The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Over the years, Tencent Pictures Group has received a lot of attention from the outside world.

That mouth can say a lot.

However, for recent college graduates, the unique management style and high salaries of Tengying Group are the real reasons why it is respected by countless college students.

It differs from typical group management; here, you can freely complain about or report your direct supervisor.

If true, you might even be able to sit in his seat.

This is one of them.

Don't underestimate this small difference; it's an absolute huge benefit for college students or ordinary office workers.

It can directly avoid most of the bureaucratic bad habits that exist in the workplace.

Of course, if your report is found to be deliberately targeted, you will be dismissed immediately.

This also safeguards the absolute authority and dignity of the management team.

The Tencent Video platform places great emphasis on fairness. Regardless of who joins, starting from the same point, the competition comes down to individual ability.

They demand bribes and favors, relying on personal connections and favors.

Once verified, they will be immediately dismissed, without exaggeration.

However, if you were to say what has attracted the most attention in the past six months, besides investing tens of billions of yuan heavily in new energy, it would be...

That's probably its recruitment plan.

"Is the big boss really going to give us a speech this afternoon?"

"They'll definitely come; the notification has already been sent out in the internship group."

Inside the group's restaurant, the windowsills in the west corner were filled with newly arrived interns.

They were also recent college graduates, and most of them were visiting Shanghai for the first time.

Actually, when Tencent was recruiting, they were just trying it out.

After all, anyone who's still sending out resumes and applying for jobs at this time is pretty much someone else.

The parents were both quite inactive.

The kind of energy that's already being allocated from the moment a child starts school.

The kind of position where everyone has their own designated spot, it's impossible for them to get it. Even if they have better grades than others, it's all for nothing.

As for recruitment by large corporations, unless you are exceptionally outstanding or come from top universities like Tsinghua or Peking University, it's difficult to recruit new employees.

Otherwise, you can't get in at all.

Tengying is also a large corporation, and its recruitment efforts seem to shine like a ray of light on these college students born in remote mountainous areas.

Most of them only know how to get things done and don't really understand the social dynamics of city life.

This makes it seem somewhat out of place in such a top-tier city.

Shen Youwei, who came from Sichuan, is a case in point.

I'm not very good at talking, and I don't really like communicating with people.

She only found out that Tengying Group had started recruiting from her classmate in the village, and the two of them went to an internet cafe to submit their resumes.

I was anxious for many days, fearing that my efforts would be in vain again, like before.

But on June 20th, I received a call from Tencent's HR department.

Let her come directly to the job interview.

Seriously, she was afraid of wasting money on transportation for such a long distance.

The two women came by train together, and they stammered when answering questions. It was obvious to the HR department that they were very nervous.

Shen Youwei was indeed nervous; she had done a lot of research before coming.

Once you join Tengying Group, the future is no longer a dream.

If I can't get in, I'm afraid I'll never have such a good opportunity again.

She thought she was going to be eliminated, because if it were her, she would definitely be the one to be eliminated since she couldn't even speak clearly.

I cried on the way back.

I cried all afternoon, and then I received a notification from the HR department the next day.

If the job application is successful, they can move into the single apartments prepared for them by Tengying Group.

No more staying in ridiculously expensive small rooms costing hundreds of dollars a day.

Shen Youwei's feelings that day were hard to describe; she only found out later after attending the group's five-day pre-job training.

It turns out that most of these interns, like her, came from remote mountainous areas.

Through his own hard work and diligence, he gradually made his way up from a small town to a big city.

Just like her, he was extremely nervous during the assessment.

In the following days, Shen Youwei learned more about the group.

Learn more about the founding story behind this group.

As the group's chairman often says, when he founded Tengying, all he wanted was for his wife and children to be able to live a decent little house in Beijing.

I never imagined that the group could grow to such a large size in just a few years.

The big boss's speech was at 2 PM, and it would be a lie to say she wasn't nervous. Shen Youwei had already secured a pretty good spot, and the area was packed with two thousand people.

Apart from some lively discussions.

No one was speaking loudly.

The person in charge of hosting for them was Chu Qiuyan, the most famous college entrepreneurship goddess on the internet.

Although they are of similar age, he is already the CEO of Bobo Milk Tea and the vice president of Deer Antler Coffee.

Who else at her age can hold the position of president of two listed companies?
Chen Pingsheng took the stage, and as always, he was warm and attentive to Yi.

You can't see any of the aloofness you'd expect from a big boss.

