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Chasing Light

Rating 2.7
Word count
114K words
Chapters
56
ISBN
9787213124310

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Summary

This book chronicles nearly 50 years of entrepreneurial experience of Zhou Fuyun, chairman of HC Semitek. From trading chicken feathers for sugar and setting up street stalls in his hometown, he went on to work in a factory, then resolutely entered business for himself; from a family-run garment workshop and garment accessories factory to a plastic color-printing enterprise. He took root step by step along traditional business paths, and with vision and boldness led the founding of HC Semitek, completing an astonishing leap from traditional manufacturing to high-tech optoelectronics, from technological pioneering to a listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In the new era, he answered the call and brought HC Semitek back to Yiwu, building a sizable LED chip base. As a leading goose, he inspired industry giants such as Refond, MLS, and Aiko to settle in Yiwu, making the city a world-class LED industry cluster. With authentic strokes, the book traces Zhou Fuyun's trajectory of integrity, pragmatism, resilience, and daring, reflecting the Yiwu miracle of "something inexplicable, something out of nothing, turning stone into gold."

Editor's review

Taking Zhou Fuyun's nearly five-decade life trajectory as its thread, this book presents the complete path of an industrialist from "trading chicken feathers for sugar" to steering a high-tech listed company. Its value lies not in glorifying success but in making tangible the logic linking Yiwu's business soil, the transformation of traditional manufacturing, and the landing of high-tech industry. Readers see operational details from the family workshop, garment accessories, and plastic color-printing stages, as well as the decision-making process behind founding HC Semitek and bringing its LED chip base back to Yiwu. With authentic strokes, the book sketches a character grounded in integrity, pragmatism, resilience, and daring, making it suitable as a case study for understanding the Yiwu model and the spirit of Zhejiang merchants. The narrative emphasizes entrepreneurial journey and industrial change, with limited treatment of technical principles; readers may focus on the protagonist's grounds for judgment and methods of resource integration at key junctures, and may read it alongside the evolution of the Yiwu market.

Who it's for

A good fit for

  • General readers interested in Yiwu's business history and Zhejiang merchants' entrepreneurial stories
  • Managers and entrepreneurs in manufacturing or traditional enterprises undergoing transformation
  • Practitioners following the LED industry chain and local industrial clusters
  • Financial writers and business researchers seeking character case material

Not a good fit for

  • Technical professionals seeking systematic study of optoelectronics principles
  • Economics readers who prefer theoretical analysis to personal narrative
  • Readers expecting entrepreneurs' private lives and inner monologues

Reading tips

  1. Read chronologically, marking at each industry transition the resource constraints and key choices the protagonist faced
  2. When reading about the founding of HC Semitek and its return to Yiwu, understand its decision logic against the background of Yiwu's industrial policy
  3. Compare the operational details with your own industry experience, noting transferable judgment methods rather than copying practices
  4. For writing or teaching, excerpt specific scenes as case material on the Yiwu model and entrepreneurship

About the publisher

Zhejiang People's Publishing House China · Founded in 1951

Zhejiang People's Publishing House is a comprehensive publisher known for its social science, history and foreign literature titles, covering philosophy, politics, law, economics, culture and history. Among the books in the library catalogue, its foreign literature list includes Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country and The Old Capital in well-known translations, as well as Wuthering Heights; its history list is represented by Dangnian Mingyue's Ming Dynasty series, and its politics list by Zhejiang New Discourse. Authors represented include Yasunari Kawabata, Ye Weiqu, Tang Yuemei, Dangnian Mingyue, Emily Brontë and René Wellek, with Wellek's Theory of Literature (newly revised edition) among its titles in literary theory. Beyond these areas, the press also publishes works on literary appreciation and social culture, giving it a profile that combines classic translations, popular history and academic works. As publicly available information is limited, other details are not covered here.

