In February 2019, Ren Zhengfei said categorically in an interview:
She (Meng Wanzhou) will never be a successor because she has no technical background.
However, from April 1 this year, Meng Wanzhou will become Huawei's rotating chairman for the first time in six months.
In Huawei's organizational structure, the position of chairman is formal, and the rotating chairman is the center of power and responsible for the survival and development of the company.
This time, what Ren Zhengfei said in the official statement was:
During this period, she (Meng Wanzhou) was the top leader of the company.
After four years, Ren personally overturned his previous remarks.
But combing through the past reveals that everything is expected and reasonable.
01
If before 2018, Meng Wanzhou's identity was only "Huawei CFO" and "Ren Zhengfei's daughter", then after that, she had another identity in the hearts of the people of the whole country——
Hero.
I still remember that on the evening of September 25, 2021, she finally returned to China after 1,028 difficult days and nights.
That night, CCTV News and Xinhua News Agency launched online live broadcasts, with a total of more than 100 million viewers, and the screen was full of "Welcome Home".
On March 31 this year, at Huawei's earnings conference, a reporter asked Meng Wanzhou whether her business trip to the United States would be affected.
She responded that her personal case had come to an end.
According to the latest news, the United States has completely dropped the charges against Meng Wanzhou.
In other words, after five long years of litigation, Meng Wanzhou never gave in and finally won.
This victory was not easy to come by.
On December 1, 2018, Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Canada.
The next day, she handed Ren Zhengfei a note through her husband, which said: Dad, all the spearheads are aimed at you, you need to be careful.
During the three years of detention that followed, Meng Wanzhou showed the style of a Chinese son and daughter to the greatest extent with perseverance, courage and calmness.
Since her arrest, foreign media have been watching her embarrassed, crumbling and haggard.
But they were disappointed.
At the first hearing, Meng Wanzhou was smiling and elegant.
The reporters did not die, gathered around her door for 24 hours to follow, Meng Wanzhou was not annoyed or angry, and even ordered them pizza.
In every subsequent trial, Meng Wanzhou was like this, walking leisurely, her posture relaxed, and she struck hard at those waiting to see her jokes.
The dazzling electronic leg shackles did not affect her composure in the slightest.
Even the judge was impressed by her temperament and praised:
"Throughout the proceedings, you have been cooperative and courteous, for which the court appreciates and appreciates."
She never showed half vulnerability in public, and she silently swallowed all her pain.
On December 12, 2018, Meng Wanzhou was released on bail at the cost of 10 million Canadian dollars, but she is still in detention, and the requirements for her are extremely strict:
Be quiet and report to the supervisor; You must be active in British Columbia, live at home on 28th Street, and stay at home from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Think about it, when we can't move freely because of the epidemic, it's unbearable to stay for a month, but this kind of life, Meng Wanzhou has lived for three years.
In addition to being restricted in her personal freedom, she often received letters full of "death threats", some of which even contained bullets directly.
This is "coercion", and what is even more frightening is "inducement".
The U.S. Department of Justice offered to return home as long as Ms. Meng pleaded guilty to some of the charges in the case.
Meng Wanzhou refused sternly, and she said in a loud voice:
"I am not afraid of death, and I will never bring shame to Huawei and China!"
From the moment of arrest, Meng Wanzhou was ready to sacrifice.
Ren Zhengfei responded to this, even if it is possible that he will never see his daughter again in this life, he will not exchange the interests of the country and the people for his daughter's freedom.
In the face of all kinds of unknowns, Meng Wanzhou is not depressed, she insists on studying online for further study, and at most she learns eight homework a day.
Ren Zhengfei could not hide his appreciation for his daughter in an interview, he said with a smile: "Every time she calls, she says that she is very busy and fulfilling, and I am afraid that she will study for a 'doctor in prison' in the future!" ”
Such strong determination and self-drive are really admirable.
At his last appearance, the judge asked, "Do you plead guilty or deny the charge?" ”
Meng Wanzhou replied: "I deny the charge!" ”
After the hearing, the judge announced that Meng Wanzhou was free and that she could return to China.
At that moment, everyone who paid attention to this matter burst into tears.
02
Meng Wanzhou has the same bloodiness and courage as his father Ren Zhengfei in his bones.
This is inseparable from the family education she received.
Meng Wanzhou was not born a rich second generation, on the contrary, her entire childhood was spent in hardship and turmoil.
In 1972, Ren Zhengfei was working as an infrastructure engineering soldier in the army, and in February of that year, Meng Wanzhou was born.
When she was 5 years old, Meng Wanzhou was sent to her grandmother's house in Duyun, Guizhou, to go to school.
The conditions in the mountains were very poor, and there was no meat to eat, and Meng Wanzhou was so hungry that he was starving at Venus.
