Souvenirs from Chen Shouren.

Help to achieve the legend of "Saipan King"

Forced by life, my father crossed the ocean and came to the Philippines to make a living. From then on, Chen Shouren, a teenager, had to do farm work while studying, helping her mother shoulder the burden of bringing home the bacon at an early age. Influenced by the teenager's temper and his mother's hard-working personality, he developed a hard-working and determined personality from an early age.

Later, in the process of starting a business across Nanyang, it was with the spirit of perseverance and self-improvement that it overcame all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, making it a commercial kingdom with billions of assets today.

Earn the first bucket of gold in business by operating remittance.

1948, Chen Shouren followed his father's path, crossed a long distance in the Philippines, and worked as a helper in Xiaobu Village, where his father was located in Luzon market. My father only gives him 20 pesos a month, and he takes care of the rest himself. In order to save money, Chen Shouren seldom has the heart to eat in a year. Buy a loaf of bread when you are hungry on weekdays, and ask a snack bar for boiled water to match a meal.

From 65438 to 0950, due to the implementation of foreign exchange control in the Philippines at that time, Chen Shouren, with a keen eye, began to try to operate small remittances and overseas Chinese grants with a few hundred pesos as capital. He took pains to be trivial, ran diligently, remembered more, and slowly, his customers grew from a few to dozens and hundreds.

From the remittance business, Chen Shouren earned the "first bucket of gold" of self-reliance. This not only became the starting point of his career development, but also established his confidence in doing business.

Bad luck fell from the sky and took on the heavy responsibility of the family.

196 1 year, a fire in the Philippines burned down several streets of the cloth market, and all the cloth farms run by Chen and his son were burned down.

The sudden disaster aggravated the illness of the sick father and eventually died. Faced with this series of bad luck and blows, Chen Shouren endured grief and shouldered the heavy responsibility of the whole family and even the whole family together with his wife and children. After a disaster, Chen Shouren became more mature and tenacious. Since then, he has been running around Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, working hard and continuing his father's unfinished business. This period was a turning point in his life.

After 1965, Chen Shouren moved to Hong Kong and cooperated with friends to establish "Liantai Shipping Trading Company" and "Lianshun Shipping Co., Ltd." to operate shipping agency and import and export trade. In the following two years, due to the operating loss of Lianshun, Chen Shouren resigned as the managing director of Lianshun.

Subsequently, the difficult shipping and trade situation made the shareholders of Luen Thai also demand to withdraw their shares, so he took over Luen Shun, which had only one ship left, merged into Luen Thai and started to operate alone.

From 1968 to 1969, it was the most difficult period in Chen Shouren. He didn't want to waste his efforts, persevered and resolutely insisted on starting a business. Afterwards, he said with emotion: "If you don't bite your teeth and insist on support, there will be no' Liantai' today."

After the business began to stabilize, Chen Shouren's trade and shipping business began to spread all over the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, and he also set up offices in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan Province Province, China.

Invest in the movie "China Kung Fu" to achieve new career.

From 65438 to 0972, Chen Shouren moved to Guam. At that time, a friend who worked as a film production and distribution agent told him that China Kung Fu films were very popular in the United States and wanted to ask his company in Guam to distribute them on his behalf.

Chen Shouren listened to opinions and began to enter the film company. The first film has Chinese and English subtitles, and the effect is good.

At that time, most of the films shown in the southwest Pacific island countries were American and Indian businessmen, who only traded in cash. Chen, on the other hand, takes a flexible approach to help cinemas with insufficient funds create business opportunities and achieve a win-win situation. At the same time, Chen also took care of some small cinemas and lent projectors to several small island cinemas.

Chen's excellent service won their trust and friendship. Chen's films are very popular with colored audiences in America and America. In the southwest Pacific region, as long as there is shipping by ship or plane, Chen's films are being shown.

Chen Shouren has set up branches and agencies in New York, Florida and Puerto Rico to help distribute movies.

Diversified management of real estate and property insurance is a win-win situation.

The success of film distribution has strengthened the development of diversified management in Chen Shouren.