Contents

  1. 版权信息
  2. 序言 光启
  3. 第一章 逐光启航
  4. 大山脚下,家和人兴
  5. 初出茅庐,鸡毛换糖
  6. 卖氢气球,第一桶金
  7. 崭露头角,一代地摊人
  8. 行路千里,沿途辛酸
  9. 亲人眷顾,端上铁饭碗
  10. 得遇贤妻,同甘共苦
  11. 第二章 曙光渐明
  12. 下海经商,勇立潮头
  13. 遇转机,买下第一栋楼房
  14. 另辟蹊径,打开辅料突破口
  15. 当机立断,转行做包装
  16. 买地建厂,以厂为家
  17. 联云彩印,基业磐石
  18. 热心帮扶,提携后辈
  19. 第三章 追光之路
  20. 路茫茫,踏雪奔赴
  21. 一张纸,见蓝图
  22. 兴冲冲,融资受挫
  23. 华灿芯,中国心
  24. 遇伯乐,扎根武汉
  25. 众相助,前程可期
  26. 舍与得,争不如挣
  27. 跌谷底,绝处逢生
  28. 渡迷津,脱胎换骨
  29. 第四章 华光璀璨
  30. 内忧外患,公司停摆
  31. 峰回路转,获大基金青睐
  32. 走马上任,凝心聚力
  33. 躬身入局,放手一搏
  34. 金融危机,左右抉择
  35. 打破壁垒,弯道超车
  36. 上市之路,道阻且长
  37. 顺势而上,投资张家港
  38. 第五章 光明之都
  39. 回归义乌,如愿以偿
  40. 建厂速度,创奇迹
  41. 点亮义乌,第一颗芯片
  42. 重视环保,赋能实业
  43. 助力国产,跨国收购
  44. 果断决策,止损逆转
  45. 无中生有,光明之都
  46. 第六章 光耀桑梓
  47. 凝聚义商力量,厚泽一方乡土
  48. 众志成城,共渡疫情难关
  49. 赓续薪火,同心共创共富
  50. 建言献策,心系人才与创新
  51. 躬身履职,赋能招商筑基
  52. 以光为马,未来可期
  53. 附录一 京东方华灿光电周年庆典公司创始人发言
  54. 附录二 华灿光电五大生产基地
  55. 附录三 周福云40年征程图文纪实
  56. 后记 追光而行,与光同在

FAQ

Is this book mainly a personal biography or a corporate history?
Both, but it takes Zhou Fuyun's personal entrepreneurial experience as the main line, connecting the industrial upgrading process from family workshop and garment accessories to plastic color-printing and HC Semitek. Corporate development milestones serve the narrative of personal experience, so it is better read as an entrepreneur case study than as strict company history research.
Can I understand it without knowing the optoelectronics industry?
Yes. The book's account of the LED chip base and industry chain cluster emphasizes industrial layout and decision-making, with few technical terms. Readers need only grasp the logic of the leap from traditional manufacturing to high-tech manufacturing to read smoothly; for deeper technical details, other professional materials are needed.
Does the book deal much with the Yiwu model?
Quite a lot. The book uses Zhou Fuyun's entrepreneurial trajectory to reflect Yiwu's development miracle of "something inexplicable, something out of nothing, turning stone into gold," covering market development, industrial return, and cluster investment promotion. Readers can see a concrete thread of interaction between individual business and the local economy.

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应良俊 Author

Only limited public information is available about Ying Liangjun. At present, he is known for a single work, Chasing the Light, which is classified under general biography. Based on the available information, his writing centers on biographical narrative and unfolds around the image of "chasing the light," suggesting a theme of pursuit and record. Because his biography, nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name are not clearly documented, this introduction makes no inferences and offers only an objective description based on the collected work and its category. As his representative work, Chasing the Light is the main entry point for understanding Ying Liangjun's writing. The specific figures, events, and techniques in the book cannot yet be described in detail due to insufficient material. According to the existing classification, the work can be placed under general biography, which gives readers a general sense of its orientation. Overall, more public materials are needed to supplement information about Ying Liangjun's writing; at this stage, the work itself should serve as the starting point for reading and discussion.

应婷婷 Author

Public information about Ying Tingting is currently limited; only her Chinese name and one cataloged work, Chasing the Light (Zhui Guang), are known. Judging from its common classification, Chasing the Light falls under general biography, suggesting that her writing tends toward documentary accounts of people or the narration and arrangement of life stories. The title itself carries the sense of pursuing ideals and recording places of brightness, which aligns with biography's interest in personal growth, choices, and spiritual trajectories. In the absence of more biographical information, readers may focus on the work itself: it may present a person's experiences in plain prose and, through concrete stories, convey attention to conviction and perseverance. For readers who wish to understand Ying Tingting's writing, Chasing the Light is currently the main available entry point; her future creative direction and personal background await further public information.

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