Why did Sun Hongbin go to jail in Lenovo and was later acquitted? How does Liu Chuanzhi evaluate him?

1988 In May, Lenovo (then called New Technology Development Company of Chinese Academy of Sciences) first advertised in the newspaper. After layers of selection, 58 people were hired, and 3 of them will shine in the workplace in the future. They are Yang, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, Guo Wei, Chairman of Digital China Holdings Limited, and Sun Hongbin, Chairman of Sunac China.

Yang and Guo Wei have been developing in Lenovo's holding system led by Liu Chuanzhi, and Sun Hongbin left Lenovo because of a fierce conflict with Liu Chuanzhi.

Ling Zhijun's book Lenovo Fengyun records in detail the conflict between Sun Hongbin and Liu Chuanzhi who worked in Lenovo in those years.

Sun Hongbin, 1963 was born in Linyi County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province,198/kloc-0 graduated from Wuhan Institute of Water Resources and Electric Power, and 1985 obtained a master's degree in Tsinghua University. After graduation, he worked in china environmental science Research Institute.

1988, Sun Hongbin joined Lenovo.

At that time, Liu Chuanzhi hoped that the company could establish a sales network throughout the country, but this plan has never been realized.

1989, Lenovo established the Enterprise Department, with Sun Hongbin as the department manager. Sun Hongbin led the Enterprise Department to set up a 13 wholly-owned branch with a turnover of 24 million yuan.

1989 65438+February, due to the negligence of the import department, the company's products were overstocked, and the branches under the enterprise department sold goods of more than 10 million yuan like flood discharge. Sun Hongbin's pioneering practice was highly recognized by Liu Chuanzhi.

Sun Hongbin, who is not good at words but quick in action, is full of Shanxi accent and will be laughed at when he opens his mouth. His greatness lies in his agility and persistence, in his pursuit of his goals by hook or by crook, and in his indifference to any obstacles. And the vision is far-sighted, and the overall situation is in the chest. In order to exercise Sun Hongbin's eloquence, Liu Chuanzhi once forced Sun to tell a story every day. At that time, Liu Chuanzhi had great trust and expectation for Sun Hongbin.

1990 One morning in March, Liu Chuanzhi was working in Hong Kong and found a new newspaper on his desk. Newspapers are called Lenovo enterprises, not Lenovo's Lenovo. After reading it, he understood that this is a newspaper run by the Enterprise Department led by Sun Hongbin. The front page of the newspaper published the "enterprise program", the first one is "the interests of the enterprise are above everything else", followed by "the manager of the enterprise has the right to appoint the manager of the branch" and so on.

Liu Chuanzhi has the ability to see the big from the small, and this newspaper has awakened all his vigilance. He immediately returned to Beijing and held a meeting of all the company cadres, and Sun Hongbin also attended the meeting. At the meeting, Liu Chuanzhi severely pointed out Sun Hongbin's mistakes. Liu Chuanzhi said: "It is absurd to say that corporate interests are above everything else. Enterprises cannot have their own articles of association or run their own newspapers. "

"I hope everyone in the company can learn from this incident, so as to truly establish a centralized and unified Lenovo culture."

Liu Chuanzhi put forward the idea of "big ship structure". His explanation is that "the company is like a big ship, moving towards the goal set by the president's office, which is a unified principle;" The position purpose of each department and everyone is clear, which is the positioning principle; Division of labor and cooperation between departments is the principle of cooperation. "

After the meeting, the problems of the Enterprise Department were not solved. When the enterprise department understood Lenovo's "big ship structure", it finally realized a truth: "Lenovo is a big ship, and the enterprise department is a small boat. Lenovo's big ship sank, and the boat of the enterprise department floated and became a big ship. "

One day, five young people in the enterprise department were eating together, pointing to the sky and cursing the ground while eating. They all say that calculating elders occupy all important positions in the company, and young people always want to do something, but they are always accused. Everyone shouted, "Lenovo depends on our generation."

Liu Chuanzhi is constantly reported by his subordinates and knows these trends like the back of his hand. Senator also wrote to him, saying how Sun Hongbin rampaged and became arrogant in the company. It is said that Sun Hongbin overstepped his authority to appoint subordinate managers, from acting first to acting decisively, and privately arranged his own confidants.

Liu Chuanzhi believes that Sun Hongbin will go further and further on another road, and if it is left unchecked, there will be endless troubles.

On April 4th, Lenovo held a staff meeting of the Enterprise Department in Lombardi, Peking University. Liu Chuanzhi announced his decision to transfer Sun from the enterprise department to the business department, and no one was allowed to take him. In Lenovo's history, the conflict at this meeting was called "Yuan Shao's attack".

At the meeting, Sun Hongbin's subordinates could not understand the company's decision. An employee named Bai Quan spoke: "What happened to the enterprise?" Another employee asked, "Why can't the company's Lenovo newspaper do better?"

Liu Chuanzhi has been listening. When Sun Hongbin said "Lenovo is a dirty tabloid", Liu Chuanzhi could no longer contain his inner anger. He severely reprimanded the arrogance of young people in the enterprise sector.

Liu Chuanzhi later described the situation at that time: "They attacked us one after another and they wanted to ask us a question."