In Guam, he increased his real estate investment. With the gradual advancement of Chinese mainland's reform and opening-up policy, Chen Shouren returned to his hometown Quanzhou on 1984 to invest and set up a factory, and successively invested and cooperated to establish Quanzhou Liantai Garment Factory. , handle the single source of goods in Hong Kong and assist the Group in training technicians.

From 65438 to 0985, seeing that Hong Kong and Saipan had good development opportunities, Chen Shouren imported necessary equipment and raw materials from Hong Kong and other places, and hired a large number of workers from Chinese mainland and the Philippines to build the first garment factory on the island. Later, it gradually expanded its business scope, including construction, insurance, transportation, catering, entertainment and other projects, which provided a large number of employment opportunities for the local area and was known as the "Saipan King".

Enthusiastic public welfare family training to ensure excellent future generations

After doing business, Chen Shouren is enthusiastic about public welfare and leads the whole family to benefit Mulberry.

Although he is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the couple are usually thrifty and live a simple life, and their grandson has to work by himself when studying abroad. The money they saved became the Chen Shouren Family Welfare Foundation.

Influenced by China culture, Chen Shouren maintained a good traditional family thought in China, and often educated his descendants with the family motto of "loyalty to the world and diligence to the family". Family precepts also require family members to respect each other, care for each other and make contributions to society. His nine children can remember his father's teaching. Every child is successful in school, smart and capable, and they all teach their offspring with the same heart. Now their grandchildren are all studying in famous universities.

Since returning to China in the early 1980s, Chen Shouren has invested more than10 million yuan in public welfare undertakings. There are countless organizations or institutions funded or supported by him, and he holds important positions in more than 50 organizations at home and abroad.

At the beginning of 2006, Chen Shouren once again set foot on a trip to his hometown, and donated 1 10,000 yuan to Quanzhou Charity Federation, totaling more than10,000 million yuan, and was awarded the honorary title of "Quanzhou Philanthropist" by Quanzhou Municipal Government. Chen Shouren's trip brought not only charitable donations, but also a series of domestic investments by Luen Thai Group, among which the new Silk Road Clothing City, which covers an area of 1500 mu in Jinjiang Wuli Industrial Zone, once again attracted attention.

Learning, homesickness, justice

Although Chen Shouren is 70 years old, he is still hale and hearty. With the interviews around me, I feel that the burly figure of the old man is like the majestic posture of going to the business world.

"Talk about what? Just talk, it doesn't matter! " A hometown dialect, slowly telling the twists and turns of business; The local accent has not changed, the old man's smiling eyes are kind and kind, and the friendly atmosphere instantly melts the strangeness of meeting for the first time. During the whole conversation, the reporter felt the approachability and generosity of the old man at close range.

Dr Chen Shouren loved learning all his life. When he was studying in Quanzhou Ying Tao Primary School, he was studious and enterprising. Even though it was windy and rainy, he never missed class, and was admitted to Jinjiang County with the first place, which is today's Quanzhou No.1 Middle School. Later, even if he went to Nanyang to work hard, he still did not forget to study.

Dr. Chen's philosophy is "education-oriented". In public welfare undertakings, Dr. Chen attaches great importance to the investment in education. He believes that "where there are Chinese children, there should be Chinese schools and Chinese education, so that Chinese culture can be carried forward among the descendants of dragons all over the world and excellent traditional culture can be passed down from generation to generation."

Dr. Chen donates money to education both at home and abroad. Overseas, in the Philippines, Guam, Saipan, Malaysia and other countries and regions, Dr. Chen donated money to build many Chinese schools and clubs in universities, middle schools and primary schools. In China, Dr. Chen spared no effort to help the motherland and hometown develop cultural and educational undertakings. In his hometown of Quanzhou, Chen Shouren invested and donated a large number of primary schools, middle schools, science and technology buildings and education funds; While Dr. Chen was named as the dean of Peking University, Huaqiao University, Liming University, School of Business Information of Quanzhou Normal University and other institutions of higher learning, which was enough to get a glimpse of his investment scale in domestic universities.

He said at the donation ceremony held in the Great Hall of the People: "Although I am a Chinese living overseas, I always have a love for my birthplace, China, and a deep affection for the people in my hometown. I just want to do something for my hometown with my meager strength. "