On the contrary, he is quite approachable.

Chen Pingsheng said, "I've discovered something. The head of the personnel department came to me and said that at least 90% of you couldn't even speak clearly when you were applying for a job."

"She's quite worried about your abilities."

“I said this is normal. Take my own daughter, for example. When she was little, she lived in a small rented room. When her parents weren’t around, she had to cook noodles for herself. She was really timid back then. She didn’t dare to speak to strangers at all.”

"Later, when the family became wealthy, she started to change. She became like a chatterbox and a little bull. When she saw a women's director on the street, she would put her hands behind her back and pretend to cough a couple of times, saying, 'Hello, leader.'"

"You see, this is the difference between being rich and being poor."

“It’s a very real problem. When you go to luxury stores or five-star hotels, you feel nervous, but when my daughter goes there, she just acts as if she’s visiting her own home.”

"So I told the head of the personnel department that the reason they couldn't speak clearly was not because they lacked ability, but simply because their starting point was different from those in the city, which made them nervous."

"That's precisely why we should give them the opportunity to join Tengying Group and change their destiny."

Shen Youwei finally understood why she was so nervous during the assessment that she couldn't even speak clearly, yet she was still exceptionally recruited by this large corporation.

It turns out that it was all because the boss knew why they were nervous and understood the reasons behind their nervousness.

Unlike other companies, they did not turn them away because of this.

"I remember when I first went to Beijing to look for a job, I thought it was because I didn't have a degree that all the big companies wouldn't hire me. Later I found out that even those with degrees were rejected."

"Especially those good, cushy positions, they've already been reserved."

"This is unfair to many people, but I, Tengying, want to create a fair environment. So when Chu Qiuyan publicly announced the three no-recruitment principles in Beijing, I was the first to approve it."

"Even after receiving a lot of criticism and being attacked by a large number of online trolls, I still did not change this principle."

"Because I think society needs fairness, we bosses who have grown into towering trees also need to think about where we came from and constantly remind ourselves."

"We are just ordinary people among the masses. It is only through the joint efforts of thousands of employees that I have the opportunity to stand on this stage and give this speech to you."

"Therefore, thinking back to when we came here, we should provide an excellent shelter for those of you who have no umbrella to hold."

"Two years ago, when I went back to the countryside, I found that at least 80% of the land was abandoned and no one was farming it."

"To be honest, it's quite disheartening. There was a time when land was life itself, and the days when having land meant having food are long gone. Back then, I kept thinking about what charity is and where the way out for rural areas lies."

"Later, I established Tengnong Fresh Food within the group, attempting to leverage the group's resources to concentrate those wastelands in our own hands at rents far exceeding the market rate."

"Then, using the group's existing resources, we successively allocated one billion yuan to establish an agricultural and aquaculture technology department."

"We've only just started this project, and we can't say we've achieved much yet."

"But in the future, I hope that the rent from these rural lands can become a source of security for most elderly people in rural areas."

"It could even become an important source of income for rural families."

"Therefore, this project is one that the group is determined to promote and develop. In the next three years, we will invest at least another 5 billion yuan to contract more rural wasteland."

"In my personal opinion, this is precisely a kind of corporate responsibility."

The applause was loud; he wasn't born in a rural area.

They had absolutely no idea what the significance of this project was.

The produce grown in rural areas is now incredibly cheap.

If you think you can make money from land, you might as well just give up and go to sleep.

Now suddenly a large corporation has emerged, leasing your unprofitable land for 8,000 yuan per acre.

Doesn't this mean owning a prime storefront in the city?
At times like this, all I can do is pray that he can keep going.

Don't have any other thoughts at all.

Not only was Shen Youwei deeply moved, but the applause from the more than 1,900 interns behind her was also long and enthusiastic.

This led to a situation where, when the bonuses were distributed later, no one realized what was happening.

Five thousand interns, a starting bonus of one hundred million.

Actually, Chen Pingsheng knew they were all broke after graduation, so he gave them a social adjustment allowance.

It wasn't easy for their parents to raise them to university graduation, so it's even more inappropriate for them to ask their families for money again.

Chen Pingsheng, who had more money than he could ever spend, always believed in internal charity.

The employees aren't even doing well yet, why are they going out to donate money?

Isn't that abandoning all employees for the sake of one person's name?
What was a trivial goal to him was actually enough to allow Shen Youwei and the others to settle down in this big city with peace of mind and a sense of security.

(End of this chapter)