Zhang Xin
Zhang Xin
category certainly grew grow hard labelled rich
I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
camps chinese companies company creative run
Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
enormous
China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
business
I don't do evening business dinners, and I don't do weekends.
landed ways
Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
extra hard high life lunch money normal sons tight until yuan
It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
amazing coming cultural generation seized suddenly women
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
breakfast dinner focused morning religious spend tennis weekends work
I'm very, very focused on my children. In fact, I'm very religious about having breakfast with them every morning, having dinner with them every evening, and spend all the weekends with them that I don't work. So as long as I'm not traveling, I'm always with them and I go to their soccer and tennis matches.
along great hike parental usual
On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
running taken people
I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.
uber numbers looks
Our tenants now are companies like Uber, the taxi service, Meituan.com, China's version of Groupon - and a large number of startups. These companies operate in a modern way, just like their customers: They go on the Internet, look for an offer and take it.
office-space years numbers
China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.
country mean growth
Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.
believe heart opportunity
It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.