# 曹晖 · Cao Hui — 封面传记 ACF-00-00101

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## 档案元数据 Metadata

- 封面编码 ACF Code：**ACF-00-00101**
- 姓名 Name：曹晖 / Cao Hui
- 职务 Title：董事长 / Chairman
- 公司 Company：福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司 / Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd.
- 出生 Born：1970， (China)
- 篇别 Category：格局（格局篇 / Cover Biography (Geju)）
- 入档日期 Accessioned：2026-07-20
- 标签 Tags：创二代, 车间历练, 反倾销胜诉, 实业传承, 汽车玻璃, 全球化布局, 智能玻璃, 数字福耀, 民企接班, 工匠精神
- 永久档案链接 Archive URL：https://coverfigure.com/acf/ACF-00-00101/geju
- English archive：https://coverfigure.com/acf/ACF-00-00101/geju?lang=en
- 官网原文报道 Feature story：https://coverfigure.com/acf/figure/caohui

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## 卷首 Editorial Intro

福耀的制造能力、全球布局与代际结构已经成型，问题不在于谁站在光里，而在于谁让复杂系统保持稳定、可校验、可继续运行。在中国制造走向全球供应链深处、产业升级与合规要求同时加压的阶段，福耀这样的企业不再只是产量与订单的问题，而是标准、成本、地缘距离和组织稳定性的综合考题。真正值得记录的，是庞大产能、海外布局与长期工艺纪律背后，谁在让系统继续运转，又不把这种运转写成传奇。
这家企业的体量已不需要任何座次来证明：福耀为特斯拉供应约七成汽车玻璃，俄亥俄州代顿工厂供应着全美约三分之一的汽车玻璃；2025年，福耀美国子公司实现营收79.17亿元、净利润8.84亿元[s48][s5]。数字背后是一套精密运转的制造系统——而系统的接续，比权力的交接困难得多。
中国民营企业的代际传承，是一道世界级命题。改革开放后成长起来的第一代创始人正集体老去，方太集团老掌门人茅理翔曾归纳企业传承的“十大难题”：舆论压力、家族矛盾、元老阻力、两代分歧、父不交权、子不愿接……而福耀，几乎避开了上述每一道坎[s5]。但这并非运气。曹晖不是被一纸任命推上前台的继承人，而是被三十六年时间一层层淬炼出来的接班人：六年车间、六年香港、十三年北美、九年总经理、三年出走创业，再到七年副董事长，他把一家制造企业从生产、销售、国际化到战略管理的每一级台阶都亲自走了一遍。曹德旺的培养方式近乎冷酷——把儿子塞进车间最苦的工位，约法三章，多年后他用一句很直白的话解释自己的动机：“见不得他舒坦”[s5][s6]。
这也解释了这场交接为何格外平静。2025年10月16日，七十九岁的曹德旺提前一年多提交辞呈，五十五岁的曹晖当选董事长，市场波澜不惊[s2][s3]。真正的悬念从来不在“谁接班”，而在《闽商》杂志点出的那句话：决定这场传承成败的，或许不是权力交接的平滑度，而是曹晖能否带领福耀走出一条属于自己的路[s5]。
玻璃是一种奇特的材料。它看似坚硬，实则在出炉前必须经历缓慢而精确的退火，应力不除，稍有碰撞便会自内而外地碎裂。人也一样，系统也一样。这份档案要记录的，不是一个“富二代接班”的轻飘故事，而是一块玻璃、一家企业、一代人如何在慢火与急流之间，找到属于自己的应力与透明度。

This is not a story of succession. It is a story of continuity in a system. Fuyao's manufacturing capability, global footprint and generational structure are already in place; the question is not who stands in the light, but who keeps a complex organization stable, verifiable and running. As Chinese manufacturing pushes deeper into global supply chains, with industrial upgrading and compliance pressures mounting at once, a company like Fuyao is no longer simply a question of output and orders. It is a composite test of standards, cost, geographic distance and organizational stability. What deserves to be recorded is who, behind vast capacity, overseas deployments and long-standing process discipline, keeps the system running, and who refrains from turning that running into legend.
The scale of the enterprise needs no seating chart to prove it: Fuyao supplies roughly 70 percent of the automotive glass used by Tesla, and its Dayton, Ohio plant supplies about a third of all automotive glass installed in the United States; in 2025, Fuyao's American subsidiary posted revenue of 7.917 billion yuan and net profit of 884 million yuan [s48][s5]. Behind those figures stands a precision-built manufacturing system, and the continuity of a system is far harder than the transfer of a title.
The generational transition of China's private enterprises is a problem of world-class difficulty. The first generation of founders, who came of age with reform and opening up, are collectively growing old. Mao Lixiang, the veteran chairman of Fotile Group, once catalogued the "ten great difficulties" of family-business succession: the pressure of public opinion, family conflict, resistance from long-serving lieutenants, the rift between two generations, a father who will not let go, a son who will not take over. Fuyao has avoided nearly every one of them [s5]. But this was not luck. Cao Hui is not an heir pushed to the front by a single piece of paper; he is a successor tempered layer by layer across 36 years: six years on the shop floor, six in Hong Kong, thirteen in North America, nine as general manager, three years away building his own company, and then seven as vice chairman. He personally walked every rung of a manufacturing enterprise, from production and sales through internationalization to strategic management. Cao Dewang's way of grooming him came close to ruthless, placing his son in the harshest posts on the factory floor under three strict rules, then explaining his motive years later in blunt terms: "I could not bear to see him comfortable" [s5][s6].
That also explains why the handover was so quiet. On October 16, 2025, the 79-year-old Cao Dewang submitted his resignation more than a year ahead of schedule, and the 55-year-old Cao Hui was elected chairman; the market barely rippled [s2][s3]. The real suspense was never "who takes over." It was, as the magazine Minshang put it, whether Cao Hui could lead Fuyao down a path of its own [s5].
Glass is a strange material. It looks hard, yet before it leaves the furnace it must pass through slow, precise annealing; if the internal stress is not released, a single knock can shatter it from within. So it is with people, and so it is with systems. What this archive records is not the airy tale of an heir apparent, but how a sheet of glass, a company and a generation found their own stress and their own transparency, between slow fire and fast current.

## 人物速览 Lead

曹晖，1970年生，福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司董事长，福耀集团创始人曹德旺长子，中国香港籍，正高级工程师、高级经济师，第十四届全国政协委员[s1][s39]。他是中国制造业代际传承中最受注目的“创二代”之一，也是极少数从车间一线一步步走到全球行业龙头掌舵位置的企业家。1989年11月，19岁的曹晖高中毕业后进入福耀，从车间搬运、切割等最苦工位做起，隐姓埋名、三班倒六年，历任生产班组长、车间主任[s1][s6]。此后他赴香港拓荒市场，又长驻北美十余年：1996年起任美国绿榕玻璃财务总监、总经理，2001年起任福耀北美玻璃工业有限公司总经理，带队应诉中国加入世界贸易组织后首起反倾销案——加拿大案全胜，美国案税率从11.8%一路打到0%，使福耀成为第一家告赢美国商务部的中国企业[s11][s12][s13]。2006年至2015年，他任福耀玻璃总经理，主导搭建九大国家级科研平台与精益管理体系[s1]。2015年，已是集团总经理的曹晖辞职创办福建三锋控股集团，深耕汽车后市场与高端汽配供应链，三年将年营收做到7.29亿元[s8][s34]。2018年，福耀以2.24亿元收购三锋，为其回归扫清关联交易障碍[s9][s10]。2015年8月起他任副董事长，深度参与美国代顿工厂这场被纪录片《美国工厂》记录的全球化实验[s16][s39]。2025年10月16日，79岁的曹德旺提前交棒，曹晖当选福耀玻璃董事长[s2][s3]。接棒首年，福耀2025年实现营业收入457.87亿元、归母净利润93.12亿元，双双刷新历史纪录[s22][s23]。他在年报中提出，2026年福耀创业50周年之际开启“二次创业”，以“数字与智能双轮驱动”打造“数字福耀”，推动这家全球市占率约35%的汽车玻璃巨头从“制造”迈向“智造”[s5][s23]。

Cao Hui, born in 1970, is chairman of Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd., the eldest son of Cao Dewang, founder of the Fuyao Group, and a Chinese national holding Hong Kong SAR residency; he holds the professional titles of professor-level senior engineer and senior economist and is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[s1][s39] He is one of the most closely watched "second-generation entrepreneurs" in the generational succession of Chinese manufacturing, and one of the very few business leaders who climbed step by step from the workshop floor to the helm of a global industry leader. In November 1989, the 19-year-old Cao Hui joined Fuyao after graduating from high school, starting on the harshest shop-floor posts, hauling and cutting glass; he concealed his identity and worked three rotating shifts for six years, serving successively as production team leader and workshop director.[s1][s6] He was then sent to Hong Kong to open up new markets, and afterwards was stationed in North America for more than a decade: from 1996 he served as finance director and then general manager of Greenville Glass Industries in the United States, and from 2001 as general manager of Fuyao North America Glass Industry Co., Ltd., leading the team through China's first anti-dumping cases after its accession to the World Trade Organization—the Canadian case was won outright, and in the American case the duty rate was driven all the way from 11.8% down to zero, making Fuyao the first Chinese company to defeat the U.S. Department of Commerce in court.[s11][s12][s13] From 2006 to 2015 he served as general manager of Fuyao Glass, overseeing the building of nine national-level R&D platforms and a lean-management system.[s1] In 2015, already group general manager, Cao Hui resigned to found Fujian Sanfeng (Triplex) Holding Group, focusing on the automotive aftermarket and the high-end auto-parts supply chain, and built annual revenue to 729 million yuan within three years.[s8][s34] In 2018 Fuyao acquired Sanfeng for 224 million yuan, clearing the related-party-transaction obstacles to his return.[s9][s10] From August 2015 he served as vice chairman, deeply involved in the globalization experiment at the Dayton, Ohio plant recorded by the documentary American Factory.[s16][s39] On October 16, 2025, at the age of 79, Cao Dewang handed over the baton ahead of schedule, and Cao Hui was elected chairman of Fuyao Glass.[s2][s3] In his first year at the helm, Fuyao posted 2025 operating revenue of 45.787 billion yuan and net profit attributable to shareholders of 9.312 billion yuan, both all-time records.[s22][s23] In the annual report he proposed that in 2026, the year of Fuyao's 50th founding anniversary, the company embark on a "second entrepreneurship," using the "dual-wheel drive of digitalization and intelligence" to build "Digital Fuyao" and propel this automotive-glass giant, with a global market share of roughly 35%, from manufacturing toward intelligent manufacturing.[s5][s23]

## 正文 Archive Chapters

### 1. 车间里的“隐姓埋名”：六年基层与香港拓荒 / A Hidden Identity on the Shop Floor: Six Years at the Grassroots and Pioneering in Hong Kong

