- Mr. Shen Guojun is a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and of the Committee for Handling Proposals of the CPPCC. He is also a member of the Standing Committee of the 15th Central Committee of China Zhigong Party.
- In the business community, Mr. Shen is Executive Chairman of the General Association of Zhejiang Entrepreneurs, President of the General Association of Ningbo Entrepreneurs, and Honorary Life President of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. Hs is also the Founder and Chairman of Yintai Group, and serves as Chairman of China United Industrial Investment Co., Ltd., Zhijiang New Industrial Co., Ltd., and Ningbo Entrepreneurs Industrial Co., Ltd. In addition, he is the Founder of Intime Retail (Group) Co., Ltd., Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board of Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Mr. Shen plays an active role in philanthropy, and is the Executive Chairman of the Paradise International Foundation, Founder and Honorary Chairman of Yintai Foundation. He is also a Board member of Hupan University.
- Mr. Shen founded China Yintai Holdings Co., Ltd. (“Yintai Group”) in Beijing in 1997. Under his leadership, Yintai Group has become a leading enterprise in China, thanks to his diligent and pragmatic work attitude, innovative business philosophy, adherence to the business principles of good faith and collaboration, and his social entrepreneurial spirit.
- As an entrepreneur and industry advocate, Mr. Shen has inspired the reform and development of many industries through innovative business philosophies and models. Today, Yintai Group is a diversified industrial development and investment group with a portfolio of key businesses including Yintai Retails, Yintai Land, Yintai Gold, Yintai Tourism, Yintai Investment and Finance, and Yintai Foundation. It owns many listed companies in China and abroad, and holds equity stakes in more than 100 companies, creating close to 170,000 employment opportunities. It is now one of strongest privately run enterprises in China.
- Meanwhile, led by the General Association of Zhejiang Entrepreneurs, China United Industrial Investment Co., Ltd. - a large nationwide industrial investment platform - was jointly set up by Yintai Group and other outstanding private and State-owned enterprises with the support of the leaders of the State Council and relevant ministries and commissions. Under the leadership of Chairman, Mr. Shen, China United Industrial is industry-focused and centered on quality industries, and has conscientiously promoted economic restructuring and the development of strategic emerging industries in China by integrating “industry, innovation and financing”.
- As a social champion, Mr. Shen has responded to the call of the Party and the government by offering advice on economic development. He has worked hard to help achieve greater results in promoting the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure, deepening supply-side structural reform, and other major national strategies. He is also active in philanthropy, and has advanced the development of strategic philanthropic undertakings based on the philosophy of shared value and platform. He inspired a new philanthropic model for China, which was adopted as the first global case by Harvard Business School.
- As a business leader, Mr. Shen has taken an active role in establishing business associations, passing on the heritage of entrepreneurship, and nurturing a new generation of entrepreneurs. Since he assumed office as Executive Chairman of the General Association of Zhejiang Entrepreneurs, President of the General Association of Ningbo Entrepreneurs, and President of Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Beijing, he has actively promoted business integrity and continued to exchange enterprise operating and management philosophies, so as to build excellent enterprises in an atmosphere of mutual support and learning. A Board member of Hupan University, Mr. Shen has given lectures personally, and has made outstanding contribution in the development of a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship
A good entrepreneur carries forward good traditional business morality and continues to open up new commercial civilization. Innovation and Revolution, Diligence and Progress, Sharing and Collaboration, Integrity and Responsibility are Shen's interpretation of the term Entrepreneurship.
- Innovation and Revolution
- "Each person has a dragon and a tiger inside him. Let out your dragon and tiger to prey in the market so that there is more innovation and revolution, and consequently more progress, in this society and this market."
- "Innovation and Revolution is an eternal theme for every enterprise. In a highly homogeneous world today, one can only survive by providing distinctive product, service, expertise, design and management."
- Diligence and Progress
- "For the next one or two decades, the best defense should be attack and change. It is imperative to fear technological progress, and embrace the tide of change. Respect and believe in the power of market and customers."
- "There's no such a thing as genius or shortcut. Success only comes to those who are diligent, hardworking and prepared."
- Sharing and Collaboration
- "Instead of keeping doors closed, we have to learn to share and collaborate. We have to make the best of Platform Thinking and Shared Value to win more friends and partners, and create more values, both tangible and intangible."
- Integrity and Responsibility
- "Promise is more valuable than life. Friendship is more valuable than money." "In a commercial era, no integrity and failure to keep one’s promise will mean no friend and impossibility to succeed."
- "The best of an entrepreneur is to become a philanthropist. Starting business and collecting money is a kind of satisfaction while giving out money and donating is a pleasure. By doing philanthropic and charitable things you help yourself by helping others: You do everything for yourself and not for anyone else since this gives you all the pleasure and happiness."
- ——Shen Guojun
