Zhang Xin Quotes

• No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and digitalization. They will dominate for quite some time to come.

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  Two, Full Potential, Fundamentals

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• Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

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  Country, Mean, Growth

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• Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

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  Support, Entrepreneur, Guy

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• Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

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  Opportunity, Growth, Negative

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• I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

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  Ambition, Heart, Europe

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• But the higher our standard of living, the higher our levels of education, the further people will look around. And we can see which level of openness other societies enjoy. We are no different - we too want more freedom. The question is: How much freedom will be allowed?

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  Personas, Diferentes, Miradas

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• When we started out, we didn't really think that the era of great opportunity would end one day. We were much too busy developing our companies. But in today's China you can build a city, even a mega-city like Beijing or Shanghai, within 10 or 15 years. And then you are done. So in real estate development, the Gründerzeit is over. But that is not the case in other sectors.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Oportunidad, Pensamiento

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• It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.

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  Believe, Heart, Opportunity

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• Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

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  Chinese, Democracy, China

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• We are not very good at this. Our success rests on our international experience and on our ability to read the market. And I contest the notion that you can only succeed in China when you are well-connected. Neither my husband nor I are "princelings" - children of influential people, that is. And yet China has enabled us to succeed.

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  Hijos, Esposo, Gente

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• When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time, it was all about building, building, building - and then selling, selling, selling. We were working like a manufacturer. Soon, however, we realized that land was running out in Beijing and Shanghai. So we started keeping our buildings, and managing and renting them out. We became landowners. That was the second act.

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  Running, Land, Firsts

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• Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading. If the government is committed to continue the Open Door policy, they will need to come up with concrete policies and execution steps to increase confidence.

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  Government, Doors, Needs

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• El país [China] tiene que seguir abriéndose y conectándose. Tiene que darse cuenta de que el mundo se ha convertido en uno. El viejo concepto de aislamiento, la idea de que uno puede resolver sus problemas por sí solo, ya no funciona, ni en términos culturales, ni económicos, ni políticos.

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  Country, Ideas, Opening Up

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• The question is not about whether it will work or not. It's how quickly we can pull it off. Structural change will happen. When economies grow, there comes a time when you cannot rely on investment alone. We had that. The return on investment is becoming less and less. So we have to change. The old model doesn't work anymore. It's a question of speed.

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  Return, Becoming, Speed

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• I am a runner. Last October, there was a marathon here in Beijing. I didn't participate this time, but friends told me that the run wasn't prepared too well. The organizers had only arranged about three hours' worth of food and water supplies. Most people don't finish within three hours, however. Too bad for them - or so it seemed. In fact, however, even those finishing last were perfectly taken care of, particularly during the fourth and fifth hour when demand is highest.

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  Running, Taken, Water

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• Antes me preguntaba por qué las universidades estadounidenses se financian mediante dotaciones. Ahora lo sé: En los primeros tiempos de Estados Unidos, el Estado era pobre y cuando los ciudadanos querían crear algo, necesitaban recaudar dinero ellos mismos. Históricamente, esto era diferente en Europa. Solía haber un Estado fuerte, un monarca o un rey. Él proporcionaba el dinero.

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  Strong, Kings, Europe

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• I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

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  Grandchildren, Impact, Years

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• I think our legal system needs to be developed. Cases of citizens who are detained and then have to wait much too long for a trial - that is scary, for everyone. When someone commits a crime he needs to be charged quickly. Why does this take so long in many cases? I don't know. Is it because our legal system is still rudimentary? China has promised to modernize its legal system. This has high priority.

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  Thinking, Long, Priorities

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• China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.

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  Trabajo, Años, Gente

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• Mark Zuckerberg anunció recientemente que donará 45.000 millones de dólares de su patrimonio a la filantropía. Hace dos años, mi marido y yo decidimos dotar 100 millones de dólares para crear el SOHO China Scholars. Este programa dará ayuda financiera a estudiantes chinos para que puedan asistir a las mejores universidades del mundo.

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  Husband, Years, Zuckerberg

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• Hoy en día somos tan rápidos y eficaces construyendo cosas. Sería fácil construir otra Pirámide de Giza u otra Gran Muralla. Pero estos edificios no han resistido la prueba del tiempo por su calidad constructiva. Se mantienen en pie porque tienen un valor simbólico, representan una cultura.

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  Wall, Pyramids, Quality

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• I firmly believe that digitalization has only just begun in China. In addition to the taxi, transport, shopping and hotel businesses, many other industries will follow: education, health care, administration, even the legal branch - everything, really. There is still a lot of opportunity in China for the inventive and ambitious ones.

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  Believe, Opportunity, Shopping

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• But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know that private companies are run more efficiently than state ones. These reforms are very much anticipated for the potential dynamism they could create.

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  Running, Worry, Reform

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• China reformed its state sector before, in the late 1990s. Tens of millions were laid off at the time. That was scary and we had warnings of social unrest. But it did not happen. Instead, there was a restructuring in our economic system. I am not sure if China will follow a Western playbook in this respect.

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  Social Unrest, Scary, Warning

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• Hace muchos años, sólo podíamos construir cajas. Hoy trabajan con nosotros arquitectos de todo el mundo: Zaha Hadid de Londres, Gerkan, Marg and Partner de Hamburgo, Kengo Kuma de Japón. Hemos traído a China el diseño y la digitalización del extranjero.

  Zhang Xin

  Japan, Years, Design

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