Zhang Xin
Zhang Xin
believe heart opportunity
It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.
country opportunity people
Because people along the route had realized that there was demand and quickly organized supply. That's so Chinese. In a well-organized country like Germany, such a problem may not have arisen in the first place, but in China people immediately recognized an opportunity.
opportunity growth negative
Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.
believe opportunity shopping
I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.
real opportunity thinking
When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.
category certainly grew grow hard labelled rich
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
camps chinese companies company creative run
Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
enormous
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
business
I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
landed ways
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
extra hard high life lunch money normal sons tight until yuan
It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
amazing coming cultural generation seized suddenly women
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
breakfast dinner focused morning religious spend tennis weekends work
I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
along great hike parental usual
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.