When Li Shufu was in primary school, he used his summer vacation to herd cattle for the production team. His daily income was 0. 15 yuan, and one summer vacation in 6 yuan was-10 yuan, which was a lot of money for the primary school students at that time. When Li Shufu was in the first grade of junior high school, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee was held, and the mighty spring breeze of reform and opening up spread all over China, entered the campus and entered the countryside. At that time, after learning the news, Li Shufu had no intention of going to school and began to study a series of documents, principles and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party. He completed three years of junior high school in two years and was admitted to the top class of Luqiao Middle School with excellent results. However, with the acceleration of reform, Li Shufu has long lost patience with high school study. Before graduating from high school, he began to plan all kinds of dreams of participating in market economy activities.
Li Shufu, who just graduated from high school, did not choose to continue his studies. /kloc-started to test water and start a business when he was 0/9 years old. 1982, he started a photography business with 120 yuan given by his father. At first, Li Shufu bought a small camera and rode a broken bicycle to take pictures of people all over the street. Li Shufu's photography business did well. After half a year, he earned 1000 yuan, so he officially opened a photo studio. While running a photo studio, Li Shufu often buys some parts to assemble his own camera. He took the separated gold and silver back to Hangzhou for sale. Later, I simply closed the photo studio and specialized in this business.
1984 years old, Li Shufu and several brothers co-founded Huangyan Shiqu refrigerator parts factory, 2/kloc-0 years old, and became the factory director. In this more than a year, Li Shufu once went to a small shoe factory to order a pair of leather shoes, and found that four workers in the shoe factory were making a part for the refrigerator. So he made a bolder decision: to produce refrigerators. Before and after 1985, the private economy has not been officially recognized, because the production of refrigerators can not be approved by the relevant departments, and it is uniformly distributed by the state. So in 1986, after Li Shufu developed and produced the evaporator, the key component of the refrigerator, Huangyan Arctic Flower Refrigerator Factory was established to produce the Arctic Flower Refrigerator. At that time, Arctic Flower Refrigerator has become a well-known brand product in domestic refrigerator industry. By 1989, the annual output value of his Arctic flower refrigerator factory exceeded10 million.
From 65438 to 0993, Li Shufu began to enter the motorcycle manufacturing industry. Li Shufu bought a state-owned postal motorcycle factory in Linhai, Zhejiang Province for tens of millions of yuan, and took the lead in developing a four-stroke pedal engine. Then cooperate with Jialing, the industry boss at that time, to produce Cargill brand motorcycles. In less than a year, its motorcycle sales not only occupy a leading position in domestic scooters, but also are exported to 32 countries such as the United States and Italy.
1994, Li Shufu, whose motorcycle business was booming, made an amazing decision to "build a car". Without the permission of the competent department at that time, Li Shufu expropriated 850 mu of land in Linhai City and started to build Geely's "Hao Qing Automobile Industrial Park" under the guise of making motorcycles. 1997, an enterprise producing passenger cars in Sichuan was on the verge of bankruptcy, so Li Shufu invested140,000 yuan to set up Sichuan Geely Boeing Automobile Manufacturing Company, and obtained the right to produce passenger cars and vans, so there was Geely that we are familiar with.
On August 8th, 1998, the first hatchback "Geely Hao Qing" rolled off the production line, and there was no production qualification. In February, 2000 1,1,the State Economic and Trade Commission announced the seventh batch of vehicle manufacturers and products, and Geely finally got the car. In this respect, the familiar Geely has been on the right track and gradually developed into today's brilliant Geely.
Li Shufu, who grew up in a poor and backward mountain village in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, once said: "One is not afraid of hardship, the other is not afraid of poverty, and the third is of course more willing to get rich!" Therefore, he dares to take risks and struggle, and it is precisely because of his character that he will have today's Geely, and he will also have the nickname "car madman".
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