Chapter 30 Don't forget the well digger when you drink water

Wealth is not only money, property, but also taste.A truly successful enterprise does not only focus on money, but uses money to continuously improve its taste. The society provides a good environment and conditions for the development of enterprises, and provides convenience for the development of enterprises. "Drinking water does not forget the well digger." When an enterprise develops to a certain level, it should feed back the society and contribute to social development.The wealth of an enterprise comes from the "gift" of the society, and it is a matter of course to repay the society.

Ren Zhengfei emphasized that "loving the motherland, loving the people, loving our career, and loving life are the source of our cohesion." Huawei adheres to the spiritual motivation of "loving the motherland, loving the people, and loving the company" and strives to develop national industries. "Drinking water does not forget the well digger", Huawei is doing its best to contribute its social responsibility to the motherland and the people. As far as life is concerned, perhaps poverty is a teacher, it teaches people to survive, makes people's backbones harder, and they can endure hardships calmly and be indomitable.The shadow of poverty can be found in many private entrepreneurs.Their hard-working and persevering qualities are often the "spiritual explosion" and cohesion during the entrepreneurial period.Therefore, some people call poverty the "wealth" of the successful.

Struggling at the bottom of society, they have a stronger desire to change the status quo. Having nothing makes them have a gambler-like adventurous spirit; the hard life they once had gives them the will and endurance that ordinary people do not have.This primitive vitality is the driving force for the advancement of the commercial society. In 1997, my country reformed the higher education system and began to charge students, but the matching student loans have not yet been in place.Ren Zhengfei respects knowledge. In order to prevent the poor students from taking their own hard way to study, he generously and enthusiastically helped, donating 25 million yuan to the Ministry of Education "The Fund for Poor Students" to help poor students complete their studies.At that time, someone asked whether the name of the fund should be called "Excellent XX Fund", but Ren Zhengfei refused: "It is not shameful to be poor and born, and it is not honorable to be noble without knowledge."

In addition, Huawei has donated to build a Hope Middle School and five Hope Primary Schools in Ansai County, Shaanxi Province and Yongjing County, Gansu Province to help poor children go to school and receive education.Thanks to Ren Zhengfei's words and deeds, at the end of 2005, every employee in the India office donated half of his salary to Parikrma, a non-governmental organization that provides educational opportunities for out-of-school children. German sociologist Max Weber said in "Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism": "When the pursuit of wealth and moral self-discipline develop simultaneously, the highest level of modern entrepreneurs can be reached." Labor, maybe he can become a famous scholar, a great wise man, and an outstanding poet, but he can never become a truly perfect and truly great person."

Enterprises are social enterprises, and society has created superior conditions for the development of enterprises, and enterprises should give back to society at an appropriate time.Successful enterprises not only have good economic benefits, but also are willing to repay the society, devote themselves to public welfare undertakings, and shoulder their social responsibilities.The Rockefeller Family Foundation invested exclusively in sponsoring scientific research; Bill Gates donated 500 million US dollars to fight AIDS; Google invested a huge amount to set up a charity fund; Li Ka-shing announced that he would donate 1/3 of his future property to charity...

Ren Zhengfei is very self-disciplined and consciously repays society.There is one of Huawei's core values: "Huawei takes the responsibility of serving the country through industry and rejuvenating the country through science and education, and contributes to the community where the company develops." Ren Zhengfei emphasized: Cadres at all levels should improve their sense of service and strengthen their sense of social responsibility , Improve your control and management capabilities in an all-round way. Huawei pays attention to the spirit of dedication and dedicates its value to the whole society and community.One is to develop core technologies for the motherland; the other is to pay more taxes for the country; the third is to actively repay the society and be a model corporate citizen through various means.These charitable acts of Huawei are fulfilling the responsibilities and obligations of a corporate citizen, and are also striving to gain recognition from the government and society.

On February 3, 1996, Huawei donated 200,000 yuan and two sets of communication equipment to the people in the earthquake-stricken area of ​​Lijiang, Yunnan. In February 1998, donated communication power supply equipment worth RMB 500,000 to the earthquake-stricken area in Hebei for reconstruction of the communication network in the disaster area. In August 1998, China was hit by a catastrophic flood that had not happened in a century.Huawei donated wireless communication equipment worth 25 million yuan for the communication infrastructure damaged by the flood? ? ?complex.In addition, Huawei and its employees also donated 15 million yuan in cash for the reconstruction of schools in the disaster-stricken areas.

In June 2003, in order to fight against SARS and repay the society with technology, Huawei donated network equipment products worth 800,000 yuan to the Statistics and Information Center of the Ministry of Health. In 2004, Huawei donated emergency communication equipment worth more than RMB 20 million to Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Bangladesh affected by the tsunami in Southeast Asia. The company and all employees donated RMB 20 million in cash to help rebuild the communication network in the disaster area. Many entrepreneurs make the Forbes rich list, but disappear without a trace on the socially responsible list.However, Ren Zhengfei is different. He has been named the most responsible Chinese entrepreneur by Forbes many times. Huawei has won people's respect by virtue of its strong sense of social responsibility.