【Forbes Asia】Fuyao Glass Founder Appeals To Chinese Roots
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by Shu-Ching Jean Chen

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of Forbes Asia.

Cao Dewang (also known as Cho Tak Wong)

FOUNDER & CHAIRMAN, FUYAO GLASS

Reminding China of its Roots

Cao grew up playing with the neighborhood kids on the grounds of a small temple under lush trees in Fuqing city, Fujian Province. Now he has transformed the site into a vast center of education and religion that boasts Buddhist and Taoist temples and a redbrick high school.

A gold-plated Buddha sits next door to a giant statue of Confucius with open arms to greet schoolkids. Cao donated $75 million for the construction and operation of the complex while also planning the design and supervising the work.

“This is an example I wanted to set as a businessman, to show the public that success needs to come with a value system,” says the billionaire head of China’s largest automotive glass maker. He’s appealing to a deep-rooted but increasingly forgotten theme in Chinese culture, that Chinese civilization was shaped by three guiding lights: Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism.

Cao is a prodigious giver, doling out nearly $1 billion over the years. In 2011 he launched his Heren Foundation with a donation of 300 million Fuyao shares, then equal to a 15% stake. Its stake is now worth $625 million and yielded $35 million in dividends this year.

In 2010 he earmarked $30 million for victims of a drought in 5 southwestern provinces and dispersed the aid in an unusually transparent way: Nearly 100,000 farmers in 5,000 villages got help and each grant was recorded individually, with receipt documented, acknowledged and made public. –Shu-Ching Jean Chen.
 

此文刊登在《福布斯·亚洲》2015年9月刊

溯源中华文明

曹德旺 福耀玻璃创建者、董事长

  曹德旺从小和他邻家的小伙伴们一起在福清一座小寺庙的林荫空地上玩耍,如今在他的努力下这里已成为一个巨大的教育、宗教中心,矗立着佛教和道教的寺庙以及一所红砖中学。

  一尊镀金的佛像隔壁是一尊巨大的敞开双臂迎接莘莘学子的孔子雕像,曹德旺为这项工程的建造和运行捐赠了7500万美元,并亲力亲为参与了工程的设计和监管。

  “作为一名商人,我想做个表率,告诉公众,成功和价值体系是相生相随的。”曹德旺,这位身家亿万的中国最大的汽车玻璃制造商——福耀玻璃的董事长说道。他呼吁公众重拾正日渐被人遗忘的中华文明,特别是植根于其中的佛家思想、儒家思想和道家思想。

  曹德旺是一名伟大的慈善家,数年来捐款数额近十亿美元。2011年他创立了河仁基金会并捐赠3亿福耀玻璃股票,相当于福耀玻璃总股本的15%,如今,股价已达6.25亿美元,今年并获得股息3500万美元。2010年,他专项拨款3000万美元救助西南五省旱灾难民,并通过不以往常的透明方式发放资金:5000多个村庄的近10万农民都收到资助善款,且每一项拨款都有公开的单独记录和收据。(作者>Ching Jean Chen   翻译>吴慧君)