1989年11月，十九岁的曹晖进入福耀。按照官方履历，他“从基层起步，历任生产班组长、车间主任”[s1]。这并非普通的入职。当时福耀玻璃成立不过两年，刚在1987年由曹德旺牵头在福建福清创立、1993年才登陆上交所；身为创始人长子，曹晖进厂时被父亲约法三章。多家媒体在后来的报道中还原了这三条铁律：不能公开曹晖的身份，工作中不能搞特殊化，要给他安排最苦、最累的活[s6][s5]。
于是车间里多了一个谁也不知道来历的年轻工人。据《海报新闻》等媒体记述，曹晖穿着洗到掉色的工作服，开着破旧的二手车，常常三班倒，吃住都在公司，从搬运、切割等最耗体力的工位干起[s6]。曹德旺多年后回忆这段安排，用了五个字——“见不得他舒坦”[s5]。这不是一句玩笑。在这位白手起家的创始人看来，玻璃这门生意的所有道理都在现场：配料、熔制、成型、钢化，哪一道工序出了偏差，到了客户端就是召回风险；一个没有在钢化炉旁蹲过、没有被碎玻璃划过手的接班人，不可能真正理解制造业[s5][s6]。
这段基层经历的具体时长，公开叙事中多以“六年车间”概括——从十九岁到二十五岁，曹晖熟悉了汽车玻璃生产的每一道工序，也与一线工人建立起真实的关系[s5][s48]。官方履历则显示，他的管理历练起步极早：1992年6月至1994年2月，他出任三益发展有限公司总经理；1994年3月至1996年6月，任福耀（香港）有限公司总经理[s39][s1]。三益发展是曹氏家族在香港的主要持股平台之一，福耀香港则承担着集团对外窗口的功能。两段时间连起来看，曹晖实际上是在生产线的最短两三年内便被推上经营岗位，但他的市场课，是从香港真正开始的。
1990年代中期的福耀，正处在从国内配件市场向海外突围的起步期。福耀1991年开始向加拿大TCG公司出口汽车玻璃，1994年在美国南卡罗来纳州成立美国绿榕公司，负责北美的玻璃销售[s13]。派曹晖去香港，意在让他从零搭渠道、跑客户。媒体描述这段经历时反复用到“从零开始”四个字：从管生产到跑市场，完全是两个赛道，他跑客户、谈订单，挨过不少冷脸，一步步把销售网络建立起来，“连宝马车都有了”[s5][s34]。
“六年香港”是与“六年车间”并列的家族叙事。《闽商》杂志写道，等曹晖在香港轻车熟路，曹德旺再次“见不得他舒坦”，把他派往美国[s5]。这种近乎刻意的轮岗设计，后来被外界总结为曹氏接班培养的三个阶段：基层管理、市场销售、跨国经营，三块拼图拼齐，一个制造业掌门人的能力链条才算完整[s34][s6]。
多年以后回看，车间六年对曹晖的塑造贯穿始终。他后来在福耀推动精益生产、坚持“人品、产品、品质、品味”的工匠精神表述，把产品研发锁定为安全舒适、智能控制、节能环保、美观时尚、集成总成五大方向，根子都在那间熔窑边[s6]。2026年以全国政协委员身份建言时，他不谈宏大叙事，谈的是工匠待遇、职教体系和生产线——“2025年我国工业机器人密度已达每万名工人470台”，机器换了人，但真正懂技术、能维护、会创新的“新工匠”严重短缺[s26]。一个在车间里长大的人，终究最懂车间。
要理解这种培养方式的分量，需要回到曹德旺那一代人的起点。曹德旺十四岁辍学，卖过烟丝、贩过水果，1976年进入福清高山异形玻璃厂当采购员，1983年承包这家濒临倒闭的乡镇小厂，1987年牵头创办福耀玻璃，从水表玻璃做到汽车玻璃，1993年推动公司登陆上交所，成为中国汽车玻璃行业最早的上市公司之一[s4][s1]。这位自称“乱拳打死老师傅”的创始人，对儿子的第一课却不是生意经，而是“到现场去”。在他看来，制造业没有捷径，一块汽车玻璃要经过配料、熔制、成型、钢化、检验数十道工序，任何一道工序的马虎，都会在高速行驶中变成安全事故；接班人若不在车间里被玻璃渣子磨过手、被钢化炉烤过，就不会对质量怀有本能的敬畏[s5][s6]。
曹晖的教育路径同样是“边干边读”。官方履历显示，他1997年前后赴美国求学，2005年12月从美国贝克大学（Baker College）获得工商管理硕士学位，2012年12月获评高级经济师，2022年3月获评正高级工程师[s39][s3]。这意味着他在北美一线冲杀的同时完成了系统的管理与经济学科训练——课堂上的MBA与法庭上的反倾销、车间里的良率报表，在他身上是同时发生的。这种“从生产线里长出来的学历”，与很多二代“先留学、再空降”的路径截然不同。
香港六年的另一层意义，是让他完成了从“做产品”到“做市场”的认知切换。车间教会他成本与质量，香港教会他客户与渠道：海外维修市场的渠道如何搭建、不同国家的认证标准如何跨越、价格体系如何与国际巨头竞争，这些在福建工厂里学不到的功课，他在维多利亚港边的写字楼和一家家客户的冷脸中补齐[s5][s34]。等1996年被派往北美时，曹晖已经是一个既懂玻璃、又懂市场，还能讲一口流利商务英语的复合型管理者——这正是后来那场反倾销大战最需要的人选。

**English:** In November 1989, the 19-year-old Cao Hui joined Fuyao. According to the official company record, he "started at the grassroots and served successively as production team leader and workshop director."[s1] This was no ordinary induction. Fuyao Glass had been founded barely two years earlier, established in Fuqing, Fujian in 1987 under Cao Dewang's leadership, and would not list on the Shanghai Stock Exchange until 1993; as the founder's eldest son, Cao Hui entered the factory under three iron rules laid down by his father. Several media accounts later reconstructed those rules: Cao Hui's identity was not to be disclosed, he was to receive no special treatment in his work, and he was to be assigned the hardest, most exhausting posts in the plant.[s6][s5]

And so the workshop gained a young worker whose background no one knew. As outlets such as Haibao News recorded, Cao Hui wore a work uniform faded from washing, drove a battered second-hand car, frequently worked three rotating shifts, and ate and lived at the company, starting with the most physically draining posts such as hauling and cutting glass.[s6] Looking back on the arrangement years later, Cao Dewang used five characters to sum it up: "I cannot bear to see him comfortable."[s5] This was not a joke. In the view of this self-made founder, every lesson in the glass business lay on the shop floor: batching, melting, forming and tempering—if any one of these processes went off the mark, the result on the customer's side was a recall risk; a successor who had never crouched beside a tempering furnace, never been cut by broken glass, could never truly understand manufacturing.[s5][s6]

The precise duration of this grassroots stint is usually summarized in the public narrative as "six years on the shop floor"—from the age of nineteen to twenty-five, Cao Hui learned every process of automotive-glass production and forged genuine bonds with the front-line workers.[s5][s48] The official resume shows, however, that his management training began remarkably early: from June 1992 to February 1994 he served as general manager of Sanyi Development Co., Ltd., and from March 1994 to June 1996 as general manager of Fuyao (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.[s39][s1] Sanyi Development was one of the Cao family's principal shareholding platforms in Hong Kong, while Fuyao Hong Kong served as the group's external window. Read together, the two stints show that Cao Hui was in fact pushed into an operating role within just two or three years on the production line; but his real lessons in the market began in Hong Kong.

Fuyao in the mid-1990s was at the very start of its push outward from the domestic parts market into overseas markets. It had begun exporting automotive glass to Canada's TCG in 1991, and in 1994 it set up Greenville Glass in South Carolina in the United States to handle glass sales in North America.[s13] Sending Cao Hui to Hong Kong was meant to have him build distribution channels and run customers from scratch. Media accounts of this period repeatedly use the phrase "starting from zero": managing production and chasing markets were two entirely different tracks; he called on clients, negotiated orders, took a good deal of cold shoulders, and built up the sales network step by step, until "even BMWs were driving around" on the strength of the business he had won.[s5][s34]

The "six years in Hong Kong" stands alongside the "six years on the shop floor" in the family's narrative. Minshang (Fujian Business) magazine wrote that once Cao Hui had grown comfortable in Hong Kong, Cao Dewang again "could not bear to see him comfortable" and posted him to the United States.[s5] This almost deliberately engineered rotation was later summarized by outside observers as the three stages of the Cao succession-training model: grassroots management, marketing and sales, and transnational operation; only once the three pieces were fitted together was the capability chain of a manufacturing chieftain considered complete.[s34][s6]

Seen many years later, the shaping force of those six workshop years ran through everything Cao Hui did. When he later promoted lean production at Fuyao, held to the craftsman's creed of "character, product, quality, taste," and anchored product R&D to five directions—safety and comfort, intelligent control, energy saving and environmental protection, aesthetics and fashion, and integrated assemblies—the roots all lay beside those furnaces.[s6] When he offered proposals in 2026 as a national political consultative conference member, he spoke not of grand narratives but of craftsmen's pay, the vocational-education system and the production line: "In 2025 the density of industrial robots in China reached 470 units per 10,000 workers"—machines had replaced people, yet the "new craftsmen" who truly understand technology, can maintain equipment and can innovate were in severe shortage.[s26] A man who grew up in a workshop, in the end, understands the workshop best.

To grasp the weight of this method of upbringing, one must go back to the starting point of Cao Dewang's generation. Cao Dewang left school at fourteen, sold tobacco shreds and peddled fruit, entered the Gaoshan Shaped Glass Plant in Fuqing as a purchasing agent in 1976, contracted for the failing township plant in 1983, and led the founding of Fuyao Glass in 1987, moving from water-meter glass to automotive glass and pushing the company onto the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 1993 to become one of the earliest listed companies in China's automotive-glass industry.[s4][s1] This founder, who described himself as relying on "untrained fists to beat the old master," nevertheless gave his son a first lesson not in the art of the deal but in "going to the scene." In his view, manufacturing offered no shortcuts: an automotive windscreen passes through dozens of processes from batching and melting to forming, tempering and inspection, and any carelessness in a single one could turn into a safety accident at highway speed; a successor whose hands had not been abraded by glass shards, who had not been baked by the tempering furnace in the workshop, would never feel an instinctive reverence for quality.[s5][s6]

Cao Hui's own educational path likewise followed the principle of "learning while doing." The official resume shows that he went to the United States for study around 1997, received a Master of Business Administration degree from Baker College in December 2005, was named a senior economist in December 2012, and was rated a professor-level senior engineer in March 2022.[s39][s3] This meant that he completed systematic training in management and economics while fighting on the front line in North America—the MBA in the classroom, the anti-dumping battle in the courtroom and the yield reports from the workshop all unfolded simultaneously in his life. This kind of "degree grown out of the production line" is wholly different from the path taken by many second-generation heirs, who study abroad first and then parachute into the firm.

The six years in Hong Kong had another meaning: they completed his cognitive switch from "making products" to "making markets." The workshop had taught him cost and quality; Hong Kong taught him customers and channels—how to build distribution for the overseas aftermarket, how to cross the certification standards of different countries, how to compete on price with the international giants. These were lessons unavailable in the factories of Fujian, and he completed them in office buildings by Victoria Harbour and amid one cold shoulder after another from clients.[s5][s34] By the time he was posted to North America in 1996, Cao Hui was already a composite manager who understood glass, understood markets, and spoke fluent business English—precisely the person the coming anti-dumping war would most need.

