At the just-concluded Women's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's football team faced a strong opponent against the wind and turned the tables, and after 16 years, it reached the peak of Asia, which made people can't help but admire the spirit of women's football and the strength of women's football. Zhang Xin, who assisted god in the final, just experienced the process of retiring and giving birth to a child, and was called back to the team after the child had just been weaned.
Female power is on the rise in sports. In fact, female athletes have always performed well, taking the just-concluded Winter Olympics as an example, from 1992 when Chinese athletes won medals at the Winter Olympics for the first time, to a total of ten Winter Olympic Games, of which nine Chinese female athletes have more medals than male athletes.
Female power has risen in the process of participating in politics and deliberations. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics' "Outline for the Development of Chinese Women (2011-2020)", the proportion of female deputies to the National People's Congress has increased from 12% of the first NPC to 24.9% in the 13th Session; the percentage of female members of the NATIONAL Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference has increased from 6.6% in the first session to 20.39% in the 13th Session.
Female power is on the rise in business competition. At the end of 2021, the "2021 Hurun Women Entrepreneurs List" was announced, according to the individual wealth of female entrepreneurs who can be stripped from family wealth, the total wealth of the top 50 Chinese female entrepreneurs is 1.9 trillion yuan, which is a quarter of the total wealth of the top 50 Chinese male entrepreneurs. Advanced manufacturing and real estate are the main sources of wealth for women entrepreneurs.
Female power is on the rise in social activities. Whether it is Academician Li Lanjuan, who is obligated in the face of major national events, Or Principal Zhang Guimei, who inserts the wings of dreams for girls in the depths of the mountains, or President Fan Jinshi, who is stationed in Dunhuang and accompanies cultural relics, and more female workers who are silently struggling in the frontline, they continue to profoundly influence people with their unique female strength.
They are mothers, wives, daughters, and teenagers who dream of starting from innocence to meet the long journey. On the occasion of International Women's Day, Knowledge Economy interviews more than ten women at different stages of entrepreneurship and life stages, using their seemingly ordinary but shining experiences to send infinite possibilities to every female friend who sticks to her original intention and dreams.
I would like to wish female friends a happy holiday!
(The following character articles are ranked in no particular order, in alphabetical order of last name)
Mountains
One of the founders of Mengniu New Retail
Hobbies: Work Badminton Shopping
Life should have unlimited possibilities, entrepreneurship can help me realize the "infinite possibilities", on the other hand, entrepreneurship can also help me increase my income, so I resolutely embarked on this road.
The road to entrepreneurship is very difficult, especially in the past two years, affected by the epidemic, because in addition to online affairs, there are more than a dozen white-walled Physical Stores offline, which have been greatly affected by the epidemic. Therefore, the feeling of these two years is particularly obvious, many innovative enterprises can not live for two or three years, in my opinion is a thought of heaven, a thought of hell, many companies can not see the benefits in two or three years can only give up. I have also had hesitation and confusion.
At my lowest point, I chose to solve problems in a growing way. When I chose between continuing to challenge more possibilities and giving up, I began to devote myself to learning, sometimes retreating for a month or two, learning the methodology and making myself more powerful from the inside out. It is also through the accumulation of this time that I have determined the mission and development vision of our brand.
I used to care a lot about whether others understood me, and after my heart was more determined, I would no longer feel wronged because the customer did not understand, because my mission was to continue to lead the brand forward, and in this process, there must be people with the same frequency as me to join the team and realize the final vision together. And the result obtained is the best answer to all doubts.
Women are respected in the current entrepreneurial environment, and the entrepreneurs or clients I have met have great respect for me, and I think this is a very good era for women.
I used to firmly believe that I wanted to be a professional woman and keep pushing forward in my career. But after two years of precipitation, I gradually discovered the beauty of life, in fact, career and life are not contradictory, the two can give each other strength and inspiration. With this awareness, I also love life even more and enjoy the beauty of life after work.
I want to tell those entrepreneurial women who are like me who are "workaholic" to pay attention to life after work, and learn to nourish themselves with the power of life to continue to move forward. At the same time, every step of life counts, every effort we make is helping us to improve, let's not give up, and cheer together.
Kinley
General Manager of Golden Box Group
Hobbies: Traveling
This year is my second decade of business, and I have set my goal for this year to make my company a public company on the NASDAQ. In fact, this is one of the main contents of my daily work.
I have always been a person who is independent in thought, has a strong personality, and has high requirements for self-worth identity. After graduating with a master's degree in business administration, I gave up my position as a civil servant and came to Shanghai to pursue my career dreams.
