198 1 At the end, a giant placard with the words "Time is money, efficiency is life" was erected in the most conspicuous place in Shekou Industrial Zone. This is what Yuan Geng summed up after dealing with a Hongkong businessman.
4 1 years ago, on the front page of Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, a news report entitled "From Nanshan to Dapeng Bay" made the slogan "Time is money, efficiency is life" appear in newspapers for the first time, and this slogan of the times, which led the great practice of reform and opening up in China, spread more widely.
This slogan, which emphasizes timeliness and practical work, seems normal and natural today. However, in the early days of reform and opening up, Yuan Geng, then the director of Shekou Management Committee, took the lead in putting forward this slogan, which was regarded as an ideological impact cannon to break away from convention and promote reform and opening up, and was praised by people of insight as "the first spring thunder to break through ideological imprisonment" and "the first lightning across the sky".
character introduction
Yuan Geng (1965438+April 23, 2007 -2065438+20061October 3 1), formerly known as Ouyang Rushan, was born in Dapeng Town, Bao 'an County, Guangdong Province (now Dapeng Street, Shenzhen City), Han nationality.
Yuan Geng is the former executive vice chairman of China Merchants Group, the founder of China Merchants Shekou Industrial Zone, China Merchants Bank, Ping An Insurance and other enterprises, the main founder of China Merchants' second glory in a century, and an important explorer of China's reform and opening up. In recognition of Yuan Geng's efforts to promote the relationship between the Mainland and Hong Kong and the economic development between Hong Kong and China, especially its great contribution to the shipping industry in Hong Kong, it was awarded the gold bauhinia star by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2003.
Comrade Yuan Geng's life is a life of revolution, a life of fighting, a glorious life, and a life of pursuing truth, progress, ideals and career.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuan Geng.