Inspirational story

She started working as a business at the age of 15, and now she is worth 46 billion, shocking the world.


In 1970, Zhou Qunfei was born in a small mountain village in Hutian Town, Xiangxiang City, Hunan Province. In the late 1980s, his father led the family to make a living in Guangdong.

In 1985, Zhou Qunfei, who was only 15 years old, came to Shenzhen and found a job next to Shenzhen University. He worked in the watch glass processing factory during the day and went to the evening school in the evening. Because he has studied accounting, he is also often obliged to help the accountant invoice and copy the account. In addition, in order to master the skills to earn a living as much as possible, Zhou Qunfei passed the customs declaration and also passed the driver's license.

In 1990, a development opportunity appeared in front of 20-year-old Zhou Qunfei. At that time, the watch glass processing factory that she worked for was expanded, but the factory was half-stopped and the boss was ready to withdraw. Zhou Qunfei found the boss and asked her to try it. "Become, wages are as you decide; fail, I will give you a lifetime of work."

Looking at the thin girl in front of her, the boss has some doubts about his ability; but seeing her strong eyes, the boss thinks that instead of letting the factory go halfway, it is better to give her a try.

After the factory is completed and put into production, it is mainly for the glass printing and pattern of the watch. Zhou Qunfei creatively applied the screen printing technology he mastered to his own work, and the printed products were very effective. Soon, this factory was done in Zhou Qunfei, and it became the best of the three factories.

But the troubles also followed. The boss arranged a lot of relatives to go to the factory, Zhou Qunfei could not manage it, and the other two factories of the company joined forces to squeeze out and suppress. Zhou Qunfei, who could not see the future, was disheartened and chose to leave.

1. Start an independent business

On March 18, 1993, Zhou Qunfei clearly remembered this day. On this day, Zhou Qunfei and his sister, brother-in-law, brother, nephew, three cousins, and eight people rented a three-bedroom, one-bedroom private house in Baoan District, Shenzhen, and started the independent entrepreneurial road with 20,000 yuan to start the fund. Still screen printing."

Entrepreneurship is hard. A set of three-bedroom, sleeping in the master bedroom, sleeping in the small bedroom, the living room is the printing, finished product inspection and packaging workshop. Eat and work, all in this suite.

Although it is hard, but the profits are considerable: printing a piece of glass, you can get a 1.5 yuan foundry fee, a person can print 7,000 pieces a day. At this time, Zhou Qunfei, the first time to taste the success of entrepreneurial success. Slowly, Zhou Qunfei has gained a firm foothold in the industry. The business is getting better every day and the company has grown to dozens of employees.

In 1997, the Asian financial crisis swept through. It is precisely this crisis that gave Zhou Qunfei the opportunity to develop.

"Some customers in Hong Kong and Taiwan can't afford the processing fee, they will repay their old equipment to me. These equipments are important equipment in the watch glass processing industry chain." Zhou Qunfei seized this rare opportunity and then invested in the purchase. Several grinding machines and profiling machines have been found in Baoan District to find a small factory building, which will open the process of glass cutting, trimming, polishing, silk screen printing and coating to form a complete production line of watch glass.

Zhou Qunfei also screened the watch glass purely and “upgraded” it as a watch glass supplier. With the rise of the domestic watch industry, Zhou Qunfei's glass case business is getting better and better, and he has gained a reputation in the industry.

2, the glass screen set for international brand mobile phones

No one expected that an occasional gathering would open up a new world for Zhou Qunfei’s career, and thus opened up a far-reaching industrial revolution – the “global glass window industry”.

About one day in 2001, the owner of the company was received an order from TCL for a number of flip-top mobile phone panels. Excited, the owner of the mine company called Zhou Qunfei and several other friends to have dinner. At the table, he divided the business, and Zhou Qunfei was responsible for processing the mobile phone panel.

Zhou Qunfei tried to apply the watch glass technology he mastered to the production of mobile phone panels, which was to replace the popular plexiglass screen with glass screens.

With the popularity of TCL in the market, domestic brands such as ZTE, Panda and Konka followed suit, and they used glass screens. A small number of high-end mobile phones in international brands have also begun to import glass screens. Since then, mobile phone screens have been fully upgraded to glass screens and extended to other consumer electronics window displays.

3. When the competitor is ruthlessly suppressed, "I want to jump the track"

In 2003, Zhou Qunfei partnered with others in technology and equipment to establish Lansi Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen, focusing on the development, production and sales of mobile phone protection window glass.

"Lan Si, in fact, is the homonym of 'lens' English word 'lens'", Zhou Qunfei explained, "Getting this name also made me. Foreign merchants search for 'lens' on the Internet, they will jump out of Lansi Technology. ”

However, the window glass window did not start well. In the first year, everything was groping, the work was very hard, the market prospects were unclear, and the benefits were not satisfactory.

After 1 year, the partners withdrew 2 million of the investment. At this time, the Motorola mobile phone actively found Lansi Technology and requested to purchase the glass screen produced by Lansi Technology.

As an internationally renowned brand, Motorola has strict requirements on the standards for parts and components. The glass screen of Lansi Technology is required to be broken after falling free at a certain height; if the mobile phone is in use, if the glass is broken, it will not hurt people.

"Improve the performance of the glass, no matter how to properly mix the ion exchange formula, accurately grasp the solvent concentration, ion exchange temperature and time." Zhou Qunfei based on his accumulated experience in the glass processing industry, and technicians after three days and three nights of repeated experiments, I finally made a sample.

The Motorola Purchasing Director called and hoped to cooperate with Lansi Technology. "The production capacity of Lansi Technology is all for Motorola. Happiness is a bit too sudden. "I can't believe I can climb such a big customer," Zhou Qunfei said.

At that time, Lansi Technology had to eat the orders of such big brands, and it was really a bit of a dim. "Enterprises do not have the skills to understand English, the financial pressure is great, and the production pressure is also high." Zhou Qunfei recalled the scene at the time, "but I can't help but hesitate, the other party only asks me to say YESorNO."

Unexpectedly, the order just came on, and the trouble came. The glass material used to produce mobile phone screens was a small Japanese company at that time. And this Japanese company has a very good personal relationship with the competitors of Lansi Technology. "The two of them want to join me."

At that time, Motorola's goods had to be urgent, and Japanese merchants demanded to pay for the goods first. In desperation, Zhou Qunfei had to sell his house for delivery and wages. "The most annoying thing is that Japanese merchants still don't ship the money." Seeing that the delivery date is approaching, and the raw materials have not yet landed, Zhou Qun is in a hurry and chasing Hong Kong to find a Japanese merchant "emergency."

"No matter how you ask, the Japanese merchants don't agree, and there are strange smiles on their faces." After so many years, that scene still lingers in Zhou Qunfei's mind.

"The house is not sold after the sale; the raw materials are cut off, and the factory can't do it anymore. But the customer is sitting at the factory and waiting for the goods, and the staff is looking forward to bringing back the good news. At that time, at the Hung Hom Railway Station in Hong Kong, there was a moment. I really want to jump on the track." Just when Zhou Qunfei was extremely helpless, he just got a call from his daughter. "Mom, when are you going home to eat?"

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