Wen Win 7 Years To Win Spain'S Shoe Burning Lawsuit 8 Million Loss 230 Thousand

Returning home

Chen Jiusong could finally breathe.

Reporters got the news that the District Court of Elche, Spain, made a final judgment on the burning of mass crimes of Chinese merchants in the city in 2004, and 28 perpetrators were found guilty.

As a plaintiff, Chen Jiusong won seven years of rights and finally won.

News spread, Wenzhou footwear related personages, each has emotion.

Elche, Spain

It happened in September 16, 2004.

At that time, nearly a thousand local shoe makers and shoe factory workers gathered in the Chinese shoe city of Elche, chanting slogans, calling on locals to "burn all the shoes entering the city".

The Chinese shoe shops in the city shut down early, and I closed the shop early.

Unfortunately, when the procession came to the door of my shop, a container container had just arrived from Poland to prepare for unloading.

Some lawless elements saw a full load outside my warehouse.

After the container truck, it burned the trucks and my storefront and warehouse, burned 16 containers and 12 thousand pairs of Wenzhou shoes, and the direct economic loss was about 8 million yuan.

It cost me a lot, so I decided to leave Spain to develop in other countries.

Before leaving Spain, I did a job by hiring Ji Yihong, a famous Spanish lawyer in China, to sue me.

In September 29, 2004, lawyer Ji Yihong first accompanied me to the Elche district court to submit a petition. I provided some invoices for the damaged products.

The local court decided to accept the case and attribute it to a serious case.

The case was prosecuted from the end of May 2006, and it was not heard until 5 years later.

In the meantime, every defendant's lawyer refused to accept the court's filing of the case, appealed, and appealed to a higher court. The procedures were not finished until the end of 2010.

After the trial ended in May this year, the trial judge of the case announced that 28 Spanish defendants were sentenced to 6 months to 18 months' imprisonment for crimes of disrupting public order and damage to property of others, and to compensate me for personal economic losses of 26 thousand euros.

Most importantly, the judge also declared that this is the final judgment and no appeal can be made.

This is not a lawsuit.

After the shoe burning incident,

For the first time, special personnel were sent to Elche to help handle the rights protection matters. More than 60 Elche Wen merchants quickly raised about 600000 yuan to help Chen Jiusong deal with litigation rights.

After the court sentencing, I said to my colleagues for the first time that this is an important victory for overseas Chinese lawsuits.

As Chen Jiusong's lawyer Ji Yihong said, this is an important victory for China's overseas overseas Chinese rights litigation cases, and set up a model of overseas Chinese legal rights protection.

This victory will create a better business environment for Chinese businessmen, so that foreign criminals will not dare to infringe on the interests of overseas Chinese.

Over the past few years, Wen Shang has actively applied the law to safeguard the legitimate rights and demonstrated the "Wenzhou power" of overseas rights protection.

For example, Tongling group has won the "first case of intellectual property rights in China and the United States" after 4 years, which led to the withdrawal of the patent infringement investigation by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The Wenzhou lighters enterprises, represented by stellar cigarette smoking, actively responded to the 337 US investigation and won the lawsuit.

These cases have set up a good image of legitimate rights protection for Chinese enterprises in the world.

Winning the lawsuit is a good thing.

But patronizing happiness is not enough.

Seven years ago, the fire burned our reflection.

In international trade, enterprises should pay more attention to the quality of products themselves and increase the added value.

In law, enterprises should be legal in all aspects such as business entities, venues, behaviors, and capital exchanges.

Most importantly, Wenzhou shoemaker wants to develop abroad and must integrate into the local society.

In the past half a century, multinational corporations in Europe and the United States have decided that expanding overseas must be integrated with local people and culture.

Some large enterprises also employ scholars and marketing experts as consultants to ensure that the image of products and enterprises will not offend the local folklore and culture.

Many enterprises also regularly allocated funds to sponsor local public welfare and cultural undertakings.

However, Wenzhou enterprises are still family light industrial enterprises, and it is not easy to attract family members to join. This restricts the international vision of enterprises.

We all say that we Wenzhou people are Chinese Jews who will make money.

At first, when Wenzhou people went to Elche, they were often represented by third parties.

Later, they began to set up their own stalls there, both exporters, importers, dealers and salesmen.

So we make more money, but we never think that when you earn all the money you earn, people will quit.

After the Spanish fire, businessmen in Wenzhou are making their shoes brand oriented and constantly upgrading their "software".

I think we should learn more about Chinese traditional culture, learn "benevolence", do some good deeds, and save some space for our competitors. In fact, win-win is the best cooperation.