Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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In China's century long enterprise history, the No. 1 enterprise in the sky is called "China Merchants Group". It was founded by Li Hongzhang, an important official at the end of the Qing Dynasty, who asked the Qing government to establish it in 1872. Li Qin was the first chairman of China Merchants Group. It, together with Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and New Textile Bureau, was the three largest state-owned enterprises of the Qing government at that time. In the Westernization Movement of the late Qing Dynasty, China Merchants Group played an important role for a while. Li Hongzhang proudly told people in his letter "Reply to Liu Zhongliang's Prescription" that "China Merchants Group has been the most proficient in writing since its forty years of westernization." After the Republic of China and the New China, although the functions of China Merchants Group have changed many times, it has no longer recovered That day, the signboard was miraculously preserved. By 1979, the 29th chairman of China Merchants Group was named Yuan Geng.

At that time, China Merchants Group was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport in terms of staffing, and Yuan Geng, who served as the Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, also managed this institution with a great historical reputation but little practical power. Yuan Geng has a sturdy figure, a square face, and big eyes, exuding a military temperament. In his early years, he went south with the army, served as the chief of the intelligence section of the Dongjiang Column, provided important information when the Allied forces landed on the southeast coast of China in 1944, and later participated in the battle to liberate the the Pearl River Delta. In 1949, Yuan Geng, who had become the artillery commander, led his troops to liberate Shenzhen. In the early 1950s, he accompanied Chen Gong to Vietnam to serve as Ho Chi Minh's military advisor against France. In 1955, he became the Chinese Consul General in Jakarta. During the Cultural Revolution, he was imprisoned in Qincheng Prison in Beijing for seven years on charges of "international espionage". After the downfall of the Gang of Four, Yuan Geng returned to the human world. He submitted a bold report shortly after arriving at the China Merchants Group.