Tan Xuguang: “Dedicate yourself and you will win” is my life creed. The 20 years of my youth was instinct with passion, persistency, perseverance, and struggle that laid the most solid foundation for what I have achieved today.
In 1987, Mr. Tan Xuguang began to engage in foreign trade business and crisscrossed the Southeast Asian market all the year round. In particular, after serving as the general manager of Weichai Import and Export Company, Mr. Tan always spent his Spring Festival overseas when everybody else celebrated it at home during the Chinese New Year. Every year, he will spend the New Year with Weichai’s expatriate staff, which is not altered under any circumstances.
Such a working condition has lasted for several decades. Until now, Mr. Tan Xuguang still spends more than 300 days a year either on a business trip abroad or on a business trip. In a year, he can only sit together with his families to have a meal few times. Even in case of having a fever, he would convene a meeting while he was having an intravenous drip.
With this diligence and passion, Mr. Tan as a young man in the 1980s seized the opportunities of the times and became aleader who was standing in the front line in the rolling tide of reform and opening up.
“If you don't contend for the first, this is tantamount to muddling along!” From youth to present, Mr. Tan Xuguang has never ceased his pursuit of knowledge. “From leaning cultural knowledge in junior and senior high schools to being admitted into the China Central Radio & TV University and to studying for a doctorate, I did a good job in daily study and graduated magna cum laude, instead of dawdling away my time,” said he.
Most recently, when he was on a business trip to Hong Kong, Mr. Tan saw the latest masterwork titled The Fourth Industrial Revolution authored by Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, and appreciated it quite a bit. He specially brought 10 of them back and presented them with his signature to young employees.
“You have been in the era of Industry 4.0, and the future depends on you!” As the era of great change comes, Mr. Tan proposed three warnings to young people:
If missing the change, you will be eliminated by the times.
Cherish the platform and you will win the future.
Waste time and you will lose the value of life.
Mr. Tan made a promise with young people to meet 20 years later: I hope to see you lead Weichai to advance with big strides, entering a new era of development.