In 2013, after working for half a year, I chose to start my own business, mainly to provide one-stop services to help enterprises complete investment and financing, counseling and listing, tax planning and other comprehensive corporate management. Under the wave of economic globalization, the rapid development of Golden Box Group has effectively promoted the rapid multiplication of the value of the customer's enterprise series, and in this process, my personal ability and value have also been enhanced and recognized. I love my job very much, which is exactly in line with my original intentions and dreams in my career.
In my daily work, I have a more direct and frank personality, so my way of thinking may be slightly masculine. But I think female managers still have a lot of advantages in the workplace, such as higher emotional intelligence and more skill in communication and so on.
In life, my family is a very important part of me. My husband is also starting a business, so we understand each other and encourage each other on a daily basis. My father-in-law and mother-in-law are also very supportive of my work, and they help me take care of some housework and children in Shanghai. In our free time, we also often travel with our families to see the world with our parents and children. It is precisely because of such a warm harbor that I have one more goal in 2022 - to prepare for pregnancy and have a second child.
There are thousands of kinds of beauty, and I think the beauty of women is self-reliance, self-improvement, and self-confidence. Therefore, I also send a message to all female entrepreneurs, through the establishment of lifelong learning habits, constantly enrich themselves, self-reliance and self-reliance, so as to emit self-confidence from the inside out, and become the master of their own life.
Lee Eun Hui
Founder of several corporate strategy consultants/empowerment centers
Hobbies: Sports, reading movies
Any restriction comes from within. From the establishment of the empowerment center to the practice, I have always insisted on using the mentality of creation, openness and improvement to empower the platform, empower the company, empower the team, and empower the individual. From the very beginning of the industry, I have made up my mind to help small and medium-sized enterprises incubate and empower, and contribute to the development of society with my own modest efforts.
Once the goal is established, people's actions will be full of energy; once the goal is established, people's practice can not forget the original intention. I have encountered difficulties in the journey, but I have never thought of giving up, and I just want to make every incubation training case perfect.
The road is long and the road is long, and I will seek up and down. In the field of consulting and training incubation, "seeking", "seeking knowledge" and landing implementation are the most important. On the basis of hard work and seriousness, I constantly improve the possibilities of each case and come up with customized solutions with practical significance. Combined with the current competitive and cooperative development situation of small and medium-sized enterprises, we will think about the reorganization, reshaping, re-strategic deployment of small and medium-sized enterprises and the play of practical online and offline training systems to help enterprises gradually develop and grow.
As a female entrepreneur, she has also encountered obstacles on the way forward, but the dripping water can eventually penetrate the stone, not because the dripping water has great power, but because it is dripping day and night. When I integrate women's sensitivity and creativity into every case I have, and prove with every successful practice that I have never given up on this water droplet, there is nothing to stop.
Never forget the original intention, always have a dream, confident and optimistic, is the best response to those who question you.
Finally, I wish all entrepreneurial women a happy holiday and a promising future!
Li Hongbing
Dean of the Corn College of Biological Education
Hobbies: Reading fitness
I have loved the stage and shared beautiful things since I was a child, and I am the first generation of Avon Miss china and a pioneer in experiential education.
In China's direct selling industry, I have more than 20 years of experience in sales management and education training, and have successfully developed the first store of Avon in China; I have also served as the head of education and training in a number of direct selling companies, good at the construction and implementation of the education system, successfully built three business schools, and supported nearly 1,000 women's salon activities. Especially in the past five years, I have been at the forefront of the industry in the online application of education and training, and have successively created matrix-style, temperature-based online education columns such as aerial classrooms, three-dimensional live broadcasts, vibrato, video numbers, etc., attracting countless fans and being loved and respected by dealer partners.
Outside of work, I like to read, where the footsteps cannot be measured, words can; where the eyes cannot see, words can. For many years, I have been reading at least 50 books a year to enrich my new knowledge, strengthen my self-knowledge, and "read useless books and be useful people."
I'm still an unabashed amateur fitness maniac. At least an hour of aerobic exercise and strength training a day, which has been going on for 10 years, "exercise is the best rest." Every day after exercising, the next day of work, I am full of energy, and I truly realize that a good life is the core of the business opportunity.
As a senior professional woman, in fact, the most guilty thing is that she has paid too little to the family, and the education and care for her children are insufficient, and she can only make up for this debt through other means. This is also the dilemma of every woman who has been working hard in the workplace for a long time. Still, I do my best to achieve a work-life balance while enjoying the satisfaction and joy that comes with my work.