Grandma felt sorry for her, always secretly squeezed a little out of the family's food expenses, and carried her to the street to buy candy to eat.
When she grew up, she learned that under such poor conditions at that time, she would eat an extra piece of sugar, and her aunts and uncles who were growing their bodies would have to eat one less bite of food.
Like many left-behind children, Meng Wanzhou and her brother play in the fields every day, catching grasshoppers and digging wild vegetables, carefree, but also ruining their education.
At the age of 12, Meng Wanzhou realized that she could not continue like this, so she said to Ren Zhengfei solemnly:
"Dad, I won't be able to get into college in the future, and you will be responsible for my future."
A sentence that made Ren Zhengfei begin to rethink the future and fate of himself and his children.
In 1984, he was demobilized and went south to Shenzhen to work hard, picking up his son and daughter.
Meng Wanzhou returned to her parents, but life was still tight.
In an article titled "Kite," she wrote:
"My parents and I were huddled in a leaky house, where it rained heavily outside, light rain inside, and in the breezy house on all sides, the neighbors next door could hear us."
Unbeknownst to them, however, an even bigger storm awaited.
While working, Ren Zhengfei was cheated out of 2 million by a cooperative trading company, which was an astronomical amount in China in the 80s.
The situation at home was even worse, and Meng Wanzhou's sisters and brothers who came to Shenzhen not long ago were sent back to their grandparents.
In 1987, Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei with 21,000 yuan raised.
A legend is opening, but the marriage of Ren Zhengfei and his first wife Meng Ping has come to an end.
Meng Wanzhou followed her mother, and over the course of several years, she and Ren Zhengfei became more and more distant.
It was not until 1993 that Meng Wanzhou joined Huawei after graduating from Shenzhen University.
As the "daughter of Ren Zhengfei", she has never been treated favorably because of her special status, but like everyone, she started from the most basic position.
The first job Ren Zhengfei arranged for her was to be a receptionist, to put it bluntly, it was miscellaneous.
The fledgling Meng Wanzhou was young and immature, and made constant mistakes, for which he was not less criticized by Ren Zhengfei.
When she moved to the finance department in 1998, Ren was even more ruthless in criticizing her.
Once, there was some resistance within Huawei's finances, and Ren Zhengfei was furious:
"As far as I know, this is not an accidental event, I don't know when the finance forgot that his job is to serve the business, when did it become a commanding officer? One must build on a firm foundation? ”
Under such a stormy tempering, Meng Wanzhou grew rapidly.
In the following ten years, Meng Wanzhou made remarkable achievements and made indelible contributions to Huawei's take-off.
She first established a globally unified Huawei Finance organizational structure, processes, systems, and IT platform, and later implemented the IFS (Integrated Financial Services) reform in Huawei, leading the establishment of five Huawei accounting sharing centers, covering and supporting Huawei's global accounting work, and promoting the completion of Huawei's global centralized payment center in Shenzhen.
In 2011, with her outstanding performance in financial work, Meng Wanzhou officially became the CFO of Huawei.
In 2018, she was elected as Huawei's vice chairman by the Employee Representative Council.
Throughout Meng Wanzhou's growth history, I have to sigh that this is the real big heroine!
She came from the wind and rain, covered in mud and experienced many vicissitudes, but it was precisely because of this that she cultivated a strong heart and extraordinary courage.
03
"The family will never enter the succession sequence."
Ren Zhengfei has said this many times in public.
In 2010, the news that Ren Zhengfei intended to let his son Ren Ping take over the baton spread in the market.
That winter, a reporter asked Ren Zhengfei in person, and he "told his son's growth story with some excitement, and his hobbies, ambitions and characteristics said that it was impossible." ”
Later, Ren Ping went to Huawei's Huitong Company as the general manager, which had nothing to do with Huawei's main business.
Ren's ideal successor must have "vision, character, will, and foresight in value evaluation, and the ability to control the business ecosystem." ”
"My family doesn't have these abilities."
Why now, Ren Zhengfei overturned what he said before and let his daughter Meng Wanzhou become the rotating chairman?
There is only one reason, that is, Meng Wanzhou has already possessed the abilities and qualities he requires in the tempering again and again.
In 1997, Meng Wanzhou published an article entitled "Who is the Hero" in Huawei Daily, which described this paragraph:
"When I was very young, my father would put me on his lap whenever he was free and tell me the stories of Dong Cunrui, Yang Jingyu, Liu Hulan, and Wang Erxiao, probably hoping that I could grow into a strong girl."
The young Meng Wanzhou would not have thought that later, she would really become a hero.
From business ability to character and temperament, it has become what my father expects.
I think Ren Zhengfei is very happy that he was "slapped in the face", and this father who is strict and loving on the surface must be sincerely proud of his daughter.
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