### 2. 反倾销鏖战：在北美打赢“入世第一案” / The Anti-Dumping War: Winning China's 'First WTO-Era Case' in North America

曹晖在福耀内部真正的成名之战，发生在北美。官方履历记载，1996年7月至2009年12月，他历任Greenville Glass Industries Inc.（美国绿榕）财务总监、总经理，2001年8月至2009年12月任福耀北美玻璃工业有限公司总经理，负责北美市场开拓，并“率领团队应对中国加入WTO后首例反倾销案件并获得胜诉”[s39][s1]。
这场诉讼的背景，是福耀出口模式撞上了贸易壁垒。1990年代末，福耀汽车玻璃大量出口北美维修市场（AM市场），2000年前后出口高速增长，很快引来美国本土巨头的狙击。2001年，美国商务部与美国国际贸易委员会对中国出口至美国的维修用汽车挡风玻璃发起反倾销调查[s13]。2002年2月，美国商务部作出终裁，认定福耀倾销税率为11.8%，其余五家中国企业税率为8.22%；自判决生效起，福耀每天在美国销售的玻璃都要加缴倾销税[s14][s13]。几乎同时，2001年12月18日，加拿大海关与税务总署应PPG加拿大公司申诉，对来自中国的替换挡风玻璃立案反倾销调查，福建福耀、深圳奔迅、深圳信义、东莞港湾四家企业涉案，涉案出口金额约1800万美元[s15][s12]。这成为中国2001年12月加入世界贸易组织后遭遇的第一起反倾销案[s11]。
曹德旺没有退缩。据后来披露的应诉细节，福耀成立了反倾销小组，曹晖负责在美国一线联系律师，黄中胜在国内准备应诉材料，小组吃住在办公室，整理的应诉资料堆起来有半吨重[s14]。曹晖时年三十岁出头，常驻北美，既要协调美国律师团队，又要对接国内调取的十年生产数据与成本审计材料。加拿大案最先出现转机：应诉团队发现一个致命破绽——申诉方PPG在加拿大销售的汽车玻璃实际在美国生产，这意味着PPG与福耀一样都是对加拿大的出口商，从法律上没有资格指控福耀倾销。2002年8月6日加拿大国际贸易法庭听证会上，福耀律师当庭质问：“请问加拿大是主权国家还是美国的一个州？”[s14] 2002年8月30日，加拿大国际贸易法庭终裁：来自中国的汽车玻璃在加拿大销售不构成实质损害或损害威胁，PPG申诉被驳回。中国入世后反倾销第一案，以福耀领导的中国企业在三个抗辩点全部胜诉告终[s11][s12][s15]。
美国案则是一场更长的拉锯。初裁后一同被诉的中国企业大多放弃上诉，福耀选择硬打。2003年，福耀向美国国际贸易法院提起诉讼，质疑商务部裁定[s13]。2004年5月，美国商务部行政复审初裁将福耀倾销税率由11.8%大幅降至0.13%，同年10月终裁维持；2006年，商务部向国际贸易法院提交重审裁定，福耀倾销幅度修改为0%；2007年5月，美国国际贸易法院正式裁定福耀倾销幅度为0%[s13]。福耀由此成为第一家状告美国商务部并赢得胜利的中国企业[s6][s14]。
这场战役的意义远超税率本身。它让北美市场第一次认识到，中国企业会用、也敢用当地的法律规则维护自己；它为整个中国汽车玻璃行业在北美的发展扫清了障碍，也让福耀管理层完成了一次关于“规则丛林”的实战学习——后来曹德旺总结，企业出海“不断学习”，才能在别人制定的规则里突围[s12]。对曹晖个人而言，这是他在集团内部威望的奠基之战。海报新闻援引他的回忆说，三十年商海搏击，令他印象最深刻的标志性“战役”，就是代表福耀全程参加了完胜美国反倾销的诉讼[s6]。
更深的影响在于战略认知。反倾销让福耀彻底想明白一件事：单纯从国内出口、靠成本取胜的模式走不远，必须到市场所在地去建厂、就地造就地卖。这一判断直接埋下了十年后福耀大规模投资美国的伏笔[s13]。曹晖在北美一驻十三年，把绿榕和福耀北美从贸易公司带成具备本土经营能力的桥头堡，也让他成为福耀内部最懂美国的人——当2013年公司决策在俄亥俄建厂时，他是少数同时理解玻璃、理解美国、理解规则的人[s1][s16]。
这场鏖战的细节，至今仍是中国企业出海的教科书案例。据应诉团队成员、代理律师杨晨后来回忆，加拿大案之所以能成为“入世第一案”的完胜，关键在于策略选择：应诉企业没有停留在喊冤，而是依据当地法律反守为攻——先是抓住申请方之一的LAMIVER公司担忧卷入反垄断诉讼而撤诉，再确定争取市场经济地位的应诉策略，并促成加方来华实地核查；最终中国企业在“无倾销、无损害、无因果关系”三个抗辩点上全部胜诉，为所有中国汽车挡风玻璃企业在加拿大市场争取到零关税[s12]。美国案中，福耀更是破天荒地把美国商务部告上国际贸易法院，用美方的司法程序挑战美方的行政裁决——这种“在规则里打规则”的打法，在二十年前的中国企业中极为罕见[s13][s14]。
对曹晖个人而言，这是一次脱胎换骨。三十岁出头的他，要在美国律师事务所的会议室里逐页核对成本数据，要在商务部调查官员的听证中回答关于价格、补贴、原材料采购的连串质询，还要随时与福清总部协调国内资料——应诉小组整理的资料重达半吨，堆满房间，有时为了一个数据顶风冒雨连夜赶回办公室[s14]。他后来很少对人谈及这段经历的艰辛，只在内部回忆时把它列为三十年商海中“印象最深刻的标志性战役”[s6]。但正是这场仗，让福耀上下对这位“少东家”彻底服气：老板的儿子可以留在总部享福，他却选择在异国法庭上替公司争命。
胜诉带来的市场回报立竿见影。零税率之后，福耀汽车玻璃在北美的渠道全面打开，公司从维修市场（AM）加速切入整车配套市场（OEM），2002年与现代汽车签订第一份配套销售协议，随后陆续进入通用、福特、本田、丰田等车企的供应链[s13][s16]。曹晖在北美搭建的销售与法务网络，成为福耀日后在美国建厂、本地化经营最可依赖的组织资源。某种意义上，2014年代顿工厂那片土地的地基，早在2001年那场反倾销的法庭上就已经开始打了。

**English:** Cao Hui's true battle of renown inside Fuyao took place in North America. The official resume records that from July 1996 to December 2009 he served successively as finance director and general manager of Greenville Glass Industries Inc. in the United States, and from August 2001 to December 2009 as general manager of Fuyao North America Glass Industry Co., Ltd., responsible for developing the North American market and "leading the team in handling China's first anti-dumping case after WTO accession—and winning it."[s39][s1]

The background to the litigation was Fuyao's export model colliding with trade barriers. In the late 1990s, Fuyao's automotive glass was exported in large volumes to the North American aftermarket (the AM market), and around 2000 exports grew at high speed, quickly drawing fire from the entrenched American giants. In 2001, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission launched an anti-dumping investigation into replacement automotive windshields exported from China to the United States.[s13] In February 2002 the Commerce Department issued a final determination setting Fuyao's dumping duty at 11.8% and the rate for five other Chinese companies at 8.22%; from the ruling's entry into force, every sheet of glass Fuyao sold in the United States carried an added anti-dumping levy.[s14][s13] Almost in parallel, on December 18, 2001, acting on a complaint by PPG Canada, the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency opened an anti-dumping investigation into replacement windshields from China, involving four companies—Fujian Fuyao, Shenzhen Benxun, Shenzhen Xinyi and Dongguan Gangwan—with affected exports worth roughly US$18 million.[s15][s12] This became the first anti-dumping case faced by China after it joined the World Trade Organization in December 2001.[s11]

Cao Dewang did not flinch. According to defense details later disclosed, Fuyao set up an anti-dumping task force, with Cao Hui handling contact with lawyers on the American front line and Huang Zhongsheng preparing the defense materials at home; the team ate and slept in the office, and the case documents they compiled weighed half a tonne when stacked.[s14] Cao Hui, then in his early thirties and permanently stationed in North America, had both to coordinate the American legal team and to liaise with the ten years of production data and cost-audit material drawn from headquarters. The Canadian case produced a breakthrough first: the defense team spotted a fatal flaw—the automotive glass PPG sold in Canada was actually produced in the United States, which meant that PPG, like Fuyao, was an exporter to Canada and legally had no standing to accuse Fuyao of dumping. At the Canadian International Trade Tribunal hearing on August 6, 2002, Fuyao's counsel demanded from the bench: "May I ask whether Canada is a sovereign nation or a state of the United States?"[s14] On August 30, 2002, the tribunal gave its final ruling: the sale in Canada of automotive glass from China caused no material injury or threat of injury, and PPG's complaint was dismissed. China's first anti-dumping case after WTO accession ended with the Chinese companies led by Fuyao prevailing on all three points of defense.[s11][s12][s15]

The American case was a longer tug-of-war. After the preliminary ruling, most of the Chinese companies named alongside Fuyao abandoned the appeal; Fuyao chose to fight. In 2003 it filed suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade, challenging the Commerce Department's determination.[s13] In May 2004 the Commerce Department's administrative-review preliminary ruling cut Fuyao's dumping duty sharply from 11.8% to 0.13%, and the October final ruling that year upheld it; in 2006 the department submitted a redetermination to the Court of International Trade revising Fuyao's dumping margin to zero; and in May 2007 the Court of International Trade formally ruled Fuyao's dumping margin to be zero.[s13] Fuyao thus became the first Chinese company to sue the U.S. Department of Commerce and win.[s6][s14]

The significance of the campaign far exceeded the duty rate itself. It taught the North American market for the first time that Chinese companies could use—and dared to use—the local legal rules to defend themselves; it cleared the way for the entire Chinese automotive-glass industry's development in North America; and it gave Fuyao's management a hard-won practical education in the "jungle of rules"—as Cao Dewang later summed up, an enterprise going abroad must "keep learning" in order to break out within rules written by others.[s12] For Cao Hui personally, this was the battle that laid the foundation of his authority within the group. Haibao News quoted his recollection that, of thirty years in business, the landmark "battle" that had left the deepest impression was representing Fuyao through the entire anti-dumping litigation in the United States—and winning it outright.[s6]

The deeper impact lay in strategic cognition. The anti-dumping war brought Fuyao to an unshakable conclusion: the model of simply exporting from China and winning on cost could not go far; the company had to build factories in the markets themselves, making and selling locally. That judgment directly seeded Fuyao's large-scale investment in the United States a decade later.[s13] Stationed in North America for thirteen years, Cao Hui turned Greenville and Fuyao North America from trading companies into bridgeheads with genuine local operating capability, and became the person inside Fuyao who understood America best; when the decision was made in 2013 to build a plant in Ohio, he was among the few who understood glass, America and the rules all at once.[s1][s16]

The details of this grueling fight remain a textbook case for Chinese enterprises going abroad. Yang Chen, a lawyer on the defense team, later recalled that the key to the Canadian case being a complete victory as the "first WTO-era case" was strategy: the defending companies did not stop at crying injustice but went over to the attack under local law—first exploiting the withdrawal of one of the petitioners, LAMIVER, which feared being drawn into an anti-monopoly suit, then settling on a defense strategy of seeking market-economy status and securing a Canadian on-site verification in China; in the end the Chinese companies prevailed on all three points of "no dumping, no injury, no causal link," winning zero tariffs in the Canadian market for every Chinese automotive-windshield maker.[s12] In the American case, Fuyao went so far as to sue the Department of Commerce itself at the Court of International Trade, using the American judicial process to challenge the American administrative ruling—a tactic of "fighting the rules within the rules" that was extraordinarily rare among Chinese companies twenty years ago.[s13][s14]

For Cao Hui personally, it was a transformation in his bones. In his early thirties, he had to check cost data page by page in the conference rooms of American law firms, field successive questions from Commerce Department investigators about pricing, subsidies and raw-material procurement, and coordinate at all hours with headquarters in Fuqing; the documents assembled by the defense team weighed half a tonne and filled entire rooms, and sometimes, for a single figure, he would brave wind and rain to hurry back to the office overnight.[s14] He rarely spoke of the hardship in later years, listing it in internal recollections only as the most memorable landmark battle of his thirty years in business.[s6] Yet it was this war that made all of Fuyao, top to bottom, accept the "young master" without reserve: the boss's son could have stayed at headquarters enjoying comfort, but he chose to fight for the company's life in a foreign courtroom.

