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One-legged chairman entrepreneurship

One-legged chairman entrepreneurship

By Mohandas YorkPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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Peng Xianjun was born on October 6, 1970 in Qingfeng town, Yongchuan, Chongqing, to an ordinary family with five siblings. After graduating from junior high school, he learned business from his brother-in-law and was mainly responsible for selling household appliances. In the process, Peng learned the tricks of the trade while biding his time to strike out on his own.

Unfortunately, he lost his left leg at 24

With the support of his family and friends, Peng opened a home appliance business. Just when Peng Xianjun made a small fortune and was ready to play a big role, he was told by the doctor that he had acute liver disease due to his long time away from home. Who knows, the mother is also ill at this time, Peng Xianjun had to close the sales department, go home to take care of his mother.

After his mother died, Peng had no choice but to go to his brother-in-law to help him. Soon, through the help of friends, he got a credit union loan, began to operate audio equipment, and in the next year involved in catering, opened a three-floor, one-floor Sunshine hotel.

Just when the business was doing well, God played a "joke" on him again. One day in June 1994, he ran an electrical appliance and catering business and suffered a car accident while on a business trip to Chengdu, losing his left leg forever. The great physical pain was accompanied by heavy mental troubles, which made the 24-year-old breathless and haunted him with thoughts of loss, depression, confusion and even self-abandonment. It was at his most difficult time that his wife left him and their two children and divorced him.

"I was so depressed that I didn't go out for half a year." Speaking of the scene at that time, the gentle and elegant Peng Xianjun did not sigh, "When I was 20 years old, I had a liver disease, the hospital had issued a critical notice, a folk old Chinese medicine cured me. After the accident, I often thought, even if the disease didn't kill me, can we not live well without a leg?" Soon, the spirit of self-improvement rose in his heart.

"Depending on the family support, with a solid family conditions, can lead a comfortable life, but the value of life is not to eat and drink, I want to make their own career! Since then, he has done pawn, managed cars, sold cement, and was not familiar with the national policy, blind investment, resulting in millions of debt.

Strong with a leg to start a business

In April 2004, he switched to the building materials industry according to the market demand and founded Chongqing Haotian Building Materials Co., LTD.

Being a halfway house worker, Peng knows that he is still a "primary school student" in the building materials industry, with so much to learn. Market analysis, introduction to building materials, enterprise management, human resources training... Talking about the courses he took when he first started, Peng Xianjun is full of treasures. In the early days of the business, he looked at the store during the day and went to customers' homes to design, compare prices, select materials and determine the decoration style. In the evening on the night school or self-study, no time to eat on the dry steamed bread; If I can't understand the professional terms, I will humbly consult the predecessors in the same industry, and there will be a large pile of thick notes alone.

"You are not in good health, just make do, why so serious?" Looking at the hard work of Peng Hyun-jun, his friends urged him to do so. Every hear this speech, Peng Xianjun all simple and honest ground smile: "The person does not HAVE the pressure lighthearted, HAVE THE THING TO do, in the heart steadfast." He said, health is not good, also want to stand to earn money. With this momentum, Peng Xianjun quickly familiar with the market, find out the taste of customers, its design style and material quality has been praised by customers. "The service is real and reassuring", "the materials are genuine"... Open the guest book, customer praise is the company's most convincing living advertising.

The development of the company, hardware equipment is not enough, but also to have a talent team. Peng Xianjun constantly pays attention to the market sales, strengthens the internal management at the same time, often goes deep into the front line, understands the departments in urgent need of talents, and does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to invite "Qianli horse". Peng also often has heart-to-heart chats with employees, asking them to come up with 'golden ideas' for corporate planning.

Peng Xianjun is very honest with his customers. In 2004, the newly built Honghe Campus of Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences was put into use in a hurry, so the time limit was very strict. The contractor approached Peng Xianjun and asked for help with building materials, which he delivered in time to ensure the progress of the project.

Gratitude 6 years donated nearly a million

His sincerity made the business brilliant, the order flow, the scale of the company further expanded. "When companies grow, they must give back to society." Before the Spring Festival last year, Peng donated 20,000 yuan to help build roads in Chenshi Town. Donate 40,000 yuan to fund bridge construction in Qingfeng Town; Donate 20,000 yuan, for the red furnace town to repair the rural road, this year donate tens of thousands of yuan to help disabled people buy hearing AIDS......

In the past six years, Peng Xianjun has arranged for more than 80 laid-off and unemployed urban workers and hired more than 100 surplus rural laborers, and donated nearly 1 million yuan to the disabled, the Red Cross, earthquake relief, the construction of new rural areas and financial aid to poor students. "It's what I'm supposed to do. It's the little things." Speaking of donation, Peng Xianjun is indifferent and calm. He said that the development of Haotian Materials is entirely due to a good development environment provided by the society. Therefore, after the enterprise has achieved great development, the entrepreneur should return to the society.

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