What is the character of Shanghainese?

Personality characteristics of Shanghainese

Intelligence:

"It's too thin!" This is the most common evaluation of Shanghai businessmen by businessmen from all over the world.

Shanghai people are called "threshold experts" because they are smart. Shanghai people's shrewdness is reflected in their daily lives, including not only seeking personal interests, but also safeguarding personal rights and interests. They won't let anything they deserve. This makes Shanghainese often haggle over every ounce for a little profit. In business, Shanghai businessmen are all experts. They are knowledgeable and reasonable, and they dare to argue and are good at arguing. It is not easy for Shanghainese to earn money. To this end, a Korean newspaper said: "Shanghainese are all economic experts ... it is difficult for foreigners to take money from Shanghainese pockets."

Shanghai people's shrewdness stems from the influence of business tradition. In fact, southern businessmen (such as Guangdong businessmen, Jiangsu and Zhejiang businessmen, etc.) are smart. ) As we all know. However, as the cultural and psychological quality of the whole population in the region, Shanghainese are generally regarded as smart, and smart has become an indispensable part of the personality of Shanghai businessmen. It can be said that the shrewdness of Shanghai businessmen is in the bones.

Because they are so clever, Shanghai businessmen have a good eye for business. However, because they are too smart, most Shanghai businessmen are cautious, and they will notice too many details. Before conducting business negotiations, most of them have investigated and understood the market situation and negotiating opponents in advance. Most of their negotiations were conducted after full preparation. Therefore, when doing business with Shanghainese, there will often be disputes over individual minor problems, which will drag on for a long time, so that doing business with Shanghainese often feels very tired. Therefore, we must be patient when doing business with them.

Confident and conceited:

The conceit of Shanghainese is well known.

The conceit of Shanghainese stems from Shanghai's leading position in China. Speaking fluent Shanghainese in Shanghai is like getting a bank gold card today, and you will get many benefits. This makes Shanghainese proud of their identity and unwilling to leave Shanghai. The so-called "Shanghai complex" has become a cultural and psychological feature of Shanghainese.

Shanghai people's conceit stems from self-confidence, which is manifested in their firm belief in their own practices, their firm belief that their ideas and views are natural and logical, and everyone should agree with them and are unwilling to give in.

Be brave in competition and be good at business war;

Shanghai has a tradition of commercial competition.

As early as the 1920s and 1930s, although the Shanghai market was still immature, the commercial competition at this time was very cruel. There is fierce competition among foreign businessmen, Shanghai businessmen and foreign businessmen, and Shanghai businessmen. Its competitive means and intensity are shocking. Shanghai is a battlefield for business. Whoever can stand in Shanghai will have wealth. Shanghai is a melting pot for casting business elites. In this melting pot, a large number of business elites have been trained. As the elite of modern business in China, Shanghai businessmen left a deep impression on people, and their complicated management methods and broad management ideas amazed businessmen from all over the world.

China's modern business elites gathered in Shanghai, which made them show their talents in Shanghai and occupied their own "territory", thus making the business war in Shanghai very cruel. Shanghai businessmen are all good at business wars.

2 1 century, Shanghai's market economy has matured, with a daily passenger flow of 3 million and more than 600 shops standing side by side, showing its charm. Large commercial buildings in Xujiahui and Huaihai Road are constantly emerging, end to end, forming a unique "circle pattern". Many businesses use more complex and diverse means of competition, such as advertising war, price war and brand war ... filled with smoke and strange tricks; Even unreasonable competition is inevitable, such as excessive bargaining, mutual attack and abuse. But as a businessman, if you want to do business in Shanghai, you must participate boldly and compete boldly.

The purpose is clear:

Economic interests are the only principle.

Influenced by the long-term business tradition, Shanghai businessmen have formed a value concept centered on individual standard, which is manifested in paying attention to material interests in daily life and caring about personal and family life, while in business circles, it is manifested as a businessman style that only stresses economic interests and emphasizes profits.

Under the influence of Shanghai's long industrial and commercial history, the philosophy of material interests has become a deep-rooted concept of Shanghai people. Shanghai people who pursue material interests will always find their best interests quickly in various complicated situations. In business activities, Shanghainese do not pay attention to non-economic factors such as face and reputation like northerners, but clearly put economic interests first.

Northerners may also consider human relationships and status differences when doing business, but in Shanghai, businessmen rarely consider these factors. Shanghai people only regard economic interests as the only principle and purpose in doing business, and only consider making money without considering making money. As long as there is money, a few strangers can quickly form a group. Once the economic interests are achieved or the group fails to achieve its economic goals, a group of people will quickly disintegrate.

Law-abiding, strong sense of contract;

In the long run, Shanghainese people have formed the concept of pursuing rationality, equality and standardization. This concept of Shanghainese makes Shanghai a very rational city today. One of the characteristics of Shanghai's urban management is keen to establish various rules, regulations and measures. In case of any new situation, Shanghainese tend to formulate management measures immediately, and citizens basically obey management.

Obeying the law and discipline is the basic concept of Shanghai people. It is not absolute that Shanghainese do not engage in illegal business, at least it is the cognition of most Shanghainese businessmen. They are "gentlemen" in business, do not "steal chickens and touch dogs" or even play "edge ball". When doing business with Shanghainese, we should abide by the rules and regulations, or we will lose their trust and cooperation.

Because they abide by the law, Shanghainese are very rational and have well-founded requirements. They have a strong sense of contract and attach importance to it. This stems from the influence of business tradition. Shanghai has a long history of modern business, especially the century-old western business tradition has a far-reaching influence on Shanghai, which has made Shanghainese form a psychological quality of fairness and reasonableness in everything, so they attach more importance to contracts.

When doing business, Shanghai businessmen earnestly perform their contracts. Once a contract is signed, if there is no irresistible external influence, most Shanghai businessmen will strictly follow the contract and never be vague. Signing a contract has the following characteristics:

(1) contracts are generally indispensable for business, and signing contracts is the legal basis for cooperation between the two parties.

(2) The contract is comprehensive and accurate. In particular, the responsibilities and obligations of both parties are clearly defined.

(3) When signing the contract, consider possible accidents as much as possible and have corresponding countermeasures.

(4) Pay attention to the legality of the contract, and think that the signing of the contract must comply with the requirements of relevant laws and regulations of the state and local governments (where both parties are located), and there can be no cases where the contract cannot be performed due to foreseeable subjective and objective reasons.