The market reward of the victory was immediate. With the duty at zero, Fuyao's channels in North America opened across the board, and the company accelerated from the aftermarket (AM) into original-equipment supply (OEM), signing its first supply agreement with Hyundai Motor in 2002 and subsequently entering the supply chains of GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota and other automakers.[s13][s16] The sales and legal networks Cao Hui built in North America became the most dependable organizational resource for Fuyao's later factory building and localization in the United States. In a sense, the foundations for the ground at Dayton in 2014 were already being dug in the anti-dumping courtroom of 2001.

### 3. 总经理九年：研发体系、精益管理与“配角”定位 / Nine Years as General Manager: R&D Systems, Lean Management and the 'Supporting Player' Position

2006年9月，三十六岁的曹晖出任福耀玻璃总经理，一干就是近九年，直到2015年7月卸任[s3][s39]。这是福耀从国内龙头向全球巨头跃升的关键九年，也是曹晖把自己的管理方法刻进公司肌理的九年。
他的治理重心首先在研发。福耀官网的曹晖简介记载，其任总裁期间“主导研发创新，建成九大国家级科研平台，推进产线智能化升级，搭建系统化预算体系，完善精益管理体系”[s1]。九大国家级科研平台的落地，使福耀从一家依赖经验的制造企业，转变为具备系统研发能力的技术公司。在产品层面，福耀确立了五大研发方向——安全舒适、智能控制、节能环保、美观时尚、集成总成，汽车玻璃从单一的安全件，开始向隔音、隔热、调光、天线集成等功能件演进[s6]。他在公司内部推动精益生产管理模式，推行OA办公自动化，并实施Oracle ERP信息管理平台，把一家几万人的工厂装进统一的数据与预算体系里[s6]。
技术投入的成果以奖项的形式被确认。曹晖个人先后获得国家技术发明奖二等奖，获评国务院政府特殊津贴专家、福建省级高层次人才，以及“全国企事业知识产权管理先进工作者”等称号[s1][s39]。对一家以玻璃为主业的企业而言，国家技术发明奖是硬实力的背书。
这九年也是福耀全球化落子的九年。2013年，公司宣布在美国俄亥俄州建设工厂的计划；2014年，福耀收购通用汽车位于代顿莫瑞恩的废弃装配厂，同年7月又与美国PPG公司签订资产收购协议，收购其在伊利诺伊州芒山的两条浮法玻璃生产线，为代顿工厂供应原片玻璃[s17][s18][s21]。作为总经理，曹晖深度参与了美国项目的决策与推进——他在北美经营十余年的人脉、对美国劳工与法律环境的了解，正是这场史无前例的出海远征最需要的东西[s16][s5]。与此同时，福耀2015年在香港联交所挂牌，完成A+H两地上市，打通了国际资本市场通道[s40]。
在经营哲学上，曹晖与父亲形成了耐人寻味的分工。曹德旺是典型的实业报国型企业家，常把“负责任的企业家始终以国家强大、社会进步、人民富足为己任”挂在嘴边，风格强势、直觉驱动[s6]；曹晖则更注重技术创新与现代化管理，风格沉稳、相信制度与数据。《闽商》杂志引述的评价里，曹德旺说“一般的年轻人跟曹晖是不能相比的，第一他吃苦耐劳，第二非常敬业，对业务也很熟悉”[s5]。而在另一场合，曹德旺坦言父子之间的差别：“员工崇拜我，曹晖不崇拜，他做事情有自己的原则，有自己的思路，不盲从。”[s5] 这种“不盲从”，后来被证明是接班人最珍贵的品质。
定位问题上，曹晖始终守住福耀的本分。多年后他在与北汽集团董事长张建勇座谈时仍强调：“福耀坚守‘当好汽车工业配角’的定位，不断延伸产业链，自主攻克原材料、生产设备等‘卡脖子’难题。”[s5] 这句话浓缩了福耀几十年的战略定力——不追风口、不搞跨界，把汽车玻璃这一件事做到全球第一，同时沿着产业链向上下游深潜：向上延伸到硅砂、浮法玻璃、铝饰件，向下延伸到总成、维修后市场。曹晖任总经理期间搭建的预算体系、精益体系和研发平台，为后来这种“配角式深耕”提供了组织底座。
数字可以勾勒这九年的跃升。2006年曹晖接任总经理时，福耀还主要是一家面向国内和售后市场的玻璃制造商；到2015年，福耀汽车玻璃的全球份额已快速攀升，海外收入占比大幅提高，产品从单片玻璃向总成、镀膜、功能化延伸[s13][s37]。他主导的系统化预算管理与Oracle ERP体系，把分散在全国各地工厂的生产、成本、库存纳入统一数字管道——这套“向管理要效益”的底子，与他二十年后在年报里提出的“数字福耀”遥相呼应，是同一种方法论在不同时代的延伸[s6][s23]。
研发上，他坚持把钱花在未来。福耀在这一时期建起九大国家级科研平台，围绕安全舒适、智能控制、节能环保、美观时尚、集成总成五大方向布局专利与工艺，汽车天线玻璃、镀膜隔热玻璃、大规格全景天窗等新产品陆续推出[s1][s6]。曹晖个人因技术贡献获国家技术发明奖二等奖，并于2012年获评高级经济师、2022年获评正高级工程师——在中国制造企业的二代中，既有实战又有技术职称背书者并不多见[s39]。他有一句话在公司内部流传甚广，大意是：面对新一轮科技革命和产业变革，必须抢抓机遇、加大创新力度，做大做强[s6]。
资本层面，这九年也完成了关键一跃。2015年，福耀玻璃在香港联交所挂牌上市，实现A+H两地资本布局，打通了国际融资通道，也为随后的美国建厂与全球扩张备足了弹药[s40]。也是在这九年里，福耀完成了从“中国玻璃大王”到“全球汽车玻璃供应商”的身份切换：全球主要车企的配套名单上，福耀开始与旭硝子（AGC）、圣戈班、板硝子等国际三巨头同列[s37]。当2015年曹晖选择离开总经理岗位时，他交出的是一家体系完整、技术成军、海外起势的福耀——这也是他敢于出去“白手起家”的底气所在。
2015年，就在外界普遍认为曹晖将顺理成章接任董事长时，他却作出了一个令所有人大跌眼镜的决定：辞去总经理职务，离开福耀，自己创业。福耀玻璃当时对外的说法是，他“希望专注于其他商业事务”[s7][s8]。九年总经理任期，以一种近乎“叛逃”的方式收尾。但后来的事态发展表明，这并非逃离，而是一场精心设计的自我证明。

**English:** In September 2006, at the age of thirty-six, Cao Hui became general manager of Fuyao Glass, a post he held for nearly nine years until he stepped down in July 2015.[s3][s39] These were the decisive nine years in Fuyao's leap from a domestic leader to a global giant, and the nine years in which Cao Hui engraved his own management methods into the company's tissue.

His governance priority was research and development. The Cao Hui biography on Fuyao's official website records that during his tenure as president he "led R&D and innovation, built nine national-level scientific-research platforms, pushed forward the intelligent upgrade of production lines, set up a systematic budgeting system, and perfected the lean-management system."[s1] The landing of the nine national-level R&D platforms transformed Fuyao from a manufacturer relying on experience into a technology company with systematic research capability. At the product level, Fuyao established five R&D directions—safety and comfort, intelligent control, energy saving and environmental protection, aesthetics and fashion, and integrated assemblies—and automotive glass began to evolve from a single safety part into functional components offering sound insulation, heat insulation, dimmability and antenna integration.[s6] Within the company he promoted the lean-production management model, rolled out office automation (OA) and implemented the Oracle ERP information-management platform, fitting a tens-of-thousands-strong workforce into a single unified data and budget system.[s6]

The fruits of this technology investment were acknowledged in the form of awards. Cao Hui personally received the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award, and was named a recipient of the State Council special government allowance, a Fujian provincial high-level talent, and an "advanced individual in national enterprise and public-institution intellectual-property management," among other titles.[s1][s39] For a company whose core business is glass, the National Technological Invention Award is a seal of hard technical power.

These nine years were also the nine years in which Fuyao placed its globalization pieces on the board. In 2013 the company announced plans to build a plant in Ohio; in 2014 it acquired General Motors' shuttered assembly plant in Moraine, Dayton, and in July that year signed an asset-purchase agreement with the American firm PPG, acquiring its two float-glass production lines in Mt. Zion, Illinois, to supply raw glass to the Dayton plant.[s17][s18][s21] As general manager, Cao Hui was deeply involved in the decision-making and advancement of the American project—the network of contacts he had built over more than a decade in North America and his grasp of the American labor and legal environment were precisely what this unprecedented overseas expedition required.[s16][s5] Meanwhile, Fuyao listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2015, completing its A-plus-H dual listing and opening the channel to international capital markets.[s40]

In management philosophy, Cao Hui and his father formed a thought-provoking division of labor. Cao Dewang is a classic industry-serving-the-nation entrepreneur, fond of saying that "a responsible entrepreneur always takes the country's strength, social progress and the people's prosperity as his own mission," forceful in style and driven by intuition.[s6] Cao Hui, by contrast, lays greater stress on technological innovation and modern management; he is steady in style and trusts in systems and data. In an assessment quoted by Minshang (Fujian Business) magazine, Cao Dewang said: "Ordinary young men cannot be compared with Cao Hui—first, he is hardworking and can endure hardship; second, he is utterly dedicated and very familiar with the business."[s5] On another occasion he spoke candidly of the difference between father and son: "The employees worship me; Cao Hui does not. He does things by his own principles, follows his own line of thinking, and never follows blindly."[s5] This refusal to follow blindly would later prove to be the successor's most precious quality.

