable to take on more responsibilities. So much so that Ren Ping has not been able to enter Huawei's core management and board of directors.
There are also many people who believe that if there is no Meng Wanzhou incident this time, Ren Ping will remain unknown, and everyone does not know that Ren Zhengfei also has a son named Ren Ping.
But many times, Ren Ping's style of doing things is very similar to Ren Zhengfei, with a stubborn personality and unique ideas.
In 2006, Ren Zhengfei made it clear that he was very opposed to investing in real estate, and he believed that making a lot of money in real estate and dying quickly was not a long-term business. But Ren Ping believes that real estate is a good investment opportunity.
So he and his sister Meng Wanzhou together set up Sichuan Heyi Industrial Co., Ltd., began to operate real estate and hotel business, and served as chairman of the board.
In 2017, Ren Ping built the Heyi Hotel, which is mainly engaged in hotel management business.
This also shows that Ren Ping has his own ideas and investment philosophy, has the courage to be no less than his father and sister, and dares to find another way in business investment.
But in the same way, not entering the company's core management also shows that he is not so outstanding in management ability, and it is difficult to get the recognition of Huawei's senior management like his sister Meng Wanzhou.
Ren Zhengfei has high hopes for Ren Ping's son, he trains Ren Ping as a successor, and lets the original Huawei chief engineer be his teacher.
In the eyes of the outside world, Huawei is not a family business, nor is it an ordinary company, but a company that stands at the forefront of science and technology in the world. Huawei's future successor must have enough ability and talent, enough vision and courage, in order to make Huawei go to a higher level.
Therefore, who will take over Zhengfei's class has always been very controversial.
When asked by reporters about Huawei's successor, Ren Zhengfei once said: "Huawei's successor must have a long-term vision and a great pattern, as well as sensitivity to new technologies and management capabilities." ”
These requirements seem to be very suitable for Meng Wanzhou, and Ren Ping still lacks opportunities and qualifications.
Ren Ping's personality is very similar to Ren Zhengfei, calm and introverted, low-key and simple.
But maybe it's too low-key on weekdays, or maybe her sister Meng Wanzhou is too good and dazzling, and her sister Yao Anna is too lively and flamboyant, so that when she mentions Ren Ping, she always thinks that he is the one with mediocre qualifications.
But in fact, Ren Ping runs the company by his own efforts and becomes an important manager of Huawei's subsidiaries, which is much stronger than many rich second generations.
And Ren Ping also understood that there was still a big gap between himself and his sister, and his father also had high hopes for himself. So even if he is now outside the core management of China, Ren Ping is also trying to move upwards.
Whether or not he can eventually become Huawei's successor, he has been very successful.
It is believed that after more than a thousand days of his sister Meng Wanzhou being trapped in Canada, he has also experienced more experience and will have greater achievements in the future.