What happened after China's "Battery King" donated 7 million to American universities?

Many people pursue fame and fortune all their lives, but when they think they have gained wealth that is envied by thousands of people, they end up with what Yang Shen wrote in Xijiang Moon: "Prosperity turns to nothing, just like a dream of Nanke". There are many such people, whether it is the Jia family with infinite scenery in A Dream of Red Mansions or the emperors and princes who dominated the party in the past dynasties.

In modern China, there is also such a "king of batteries". After he donated 7 million RMB to American universities, his company had property problems. Later, the company went bankrupt and he was in debt of nearly 2 million RMB. These huge wealth figures are invisible and intangible to ordinary people all their lives. When countless people feel sorry for them, some people think it is "retribution". Then why did this super-rich man end up in such a tragic end?

The former richest man's name is Zhong Xinjia. In 1963, Zhong Xinjia was born in Changshan Town, Lianjiang City. His family members are all engaged in the Chinese medicine industry. Influenced by family factors, Zhong Xinjia began to study Chinese medicine at the age of 12. However, as Zhong Xinjia grew up, the ideas imposed on him by his parents made him feel more and more bound, so he began to study Chinese medicine no longer according to his parents' arrangements. Because of his actions, his relationship with his parents was once very poor.

Later, because his grades were not very good, he went to Zhanjiang Art School in Guangdong, and finally graduated with a major in stage art.. What really changed his life was that when he first entered the society, he worked in a battery factory. Since his major has nothing to do with batteries, he can only start as a grass-roots worker. However, Zhong Xinjia's ambition is far from this. After work, he also studies battery-related knowledge.

because of his more and more rich experience, the senior management in the factory took a fancy to his talent and made him the director and chief engineer. With the in-depth understanding of the battery principle and continuous practice, Zhong Xinjia independently developed the world's first lead-acid battery without warranty. In a field that he had never touched before, he developed an invention that even professionals had not developed, and Zhong Xinjia suddenly became famous.

Zhong Xinjia, who has become the head of a factory, is like a duck to water in the battery industry with his invention and rich working experience. He not only passed on his experience to the workers in the factory to avoid detours, but also constantly accelerated the progress of research and development and updated the batteries he developed. Relying on the newly developed battery, Zhong Xinjia became a super-rich man worth over 1 million from an unknown small worker, which made him very proud.

Rich, he started his own profligacy and lavish spending, leaving the factory to his managers. However, when he enjoyed himself unscrupulously, the competition in the market was cruel, and soon, his factory was facing the crisis of closure. However, Zhong Xinjia has a very good psychological quality, so he immediately put away his cynical attitude and continued to devote himself to the battery research and development of the factory with high enthusiasm.

The time has come quietly. After seeing his achievements, the country thought that the development of batteries was worth encouraging and supporting, so it appropriated 12, yuan for his team. Zhong Xinjia, who got the money, led his team to establish the "Life Source Battery Laboratory" in 1995. It was in this laboratory that Zhong Xinjia and his team developed the world's first life source lithium battery-rare earth lithium battery.

at that time, this invention made him a leader in the field of batteries in China and the world. With this invention, Zhong Xinjia pursued victory and caught up with Shenzhen under the influence of the reform and opening-up policy. He invested and established an experimental base, and finally developed a lithium power battery and other manufacturing plants in Shenzhen. In this way, Zhong Xinjia has become a well-known "battery king".

However, just as her career was on the rise, in 211, Zhong Xinjia made a personal donation of $1 million to the University of California, which immediately caused an uproar. Not only is there a lot of public opinion about this, but his partners feel that his move is meaningless and is not conducive to the future development of the company. However, Zhong Xinjia ignored it and insisted that donation was his freedom, which made his already tense relationship with his partners even more tense.

Zhong Xinjia's donation is used for the research of developing clean batteries in schools, but many Chinese still don't understand why he donated them to American schools. What makes many people even more angry is that he publicly said that "China's poverty is China's business", meaning that it has nothing to do with him, and he can donate his own money to anyone he wants. Although this is true, it did lead to the decline of his reputation at home, and he became an ungrateful villain in the eyes of the world.

At the same time, Zhong Xinjia, who hoped to invest in the United States, did not find that there had been great opposition within his company. Later, his partner took him to court, and Zhong Xinjia, who lost the case, was dismissed from the position of executive director of Zhongju Leitian Battery Co., Ltd. at that time, and his company was renamed as Zhongju Battery. He was also in debt of nearly 2 million yuan.

the generation of battery kings declared bankruptcy, which is a great shame. Since then, he has lost his reputation and money, and ended up drawing water with a sieve. The occurrence of the whole incident has a great relationship with Zhong Xinjia's obsession with donating money and expanding his foreign market without taking into account domestic and internal contradictions.