The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Between 2025 and 2035, China's aging population will be quite severe.

Especially around 2035, the population aged 60 and above will account for as many as 400 million.

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One out of the three is over sixty years old. The booming development of nursing homes and the health industry over the past decade can be attributed to the aging population.

The severe aging population also brings great pressure to young people to support their families. On average, a young couple will have to face the problem of supporting their parents and raising their children within a few years of getting married.

The problems that have accumulated over time have begun to erupt in this era.

The most obvious example is the aging population.

Peng Ying is old now. Looking back at Cai Village, she hopes to return to her roots. To be born in her hometown and die in her hometown is the best possible ending for most elderly people.

Chen Pingsheng left the island to see her off on her final journey.

After returning to her hometown, Peng Ying still had to be taken care of by her nanny every day. Her hometown was still the same hometown, but as soon as she looked around, there were no familiar people or things.

The people of their generation have all passed away, and she is not far behind. July 12, 2040, sunny.

In the year Chen Pingsheng turned fifty-seven, his mother, Peng Ying, fell asleep at home and never woke up again.

Very few people in her hometown still remember her; most have passed away with the times.

There is no other way to solve the problem of aging; time will heal all wounds.

In another ten years, until 2050, all those born between 1950 and 1980 during the population boom will return to dust.

At that time, we will naturally enter a period of average age.

The nursing home industry and other related industries that have developed rapidly in the last two decades will fade away with the tide of time.

Because Peng Ying left, the Chen family members gathered together again.

They all returned to their hometowns. After seeing Peng Ying off, Chen Pingsheng had nowhere else to go, and his life was only about returning home.

At this moment, he felt somewhat lost, unsure of where to go.

The eldest sister, Chen Yao, is getting old. Her two daughters are very successful. As for the youngest sister, Chen Qi, her son, Hu Qilin, is now married.

His partner is the only daughter of a wealthy family, and the two are living quite well now.

The second generation of the family has already started their own lives, and the remaining third generation is still growing up healthily.

Time flies, and five years have passed in the blink of an eye.

Five years later, Chen Pingsheng disappeared from the public eye again, and spent a year traveling all over the country again.

He has worked as a teacher in the poorest mountain areas and as the owner of a tavern in a remote town.

They have also left their footprints in many big cities.

A year later, he returned to Jingyan Island and stayed there for a full four years.

He never left the island again during that period, and many of the industries he had supported underwent significant changes.

Especially for rural students, they have a year to explore and choose their careers and find the one they like best.

Then use the remaining three years to master the material, and you can keep going back to school to retake courses.

Simply put, this means there are many more career options available, which greatly reduces the problem of an overabundance of people working in grassroots service sectors.

Chen Pingsheng spent seven years accompanying Xiao Jiye as he grew up, and another seven years on the island promoting his dream in his later years.

In 2045, Chen Pingsheng, now 62 years old, returned to Shanghai with his son, Xiao Jiye.

For the next ten years, he will be living in Shanghai with his son, Xiao Jiye.

Although Jingyan Island is known as the Island of Geniuses, it's fine to stay there when you're young, but as you grow up, you have to leave the island and broaden your horizons.

Not only him, but Chen Youcai and Xiao Wuyou were the same.

Over the years, he not only bid farewell to his own mother, but also to Changfu.

No amount of money could save his body, which had been ruined by excessive indulgence in his youth.

Yang Qian also stopped focusing her efforts on her only son, Chang Dalin, and instead devoted all her energy to raising her three grandsons.

Her situation was a choice born of necessity. Many of her generation became wealthy, but very few of the second generation are truly capable of maintaining the family business.

The vast majority of these families fall into ruin because the second generation wants to prove themselves.

Chen Pingsheng himself devoted the rest of his life to ensuring the stable operation of his family business for three generations.

Of the three in their family, An'an remains the most successful.

Chen Youcai's second daughter, Chen Xinyi, also had two children, giving Chen Youcai another younger sister.

She remains as elegant as ever, managing a capital that is among the most valuable in the world.

As for Chen Lu, after leaving the Dream Foundation, he started his own investment company.

He didn't take a single penny from his family; he used all the money he had earned over those years, totaling just over 300 million.

Five years have passed, and the 300 million has grown to more than 2 billion.

He's definitely not cut out for inheriting the family business.

But when it comes to being a spendthrift, he has absolutely no faults.

He became a small-to-medium-sized boss with a net worth of several billion through his own efforts.

I don't have many other ideas for the rest of my life; I just want to manage my small investment company well.

He doesn't get involved in the family business at all.

However, in the past five years, he and Su Xiaoxi have spent less and less time together, and their relationship has changed somewhat.

Even if childhood sweethearts enter into marriage, especially a marriage where they are completely financially independent, it's extremely difficult to avoid problems.

Perhaps they will break up sooner or later.

Chen Pingsheng had tried to persuade him a few times, but it was no use. As a father, it was pointless for him to say anything about matters of the heart.

Chen Lu is the kind of person who is content with a modest life and can live any kind of life, while Su Xiaoxi is very career-oriented and single-mindedly focused on making money.

The two often argue because of their different values, including their philosophies of life.

This has never happened before, but it has become incredibly frequent in recent years, especially in the last two.

In married life, the most difficult thing to overcome is the seven-year itch and the ten-year period.

If problems arise during this process, the family will be in grave danger.

Chen Lu is currently in this awkward situation.

Unfortunately, even Chen Pingsheng couldn't control this kind of thing. He just took Xiao Jiye back to Shanghai and found a new neighborhood to live in.

Very few people in Shanghai still remember him.

After all, he only made a brief appearance seven years ago because of An An's speech, and he hasn't appeared since.

If you include his retirement time, he has been away from Shanghai for a full twenty years.

Twenty years is enough time to change a lot of things, and it can also make most people forget about him.

Chen Pingsheng also has no plans to return to the Economic Research Island. The next dean will have to choose between Chu Qiuyan and Zhang Wanyi.

The things controlled by Jingyan Island are more than ten times larger than those they previously managed, such as Tengyou Media or Yuanmeng Fund.

Dean of the Economic Research Island – that is the true pinnacle position in Tengying Group.

It will take them both some time to get to that position.

There are eight vice deans on the island, and the two of them are the most likely to become the next deans.

Once he relinquishes this position, Chen Pingsheng's retirement will truly be clean and simple.

For the rest of my life, I will live only for myself.

(End of this chapter)