Wang Shi took Cao Dewang to visit Wanfu Temple. The abbot said it would take 1600W to build a hall. Wang Shi hurriedly waved his hand and said that he had no money. Cao Dewang promised that he would donate the construction. I didn't expect the abbot to look at Cao De

Wang Shi took Cao Dewang to visit Wanfu Temple. The abbot said it would take 1600W to build a hall. Wang Shi hurriedly waved his hand and said that he had no money. Cao Dewang promised that he would donate the construction. Unexpectedly, the abbot saw that Cao Dewang had paid for it and immediately sat on the ground.

In 1946, Cao Dewang was born in Fu, Fujian Province, when his family was well-off, his father was one of the major shareholders of Yong'an Department Store, and Cao Dewang lived a "young master" life from an early age.

But such days did not last long. Due to the chaos in Shanghai at that time, Cao Dewang's father knew that Shanghai was no longer suitable for staying, so his father took the family back to his hometown.

On their way home on the steamship, the Cao Dewang family did not land safely with them on another boat full of property, and the news that the ship was flooded and all the property was stoned. For a time, the family's life fell to the bottom.

For a long time, eating at home was a problem, and only some foods with thin soup and water could be eaten.

Due to poor conditions, Cao Dewang only started school at the age of 9, but had to withdraw from school at the age of 14. After dropping out of school, he followed his father in business, selling tobacco, pulling scooters, repairing bicycles... He had experienced all the dirty work.

After Cao Dewang got married, he sold all his wife's dowry and took the money to do business. But the process is incredibly arduous.

In 1984, Cao Dewang was the director of Gaoshan Special-shaped Glass Factory, specializing in the production of water meter glass, and he had achieved little success at that time, and after a chance experience, he resolutely turned into the automotive glass industry. And the cause of the incident was the mother's crutch...

Once, when Cao Dewang went to Wuyi Mountain to play, he bought a crutch for his mother. When he finished buying crutches and riding in the car, the driver said to him: "Take your crutches well, in case the car glass is broken, you can't afford to pay." ”

Cao Dewang said, "Isn't it just a piece of glass?" How expensive can it be? The driver said: "This piece of front windshield costs 6,000 yuan." Cao Dewang was stunned. He asked, "Why is it so expensive?" ”

The driver replied: "Because there is no domestic production." ”

After returning that day, Cao Dewang lost sleep, and after a few days of contemplation, he made an ambition: "No one in China does it, I will do it!" I'm going to make my own piece of automotive glass for China. ”

Years later, Cao Dewang remembered this and thanked the driver very much for this sentence, which ignited Cao Dewang's life and made him the world's number one automotive glass supplier.

In 2016, after returning to China, Wang Shi warmly invited his friend Cao Dewang to visit The Wanfu Temple in Fujian Province.

Cao Dewang is also a Native of Fuqing, and he knows Fuqing very well, but he has not been to this temple, plus he believes in Buddhism himself, so he went with Wang Shi.

When he arrived, Cao Dewang looked at the many building materials on the temple open space in front of him and asked: What are these used for? The abbot told them that a fully built hall was being prepared, but the construction was delayed due to insufficient funds.

Cao Dewang was originally charitable, he immediately said that he came to pay money to build this temple, and Wang Shi on the side said that he was tight on hand and could not pay much money, up to 10 million.

As soon as the host listened to the conversation between the two people, he quickly said that it would take at least 16 million yuan to build this hall, and Cao Dewang said without hesitation: "Good this money, we will give it out." ”

Wang Shi immediately explained, "I don't have that much money. ”

"Then I'll come out myself!" Cao Dewang said.

The abbot saw that Cao Dewang was a big money, immediately sat down and changed the price, and said: "It may not be enough, the road there must also be repaired, and it will cost 20 million." But Cao Dewang said without hesitation: "Okay! ”

During the construction process, Cao Dewang found that many places in the temple were relatively dilapidated, and many things needed to be repaired, resulting in more and more projects being added and the budget of funds getting higher and higher.

In order to ensure that the style of the thousand-year-old temple is not destroyed, the best antique materials are used; in order to ensure the quality of the project, Cao Dewang came to Wanfu Temple to supervise the work as soon as he had time.

In this way, after several years, the Wanfu Temple was finally completed, and this major project cost Cao Dewang 400 million, but looking at the new Wanfu Temple, Cao Dewang felt that all this was worth it.

In 2011, Cao Dewang donated 300 million shares worth of Fuyao Glass held by the Cao family worth 3.549 billion yuan, and initiated and officially established the Heren Charity Foundation, which was the first to set a precedent for public welfare charity.

In 2021, Cao Dewang's Heren Charity Foundation announced that it would invest 10 billion yuan to prepare for the establishment of "Fuyao University of Science and Technology", which was handed over to the state as a public university after the completion of the school, cultivating high-quality industrial talents for the country and creating a "cradle of university engineers in the new era".

In July 2021, during the floods in Henan, Cao Dewang donated 100 million yuan. During the epidemic, Cao Dewang's donation amount exceeded 1.5 billion yuan. So far, Cao Dewang's cumulative donation amount has exceeded 16 billion yuan.

He has publicly stated that sharing the money in his pocket with society and helping those in need is out of gratitude.

According to incomplete statistics, he has been doing public welfare since 1983, he regards helping others as a responsibility, Cao Dewang's personal cumulative donations have exceeded 10 billion, and he is known as "China's first good".

Through the construction of the temple, it shows that Cao Dewang respects traditional Chinese culture, and in the face of dilapidated temples, he is willing to spend a lot of money to repair them, just so that the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism can be passed on and the traditional Chinese culture can continue to be carried forward.

Having made money and being willing to give back to the society and benefit mankind, it can be said that Cao Dewang is a real entrepreneur and philanthropist, worthy of praise by many people.

Cao Dewang perfectly combined his Buddha's heart and business path, and his qualities of not accepting defeat and daring to be the first made him a happy life.

There is a famous saying: "It is not difficult for a person to do a good thing, but it is difficult to only do good things in a lifetime, and not to do bad things."

Cao Dewang is a person who can always remain sober, in the face of the pursuit and flattery of others, he can still recognize himself, still able to maintain humility, this temperament is the most worthy of our admiration. #情感点评大赏 #