Many rights in modern China were seized by western powers, and China was subject to people everywhere, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Chinese people. Therefore, the first generation of entrepreneurs in China, especially those "Westernization Entrepreneurs", clearly took "the right to save the country" and "industry to save the country" as the purpose of establishing enterprises.

Industrialist Zhang Jian believes that "cotton iron doctrine" is a good way to "save the country through industry". He clearly put forward that "softness is cotton-oriented, rigidity is iron-oriented", thus "revitalizing the textile industry as the internal dimension and expanding the coal and iron industry as the external environment". He advocated that as long as we vigorously develop the cotton and iron industry, we can promote the development of all walks of life, thus establishing an independent national industrial system and countering foreign economic aggression.

So, starting from 1898, Zhang Jian took his hometown Tonghai as the experimental area and founded a huge Sheng Da enterprise group spanning all walks of life of workers and peasants. Zhang Jian tried to start with restraining the overflow of foreign yarn in China market, and gradually implemented the plan of saving the country through industry, which fully reflected the patriotic feelings of national businessmen.

entrepreneur

The word "entrepreneur" is borrowed from French and originally meant "the operator or organizer of an adventure". In modern enterprises, entrepreneurs can be roughly divided into two categories. One kind is the entrepreneur, who is still engaged in enterprise management as the owner. The other is a professional entrepreneur hired by the owner. More often, entrepreneurs only refer to the first type, and the second type is called professional managers.

1755, French economist Richard Campbell defined entrepreneurship as "bearing uncertainty"; 18 15, Say's Introduction to Political Economy listed entrepreneurs as one of the elements of economic development for the first time, although Say ignored the creativity and responsibility of capital formation-two important wings of entrepreneurship.