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cloud cirrus clouds bloom. Why fear, slander, ridicule, jump beam group of demons? A man’s life when reward ambition, a daughter of lament a promise. Always the intention, the heart is not confused. To be caught in a flat boat and fishing in the cold river, at the long song place and long song. Watching the sea, rising moon.
-“He Groom, Giving Mr. Shi Zhengrong”
If you can choose to experience the experience of any photovoltaic person, I prefer Shi Zhengrong.
His whole life is far more magical than the drama.
“ common heart ” . The outside world often asks Shi Zhengrong in this way.
He once “ inflated ” and said “ that I will only spend money and not make money ” . He went out for a big show, he has also used “ poison tongue ” many times to accurately predict the excess of the industry and the pace of technological iteration.
At the beginning, he was a delusional person in the eyes of the outside world and was regarded by the capital circle as peddling an illusion. At that time, he wanted to build a 50MW photovoltaic cell production line, which exceeded the total photovoltaic production capacity of the whole country. he was regarded by the industry as a “ liar ” . he was so cold that even his hometown rejected his dream. Two years later, he was a hero who saved the earth, “ Chinese captain ” in response to the climate crisis.
One leg of hell, one leg of heaven. This section of the road, he only used 700 days.
At this point, who can “” without going up “?
In such a short time and such a quick change, you tell me, who can keep a normal mind.
and the years after the highlights were the backstabbing of CFO, the reversal of the board of directors and the collapse of the billion empire. In a siege that seemed to be targeted by the whole society, he disappeared into the smoke of the times.
There has always been a huge fault in the logic of the outside world’s interpretation of Shi Zhengrong. People are used to judging the success or failure of a businessman or a scholar by the amount of wealth and the success of an enterprise. But I think that Shi Zhengrong is now in the best state of his life “ ” .
Now Shi Zhengrong is the best Shi Zhengrong.
He is no longer the young man whose ambition is hard to pay for everywhere, nor the photovoltaic godfather who has attracted the attention of the whole world, nor the entrepreneur who frowns solemnly under siege surrounded by wolves. Now he is a technical person with a peaceful look and clear eyes. He no longer entangled in the so-called “ Wang Tuba ” , doing the technological innovation he likes to do, and doing some innovation with small flexible components.
As for changing the world again.
Those who do not know me call me worried, and those who know me call me what I want.
that glorious era
he is everyone’s “ladder”
at the new year’s sharing meeting of the light cup organized by me, I met Shi zhengrong’s son with an old employee in the initial stage of suntech. I said to him, “You have no idea how brilliant your father was.” And the old employee almost choked up and said,
“You don’t know how many people your father helped back then.”
Even if it is praised by the outside world, Shi Zhengrong’s background is still kind.
Today, when photovoltaic giants trace their entrepreneurial history, they cannot get around the coordinates called “Suntech. At that time, Shi Zhengrong was not only doing business, he was in that barbaric era, with his own efforts to lay the foundation for China’s photovoltaic industry.
Not long ago, there was an article in the industry that Suntech is the “Whampoa Military Academy” in the photovoltaic industry. I talked about this with people around Shi Zhengrong. He thought about it and said: “Thank you for your affirmation of Suntech, but Speaking of it, it may be more appropriate to compare Suntech to the’Yan’an Kangda.”
“Whampoa Military Academy” was born under a specific political background and serves specific military goals. Its training system is elite and hierarchical, and its talent output often has distinct factional colors. More importantly, the cadets of the “Whampoa Military Academy” received training within an existing framework and then entered a relatively mature system. This is very different from the historical environment that Suntech faced.
In 2000, when Shi Zhengrong returned home with photovoltaic technology and US $400000 to found Suntech, he was faced with a real blank-the global photovoltaic market was monopolized by European, American and Japanese enterprises, and the raw materials, equipment, markets and supply chains were all abroad. Not only was there no mature technical system in China, but even a professional who really understood the photovoltaic industry was hard to find. This is not to train officers within the existing framework, it is to open up new territory in a wasteland. What Suntech wants to do is not to send qualified officers to a formed army, but to start from scratch, to send pilots and various technicians to subsequent photovoltaic enterprises while building planes, so as to cultivate the first batch of pioneers who can survive, take root and spread branches and leaves in this wasteland for China’s photovoltaic industry.
