نشرت صحيفة نيويورك تايمز تحقيقاً يتحدث بإسهاب عن سيرة حياة الصينية “زوو كنفي” Zhou Qunfei التي نشأت بمجتمع زراعي في قرية

in central China’s Hunan Province. She faced difficult family circumstances after her mother died when she was five and her father was left paralyzed by an industrial accident

that forced her to help him care for sheep to make ends meet.

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Now, this Chinese woman has risen out of poverty and entered the business world, becoming the world’s richest self-made woman. She was influenced by the ideas of the leader of the Chinese Revolution and founder

The People’s Republic of China’s Mao Zedong, who also came from the same village where I grew up, called for greater gender equality and for women’s roles to expand into

the business world.

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وعلى الرغم من أنها لا تحب الظهور الإعلامي وتتميز بالرصانة والتواضع، غير أن “زوو كنفي”، بحسب وصف مجلة فوربس، “فئة جديدة من سيدات

الأعمال في الصين الذين بنوا ثرواتهم من الصفر” وهو أمر نادر في عالم الأعمال حتى في اليابان التي تعتبر الدولة الأشهر في مجال الأعمال حيث لا

There is only one self-made female billionaire there, and the same is true in the United States and Europe. Most women billionaires inherited their wealth…

طريق الوراثة.

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قصة نجاحها

At 16, Qunfei decided to leave her village school, where she had been one of the top students, and move in with her uncle in southern

Guangdong Province, hoping to find a better life. She dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, but reality got in the way, and she had to work in a lens factory

After working long hours for a meager wage of no more than one dollar a day, she decided to return to her village and start a small lens-manufacturing company in partnership with

a group of relatives.

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The turning point in her life came in 1993, when Motorola contacted her and asked her to supply lenses for its phones, making it one of the first

mobile phone companies to make phone screens from shatter-resistant glass lenses instead of the plastic lenses used at the time.

Offers from major global companies such as Samsung and Galaxy soon began pouring in, especially as mobile phones became popular and found their way into every

منزل على هذه الكرة الأرضية وسرعان ما استطاعت توسيع شركتها وتجميع ثروات طائلة تقدر بالمليارات بفضلك “أنت”