On the occasion of the arrival of the Goddess Day, I wish everyone on the way to the future, with endless love, such as the stars shining, like the wind free, keeping the best state, and greeting the N possibilities of life.
Li Qing
Kangli agent
Hobbies: Singing, dancing, food
When I was very young, I had the dream of changing my family's situation and improving my family's living conditions through entrepreneurship. In order to realize this dream, I quit my job from the company and started a business. Starting with basic sales, there have also been rejections and resistance when marketing products to unfamiliar customers. Despite the ups and downs, my deep desire to succeed on my own has never changed. I insist on cheering and cheering for myself, reminding myself of the original intention when I started my business, so many years, relying on the firmness and persistence of my heart to get to today, and now I have gained a stable career and a healthy family.
As a woman, although it seems weak, it is actually more suitable for sales-based entrepreneurship, because our unique characteristics of patience and sensibility are easier to win the trust of others and more sincere to make friends.
I am thankful that my family has been very supportive of my entrepreneurship. No matter how busy I am, I will find time to meet with my family regularly, show my cooking skills at home, chat with friends and family about life, exchange gifts during the holidays, and enjoy a warm and happy time with my family. I will also share the happy or sad things encountered in the process of starting a business with my family, and everyone will help me to give advice when communicating with each other. Under my influence, my husband, brother and sister are now like me to start their own businesses, so that everyone has more common languages and more opportunities to get along.
In 2022, I hope to work with Kangli to jointly establish a more united and stable sales team, and build a more large-scale, structured and standardized efficient management and operation system. At the same time, we also want to help more young people realize their self-worth, cultivate more outstanding young people, help them become independent as soon as possible, and make our team more energetic and creative.
As women, while we are self-reliant and self-reliant, we must not forget our original intentions and adhere to our original dreams. Perhaps in the process of starting a business or working and living, there will be many obstacles, but insisting on dreams and struggles will have different results. I hope that female friends will pursue beauty and achieve a wonderful life!
Qian Feng
Enron Six Diamond Manager/Family Member of the Founders of the Flag System
Hobbies: Work Work Work
After starting a business, whether I move forward or backward, it will affect my team and the partners around me, so from the time I embarked on the road of entrepreneurship, I never thought about giving up. I know that only by adhering to the original intention, continuous accumulation, self-breakthrough, and continuous growth can there be a possibility of accumulation and thin development.
In fact, whether you are a man or a woman, there will always be obstacles and difficulties in the workplace or entrepreneurship, but this should not be a reason and excuse for you to give up. Especially entrepreneurship, how can it be smooth sailing, but if you can always keep the development of the whole team in mind, this sense of responsibility is enough to support and promote you to keep moving forward. The sword blade came out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance came from the bitter cold. To start a business, we must be prepared to become more and more courageous.
In the process of running this business, through my own continuous efforts, I became a role model for others to learn from, and finally made my family proud of me, which in my opinion is the best reward for my family. In the same way, we also use practical actions and achievements to gradually let the public see the resilience and advantages of our industry. In the past few years, all walks of life have been affected by the epidemic, and during this period, our team has laid a solid foundation and is full of hope for 2022.
A lot of people talk about "entrepreneurial failure", and I think most people fail because they don't have the belief of "sticking with it anymore". If you can strengthen your faith, always remember your original intention of starting a business, and encourage yourself to "stick to it again" when you encounter difficulties and setbacks, you will soon be able to see it clearly.
As a woman, it's either beautiful or inspirational. Whether we are born beautiful or not, we all have to live beautifully. I wish all female friends a happy holiday and realize their dreams as soon as possible!
Wang Qiudan
Helios entrepreneurial mentor
Hobbies: Traveling and seeing the world
In the first few years of starting a business, my lover and I would run markets all over the country, and the children would live alone in boarding schools. I often feel that throughout my entrepreneurial process, my son and lover have given me great support and help, and they all understand me very well. My son and I agreed to achieve our own goals in life, and later we did, and he achieved success in his studies and some achievements in my career.
My lover has always respected my choices, but I think that before and after I started my business, his love for me still went through different stages: from the initial tolerance and love, to now more appreciation. In this era when men and women account for half of the sky, I believe that women must be self-reliant and self-reliant, and become a person who is good at "giving" rather than "taking", in order to truly achieve spiritual freedom.
Our family started a business together, so we spend a lot of time with our families, everyone talks about career, life, and is positive together, and the entrepreneurial atmosphere is very strong. My lover and I are partners in our careers, helping each other in life, and after all these years together, we still feel deeply in love with each other. Our team also has a lot of husband and wife partners, and everyone's family relationship is very good, which is the advantage of starting a business together.