Suntech EHS training teacher Chen Daosheng was a chemistry teacher in Dr. Shi Zhengrong’s student days. Facing the blank of hazardous chemicals management training materials for photovoltaic enterprises, he wrote the first hazardous chemicals training manual “Required Materials for New Employees in Battery Manufacturing Department of Wuxi Suntech Solar Power Co., Ltd.” in Suntech, which can also be said to be the first work of hazardous chemicals training in photovoltaic industry, as employees work in various enterprises, they have become teaching materials for hazardous chemicals training in photovoltaic enterprises.
Suntech in the early stage of its business is not facing technological research in the comfort zone, but the systematic challenge of the gap in the industrial chain. Raw materials and equipment are completely dependent on imports, “stuck neck” incidents occur frequently, and prices remain high, which seriously restricts the development of China’s photovoltaic industry. Without a mature equipment supplier, Suntech has cultivated itself and successively cooperated with the 48th Research Institute of the Ministry of Information Industry, Dier Laser, Wuxi Pilot Technology and other units to carry out the domestic development of crystalline silicon solar cells and module production equipment. Without a supporting raw material system and localized technological experience, Suntech has supported and assisted itself. It has cooperated with Guangzhou Ruxing, Hangzhou Foster, Suzhou Saiwu, Changzhou Yamadon, Jiangsu Sun Group, Jiangsu Tongling, Zhejiang Follett Glass, Jiangsu Huantai, Jiangsu Yijing, Xi ‘an Longji and other companies to develop crystalline silicon solar cells and module raw materials to replace imported materials, reduce costs and accelerate the process of photovoltaic power generation on-line parity. At the same time, Suntech also provides support for domestic upstream and downstream enterprises, providing free gallium-doped silicon wafer patented technology to solve the photo-induced attenuation of photovoltaic cells to Chinese photovoltaic upstream enterprises, speeding up the process of localization of photovoltaic raw materials and equipment, and cultivating China’s photovoltaic ecosystem.
The old Shangde mentioned above works in the research and development department of Shangde, Shi Zhengrong’s “direct army”. At that time, Suntech’s R & D personnel had high authority, and there was almost no upper limit on the investment in new equipment, new materials, and new processes. What brand they use, what brand quickly became the industry standard. At one point, Italian equipment manufacturers were out of stock, and then Japanese equipment became popular because Japanese equipment manufacturers had better support for new processes.
Shi Zhengrong also presided over the acquisition of Kutler Automation, a German equipment factory, and gave almost all patents and technologies to cooperative domestic equipment manufacturers free of charge.
Suntech had a stake in Longji. Because of its foreign background, Longji was once blocked from listing. Suntech withdrew from Longji on the eve of its listing, helping it to set up a photovoltaic white horse with a 500 billion market value.
Suntech also promoted the development of the SNEC exhibition, which has become the world’s largest exhibition with 500000 visitors per year. It is also the first member of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Photovoltaic Standards Technical Committee and the Global Semiconductor Materials and Equipment Association (SEMI) Technical Committee in China’s photovoltaic industry.
In those years, Suntech crossed the river by feeling the stones, and the industry crossed the river by feeling Suntech.
the boss, is to find a way for the industry, but also for the industry to pay too much tuition.
After Suntech, the “bosses” are also paying for the development of the industry. Yingli and Xiexin have also experienced hardships, but that is another story.
Industry leader Professor Shen Hui of Sun Yat-sen University once said: “Photovoltaic is a rare industry with better production equipment than laboratory equipment.” To some extent, this is due to the good start of Suntech.
The illogical “siege”
The sentient beings when heroes break their halberds
The wall is pushed down by everyone, which is the cheapest carnival in this society.
Around 2010, the world situation changed suddenly, the financial crisis broke out, the European market was saturated, and the global photovoltaic cycle was in free fall. Suntech fell into a debt crisis and started the most tragic “siege” in the history of China’s industry for two years. Numerous media reported the Suntech crisis one after another, which objectively magnified the existing problems of Suntech and formed a “stampede” in public opinion “.