On the question of positioning, Cao Hui held firmly to Fuyao's allotted role. Years later, at a symposium with Zhang Jianyong, chairman of BAIC Group, he still stressed: "Fuyao holds firmly to its positioning as a 'supporting player serving the automotive industry,' continuously extending the industrial chain and independently conquering 'chokepoint' problems in raw materials, production equipment and beyond."[s5] That sentence distills Fuyao's strategic steadiness over decades: no chasing of fads, no unrelated diversification—doing the one thing, automotive glass, to the point of global leadership while diving deep up and down the chain, extending upward into silica sand, float glass and aluminum trim and downward into assemblies and the repair aftermarket. The budgeting system, lean system and R&D platforms Cao Hui built as general manager provided the organizational bedrock for this later "supporting-player deep cultivation."

Numbers can sketch the leap of these nine years. When Cao Hui took over as general manager in 2006, Fuyao was still principally a glassmaker serving the domestic and aftermarket; by 2015 its global share of automotive glass had climbed fast, the proportion of overseas revenue had risen sharply, and products had extended from single sheets of glass into assemblies, coatings and functionalization.[s13][s37] The systematic budget management and Oracle ERP system he led folded the production, cost and inventory data of plants scattered across the country into a single digital pipeline—this grounding of "asking management for efficiency" echoes, across twenty years, the "Digital Fuyao" he proposed in the annual report: the same methodology extended into a different age.[s6][s23]

In research, he insisted on spending money on the future. In this period Fuyao built its nine national-level R&D platforms, deploying patents and processes around the five directions of safety and comfort, intelligent control, energy saving and environmental protection, aesthetics and fashion, and integrated assemblies, and successively launched new products such as antenna glass, coated heat-insulating glass and large panoramic sunroofs.[s1][s6] Cao Hui personally received the second prize of the National Technological Invention Award for his technical contributions, was named a senior economist in 2012 and a professor-level senior engineer in 2022—among the second generation of Chinese manufacturing-enterprise heirs, those with both front-line battle experience and professional technical credentials are rare.[s39] One remark of his circulated widely within the company, to the effect that in the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, one must seize opportunities, step up innovation, and grow bigger and stronger.[s6]

At the capital level, these nine years also saw a critical leap. In 2015 Fuyao Glass listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, achieving an A-plus-H dual capital layout, opening the international financing channel and stocking ample ammunition for the American factory building and global expansion that followed.[s40] It was likewise within these nine years that Fuyao completed its identity switch from "China's glass king" to "global automotive-glass supplier": on the supply lists of the world's major automakers, Fuyao began to stand alongside the three international giants—AGC of Japan, Saint-Gobain of France and NSG/Pilkington.[s37] When Cao Hui chose to leave the general manager's post in 2015, what he handed over was a Fuyao with complete systems, a full-fledged technical force and rising overseas momentum—which was precisely the confidence behind his daring to go out and "start from scratch."

In 2015, when outside observers almost universally assumed Cao Hui would naturally succeed to the chairmanship, he made a decision that astonished everyone: he resigned as general manager, left Fuyao and struck out on his own. Fuyao Glass's public explanation at the time was that he "wished to focus on other business affairs."[s7][s8] The nine-year tenure as general manager ended in a fashion that looked almost like defection. But subsequent events would show that this was not an escape but a carefully engineered act of self-proof.

### 4. 出走与回归：三锋创业与长达七年的接班布局 / Departure and Return: The Sanfeng Venture and a Seven-Year Succession Layout

2015年7月，曹晖卸任福耀玻璃总经理，同年8月起改任副董事长[s39][s3]。当年11月16日，福建三锋控股集团有限公司成立，法定代表人曹晖，业务聚焦模具科技、设备制造、汽配开发、新材料应用与汽车玻璃配件服务，主攻方向是汽车维修后市场和高端汽车配件供应链[s8][s10][s36]。
“三锋”系列公司的出现，让外界第一次看清曹晖出走的逻辑。经济观察网2017年的调查报道援引福耀内部人士的话说：“小曹总的确在创业，创业领域更确切地说是在汽车维修后市场。”福耀主业是B2B模式，直接给整车厂配套；而维修后市场要直接面对零售和消费者，商业模式完全不同，行业鱼龙混杂，曹晖希望成立新公司去做这方面的尝试[s8]。换句话说，他不是去做另一个福耀，而是去补福耀不碰的那块版图。
为什么非要在接班前夕出走？曹德旺后来向《每日经济新闻》记者交了底：“因为我是白手起家的，曹晖之前也向我表示，希望自己也能白手起家，做出一番成绩后，再来接我的班。”曹晖的态度一度是“父亲你还年轻，等你不做了，我再来接班”[s7]。这其中有证明自己能力的强烈冲动——一个从十九岁起就被父亲安排好每一步的人，需要一次彻底脱离家族平台的考试。2018年6月，曹德旺对媒体明确表示，曹晖“从头到尾都同意接班”，“他之前只是想自己出去创业”[s7]。
三锋的成绩单相当扎实。福耀玻璃2016年年报显示，公司与福建三锋机械科技、福建三锋汽车饰件、福建三锋汽车服务等多家“三锋”系列公司存在关联交易，这些公司均由曹晖控制[s8]。据海报新闻披露，福耀玻璃2017年数据显示，三锋集团资产总额6.07亿元，年度营业收入7.29亿元，净利润5352.18万元[s6]。从2015年底创立到2017年，两年左右做到七亿级营收并稳定盈利，曹晖证明了自己离开“曹德旺儿子”这个标签也能成事。
但关联交易也成了接班路上的制度障碍。三锋与福耀主业高度协同，既是供应商又是客户，只要曹晖还在外经营三锋，他回归福耀执掌上市公司就难免利益输送之嫌。曹德旺的解法干脆利落：把三锋买回来。2018年6月26日，福耀玻璃公告，全资子公司福耀（香港）有限公司以2.24亿元收购三锋控股管理有限公司持有的福建三锋控股集团100%股权[s9][s10]。曹德旺当时向媒体解释得毫不掩饰：“这样做的话，曹晖接班的时候，就不会有麻烦，这是最重要的考虑。”[s6] 他还说，自己七十多岁了，要把这些关联关系清掉，三锋不能再跟福耀做生意，收购完以后就没有新的生意往来了[s34]。
这场收购是福耀传承大业迈出的实质性一步[s34]。它把接班人的个人资产与上市公司彻底切割，把潜在的治理隐患消弭于交接之前——这正是曹德旺式的制度安排：先搭好安全垫，再交权。值得注意的是，收购完成后曹晖并未止步于汽配。2018年8月，他创办福建三锋投资集团有限公司并任董事长，主导产业链延伸，构建玻璃生产、汽车铝饰件与玻璃总成供应的全流程能力[s1][s39]。2019年，福耀又以5882万欧元收购德国SAM铝饰件公司，切入铝亮饰条市场，与三锋的饰件业务形成“玻璃+铝饰条”打包销售的新模式[s36][s44]。到2025年，整合五年的德国SAM业务实现盈利，福耀已构建起“铝水—合金—模具—铝饰件—车门模块”的完整产业链[s36]。
2018年起，曹晖以副董事长身份全面回归上市公司治理[s39]。回看这三年“出走”，它既是曹晖个人的成人礼，也是曹德旺对儿子的最后一场考试：放手让他飞，看他能不能自己长出翅膀；再用一次公允的并购，把他体面地接回体系。有观察者注意到，曹晖说过一句流传甚广的话——“我不如父亲，因为我培养不出第二个曹晖。”[s6] 这是对父亲的致敬，也是对传承难题最清醒的认知：最难复制的从来不是财富和职位，而是那个在时代里打江山的人本身。
三锋的创业方向，藏着曹晖对汽车产业的独立判断。他没有去做第二块汽车玻璃，而是选择了福耀主业之外的缝隙：维修后市场的配件服务、模具与设备制造、汽车铝饰件和玻璃总成[s8][s9]。维修后市场（AM市场）与整车配套（OEM）是两套完全不同的生意逻辑——OEM讲究规模、认证和长期绑定，AM讲究渠道、响应速度和终端覆盖；福耀作为主机厂一级供应商，不适合亲自下场做分散的零售网络，而三锋恰好补上了这块拼图[s8]。这次创业也让曹晖第一次完整经历了“从零到一”：注册公司、组建团队、建工厂、跑客户、管现金流，所有决策由他独立承担，集团的庇护被主动撤去。
曹德旺对这场“出走”的态度，远比外界想象的复杂。他一方面公开承认儿子想证明自己的合理性，另一方面也曾在接受《新京报》等媒体采访时流露出焦急，甚至说“儿子不来当董事长，叫我一个老头子怎么办”，并托朋友去做曹晖的工作[s34][s6]。但他没有动用家长权威强令儿子回归，而是选择了等待和制度安排：先让三锋与福耀保持正常的关联交易并充分披露，再在时机成熟时用上市公司合规并购的方式把三锋纳入体系，既保全了曹晖创业的体面，也为接班扫清了治理障碍[s8][s9]。这场“先放后收”的父子博弈，后来被很多家族企业研究者视为传承安排的范本。
值得一提的是，三锋并入福耀后并未被边缘化，而是成为福耀向汽车饰件延伸的桥头堡：它带来的模具、冲压件和饰件能力，与2019年收购的德国SAM铝饰件业务结合，逐步长成了福耀的第二增长曲线——到2025年，铝饰条业务年收入约47.4亿元并首次实现营业利润转正[s36]。曹晖独立创业时“不做玻璃、做生态”的探索，最终以产业链延伸的方式回到了福耀的版图里。这也印证了曹德旺当年的判断：这个儿子不盲从，但他走的每一步，最终都指向同一件事——把福耀做强。

**English:** In July 2015 Cao Hui stepped down as general manager of Fuyao Glass, and from August that year he became vice chairman.[s39][s3] On November 16 that year, Fujian Sanfeng (Triplex) Holding Group Co., Ltd. was established, with Cao Hui as legal representative; its business focused on mold technology, equipment manufacturing, auto-parts development, new-materials applications and automotive-glass parts services, with its main direction being the automotive repair aftermarket and the high-end auto-parts supply chain.[s8][s10][s36]

The emergence of the "Sanfeng" family of companies gave the outside world its first clear view of the logic behind Cao Hui's departure. A 2017 investigative report by the Economic Observer quoted a Fuyao insider: "Young Mr. Cao really is starting a business; more precisely, the field is the automotive repair aftermarket." Fuyao's core business is a B2B model, supplying automakers directly; the aftermarket means facing retail and consumers directly, with an entirely different business model and a fragmented industry, and Cao Hui wanted to set up new companies to try his hand at it.[s8] In other words, he was not out to build a second Fuyao but to fill in the piece of the map Fuyao did not touch.

