Only graduated from primary school, but driving a factory with 24 employees, it has become a corporation with more than 200 subsidiaries
He created Midea electrical equipment corporation associated with many households. When he entered the auto industry, he still achieved excellent results and made his name on Forbes’ “Global Billionaires List”.
His name is Ha Huong Kien.
Ha Huong Kien was born in Shunde, Guangdong in 1942. His family earns a living by trading. Under the influence of his parents, Ha Huong Kien from a young age loved business, so he dropped out of school early and entered society with a primary school diploma.
Like a calf that is not afraid of tigers, Ha Huong Kien, although young, knows that business is not easy, but he is not afraid. He went to the fields to work as a farmer, to the factory to work as a worker, to the smallest administrative area to work as an officer… He had tried many jobs but his income was meager, completely unable to realize his ideal, so, The idea of an independent start-up had quietly sprouted in his mind.
1. Plan to set up his own production team
But starting a business is not something that can be said to be done, but requires capital and social relationships. If you don’t have experience, setting up a factory blindly is like playing with fire.
After careful consideration, Ha Huong Kien contacted 24 villagers and made a plan to set up a factory, raise capital and start a business.
So the production team was established with Ha Huong Kien as the leader. The workshop is only 20m2 wide, the business is producing bottle caps. Because they don’t have advanced machines and don’t have enough raw materials, they have to recycle waste plastic for re-production.
That pile of old plastic littered with used traces has become a source of raw materials for production. Since there was no machine, the team’s work was completely manual: Some people were accidentally injured by bottle caps, others felt exhausted because of slow performance… But they never gave up.
This group led by Ha Huong Kien persists in producing bottle caps from day to day, waiting for the opportunity to get rich. Finally, the day they were waiting for has come, the orders are increasing day by day, although the profit is not high, but starting to be profitable, this has lit up hope for everyone.
Orders are constantly increasing, relying solely on manual production certainly cannot complete the task. However, more than 20 people in the group are all farmers, so learning to use machines is clearly not an easy thing for them.
At that time, Ha Huong Kien had his eyes on a young man who was majoring in mechanical engineering in the village. He wholeheartedly recruited that person, he finally tamed this young man with his sincerity, successfully bringing him into the production team.
Since the advent of machines and techniques, the factory does not need to worry about orders anymore, which makes team members more motivated. This small factory – one could not even call it a factory, gradually became famous, cleared all doubts at its inception, and began to grow bigger and bigger.
2. Officially enter the home appliance industry
Soon, China opened its economy as promised, and everyone waved the banner of “self-starter autonomy”, Ha Huong Kien was no exception. He liaises with the factory and related departments, uses the performance to prove his strength, goes to the major cities to pull orders and negotiates business.
Day by day, each factory was completed, the number of employees also increased, and advanced technology and machinery began to be used. Orders not only increased, but also high in value, his original dream of getting rich had blossomed and borne fruit.
In 1980, Ha Huong Kien officially entered the field of household appliances. He bought 100 sets of components for electric fans, tinkered with and learned how to assemble and manufacture metal electric fans.
After that, he established Midea fan factory in Shunde district, the scale gradually expanded with more than 200 workers working day and night, earning non-stop profits.
The success of this first start-up has encouraged Ha Huong Kien’s spirit. In 1985, he established an air conditioning equipment factory and began to produce air conditioners.
However, at that time, only a few households and businesses had the need to use air conditioners. The number of air conditioners produced could not be sold, causing Ha Huong Kien’s business path to come to a standstill. The factory was even close to closing, but thanks to raising capital from employees, the owner’s business, surnamed Ha, was still struggling.
In 1992, the policy of vigorous economic development in China was spread. At this time, Midea’s air conditioner brought success to Ha Huong Kien. However, his ambition did not stop there, taking advantage of the good development momentum, he expanded the scale of production and business projects, thus, Midea Group was born.
It is China’s first listed company to be restructured from a rural enterprise.
Ha Huong Kien from an early age took into account the progress of the times, he constantly recruited highly educated talents. After changing human resources, Midea Group’s strength has increased significantly and is growing stronger…
Until 2009, Ha Huong Kien still devoted a lot of time and energy to the business’s activities. He does not entertain, does not rest, he considers himself as a fierce soldier on the battlefield, not a moment away from Midea Group during the journey forward.
In 2009, Ha Huong Kien realized that his body was no longer good, so he announced his retirement. As mentioned, he will not let Midea become the family business of the Ha family, but choose the most capable and qualified employees in the group to become his successor.
In the end, he chose a specialized manager as his successor. In 2012, he officially resigned and only held the position of controlling shareholder of Midea Group.
Under the command of Ha Huong Kien, Midea has become the world factory, second-class brand with international shares, internationalization strategies are gradually implemented. Factories are located in many different countries, many companies have been acquired and merged, and cooperated with multinational home appliance giants.
Up to now, according to the brand’s website, Midea has been present in 195 countries and regions around the world.
Ha Huong Kien – who has worked hard all his life to realize his dream of starting a business, education cannot stop him, and difficulties cannot stop him. From solo, to a team, to a factory, and then to a business, step by step, he made his own Walk of Fame.
He was old, but still ambitious; Although he was not highly educated, he did great things.
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