You may have been tired of hearing the stories about Wenzhou people.On the one hand, those clichéd plots have become the talk of all beings, and on the other hand, they have also put a shackle on Wenzhou. In the past, they were unknown and made a fortune in silence; now, they have become a kind of symbol. The double baking of reality and history. Under the baking, those who care about things will ask, have the Wenzhou people lost?This question, like "Are Wenzhou people successful?" requires a little in-depth questioning: If they are successful, what is the reason for this success?If they failed, why did they fail?

To sort out these problems, it is not a job in a few words.As Mr. Qian Mu said, every period of history has a unique spirit, which affects future generations through individuals and groups. Looking back at the footprints of Wenzhou people in the business history of contemporary China is actually similar to making an academic report. This report is made by different people, with different methods and different conclusions.But the most irrefutable standard is to see whose narrative is more comprehensive and whose summary can stand the test of time better. This is the best account of that period of history.

Then, through this period of history, we can see all the joys and sorrows of the past and present. This is an exaggeration. Of course, it is impossible to achieve it completely, but it is a good goal. To a certain extent, history is the times, and there are inevitably ruptures.Some histories cannot even be replicated at all, but the spirit can be passed on, and the encounters of a specific group of people can reflect some constant laws, which is the point. Since 1978, Wenzhou, a small city with barren land, small area, and remote location, has expanded China's economic territory infinitely with undeniable speed and strength. .There is nothing else like this force, all of which come from the grassroots of the people—rising from the grassroots and wandering among the people, they are down-to-earth, with simple thoughts, concepts and behaviors, intentionally or unintentionally promote the changes of business, and pour into the folks who create magnificent things without hesitation. Among the pioneers of reform.

In terms of congenital conditions, Wenzhou is really not good, even a little hopeless. Not only is this place not "large land and abundant resources", but a place as big as a palm can neither "eat the mountains by relying on the mountains" nor "eat the sea by relying on the sea". The only waterway is still a dead end.And their road to prosperity seems to run counter to "knowledge is power".Most people go to the sea with mud legs, and have nothing to do with highly educated or returnees. The background of businessmen is mostly portrayed as "farmers" and "small merchants and hawkers". When policies support umbrellas, they are less blessed and often marginalized. ; When the brakes are on the brakes, they are the eyes of the wind, bearing the ideological pressure of all parties, and they are the living targets of all critics.However, it is this group of people who, in the palm-sized Wenzhou, wear the hat of "poor resource endowment" and create the myth of wealth with a completely weak attitude, which has become a paradox in economic propositions.And what was supposed to be a top-down reform spontaneously evolved into a bottom-up economic movement in Wenzhou that was composed of countless individual struggle histories.The keyword of the movement was once sensitive and "degenerate": private economy.

In an era of economic revolution, human potential must be maximized: the best and the ugliest; the kindest and the meanest; the greatest and the most ordinary; the most vibrant and the least vital; The most valuable and the most paradoxical... as well as the middle state between right and wrong, left and right poles, can be clearly seen in the boiling Wenzhou.History hovers before the signpost of the sword going slanted.Under the tempering of suffering and the pressure of survival, people's explosive power is always quite amazing.In just 30 years, Wenzhou has highlighted the creativity and originality of the Chinese economy with its unique way of walking.

30 years of turmoil, through them, we can see the infinitely stretched economic transformation, and its rich heritage surpasses the economic fission or even sudden change in any era.Conflicts between old and new streams of consciousness, reconstruction of order, hesitation of ethics and morality, establishment of business rules... everything becomes extremely clear and active with them as the carrier, testing the executive power of the government and the viability of enterprises. and creativity. The market is steaming, and the tributaries are at the end of the day. They all dress up as ideals, praising the motherland and the times.Everyone is inevitably involved in the happiness of one collectivism after another.And all this stems from our country, after a long sleep, wakes up, and runs at a furious speed.

However, the past of Wenzhou people seems to violate the analysis of "macro and micro" by many historians: can their "success" that may still be doubtful be simply classified as "the general environment is improving"?Even if it cannot be completely denied, it cannot be listed in general. The reason for this judgment is that they cannot be simply classified into the ranks of this running era, because their running speed seems to be faster, but their running pace seems quite classical. With an ignorant attitude, they embarked on the road of individual industrial and commercial households at a loss or consciously, accumulating primitive capital, and laying the groundwork for their future business career.A group of Wenzhou people who have nothing else, Nan Cunhui, Wang Zhentao, You Xiaoping, Qiu Guanghe, Zhou Chengjian, Ye Wengui, Qian Jinbo... Because they accidentally grasped the weakness of the planned economy, they ran all the way.

Time is another huge landslide, and falling seems to be a personal fate. Against the background of 30 years, the gains and losses of some people, the ups and downs of fate seem insignificant, but we still need to respect those who are rising in their hearts while their bodies are slipping, even if they have become a tragic past. "Here is a crime that has nowhere to complain. Here is a sorrow that tears are not enough to symbolize. Here is a failure so great that it can bring down all our successes." If Wenzhou is really in trouble today, it is just another stage of their staged encounters. From this point of view, if we can't talk about success, how can we fail?It is just a history that can neither be copied nor forgotten.

Each section has past and present life, and each section seems to have no ending. No matter how many details are analyzed, it will never catch up with the real plot, and the protagonists are always them.