Why insist on leaving on the eve of succession? Cao Dewang later laid it out to reporters from the National Business Daily: "Because I started from scratch, Cao Hui had also told me that he wanted to start from scratch himself, to make his own mark, and only then come and take over from me." Cao Hui's stance for a time was, "Father, you're still young; when you no longer run things, I'll come and take over."[s7] There was in this a powerful drive to prove his own ability—a man whose every step from the age of nineteen had been arranged by his father needed an examination wholly detached from the family platform. In June 2018 Cao Dewang stated clearly to the media that Cao Hui had "agreed to take over from start to finish," and that "beforehand he had simply wanted to go out and found his own business."[s7]

Sanfeng's report card was solid. Fuyao Glass's 2016 annual report showed the company had related-party transactions with a number of "Sanfeng" companies—Fujian Sanfeng Machinery Technology, Fujian Sanfeng Auto Trim, Fujian Sanfeng Auto Service and others—all controlled by Cao Hui.[s8] According to Haibao News, Fuyao Glass's 2017 data showed Sanfeng Group with total assets of 607 million yuan, annual operating revenue of 729 million yuan and net profit of 53.5218 million yuan.[s6] From its founding at the end of 2015 to 2017, it reached hundreds-of-millions-level revenue and stable profitability within about two years; Cao Hui had proven that he could succeed without the label "Cao Dewang's son."

But the related-party transactions also became an institutional obstacle on the road to succession. Sanfeng was highly synergistic with Fuyao's core business, acting as both supplier and customer, and as long as Cao Hui was outside running Sanfeng, his return to head the listed company would inevitably invite suspicions of interest transfer. Cao Dewang's solution was clean and decisive: buy Sanfeng back. On June 26, 2018, Fuyao Glass announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Fuyao (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. would acquire 100% equity of Fujian Sanfeng Holding Group held by Sanfeng Holding Management Co., Ltd. for 224 million yuan.[s9][s10] Cao Dewang explained the move to the media without disguise: "This way, when Cao Hui takes over, there won't be any trouble—that's the most important consideration."[s6] He also said that he was in his seventies and needed to clear away these affiliated relationships; Sanfeng could no longer do business with Fuyao, and after the acquisition there would be no new transactions.[s34]

The acquisition was a substantive step in Fuyao's great project of succession.[s34] It cut the successor's personal assets completely away from the listed company and removed the latent governance hazard before the handover—classic Cao Dewang-style institutional arrangement: lay the safety cushion first, then hand over the power. Notably, after the acquisition Cao Hui did not stop at auto parts. In August 2018 he founded Fujian Sanfeng (Triplex) Investment Group Co., Ltd. and served as its chairman, leading the extension of the industrial chain and building full-process capability spanning glass production, automotive aluminum trim and glass-assembly supply.[s1][s39] In 2019 Fuyao then acquired the German aluminum-trim company SAM for 58.82 million euros, entering the aluminum bright-trim market and forming a new "glass plus aluminum trim" bundled-sales model alongside Sanfeng's trim business.[s36][s44] By 2025, the German SAM business, integrated over five years, had turned profitable, and Fuyao had built a complete industrial chain of "aluminum liquid—alloy—molds—aluminum trim—door modules."[s36]

From 2018 Cao Hui returned comprehensively to the governance of the listed company in his role as vice chairman.[s39] Looking back, the three-year "departure" was both his personal coming-of-age and Cao Dewang's final examination of his son: let him fly and see whether he could grow wings of his own; then use a fair acquisition to bring him back into the system with dignity. Observers noted a widely circulated remark of Cao Hui's: "I am not my father's equal, because I could never bring up a second Cao Dewang."[s6] It is a tribute to his father and also the clearest-eyed recognition of the problem of succession: what is hardest to replicate is never wealth or position but the person who conquered an era in person.

The direction of Sanfeng's entrepreneurship concealed Cao Hui's independent judgment of the auto industry. He did not make a second sheet of automotive glass but chose the interstices beyond Fuyao's core: parts services for the aftermarket, mold and equipment manufacturing, automotive aluminum trim and glass assemblies.[s8][s9] The aftermarket (AM) and original-equipment supply (OEM) obey two entirely different business logics—OEM hinges on scale, certification and long-term binding, while AM hinges on channels, response speed and terminal coverage; Fuyao, as a tier-one supplier to the automakers, was ill suited to personally run a dispersed retail network, and Sanfeng happened to complete that piece of the puzzle.[s8] The venture also let Cao Hui go through "zero to one" completely for the first time: registering companies, assembling teams, building plants, chasing customers, managing cash flow, with every decision resting on his own shoulders and the group's shelter deliberately withdrawn.

Cao Dewang's attitude to the "departure" was far more complex than outsiders imagined. He publicly acknowledged the legitimacy of his son's wish to prove himself, but in interviews with media including The Beijing News he also showed anxiety, even saying "if my son won't come and be chairman, what is an old man like me to do," and asked friends to work on Cao Hui.[s34][s6] Yet he did not invoke paternal authority to order his son back; he chose to wait and to arrange institutions—first letting Sanfeng maintain normal, fully disclosed related-party transactions with Fuyao, then, when the time was ripe, bringing Sanfeng into the system through a compliant, listed-company acquisition, preserving the dignity of Cao Hui's entrepreneurship while clearing the governance obstacles to succession.[s8][s9] This father-son contest of "first release, then retrieval" has since been regarded by many family-business researchers as a model succession arrangement.

It is worth noting that after being merged into Fuyao, Sanfeng was not marginalized but became Fuyao's bridgehead into automotive trim: the mold, stamping and trim capabilities it brought, combined with the German SAM aluminum-trim business acquired in 2019, grew into Fuyao's second growth curve—by 2025 the aluminum-trim business had annual revenue of about 4.74 billion yuan and turned operating profit positive for the first time.[s36] Cao Hui's independent-venture exploration of "not glass but an ecosystem" ultimately returned to Fuyao's map in the form of industrial-chain extension. It also bore out Cao Dewang's judgment all along: this son does not follow blindly, yet every step he takes ultimately points to the same thing—making Fuyao stronger.

### 5. 美国工厂：铁锈地带的跨洋实验 / American Factory: A Transocean Experiment in the Rust Belt

福耀走向全球制造的标志之作，是俄亥俄州代顿的那座工厂，也是曹晖北美经验结出的最大果实。2008年金融危机中，通用汽车关闭了位于代顿莫瑞恩的装配厂，上万名工人失业，当地失业率一度高达12.5%，这座“铁锈地带”的旧厂房一闲置就是六年[s42][s17]。2013年福耀宣布在美建厂计划，2014年1月果断买下这座旧厂房——购入价约1500万美元，随后累计投入约6亿美元改造，总占地675亩、厂房约17万平方米[s38][s16]。2014年7月，福耀又收购PPG在伊利诺伊州芒山的两条始建于1959年的旧浮法生产线，2016年6月完成改造全线投产，日熔化量各600吨，为代顿工厂供应原片[s18][s17]。
2015年7月23日，代顿工厂生产的首片汽车挡风玻璃下线，被当地卡里林历史博物馆永久收藏，陈列在通用工厂七年前生产的最后一辆汽车旁边；莫瑞恩市政府还把工厂所在路段命名为“福耀大道”[s17]。2016年10月7日，代顿工厂正式竣工投产，俄亥俄州州长约翰·卡西奇到场致辞，称福耀的投资将改善两千多个家庭的生活。工厂当时已雇佣两千多名员工，计划年产逾450万套汽车玻璃，为美国汽车市场提供约四分之一的玻璃配套[s16]。
这是中国汽车零部件企业当时规模领先的对美投资，也是两种工业文明的短兵相接。冲突很快暴露：美国工人时薪从原来通用的约29美元降到福耀初期的12到14美元，心理落差巨大；生产线布局过密、车间温度高、设备维修未断电上锁、防护规范差异等安全问题，引来美国职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）介入，2016年开出约22.6万美元罚单，后经和解降至10万美元，工厂配合整改[s42][s19]。语言不通、操作界面只有中文、节奏与加班文化的差异，让中美员工之间摩擦不断[s19][s41]。
高潮是工会之争。全美汽车工人联合会（UAW）在工厂附近租办公室动员工人，2017年10月签卡人数越过30%门槛，投票定于11月。纪录片《美国工厂》记录了这场博弈，曹德旺在片中态度强硬，称“工会进来，我关门不做了”[s20]。2017年11月，全国劳资关系委员会主持的投票结果揭晓：868票反对、444票赞成，福耀员工否决了成立工会的动议[s20][s42]。此后福耀持续涨薪、改善管理，工厂在磨合中逐渐走上正轨。
2019年8月，由奥巴马夫妇创立的高地制片公司与Netflix合作出品的纪录片《美国工厂》（American Factory）上映，以代顿工厂为拍摄对象，把中美工厂文化的碰撞、劳资关系与全球化的代价摊在全世界观众面前[s21][s41]。2020年2月，该片获得第92届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片奖[s21]。福耀和曹德旺由此成为全球谈论中美制造业时绕不开的名字。值得说明的是，影片的核心人物是曹德旺与福耀美国管理团队；曹晖当时担任集团总经理，是美国项目的核心决策者与北美业务的资深操盘者，他十余年的北美履历与代顿工厂的选址、建设和运营决策深度交织[s1][s16][s5]。
数字最终说明了这场实验的价值。代顿工厂投产首年即实现盈利，2017年福耀美国整体扭亏为盈[s21][s44]。此后持续增资：2022年福耀对福耀美国增加投资6.5亿美元，其中3亿美元用于镀膜、钢化夹层边窗等生产线扩建，3.5亿美元投向伊利诺伊州一窑两线浮法及太阳能背板玻璃深加工项目[s21]；2025年3月，公司再披露追加4亿美元，在伊利诺伊州建设一条汽车级浮法玻璃生产线，提升原材料自给率[s21]。曹晖为北美确立的策略是“就地造、就地卖”，把原材料本地化率推高至85%，以应对关税和供应链新规则[s48]。2025年，福耀美国子公司实现营收79.17亿元，同比增长25.43%，净利润8.84亿元，同比增长40.91%，北美市占率攀升至30%以上[s5][s48]。一座废弃八年的厂房，最终长成了美国本土领先的汽车玻璃生产基地和福耀穿越关税周期的战略缓冲带[s38]。
纪录片留下了大量耐人寻味的细节。曾在厂里担任翻译的当地华人观察到，中国工人占比不高却支撑起工厂的大体框架，“非常勤劳、肯干、踏实，而且非常好管理”；而部分美国工人则对工作时长、车间温度和安全标准颇有怨言，一位在通用汽车干了十五年、从未受过伤的美国工人，在福耀的车间里伤了脚[s41][s42]。镜头之外，福耀的调整是务实的：涨薪、引入自动化设备降低人力依赖、改造生产线以适应美国工人的操作习惯、把操作界面从中文改成英文[s42][s19]。到2019年工厂年产汽车玻璃约450万套，占北美市场约四分之一，一些美国工人开始自发学习中文，车间里挂起中英文双语的安全标语[s16]。
《美国工厂》的奥斯卡加冕，让这场实验超出了商业范畴。影片2019年8月在圣丹斯电影节首映后由Netflix全球发行，成为奥巴马夫妇高地制片公司的首部作品；2020年2月9日，第92届奥斯卡将最佳纪录长片奖颁给它[s21][s42]。福耀没有把这部不乏尖锐镜头的纪录片视作危机公关，而是以开放姿态面对——曹德旺本人就是片中主角，他那句“工会进来，我关门不做了”被完整保留[s20]。这种“让世界自己看”的底气，与二十年前反倾销案中“在规则里打规则”的逻辑一脉相承：福耀不怕被审视，它相信事实和结果会说话。
曹晖与这座工厂的关系，需要放在他完整的北美履历中理解。从1996年派驻南卡罗来纳州的绿榕公司，到2001年执掌福耀北美、打赢反倾销，再到2006年出任集团总经理后主导美国投资决策，他在北美市场浸泡了整整十三年[s39][s1]。代顿工厂所嵌入的底特律汽车产业带、所面对的劳工法律环境、所依托的经销商网络，正是他在漫长驻外岁月中一点点摸清的。工厂投产前后他虽已回国主政，但从选址逻辑到“就地造、就地卖”的供应链策略，处处可见其北美经验的影子[s5][s48]。2026年，当福耀北美市占率突破三成、美国子公司净利润同比增长逾四成时，这场始于反倾销法庭、成于代顿厂房的全球化长跑，终于交出了完整的答卷[s5]。

