Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Learning from Shanghai School

Ningbo and Shanghai There is a saying in the Chinese market that there is no market without peace.The word Ning means Ningbo people, which shows that Ningbo people are very good at doing business. Ningbo literally means quiet water waves, which should be a very peaceful place, but when Ningbo people set foot in the shopping malls, they stir up troubles and promote economic development.Ningbo is close to Shanghai, so Ningbo people are also regarded as Shanghainese.Hong Kong people like to call the work style of this kind of businessman the Shanghai style.What forms the style of Shanghai style?

Geographically, Ningbo includes five counties, namely Yin County, Zhenhai, Cixi, Fenghua, and Xiangshan.According to "Dinghai County Chronicles", this place is narrow and densely populated, life is difficult, hunger and cold strikes, forced to go out, sailing the mountains and mountains, as if a household.Ningbo people could not find a living in the countryside, so they had to go out to make a living.Ningbo People's Congress is ashamed to settle down and keep their own business, and sit back and reap the rewards. Most of them take it as a humiliation not to go out to make a living.For this reason, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and has cultivated their spirit of not being afraid of hardships and pioneering.

The people of Ningbo endure hardships, and they are happy with any work that the locals find rough.Without him, the countryside is too poor, and if there is a chance to eat, why don't you work harder?Otherwise, wouldn't it be humiliating to the ancestors to be kicked back to the hometown?Therefore, Ningbo people are also willing to do the most humble jobs, such as moving, boating, laundry, water carrying, cleaning, sewing, pulling carts, etc. that others despise.Over time, they mastered the operation of the process.Usually only the lowest-level workers can meet directly with the boss.For example, middle-level staff such as accounting directors do not have the opportunity to meet the boss, but those who sweep the floor and pour tea have the opportunity to chat with the boss.

Hardworking and conscientious in their work, they will naturally be appreciated by the big bosses, and Ningbo people gradually stand out because of this. Because of the geographical proximity, Ningbo people first consider Shanghai when they go out to make a living. Shanghai has the title of Shili Foreign Market, and it is a city full of Huayang.Fifty or sixty years ago, Shanghai was the most famous city in Asia. Shanghai is an ancient city with a long history.As far back as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were the so-called four princes, namely Lord Mengchang, Lord Pingyuan, Lord Xinling and Lord Chunshen.Among them, the fiefdom of Huang Xie, Chunshenjun of Chu State, was in Shanghai.At that time, because the Songjiang River was flooded and the Yangtze River was to be diverted into the sea, Lord Chunshen opened a Pujiang River. Later generations added his surname and called it the Huangpu River, or Huangxiepu.Shanghai also has many aliases, such as Shen for short, or Chunshenpu, Shenjiang, etc. These names all originated from the name Chunshenjun Huang Xie.During the Anti-Japanese War, Shi Liangcai, a well-known newspaperman, ran a Shanghai-based newspaper called Shen Shen, which is the abbreviation of Shanghai.

In the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese robbed the coastal areas of China. Qi Jiguang, a famous general who fought against Japanese pirates, called the Japanese pirates Japanese pirates, which showed that the Japanese were short thieves.In order to prevent Japanese pirates from invading, Shanghai built a defensive stronghold to prepare for Japanese pirates. After the failure of China's first Opium War, the British signed the Treaty of Nanjing with the Manchu Qing government, which forcibly opened up the five-port trade, so Shanghai had greater development.At that time, the five major cities with five ports of trade were Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo and Shanghai.The British can station officials in these five cities and trade freely.

Shanghai belongs to Songjiang Prefecture and is the hub of water and land transportation in the southeast. The nearby Huzhou and Hangzhou are also rich cities.Since the five-port trade agreement, in just a few decades, Shanghai has become the center of the national economy.There are so many talents flocking to Shanghai, making Shanghai a great city. Shanghai and Hong Kong are also somewhat similar: These two cities are places where talents gather. As the saying goes, sources are not as good as gathering places, and they are all inclusive. Shanghai is becoming more and more prosperous because of its ability to accommodate talents.

Both cities are very young.In the face of challenges, young people are more courageous because they have nothing.Inexperience is a disadvantage, but it happens to be an advantage.Young people have no prejudice, no xenophobia, and are willing to learn and absorb.Big cities all over the world are very young. For example, the old cities of Boston and Philadelphia in the United States are not as good as the new cities of New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Tokyo in Japan is also relatively young. Old cities, either because of aging or because of their heavy cultural burdens, are always inferior to new cities in promoting modernization and absorbing foreign cultures.

Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, New York and other places do not have abundant natural resources, not even enough housing and drinking water, or because of the lack of resources, these cities have developed another human resource, which is our brains.