Wuxi
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Oct 20, 2026
Mitch PresnickGUEST
China is not set up for individual entrepreneurs to build national businesses.
Mitch PresnickGUEST
China is set up for the , the little individual proprietor who can build a little stall, go buy some cheap stuff in Wuxi and then sell it on the street and make a little profit and eke out a life.
Mitch PresnickGUEST
That's what an entrepreneur is supposed to do.
Mitch PresnickGUEST
The entrepreneurs who make it, like the guys that I know, like the founders, the common household names, I know a lot of them, They're all just like me.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And you see all the products I was negotiating.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we have one company in Wuxi.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let me see, this is from Shanghai.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In general, I would say China do the Chinese and they do a much better job than we can do.
Ed ButlerHOST
His plan was to launch his own PV firm, Suntech Power.
Ed ButlerHOST
Wuxi, it was one of the local governments that you approached, right? And they gave you $6 million, I think, to start up as startup capital.
Ed ButlerHOST
How much did that change things?
Shi ZhengrongGUEST
That's very, very much important.
Chris StewartHOST
Partially, this was because it contravened Mencian injunctions to preserve one's parents' progeny intact.
Chris StewartHOST
One such example is the Confucian scholar Hua Yuancheng, who immured himself in Wuxi in 1645 rather than cut his hair.
Chris StewartHOST
Three years later, when he was 61, he was betrayed to the authorities, who took him to Nanjing to be questioned.
Chris StewartHOST
During his interrogation by both Manchu and Chinese officials, Hua, who was formerly a student of the Donglin leader Gao Panlong, faced south, raised his hands above his head, and addressed his departed parents, generations of ancestors, and spirits in heaven, saying, Yuancheng's hair cannot be cut, nor will his body surrender.
Chris StewartHOST
This movement actually comprised two related but not identical groups.
Chris StewartHOST
The first consisted of disgruntled scholars and ex-officials who gathered at the Donglin Academy near Wuxi in the Yangtze Delta for lectures and philosophical discussions dedicated to fostering a moral revival throughout Chinese society.
Chris StewartHOST
Convinced that the corruption and immorality of the times stemmed from the decline of traditional Confucian education and values, they believed that a return to good government and a properly functioning society would be possible only when dedicated teachers were once again prodding upright officials and scholars.
Chris StewartHOST
The second group was more directly political in nature and was, quote, represented by men involved in continuing partisan controversies at court who sought to restore integrity to the government service, end quote.
Lerwen LiuGUEST
Yeah.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
Wuxi Suntech.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
You know, that-
Lerwen LiuGUEST
Yeah.
Lerwen LiuGUEST
Yeah
speaker_9UNKNOWN
... company is actually in Wuxi, which is, like, right next to, uh-
Lerwen LiuGUEST
Yes.
Lerwen LiuGUEST
Yeah, yeah
Rui MaGUEST
Right? And yeah, and they do it partly because they need to be competing with each other for the best talent in all of China.
Rui MaGUEST
'Cause, like, why do I go to Nanjing? Why don't I go to Wuxi, right? Well, you know, the, the, the, the cities, like really, the cities that have done well, especially in the sectors they chose to focus on, like, like Suzhou for biotech, for example, they actually do a lot of work.
Rui MaGUEST
They have a ton of staff that are doing what I think are very thinkless things that don't, don't really necessarily translate into, you know, ROI on, on paper immediately for, for the city.
Rui MaGUEST
But overall it becomes this, like, self-reinforcing system where it's like the ecosystem becomes so dense, people would be like, "Oh, why do I go anywhere else? I can just literally come to this block and, you know, just go from floors one through 10 and meet, you know, all the suppliers," right? So yeah, I think people really underestimate and underappreciate the value of infrastructure building and how much that probably should be a public service.
YushanHOST
Like, for example, from the autumn scenery by daytime to the nighttime adventures.
YushanHOST
In Wuxi, actually, I think you should present this example.
YushanHOST
Yeah, that's my
YushanHOST
hometown.
YushanHOST
There are nighttime lantern shows and flower exhibitions in these kind of gardens.
YushanHOST
Because, you know, every season has their specific flowers to bloom, right? So these parks, they're very well known for all of these or different types of flowers for different seasons.
YushanHOST
And this one in Wuxi, it's called Meiyuan Park, hosted an autumn lantern festival inspired by the classic of mountains and seas.
YushanHOST
That's...
Hüseyin ÖzdemirGUEST
Manchmal muss-- Ich hatte in China einen Prozess, da hatte eine chinesische Kollegin, die wir eingesetzt haben von uns, mir gesagt: "Oh, jetzt hat die chinesische Führungs-, die Personalchefin ihr Gesicht verloren." Die Chinesen erinnerten mich daran.
Hüseyin ÖzdemirGUEST
Natürlich kannte ich den Terminus und da habe ich spontan gesagt: "Das ist mir egal." War auch wichtig und richtig, weil hat dann hinterher war so ein bisschen am Schimpfen und so, aber hinterher hat sie dann die Firma gewechselt und das Erste, was sie gemacht hat, war, uns zu fragen, ob wir dann in der amerikanischen Firma, wo sie in Wuxi tätig war, ob wir da auch unterstützen würden.
Hüseyin ÖzdemirGUEST
Gut, dazu kam es nicht, aber, ähm, sie hat, es hing da nicht so negativ da noch mal dran.
Hüseyin ÖzdemirGUEST
Das heißt, das, das hilft.
Michelle ShenHOST
Now let's move on to our China Club section.
Michelle ShenHOST
Today, we are looking at Enlin Global Equestrian Center in Wuxi, Jiangsu, described as China's first equestrian ecological complex.
Michelle ShenHOST
It opened in May 2025 with a total investment of 200 million RMB and a site covering 133,000 square meters.
Michelle ShenHOST
The stable currently houses 88 horses, including competition horses and ponies for beginners and children, with a plan to expand to 300.
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