**English:** The signature work of Fuyao's move into global manufacturing was the plant in Dayton, Ohio, and it is also the largest fruit of Cao Hui's North American experience. In the 2008 financial crisis General Motors closed its assembly plant in Moraine, Dayton; more than ten thousand workers lost their jobs, local unemployment at one point reached 12.5%, and the old factory building in this part of the Rust Belt sat idle for six years.[s42][s17] In 2013 Fuyao announced its American factory plan, and in January 2014 it decisively bought the old plant—the purchase price was about US$15 million, followed by a cumulative investment of roughly US$600 million in renovation, across a total site of 675 mu (about 45 hectares) with roughly 170,000 square meters of factory space.[s38][s16] In July 2014 Fuyao also acquired from PPG two old float-glass production lines in Mt. Zion, Illinois, originally built in 1959; their renovation was completed and they went into full operation in June 2016, each with a daily melting capacity of 600 tonnes, supplying raw glass to the Dayton plant.[s18][s17]

On July 23, 2015, the first automotive windshield produced at the Dayton plant came off the line and was permanently acquired by the local Carillon Historical Park museum, displayed beside the last car that the GM factory had produced seven years earlier; the city of Moraine also named the road by the plant "Fuyao Avenue."[s17] On October 7, 2016, the Dayton plant was formally completed and went into production; Ohio Governor John Kasich attended to give a speech, saying Fuyao's investment would improve the lives of more than two thousand families. The plant already employed over two thousand workers, with a planned annual capacity of more than 4.5 million sets of automotive glass, supplying roughly a quarter of the glass for the American auto market.[s16]

This was the largest investment in the United States by a Chinese auto-parts enterprise at the time, and it brought two industrial civilizations into close quarters. Conflicts surfaced quickly: American workers' hourly pay fell from the roughly US$29 they had earned at GM to US$12-14 at Fuyao in the early period, an enormous psychological gap; safety issues such as production lines packed too densely, high shop-floor temperatures, equipment maintenance performed without power lockout, and differing protective standards drew in the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which in 2016 issued fines of about US$226,000, later reduced through settlement to US$100,000, with the plant cooperating in rectification.[s42][s19] Language barriers, operating interfaces in Chinese only, and differences in pace and overtime culture produced constant friction between Chinese and American employees.[s19][s41]

The climax was the union fight. The United Auto Workers (UAW) rented an office near the plant to mobilize workers, and in October 2017 the number of signed cards crossed the 30% threshold, with a vote set for November. The documentary American Factory recorded this contest; in the film Cao Dewang took a hard line, saying, "If the union comes in, I'll shut the doors and stop doing business."[s20] In November 2017 the vote supervised by the National Labor Relations Board produced its result: 868 against, 444 in favor, and Fuyao's employees rejected the proposal to form a union.[s20][s42] Afterwards Fuyao kept raising pay and improving management, and the plant gradually found its footing through a grinding give-and-take of mutual adjustment.

In August 2019, the documentary American Factory, produced by Higher Ground Productions—founded by Barack and Michelle Obama—in partnership with Netflix, was released; taking the Dayton plant as its subject, it laid the collision of Chinese and American factory cultures, labor relations and the price of globalization before audiences worldwide.[s21][s41] In February 2020 the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Oscars.[s21] Fuyao and Cao Dewang thereby became names impossible to avoid whenever the world discussed Chinese and American manufacturing. It should be noted that the film's central figures are Cao Dewang and Fuyao's American management team; Cao Hui, then serving as the group's general manager, was a core decision-maker on the American project and a seasoned operator of the North American business, and his more than a decade of North American record is deeply interwoven with the Dayton plant's siting, construction and operating decisions.[s1][s16][s5]

The numbers ultimately explained the value of this experiment. The Dayton plant turned a profit in its very first year of production, and in 2017 Fuyao's American operation as a whole moved from loss into profit.[s21][s44] Investment kept increasing thereafter: in 2022 Fuyao added US$650 million to Fuyao America, US$300 million of it for expanding coated and tempered laminated side-window lines and US$350 million for an Illinois float-glass and solar-backglass deep-processing project built around one furnace and two lines;[s21] and in March 2025 the company disclosed a further US$400 million to build an automotive-grade float-glass line in Illinois, raising raw-material self-sufficiency.[s21] The strategy Cao Hui set for North America was "make locally, sell locally," pushing the local-content rate of raw materials up to 85% in order to meet tariffs and new supply-chain rules.[s48][s5] In 2025 Fuyao's U.S. subsidiary achieved revenue of 7.917 billion yuan, up 25.43% year on year, and net profit of 884 million yuan, up 40.91%, with North American market share climbing above 30%.[s5][s48] A plant building abandoned for eight years ultimately grew into the largest automotive-glass production base on American soil and a strategic buffer that carries Fuyao through tariff cycles.[s38]

The documentary left behind a great many suggestive details. Local Chinese who had worked as translators in the plant observed that the Chinese workers, though a small proportion, held up the plant's broad framework—"extremely hardworking, willing, steady, and very easy to manage"; while some American workers complained about working hours, shop-floor temperatures and safety standards, and one American worker who had spent fifteen years at General Motors without injury hurt his foot in Fuyao's workshop.[s41][s42] Off camera, Fuyao's adjustments were pragmatic: raising pay, introducing automated equipment to reduce dependence on labor, reworking production lines to suit American workers' operating habits, and changing the operating interfaces from Chinese into English.[s42][s19] By 2019 the plant was producing roughly 4.5 million sets of automotive glass a year, about a quarter of the North American market; some American workers began learning Chinese of their own accord, and bilingual Chinese-English safety banners went up in the workshop.[s16]

The Oscar coronation of American Factory lifted the experiment beyond commerce. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in August 2019, the film was distributed globally by Netflix and became the first release of the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions; on February 9, 2020, the 92nd Academy Awards gave it the prize for best documentary feature.[s21][s42] Fuyao did not treat this documentary, with its not-always-flattering footage, as a crisis-PR problem but faced it openly—Cao Dewang himself is the film's protagonist, and his line "if the union comes in, I'll shut the doors" was kept in full.[s20] This confidence in "letting the world see for itself" is of one logic with the "fighting the rules within the rules" approach of the anti-dumping case twenty years earlier: Fuyao does not fear scrutiny; it trusts facts and results to speak.

Cao Hui's relationship with this plant must be understood within his complete North American record. From his posting to Greenville Glass in South Carolina in 1996, to heading Fuyao North America and winning the anti-dumping cases in 2001, to leading the American investment decision after becoming group general manager in 2006, he was immersed in the North American market for thirteen whole years.[s39][s1] The Detroit automotive industrial belt into which the Dayton plant was embedded, the labor-law environment it faced, and the dealer network it relied on were all things he had mapped out piece by piece across long years abroad. Around the plant's start-up he had already returned to headquarters to lead, yet from the siting logic to the "make locally, sell locally" supply-chain strategy, the shadow of his North American experience is everywhere visible.[s5][s48] In 2026, when Fuyao's North American share broke through thirty percent and its American subsidiary's net profit rose more than forty percent year on year, this long-distance globalization run—begun in an anti-dumping courtroom and brought to fruition in the Dayton plant hall—finally delivered its complete answer.

### 6. 副董事长七年：全球布局与产业链延伸 / Seven Years as Vice Chairman: Global Layout and Industrial-Chain Extension

2018年全面回归上市公司治理后，曹晖以副董事长身份进入了长达七年的接班预备期。这段时间里，福耀的版图以“全球制造+全产业链”为轴线加速扩张，而曹晖是其中多项关键布局的主导者。
产业链延伸上，铝饰件成为第二增长曲线。2018年福耀收购曹晖创办的三锋集团，切入汽车饰件、模具与冲压件，为进入铝饰件和车门模块业务奠定基础[s36]；2019年，公司以5882万欧元收购德国破产企业SAM铝饰件公司，进入德国铝亮饰条市场[s36][s44]。经过五年整合，FYSAM业务于2025年实现盈利，福耀由此构建起“铝水—合金—模具—铝饰件—车门模块”的完整链条[s36]。2023年，福耀在北美设立资产持有公司，持有墨西哥FYSAM汽车饰件公司股权，把铝饰件产能带到北美客户身边[s44]。
国内布局的重头戏是合肥。2024年1月签约、6月开工的福耀玻璃合肥全产业链生产基地，占地866亩、总投资57.5亿元，2025年6月首片玻璃下线，同年8月第一百万套汽车玻璃投产，从签约到投产仅一年多，跑出被称为“福耀速度”的节奏；2025年底产能已达200万套，2026年计划形成年产400万套规模，最终目标500万套，关键工序自动化率超过90%[s35]。这一基地客户覆盖比亚迪、奇瑞、大众、蔚来、上汽、华为、长安、江淮等品牌，2025年福耀在安徽市场占有率达77%[s35]。
海外产能则向欧美两翼铺开。2024年5月，福耀在匈牙利成立福耀（东欧）有限责任公司，匈牙利工厂于2025年末投产，欧洲市场目标市占率从21%提升至40%[s37][s44]；墨西哥工厂与美国二期产能同步爬坡，研报预计2027年墨西哥、匈牙利工厂全面投产后，福耀将实现对全球主要汽车市场的全覆盖[s37][s5]。至此，福耀在中国18个省区市及海外十余个国家建立起34个主要生产基地，形成“中国总部、海外制造枢纽”的双循环格局[s38][s43]。
技术产品上，曹晖推动福耀把玻璃从“安全件”重新定义为智能座舱的“交互界面”。智能全景天幕、可调光玻璃（电致变色）、HUD与AR-HUD抬头显示玻璃、5G天线玻璃、GNSS天线玻璃、智眸激光雷达前挡、与隆基绿能联合研发的光伏车顶等产品相继量产或上车：特斯拉Cybertruck全系标配的电致变色天幕玻璃由福耀独家供货，比亚迪仰望U8的AR-HUD风挡玻璃同样来自福耀[s48][s5]。2025年，高附加值产品收入占比达54.2%，单车玻璃价值量被持续抬高[s37]。
这七年并非一帆风顺。2024年7月，福耀美国代顿工厂遭遇美国联邦政府机构与执法人员上门搜查，事件引发外界对“脱钩”风险的担忧；公司配合调查、工厂随后复产，美方最终未动摇福耀在北美的经营基本盘[s21][s20]。这段插曲也让曹晖主导的“就地造、就地卖”与多地产能布局，在后来的关税周期中显出价值——当2026年曹德旺在股东会上放话“不赚钱绝对不做，大不了关掉美国工厂”时，福耀的底气正来自俄罗斯、欧洲、墨西哥与中国本土可以互相调剂的产能网络[s38][s48]。
个人层面，曹晖保持着创业者的谨慎。作为接掌千亿级企业的董事长，他在上市公司的持股仅约0.46%，2025年税前薪酬161.95万元，远低于其父曹德旺776.19万元的薪酬；公司控制权主要通过曹氏家族的三益发展等持股平台与治理安排来维系[s40][s22]。这一安排与曹德旺的整体设计一脉相承：家族掌握战略方向，职业经理人团队支撑日常经营，而继承人靠能力而非股权立威。
回归后的曹晖在公司内部扮演的角色，可以用“熟悉业务的改革者”来概括。他并不以创始人之子的身份发号施令，而是延续自己担任总经理时的方法论：深入产线、用数据说话、把管理做细。合肥基地的推进就是一例——这个由他主导谋划的安徽全产业链基地，从签约、开工到第一百万套玻璃投产仅用一年多，关键工序自动化率超过90%，AI视觉检测以0.05毫米的像素精度为每一片玻璃做“体检”，是他“数字福耀”思路在地方工厂的预演[s35][s5]。他也延续了对新技术产品的敏感：5G天线玻璃、GNSS天线玻璃、镀膜隔热玻璃、大规格全景天窗等，多是在这一时期从研发走向量产[s6]。
全球布局上，他在任副董事长期间完成了福耀“近地配套”网络的最后几块拼图。向东，2024年在匈牙利设厂、2025年末投产，直面欧洲车企并把目标市占率从21%提向40%[s37][s44]；向西，墨西哥工厂承接北美尤其是特斯拉的配套需求，与代顿、伊利诺伊基地形成北美内部的产能三角[s37][s48]；向南，印尼等东南亚基地布局推进，承接日系车企与区域市场[s43]。这张网络的战略价值在2026年关税摩擦中显现：当政策环境变化时，福耀可以在中、美、欧、墨、俄之间灵活调剂订单与产能，而不是被单一产地卡住咽喉[s38]。
研发与产品端，曹晖主导了玻璃从“安全件”向“功能件、能源件、交互件”的跃迁。福耀与隆基绿能联合研发光伏车顶，把玻璃变成可发电的“能源件”；电致变色天幕、AR-HUD风挡、激光雷达前挡、Mini-LED天幕等产品陆续进入特斯拉、比亚迪等主流车企供应链[s5][s48]。2025年，高附加值产品收入占比达54.2%，同年福耀智能玻璃技术标准被纳入ISO国际修订，新增激光雷达透波率、电磁屏蔽性等十二项指标[s37][s48]。一个曾被视为“低技术、重资产”的传统玻璃行业，在他手中开始具备高科技零部件的定价权——单车玻璃价值量从传统的约600元，向3000至5000元的目标抬升[s37]。