If you want to talk about the advantages of starting a business as a woman, it is probably that for our industry, the emotional way of exhibition is easier to impress people. For example, we often meet laid-off and unemployed friends, and in the process of communicating with them, women's gentle way of talking is easier to make friends than men.
In 2022, I hope to continue to help our partners in Shenghong Home create more value as much as possible and go further together on the platform of Helios. In life, I hope my family is safe and happy, and our family is now missing only one daughter-in-law.
I want to tell those female friends who are still working hard in the early stage of entrepreneurship, don't give up lightly, and when you encounter difficulties, work harder and harder, you will find that it is all worth it. Finally, I wish you all a happy March 8th Festival.
Wang Weiyun
President, Mary Kay Asia Pacific and China
Hobbies: Guess what
When I first joined Mary Kay, there were a few things that really impressed me. The first thing was when the boss told me that the in-house counsel of other companies might focus on the legal gray area to find some flexibility and defend their rights through the law, but Mary Kay can't do that, we have to be strict with ourselves within the boundaries.
The second thing was that five months after I started, a Mary Kay chief superintendent said that at Mary Kay, our lives are measured not by how many breaths we breathe, but by how many wonderful moments that hold our breath. She also said that her success at Mary Kay is because she has helped many people achieve their dreams.
I was just a legal counsel at the time, but these few things made me deeply feel that work can have different missions and meanings, which strengthened my determination to work here.
The global economy has been hit hard by the external environment, but I am still confident about the future, because both I, and my company, have been doing things that "take root" for so many years. I believe that only when the foundation is solid, we will not be affected by the wind and rain of the outside world.
In entrepreneurship or the workplace, you can try to do the most basic, simple but most irreplaceable things, and you must be down-to-earth.
In 2022, I hope that we can benchmark as a global company, so that Mary Kay service providers around the world have the same way of contacting and feeling the same Mary Kay. At the same time, I will start from the "original Mary Kay" and borrow and coordinate on the common points of Mary Kay's various markets.
We named Mary Kay's five-year development strategy after the "Mulan Project", which is to resonate with the "loyalty, courage and sincerity" of the Mulan spirit and convey mary Kay's courage and authenticity to be loyal to the original heart.
I've met a lot of women who work hard for different reasons and have different dreams. I hope that all female friends will move forward on the road ahead and stick to their original intentions. Happy Holidays to all.
Wang Ying
Executive Director of Huatai E-Commerce
Hobbies: Movies Travel
The purpose of starting a business was very simple, that is, to make money and make the quality of life higher. In the process of starting a business, there will always be difficulties and setbacks, whenever there is no motivation, I think of the family who supports me around me, keep cheering myself up, and sink my heart to move forward.
Gradually, I discovered that the purpose of starting a business is not just to make money, but more for ideals and beliefs. I began to change my original intentions, influencing more people of insight with common ideas to change their thinking and promote the cause of common prosperity. In fact, taking the goal in the long run will also affect your own steps: when encountering difficulties, look up at the road ahead, and you will not be overwhelmed by the difficulties under your feet.
As a woman, there are still some obstacles in the workplace to a greater or lesser extent, but I don't think I will stop fighting for it. With responsibility in mind, you can move forward. At the same time, I am also very grateful to my family for their tolerance and support, and I always believe that without them, I would not be where I am today.
This year's small goal is still focused on my career, and I hope to fully promote the development of Huatai E-commerce Co., Ltd. and go public as soon as possible. I like all the beautiful things in life, and I hope that I can feel the beauty of life more in my spare time, and also send more signals about beauty to my friends through myself.
In fact, both men and women will always encounter difficulties and setbacks if they want to move forward. No matter how many bumps and storms there are in the future, even if it is debt, as long as you strengthen your ideals and beliefs, always remind yourself of why you are coming, and plunge into the rushing wave of entrepreneurship, you will definitely be able to wait until the day when the goal is achieved.
It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult for women to start a business, but since we have chosen this road, even if we have a stormy journey, we must go on and live up to Shaohua.
Xu Yulin
Yan Ruyu partner
Hobbies: Sports, painting, reading
After leaving the campus, I quickly got married and had children. While taking the baby at home, he started a purchasing business and quickly accumulated a considerable audience. I began to think, since there can be such a big market for bringing overseas products back to China, why not try to sell domestic products abroad?