The meeting ended in discord. "Your performance shows that you only know the Enterprise Department and don't know Lenovo Group! You have to know who Lenovo's boss is. " Liu Chuanzhi said that and left.

On the afternoon of April 7, Liu Chuanzhi once again called the employees of the enterprise department and announced a new decision: "expel Bai and Xue who performed the most fiercely in the" attack "incident; Seal the branch account number; Liu Chuanzhi is the manager of the enterprise department; Sun Hongbin immediately left his original post and went to work in the sales department. "

That night, Sun Hongbin had dinner with his subordinates, and the young people were furious and outspoken. Some people hope that he will resolutely resist, some people hope that he will retreat after difficulties, and some people suggest "rolling money" and leaving angrily.

Sun Hongbin later talked about it in an interview. "In fact, this is what some people said at that time, and there is no' conclusion', especially there is no such action."

But all the signs at that time did indicate that it was urgent. That night, an accountant told the company that someone in the enterprise department planned to withdraw money from other places. The next day, five of Sun's subordinates came to expose someone's intention of "absconding with money" and reminded the company to plan ahead.

Liu Chuanzhi, on the other hand, reported to the Security Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and also to the Public Security Bureau and the Procuratorate. At the same time, he sent 20 people to various places to seal up the accounts of the branches.

The survey results show that Sun Hongbin once transferred the company's funds to another company. Sun Hongbin explained that he had no intention of "turning Public Offering of Fund into a private equity fund". Just because the company's financial system is rigid and the procedures are complicated, he had to leave a working capital for the convenience of doing business for the company.

The procuratorate found no evidence that he was "prone to corruption". However, unauthorized misappropriation of public funds also constitutes a legal problem.

Sun Hongbin was detained by the police on May 1990, and the prosecutor accused him of "accepting bribes" and "misappropriating public funds". The court of first instance found no charge of "accepting bribes", but found him guilty of "misappropriating public funds" and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment.

At the beginning of 1993, due to Sun Hongbin's performance in prison, he was rewarded with a one-year and two-month reduction of his sentence and was about to be released from prison. He took advantage of buying things for the prison in Beijing to get to know Liu Chuanzhi. Liu Chuanzhi invited him to dinner, and Sun Hongbin talked about his reflection on the past and his plans for the next venture.

Liu Chuanzhi looked at the young man in front of him and felt that he could reflect on himself in prison and be positive and not simple. Liu Chuanzhi said to Sun on the spot, "You can tell others that Liu Chuanzhi is your friend." And promised to support his business.

Sun Hongbin later talked about his reflection on Lenovo conflict in an interview: "At first, I also held a grudge against President Liu. Then it gradually disappeared, and my view of the whole thing changed. In a company, including Liu's practice, in fact, if I changed, I might do the same. "

He said that he could fully understand what Liu Chuanzhi did at that time, because "Mr. Liu, Lenovo is more important than his life. In this case, his reaction is completely in line with his personality and his feelings for Lenovo. "

"At that time, I always thought I was right, but now I know I was wrong. I want to do a good job in this enterprise department, I want to do a better job in its sales, and I want it to have no resistance. You are right, but you are wrong in Lenovo's environment, because you will impact other departments. You have confused the whole enterprise, and you have left others out of your control. This is definitely a problem. "

"A lot of things are not wrong. It depends on your time, place and discretion. That's the truth. Some things are good in this environment and bad in that environment. You must consider the environment clearly. If you don't think clearly about this environment and want to do something, you will be wrong when you come up, and you will die when you come up. So if I had a chance to go back and start over, I wouldn't do that. "

"I used to have a misunderstanding: if I don't do that, I am not me. When I think about it later, I don't think so. Actually, there is no need to change your personality. You only need to analyze the environment clearly and see things more clearly, so you may not screw things up. "

From 65438 to 0994, Lenovo lent Sun Hongbin 500,000 yuan, and Sun Hongbin set up Shunchi Company to carry out real estate agency business.

At the beginning of 1995, with the support of Liu Chuanzhi and Zhou Xiaoning, chairman of Zhongke Group, Sunco, Lenovo Group and Zhongke Group established Tianjin Zhongke Lenovo Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., with Lenovo's contribution of 5 million, Zhongke's contribution of 5 million and Sun Hongbin's contribution of 5 million.

1998, Sun Hongbin repurchased Lenovo and Zhongke shares. Sun Hongbin said: "At that time, Teacher Liu gave me this money to support me."

In February 2003, Sun Hongbin filed a complaint with Haidian District People's Court, demanding that the original judgment be revoked. Eight months later, Haidian District People's Court revoked the judgment of that year and declared Sun Hongbin innocent. Lenovo Group has no objection to the court's revision.

Sun Hongbin talked about his relationship with Liu Chuanzhi in the interview. "Liu Jingli has been my teacher and friend for many years, and sometimes I feel like an elder."

In an interview, Liu Chuanzhi talked about the evaluation of Sun Hongbin: "Sun Hongbin has three greatest advantages. First, strong self-motivation, not generally strong, but extremely strong; Second, it is very tough and great to get up after being knocked down; Third, I have the ability to see the end at a glance, and I can judge where the key to something is to do or not to do it. But one thing, there is no room for doing things. His style is to rush forward, which is his character. "