There is such a Chinese, the family is in the middle of the road, with a dream to run to England to work hard.
When he first arrived in Britain, he was only 10 pounds on his body, and he worked as a bowl cleaner for two consecutive years, usually only living under the overpass, and was driven away as a tramp.
Although the blow of reality was heavy, it still did not crush him.
He successfully achieved a counterattack, single-handedly created the largest supermarket in the United Kingdom, and successfully sat on the throne of the richest Man of Chinese descent in the United Kingdom.
In 2010, he was awarded the "British Empire Non-Commissioned Officer Medal" (OBE) by the Queen, and prince Charles of the United Kingdom honored him as a guest of honor, and even former British Prime Minister Blair and Cameron honored him with three points.
This person is the founder of "RongYexing" - Ye Huanrong.
In 1938, Ip HuanRong was born in Dongguan and moved to Hong Kong with his family. In Hong Kong, Ye Huanrong finished secondary school and reached the age of earning a living, but the huge Hong Kong could not find his favorite job, and Ye Huanrong decided to go to England for a while.
In 1959, at the age of 21, Ye Huanrong traveled to London with £10 and a ferry ticket in his pocket.
Like all people who have left home, when he first arrived in London, he had great ambitions and wanted to make a career. But reality gave him a blow, because he was not familiar with life and had no money, Ye Huanrong ran into a wall, usually only lived under the overpass, and was also driven away by the police as a tramp.
Later, through the hometown association, he successfully found his first job, he became a bowl brusher, this brush, brush, for two years.
Later, the boss saw that Ye Huanrong was not bad, so he proposed him to the front desk waiter. In the position of waiter, he spent more than a year figuring out the way the restaurant was operated, so he and two other friends opened a Chinese restaurant. The experience he had accumulated and his natural business acumen made his restaurant very popular, and within a few months, he opened a branch.
However, it was just a small restaurant, and some of it could not satisfy Ye Huanrong's appetite, and he wanted to continue to take a step forward.
By chance, he saw a short story in the newspaper:
After World War I, The American businessman Hilton tried to buy a bank in Texas, but failed because the seller kept raising the price.
Frustrated, Hilton had to stay in a local hotel and prepare to return home the next day. But when he arrived at the hotel, he found that the hotel was full and many people were sleeping in the lobby.
Not only was Hilton not sad because he couldn't find a room, but he was very excited — it turned out that hotels were also a good business.
So, he gave up buying a bank and started a hotel instead, and the business became bigger and bigger, becoming the world's famous "Hilton Hotel".
This little story gave Ye Huanrong a hint that he gave up continuing to do the restaurant business and instead became a grocery store. Teaming up with his brother, he opened the first Chinese-style grocery store in Birmingham and named it "Rong Ye Xing".
Ye Huanrong's Rongye Line, as soon as it opened, was booming, and soon became popular throughout the British business circle, and the business became bigger and bigger, gradually spreading throughout the United Kingdom.
Ye Huanrong also became the richest man of Chinese descent in Britain. In 2010, the Queen personally awarded him the "British Empire Non-Commissioned Officer Medal" (OBE), the British Prince Charles made him a guest of honor, and even former British Prime Minister Blair and Cameron had to pay him three points.
Even after so many years of leaving his hometown, Ye Huanrong always regarded himself as a Chinese.
Since 2000, he has set up the "Ye Huanrong Brothers Bursary" to sponsor projects such as Tsinghua North University students to study in Cambridge and Cambridge students to study at Peking University Tsinghua University.
He always said that talent is the future of China, and he is willing to cultivate talents for China.
Ye Huanrong also made it clear that he did not care that his descendants were in love with people of any nationality, but his grandchildren must be like him, yellow-skinned and dark-eyed.
postscript:
Anyone's success is not accidental, Ye Huanrong has attached importance to team building from the beginning of entrepreneurship, and with the development of the company, it is more important to pay attention to enterprise management and the creation of employee incentive systems. Because he knows that a person's ability is limited, he must really stimulate the ability of employees in order to make the enterprise bigger.