When all was said and done, I started Yan Ruyu's career. Based on our existing audience and flexible ways of working, our small team quickly grew. The foreign merchant friends who originally supplied me have now become my overseas customers, achieving my original goal of selling domestic products overseas.
My husband gave me a lot of support when it came to family and career trade-offs. Many times when I had problems in my career, he used his masculine thinking to help me a lot. Because this business can be completed with fragmented time, our family often has scenes of me working and my sons and daughters reading and painting next to me, and their mantra is: "Everyone has their own things to do." "Parents are the best role models for children.
Help is also often received in the entrepreneurial process. Once I was moving goods at the door of the store, and it was very difficult to carry the goods box by box, and several passers-by who passed by reached out to help me carry it together. Women naturally have a strength disadvantage, and the help of more powerful male friends makes me feel very warm.
In 2022, I hope that my career can continue to grow bigger and stronger, bring more high-quality domestic products to more consumers, and at the same time, hope that through my own efforts, I can help more women who are starting a business. In addition, in recent years, we have insisted on donating donations to school-age children in mountainous areas, and this year we hope to help these children realize their dreams of going to school through our modest efforts.
After starting a family, a woman is a wife and a mother, but let's not forget what kind of person we once wanted to be. Families and children are the driving force on our way forward, not an obstacle. I hope that all women can stick to their original intentions and realize their dreams.
Zhang Min
Founder of bubbling film and television culture
Hobbies: Daze, empty, wandering
When I first graduated and was looking for a job interview, I was always asked: What is your career plan? I had a headache when I encountered such a problem, because it required me to make it up out of thin air, and at that time I had no career plan at all. It was also a brief work experience that made me realize early on that I did not have the passion and hard work for a certain job or a company. Starting a business can turn the ideas in my head into reality, and the process is wonderful, so I have my own plans to start my own business and soon have my own company.
The process of starting a business makes me feel very happy, whether I move forward or backward, it comes from self-motivation. I wanted to create a free life for myself, and I was frustrated when I failed, but I never wanted to give up.
Throughout the process, I occasionally feel society's bias against men and women. For example, when talking about a certain business, the other party may wonder whether a young girl like me has absolute right to speak. But this is also a rare case.
I come from a traditional Chinese family, and my parents wanted me to be a civil servant in peace and stability than to start a business, and they didn't want me to live too hard for the purpose of protecting me. But this has become my motivation to move forward, hoping to prove to them that "I can" with actual results.
In the new year, I am working hard to build a new product project for our company, hoping to find a relatively stable business line in the next five years and serve more customers. In life, I hope that my feelings are smooth, healthy and happy.
I want to tell women who are working hard for their careers like me, no matter what kind of ideas the people around you have influenced you, don't give up your original intention of starting a business, and don't change the direction of your hard work.
Take responsibility for yourself and really happy.
Zhou Shengzhi
National level dietitian
Hobbies: Traveling, reading
It has been more than 20 years in the workplace, and her daughter is about to enter the workplace and become a new person in society. As an "old fritter", there are a few words to tell the young people who are ready to soar into the sea to show their ambitions.
First, professionalism is not important, what is important is to retain a momentum that is willing to constantly try new areas!
In fact, in addition to some highly professional disciplines, it is not easy to find your own completely professional counterpart in the work. I am an undergraduate student majoring in clinical medicine, and then I slowly find a career as a nutritionist that suits my interests and profession, which is a profession that allows me to use my professional expertise, and I am interested and willing to spend the rest of my life.
Second, when you are young, you must not limit yourself, you may wish to jump out of your comfort zone to see.
In the school stage, children have parents, teachers, and classmates around them all the time, which forms their inherent comfort zone. You may wish to jump out and try to make yourself less comfortable in the field, which can stimulate your ability to adapt to the environment, and it is possible to find hobbies and interests, which will help to maintain passion and avoid burnout in the workplace.
Third, always maintain a curious, learning mentality.
After work, you must have a heart that is curious about everything. Only by learning can we achieve our own continuous improvement and self-added. Academic qualifications and diplomas are only stepping stones for you to go to society, and the future road also requires you to fight monsters and upgrades all the way in your work to accumulate experience points, and eventually transform from a rookie to an elite.
It is true that there are still some fields and professions in society that have different visions and requirements for women, but whether it is a working woman or an entrepreneur, you must deal with your various social identities, at home is a daughter, and perhaps the role of wife and mother; at work is an employee, perhaps a manager... In whatever environment, follow the rules of what environment.
Happy holidays to all, and I wish women soaring bravely with the wings of their dreams!