Reborn in 2000, Xu Xin faced a spring factory that was about to close down and a bad debt of 478,000 yuan.
Her father had just left and the workers wanted to break up, so relatives came to persuade her to sell the factory. She didn't sell it.
She piled 200,000 worth of defective products in the warehouse in the middle of the workshop and lit them on fire in front of everyone.
Relatives called her crazy, and colleagues waited to see the joke. No one believed that this woman, who was so thin that she could be knocked down by the draft in the workshop, could one day win over Haier, enter Toyota, work hard on chips, and tear a hole in a man's manufacturing empire.
From a 0.15 Yuan spring to a hard technology empire worth hundreds of billions.
She is not a prophet. She just chose to stand every time the black swan came.
During the financial crisis in 2008, when colleagues laid off employees, she rescued people in Wenchuan.
When the stock market crashed in 2015, everyone told stories about capital, but she guarded the factory.
During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, her thirty production lines were running continuously. When the supply of core ventilator parts was cut off across the country, she was the only one who could deliver the goods.
Twenty-six years later, she became the richest man in the world. The reporter asked her if capital is her belief.
She said: "What kept me alive were the technicians who stayed up all night in the workshop, the volunteers who refused to let go in the ruins of Wenchuan, and every ordinary person who did not believe in evil and gritted his teeth. I am a user of capital, never a believer."
