Xu Shaochun: Butterfly Changes to "Xu Flame"

One book, one person, made Xu Shaochun surrounded by microphones again at the end of last year.

The book is "ERP Changes China", full of Xu's quotations, such as "Chinese software has only hope, no disappointment", "I know when to 'bright sword'". The person is He Jinghua, who airborne Kingdee from UF, causing an uproar in the industry.

With slightly pale hair and a gentle face, he is still "Xu Huan" when he speaks, "Let all business people use Kingdee's software, and let Chinese companies fly!" However, the CEO who will also serve as the CEO until now After the job was handed over to He Jinghua, Xu Shaochun would only continue the exploration in the book as the "Chief Architecture Officer". These are also the two major tasks that Xu Shaochun set for himself after graduating from EMBA, which he completed simultaneously in less than two years.

The Kingdee flying out of "Fire"

Xu Shaochun's "flame" name is not a false rumor. This man from Yuanjiang, Hunan "burns" wherever he goes; otherwise, he is still in an accounting firm in Shenzhen, or is waiting to retire in a large state-owned factory.

In 1988, 25-year-old Xu Shaochun entered the first "test tube" of China's reform and opening up. The previous three years of living in a factory and three years of intensive study in graduate school had already made this master of computerization in accounting unable to sit still. As soon as he graduated, he came to the Zhonghua Accounting Firm in Shekou, Shenzhen to report.

Undergraduate in the Department of Computer Science of Southeast University, graduate student under the famous accountant Yang Jiwan, Xu Shaochun quickly became familiar with the work of the computer department, and at the same time greedily absorbed the new air of the special zone. At that time, the wave of entrepreneurship in Shenzhen was giving birth to countless small companies with a few people and one office. The impetus behind the Shenzhen government also made the young department manager excited.

"Actually at that time, I didn't know what success was? What was failure? I just had an idea since I was a child, that is to do something and become an influential person. I think I prefer to change some things. In rural Hunan, I wanted to change my living conditions since I was a child."

Fifteen years later, Xu Shaochun, who shouted "ERP changes China", first changed himself in that spring.

Although he has always been better at dealing with numbers than people, Xu Shaochun made the decision to quit his job and start a business. "It was very hard to do financial get off work (by hand) at that time. Others were off work, and they were still accounting." The first entrepreneurial plan he thought of was his expertise, financial software. As a result, a more than 100-page feasibility report was stamped with the approval seal of the Science and Technology Bureau and the mayor's signature. To this day, officials from the Science and Technology Bureau still remember it vividly, saying that this is the best feasibility report they have ever seen.

In early 1992, when Xiaoping's "Southern Tour" train arrived in Shenzhen from Wuchang, Kingdee's predecessor "Shenzhen Aipu Computer Technology Co., Ltd." officially opened. There are only two of him in the company, and there is a 286 that he borrowed from his father-in-law to buy. On this computer, "Aipu Financial Software" from V1.0 to V3.0 was knocked out by him one by one, and passed the appraisal of Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Finance, making it well-known in the field. Xu Shaochun, whose confidence has increased greatly, is determined to turn his talent into a lifetime career. With the support of foreign capital, "Kingdee Software Technology Co., Ltd." was established in August of the following year.

"All the joys in life are the joys of creation. Love, action,...genius, all rely on the fire in the chest to spray out", Xu Shaochun loves to quote this passage in "John Christopher" talk. Kingdee, which started from scratch, inspired the "fire" creativity of this software genius, and then the successive opportunities of products and capital became the two most critical steps of Kingdee in the last century.

In 1996, Xu Shaochun seized the opportunity to switch from DOS to Windows and launched the first Windows version of financial software in China, becoming an industry leader in the country overnight. In 1998, he took advantage of his success and introduced 20 million yuan in cash from IDG, an American venture capital firm, which accelerated Kingdee's doubling in size.

It seems that the two cards that were played out according to common sense were considered the first time to eat crabs at the time. Windows in 1996 was like Vista in 2006. Everyone said it would take two or three years to become popular. Excessive development and use costs prohibit almost all Chinese counterparts. Likewise, venture capital at the time meant more "risk". Xu Shaochun and his colleagues have held numerous meetings for this purpose. McGovern, chairman of IDG, also came to Shenzhen to persuade him, "I hope you can see farther." A telescope given to Xu Shaochun when he parted may have inspired him to start his capital journey.

On February 15, 2001, Xu Shaochun was rarely drunk. That night, the employees of Kingdee were also drunk. On the morning of the same day, Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd. was officially listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, becoming the first private software company in mainland China to be listed on the Growth Enterprise Market of Hong Kong.

Afterwards, Xu Shaochun's success has been a prairie fire for ten years after winning a large order in Hong Kong, entering the US market, and acquiring Kaisi Software. In the field of domestic financial software, especially ERP, Kingdee is going farther and farther, and only UFIDA is left to go with him.