Conference on educating entrepreneurs on how to build “heart-to-heart” connections kicks off

On April 20, the “Internet + Zhiliangzhi (Wuzhen)” Conference officially opened in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. This three-day conference was organized by Zhiliangzhi (To Attain Innate Knowing) Siheyuan, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating entrepreneurs with Master Yangming’s Philosophy of Xin.

According to the organizers, approximately 3,000 entrepreneurs participated in the conference. Piero Scaruffi, founder of the Silicon Valley Institute of Artificial Intelligence, and Joe Weiman, author of "Cloudonomics," attend the conference and delivered keynote speeches.

According to Dr. Bai Lixin, founder of Zhiliangzhi Siheyuan, the Internet provides a great solution to the challenge of “connection,” but it remains inadequate in addressing matters with the “heart-mind.” The Internet has broken the “physical boundaries” and has reduced “physical connections” with a decrease in “physical costs.” “People find it easier to reunite with each other, yet at the same time, they are prone to part with each other. For instance, the convenience of connecting with our family has multiplied by several times, yet how much has our family bond improved? The convenience of connecting with our customers has multiplied by several times, yet again, how much indeed has our customer relations improved? Though we have established the “people-to-people” connections, we have failed to set up similar links in terms of the “heart-to-heart” connections. Hence, the quality of life has not been enhanced by a significant margin.Dr. Bai advocated that entrepreneurs should offer to assume the social responsibility corresponding to their own developments and benefit both their enterprises and the society.

According to the organizer, the blueprint on the ten characteristic industrial clusters, including, but no limited to, the medical care cluster, the entrepreneurship and innovation cluster, and the elderly care cluster, will be released to draw the prominent outline of the new commercial culture in the new era. Among all the industrial clusters, the manufacturing cluster initiated by Jia Shaoqian, Chairman of the Board of the Hisense Kelon Co., Ltd., takes household electrical appliances as a point of breakthrough. Jia intends to provide warm home services for consumers and to build an ecological chain for healthy manufacturing;the elderly care cluster has been initiated by Tan Yiliang, CEO of the Jiuru Senior Care Group. Through the “Institute for the Elderly,” the responsible CEO intends to raise people’s awareness of the ways to show filial piety as sons and daughters. In the meantime, Tan hopes to usher in the light of innate knowing to the Xin of the elderly so that every senior will enjoy their sunsets in peace and grace.

It is reported that the conference organizing committee will release “The Internet + Zhiliangzhi (Wuzhen)” Initiative.