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The evaluations given to Wang Hong by schools in China and abroad are strikingly different.

Peking University professor/classmate on Wang Hong’s evaluation:
She’s not a competition student, not the most eye-catching one, and not the “invisible” in the class—but she is extremely self-disciplined, hardworking, and willing to put in the hard work. Through long-term persistence, she achieved a turnaround.

MIT PhD supervisor’s evaluation of Wang Hong:
She has the research trait of being slow but deep. She isn’t constrained by tradition; she can come up with innovative methods to find breakthroughs that her predecessors hadn’t discovered.

Professor at École polytechnique’s evaluation of Wang Hong:
Her intuition is rare—far beyond all the students in her cohort. She quickly tackles off-syllabus difficult problems.
She has an extremely rare gift, toughness, and a mind brimming with depth.

At Peking University, even the professors who evaluate Wang Hong still focus on the fact that she had no competition background—no innate talent—emphasizing that she achieved the “turnaround” through diligence.
Her mentors in both the United States and France praise Wang Hong’s extraordinary talent, depth of thinking, intuition, and resilience.

Hefei’s local government bond balance is 300 billion, while fiscal revenue is roughly 100 billion per year.

As a result, today, Changxin’s market value surged dramatically, bringing a wealth effect to the market that directly reached the trillion-level.

Changxin earned Hefei back 1.3 trillion in one go—about the GDP of nearly one year, or 13 years of fiscal revenue. It could repay local government bonds four times over.

You’ll see how terrifying the power of high-tech industries is.

Some places pursue culture and tourism—build as many scenic spots as they can, hold as many events as possible. They go viral online and attract huge crowds offline. People line up everywhere, buy a bottle of water each on average, but in the end they don’t actually make money.

For traditional industries, it takes decades of accumulation to compete for investment and attract business.

But once a truly promising tech company makes a breakthrough, the value it creates can grow exponentially.

Pick the wrong track, and even if you work hard all your life, you might only end up managing a small plot of land.

Pick the right track, and when an industry takes off, the whole city can be lifted along with it.

This is the power of choosing the right industry.

Only a little over 10% of people in China have passports.

Among this group, there are also a lot of people with blank passports.

That means 90% of people have never been abroad.

If people with blank passports don’t go overseas, why are they getting passports?

Crossing provinces and traveling over 1,000 kilometers to come and debug the client’s equipment.
When I arrived, I was completely baffled—
because the whole job only required swapping one battery,
but each visit costs a service fee of 20,000.
I was afraid the client would feel it was a waste,
so I had no choice but to pretend it was extremely difficult,
and I insisted on taking apart every screw,
then putting everything back together again.
In the meantime, I also called the technical department a few times,
and I ramped up the emotional value to the max.
Later, the client even said the money was absolutely worth it.

Loyalty

Friends in their twenties don’t want to work anymore and just quit, then after a few years they meet a guy who’s both handsome and rich and he pursues her. Then she finds out that the guy has nine-digit cash in his account… every month he sends her money and also reimburses her stock losses and all sorts of other things, and he’s never touched her. He takes her out to play, eats Michelin-star food, and books the most expensive suites, but at night they go home and sleep. So shocking—really, is there anyone like this?

Cousin’s first day going to Mount Tai to accompany climbers.

Right when she arrived at the Red Gate, before her bag even felt warm from being carried, a handsome guy came over and asked: How much for accompanying a climb?

My cousin quickly recited the prepared lines: 800 in the daytime, 900 at night.

The guy didn’t say anything else—he immediately transferred 1,700.

My cousin froze on the spot: Bro, are you planning to climb once in the daytime and again at night?

True love

The wife kept it from her husband and secretly lent 900,000 to a friend. Three years passed, and not a single penny of the money could be recovered.

The couple argued fiercely over it, and eventually reached the point of divorce.

Yesterday, the husband suddenly received a bank notification that 1,000,000 had been deposited into his account. He thought the debt had finally been recovered, and immediately called his ex-wife, happy to propose getting back together.

But when the call connected, it was a stranger. The man admitted that back then, the wife had taken out 900,000 to help his company get through a crisis. Now, she had deliberately returned the 900,000 principal plus 100,000 in interest, and informed him that the two of them would soon get married.

Sometimes you have to admire Xiaohongshu

Teacher Guo’s assessment of Wang Hong is: a quiet “transparent” student in the class—not a competition student. Her grades once lagged at the bottom, but through long-term effort and perseverance, she managed a comeback.

The French teacher’s assessment of Wang Hong, by contrast, focuses entirely on talent, grit, and thinking.

Why do I say that “good grades” can be a kind of curse? I’ve actually seen many people who had excellent results all the way—like Chen Liren, a famous boxing competitor in the Bay Area, as well as many of my peers.

But when you look at it over a longer time span, you realize that what you call advantages—talent (especially how fast someone can solve problems), the help their family background provides (tutoring), and personal qualities (persistence and love)—the first two really aren’t that important. As long as there’s enough time, persistence and love will eventually smooth out those so-called advantages.

So persistence and love are clearly the most important qualities, yet in China’s evaluation system, it’s framed as the comeback of a “slow child.” Even top Chinese institutions still judge people as “gaokao students” and “competition students,” as if it lets you see the difference between a child from a poor background and one from a well-off family.

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Nowadays, company names sound better than better

I have a friend who’s 45.

He was laid off by a foreign-owned company.

He owns a 110-sqm apartment that’s fully paid off, a CR-V that he’s driven for 8 years, and has 1.7 million RMB in cash.

His child is in junior high (grade 8), and his wife works in the public sector—her income is stable but not high.

Right now, he’s completely panicked. He can’t sleep at night. He’s listed a few options—everyone, please help me judge which one is realistic:

Option 1: Invest 800,000 RMB to join a coffee shop franchise. The location would be downstairs from an office building; he thinks there are lots of white-collar workers, so their spending power should be okay.

Option 2: Use 1.2 million RMB to buy a commercial property in a county town and rent it out to collect rent—aiming for stability.

Option 3: Spend 400,000 RMB to buy a new-energy vehicle, do ride-hailing services, and use the remaining money to buy wealth-management products—basically “get by” for a few years.

Option 4: Invest in a friend’s pre-made meal (ready-to-heat) food project: 1 million RMB for a 25% stake. The friend says they already have several cafeteria supply channels.

Option 5: Don’t invest in anything. First look for a job around 8,000 RMB per month—no matter if the position is lower—just to stabilize the cash flow.

Which one should he choose?

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