John Zhang Personal Blog

Do business with China
On April 21, 2010, In Uncategorized, By J-Z-
Doing with China is a great help to humanity.

China is a country with 5000 years of special history. Before liberation in 1949, China had been ruled by the most cruel rulers on earth. The Emperors and Baurocrats, in order to rule with ease and rule for ever, had tried all means to condition their people so that the people being ruled will be:
a. without moral values as to right and wrong;
b. only interested in physical pleasures such as food, sex and luxury;
c. unable to go logical thinking and reasoning.
d. with no care and concern for state matters.

People with above features are undoubtedly the most easy to rule. As a result, the behaviours of some less or uneducated pople might not be acceptable to the internationally community. These are only a small portion of the population. Most Chinese people are hard working, honest, diligent, peaceful and friendly, though their living standards are yet to be improved.

By doing business with China, you are giving Chinese people the chance to understand the modern world and have a sense of modernity; You are helping the people in poverty; You are providing poor people with chances to improve life and learn;

Despite all that, the cheap labor costs in China will make your business boom.

As the owner of Beta Textiles Co., Limited, my personal goal is not to be a billionair, rather I would be happy if my owned and partner mills have enough orders to feed their workers, if I could provide better salary and fringe benefits to my employees every year.

I firmly believe the purpose of doing business is to do good. If money is in the hand of good and righteous people, more people will benefit. To the contrary, if money is in the hand of immoral and evil people, more people will suffer.

Whenver and wherever possible, we will try to work only with suppliers who treat their employees well, who observe the law, who respect and help poor people and who follow the most fundemental moral standards.

Chinese people need to learn to care for others, though as a result of 5000 years of feudal history, they have too much fear in their heart and soul.

The Chinese government is trying all means to improve people’s life. But it is not possible for China to step into modernity in one day. Changes need to take place gradually, not over night. The Government is trying hard, but it is hard to make complete changes unless it’s people are fully enlightened and educated.

Human nature is selfish, unless enlightened and made noble by believes and education.

We will be thankful if any buyers from developed coutries are buying from China. This is not only business,rather this is dong good to humanity as you are helping one quarter of the people on earth.

Twenty years ago, I was a lecturer. Poverty in my childhood scared me and left traumas in my soul. My desire in adulthood is to make money so that I can help people around me including my parents, sisters and brothers, employees and associates.

We should not say we are successful yet, but we have achieved a lot by the blessing of God. Deeply in our heart and soul,we are thankful for what has been given to us.

As a business owner, personally I am not supposed to prejudice against any non-believers and I am really not. Based on my personal experience, being really religious is a plus, not a MINUS, at least.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 1:7). If one fears God, he will be less likely to cheat the clients or supplier; if one fears God, he will be less likely to make the supplier lose a fortune for no good reasons.

It is extremely precious to work with people who fear God in China, where atheism is the main stream ideology. It is hard to prove God exists or not by human means since God is supposed to be more than human being, if He really is there.

Ants, dogs and other animals do not have a percention of me and you, do not know there is one country called China in Asia and one country called Mexico in north America. So how can we know where God lives and how He looks like?

Forget about the scientific evidence and let’s focus on the effects and consequences on the believes of both. If there is no God, this means life is only once, not eternal or repeatable. There will be no revenge if one does eveil and there is no reward if one does good. If one can get the wife of his neighbor by killing the husband without being found out forever, do it! If one can get an cargo and run without possibility of being caught, do it! The whole world will be a chaos.

In my personal business life, I was once cheated a fortune by a non-believer in Poland and this has been the only time I have been cheated in business.

Of course, personally I have no prejudice against non-belivers as long as they have some type of moral/ethical standards regarding what is right and what is wrong, what can be done and what can not.

Personally I also believe what I have achieved is a blessing from God. I started from a poor family in the northen part of China. With a strong desire to know, to learn and to understand, it is very unfortuante that I did not have the money to buy books in the 1980s. My dream was that one day I would have plenty of money so that I could buy any book I wanted to read.

Even after I started business in the earliest 21st century, I was blessed by working with honorable and supportive clients.