Why do Wenzhou people say, “How can you succeed without enduring hardship?”

For Wenzhou people, there is one thing that they particularly admire - their spirit of enduring hardship. These Wenzhou people came with no skills and didn't even understand French. Just by working hard and tirelessly, making money, and constantly accumulating wealth. After saving up enough of their first pot of gold, they opened their own store. They all feel that they want to be the boss and are not willing to work part-time. In this way, they can become millionaires or multi-millionaires in France.

Fei Xiaotong, a famous Chinese economist, once wrote in an article about his experience of meeting Wenzhou businessmen in a foreign country. He writes, It was the summer of 1937, and I was traveling from London to Berlin to spend a holiday with my brother. One day, someone knocked on our door. When we opened it, we saw a Chinese man carrying a suitcase.

Of course I was overjoyed when I met a native from a foreign country, but we spoke different dialects and could not understand each other. He bowed very politely, then opened the suitcase and saw that it was full of daily necessities. Department store, it seems he invited us to buy something. After he left, his brother told him: There are tens of thousands of such businessmen in Berlin, Paris and many other cities on the European continent. ?

Most of them come from Wenzhou and Qingtian areas. At first, they carried Qingtian stones across the ocean and made stone carvings in Italy, France and Germany. When the stones were used up, he turned to small business. These people make money by delivering goods door-to-door and providing courteous and excellent service.