On Rong Desheng's Thought And Its Practice Of Developing Industry And Public Welfare Simultaneously

Rong Desheng, prestigious national entrepreneur of our country in modern times, while obtained great success in wheat flour and cotton yarn, devoted to the public service such as education, charities and so forth. The sources of his thought that developed the industry and the public welfare simultaneously not only found answer in his home education of managing state affair and helping people as well as the influence of Confucian benevolence thought, but also lay in the immersion in the atmosphere of a combination of business and public service in Wuxi and its surrounding areas as well as the promptings of the thought of saving nation through education and trade, and the objective need to develop Rong's enterprise.Rong Desheng took the enterprise as the social relief and regarded the development industry as the method of benefiting the world populace. While developed industry diligently, he also advocated positively developing the education, improving the staff's welfare, constructing municipal administration facility, developing public utilities and so on, and took it as one of measures promoting the industrial development. Whether he was developing the industry or undertaking the public service, Rong Desheng consistently stuck to the purpose of"put people first", laid emphasis on talents'development and utility, and attached importance to the combination of inheriting tradition and the reform and the innovation. The thought and its practice that developed the industry and the public welfare simultaneously had the bright properties of the people-first, the innovation and the contemporaneity.Under the instruction of this thought that developed the industry and the public welfare simultaneously, Rong Desheng has finally obtained the success of the industry and the public welfare through striving for several dozens years. His success not only promoted the development of the modern China national economy and the public welfare, but also set up the model for the link of modern China industry and the public welfare. Though Rong Desheng's thought is utopian and outdated to some extend, some of his management strategies and intense sense of social responsibility are still worth studying for the current private entrepreneurs. In addition, the zigzag journey of Rong Desheng's enterprise development showed enlightment to the present society: the society shoulder the responsibility to escort the development of the private enterprises and the public welfare, and pave a way for the mutual benefits shared by the private enterprises and the public welfare.