I have to say that Suntech’s publicity and public relations department is used to the stars at its peak. In the face of crisis, it is neither willing to compromise nor understand struggle.
Subsequently, the so-called Suntech “fraudulent donation door” caused a lot of uproar. But looking back now, it was simply a logical trial: if he hadn’t started with his original intention, wouldn’t he have donated?
This kind of simple logic that primary school students can understand has become a boomerang shot at him in that cruel business jungle.
The world all looks at “fraudulent donation”, but I only look at it as “clumsy”.
The lending banks, the curious media, and the defecting management constituted a “slam” against Shi Zhengrong “. They judge his management, judge his decision-making, and even judge his aesthetic.
Many people also questioned why Shi Zhengrong did not use all his money to save Suntech, but they did not realize that he had already been kicked out of the board of directors at that time. A vice president of Suntech once said with certainty: “If not, Dr. Shi will definitely save Suntech.”
some of the equipment manufacturers who have been favored by Suntech and took over the technology bought by Suntech before have opened a large truck to block the door, which is even more frustrating.
The giant fell.
The talents coming out of Suntech are like dandelion seeds, scattered to every corner of China’s photovoltaic industry. It is no exaggeration to say that most photovoltaic enterprises now basically have Suntech talents-these “Suntech cadres” who are now struggling in the core positions of major photovoltaic enterprises, the technical concepts and management experience learned from Suntech, as well as the courage and ability to start a career in the blank. They took root and sprouted on the new platform, and injected Suntech’s genes into all branches of China’s photovoltaic industry, which finally promoted the blooming of the industry.
and even after more than ten years, photovoltaic cell technology has spanned two generations, from aluminum back field and PERC to n-type, the legacy of Suntech’s “Pluto (Pluto)” and other technologies can still be seen from TOPCon technology.
And Shi Zhengrong experienced the darkest ups and downs of life. He watched the era that belonged to him fall apart under the huge ship of capital, and maybe he was already disheartened and disappeared in the wine shop or mountain forest.
The virtual room makes white
If the story stops here, it’s just a story of being rich and buried by it, ups and downs but not perfect.
Shi Zhengrong chose to “return peacefully”.
in 2015, he quietly started his second venture and set up shangmai new energy. the core team is still mostly Suntech’s old department.
Now he is deeply plowing in the field of flexible components. This component no longer needs a heavy bracket, like the skin on the surface of the building. He walks in the deep water area of the application field, but for at least five years, this is not a track with a market value of tens of billions, but a pure technical activity about physics and aesthetics.
Perhaps there is a word that sums up his ideas: interest.
he did not show his sharpness in the middle of the day, nor did he feel the resentment of being persecuted in his imagination. he became more friendly to others. if he saw these old brothers in the industry again, he would also make fun of himself.
at the new year’s sharing meeting hosted by soapy photovoltaic network, he said: “everyone wants to be the boss, and I have been the boss.” All the people in the audience will smile.
He can finally be himself and be a simple “Dr. Shi” and “Academician Shi” (Academician of the Australian National Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering)
This state is the closest to him When he returned to China, he looked like a “technical child. After the baptism of fame and gain and the tempering of destruction, he lived as he wanted to live.
Do not lose their time.
Since I couldn’t find a good summary of this state, I asked the AI what state it was, and the AI replied: This is a kind of “industrial monk”.
True character comes from experience and choice, not from circumstances.
Although it is often said that “there is only Ma Yun of the times and no Ma Yun of the times”, I want to say that the times always need heroes to reflect each other.
The era without heroes is pale. It means mediocrity and conservativity. The existence of Shi Zhengrong lies not only in how much wealth he has created, but also in that he has led a whole generation into photovoltaic.
he has proved in his whole life that the real success is not that he has never fallen down, but that he can still say that sentence to the world peacefully after experiencing all the peaks and valleys- “” I am doing what I like “.
“ Looking back, there has always been a bleak place, neither wind nor rain nor sunshine.
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This is also the best life I have ever imagined.
Complete resume, if not great.
That’s it.