**English:** After his full return to the governance of the listed company in 2018, Cao Hui entered a seven-year succession-preparation period as vice chairman. During this time Fuyao's map expanded at speed along the axis of "global manufacturing plus the full industrial chain," and Cao Hui was the driving force behind many of the key placements.

In industrial-chain extension, aluminum trim became the second growth curve. In 2018 Fuyao acquired the Sanfeng Group founded by Cao Hui, entering automotive trim, molds and stamping parts and laying the foundation for moving into aluminum trim and door-module businesses;[s36] in 2019 the company acquired the bankrupt German aluminum-trim firm SAM for 58.82 million euros, entering the German aluminum bright-trim market.[s36][s44] After five years of integration, the FYSAM business turned profitable in 2025, and Fuyao thereby built a complete chain running from aluminum liquid and alloy through molds and aluminum trim to door modules.[s36] In 2023 Fuyao set up an asset-holding company in North America holding equity in the Mexican FYSAM automotive-trim company, bringing aluminum-trim capacity close to its North American customers.[s44]

The centerpiece of the domestic layout was Hefei. The Fuyao Glass Hefei full-industrial-chain production base, signed in January 2024 and begun in June, covers 866 mu with a total investment of 5.75 billion yuan; its first sheet of glass came off the line in June 2025, and its one-millionth set of automotive glass went into production that August—little more than a year from signing to production, in a rhythm called "Fuyao speed"; by the end of 2025 capacity had reached 2 million sets, the plan for 2026 is an annual scale of 4 million sets, and the ultimate target is 5 million, with the automation rate of key processes exceeding 90%.[s35] The base's customers cover brands including BYD, Chery, Volkswagen, NIO, SAIC, Huawei, Changan and JAC, and in 2025 Fuyao's market share in Anhui reached 77%.[s35]

Overseas capacity spread to both the European and American wings. In May 2024 Fuyao established Fuyao (Eastern Europe) Co., Ltd. in Hungary; the Hungarian plant went into production at the end of 2025, and the target market share in Europe is to rise from 21% to 40%;[s37][s44] the Mexican plant and the U.S. phase-two capacity are ramping in step, and brokerage research expects that, once the Mexican and Hungarian plants are fully in operation in 2027, Fuyao will have achieved full coverage of the world's major automotive markets.[s37][s5] By this point Fuyao had built 34 major production bases across 18 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China and more than ten countries overseas, forming a dual-circulation pattern of "headquarters in China, manufacturing hubs overseas."[s38][s43]

In technology and products, Cao Hui pushed Fuyao to redefine glass from a "safety part" into the "interactive interface" of the smart cabin. Products such as the intelligent panoramic roof, dimmable (electrochromic) glass, HUD and AR-HUD head-up-display glass, 5G antenna glass, GNSS antenna glass, the Zhimou lidar front windshield, and the photovoltaic roof co-developed with LONGi Green Energy successively went into mass production or onto vehicles: the electrochromic panoramic-roof glass fitted across the Tesla Cybertruck range is supplied exclusively by Fuyao, and the AR-HUD windshield of the BYD Yangwang U8 likewise comes from Fuyao.[s48][s5] In 2025 the revenue share of high-value-added products reached 54.2%, and the glass value per vehicle was steadily raised.[s37]

These seven years were not all plain sailing. In July 2024 Fuyao's Dayton plant in the United States was searched on site by U.S. federal-government agencies and law-enforcement personnel, an incident that stirred outside anxiety over "decoupling" risk; the company cooperated with the investigation, the plant later resumed production, and the American side ultimately did not shake Fuyao's fundamental operating base in North America.[s21][s20] The episode also showed the value, in the later tariff cycle, of the "make locally, sell locally" approach and multi-site capacity layout that Cao Hui had led—when Cao Dewang declared at the 2026 shareholders' meeting that "if it doesn't make money, I absolutely won't do it; if the worst comes to the worst, shut down the American factory," Fuyao's confidence rested on a capacity network spanning Russia, Europe, Mexico and China proper that could be adjusted among regions.[s38][s48]

On the personal level, Cao Hui kept a founder's caution. As chairman taking over a hundred-billion-yuan enterprise, his holding in the listed company was only about 0.46%, and his 2025 pre-tax compensation was 1.6195 million yuan—far below the 7.7619 million yuan paid to his father Cao Dewang; control of the company was maintained principally through the Cao family's shareholding platforms such as Sanyi Development and through governance arrangements.[s40][s22] This arrangement is of one piece with Cao Dewang's overall design: the family holds the strategic direction, a professional-manager team supports day-to-day operations, and the heir establishes authority through capability rather than equity.

The role Cao Hui played inside the company after his return can be summed up as "a reformer who knows the business." He did not issue commands on the strength of being the founder's son but carried on the methodology of his general-manager years: going deep into the production lines, speaking through data, and refining management in detail. The advancement of the Hefei base is one example—this Anhui full-industrial-chain base, planned under his leadership, went from signing and groundbreaking to production of its one-millionth set in little more than a year, with the automation rate of key processes above 90%, and AI visual inspection giving each sheet of glass a "check-up" at a pixel precision of 0.05 millimeters, a rehearsal in a local plant of his "Digital Fuyao" thinking.[s35][s5] He also carried on his sensitivity to new-technology products: 5G antenna glass, GNSS antenna glass, coated heat-insulating glass, large panoramic sunroofs and the like mostly moved from R&D to mass production in this period.[s6]

In global layout, during his vice-chairmanship he completed the last pieces of Fuyao's "nearby-supply" network. To the east, the Hungarian plant was set up in 2024 and went into production at the end of 2025, facing European automakers directly and lifting target share from 21% toward 40%;[s37][s44] to the west, the Mexican plant took on North American supply demand, above all for Tesla, forming a North American production triangle with the Dayton and Illinois bases;[s37][s48] to the south, Southeast Asian bases such as Indonesia advanced, serving Japanese automakers and regional markets.[s43] The strategic value of this network emerged in the tariff frictions of 2026: when the policy environment changed, Fuyao could flexibly shift orders and capacity among China, the United States, Europe, Mexico and Russia rather than being gripped at the throat by a single production location.[s38]

In research and products, Cao Hui led glass's leap from "safety part" to "functional part, energy part and interactive part." Fuyao co-developed the photovoltaic roof with LONGi Green Energy, turning glass into a power-generating "energy part"; electrochromic roofs, AR-HUD windshields, lidar windshields, Mini-LED roofs and other products successively entered the supply chains of mainstream automakers such as Tesla and BYD.[s5][s48] In 2025 high-value-added products reached 54.2% of revenue, and that same year Fuyao's intelligent-glass technical standards were incorporated into the ISO international revision, adding twelve indicators including lidar wave-transmission rate and electromagnetic shielding.[s37][s48] A traditional glass industry once seen as "low-technology and asset-heavy" began, in his hands, to command the pricing power of high-tech components—the value of glass per vehicle, traditionally around 600 yuan, is being pushed toward a target of 3,000 to 5,000 yuan.[s37]

### 7. 接棒与“二次创业”：数字福耀与智能光学 / The Handover and the 'Second Entrepreneurship': Digital Fuyao and Intelligent Optics

2025年10月16日晚，福耀玻璃发布公告：因推动公司治理结构战略性优化与可持续发展的需要，董事长曹德旺提交辞任报告，公司第十一届董事局第十次会议选举曹晖为董事长，同时担任法定代表人及董事局战略发展委员会主任；曹德旺被委任为终身荣誉董事长[s2][s46][s3]。曹德旺本届董事长任期原本要到2027年1月才结束，交棒提前了一年多[s5][s34]。面对媒体，七十九岁的老人说得直白：“我80岁了，该退休了。我是想，退下来对福耀更有好处，让新一代人（去接手）。”[s4] 公告同时披露，2025年前三季度公司营收333亿元、同比增长17.62%，净利润70.64亿元、同比增长28.93%，曹晖接手的是一台高速运转的机器[s4]。
2026年3月17日，福耀发布2025年年报，这是曹晖任董事长后的第一份年度成绩单：全年营业收入457.87亿元，同比增长16.65%；归母净利润93.12亿元，同比增长24.20%；基本每股收益3.57元，经营活动现金流净额120.55亿元，三项核心指标均创历史新高[s22][s23][s40]。全年汽车玻璃销售1.6918亿平方米，同比增长8.54%，按每辆车4.2平方米折算，相当于装配了4028万辆汽车[s22]；全年现金分红54.80亿元，占归母净利润的58.85%[s40]。
比数字更值得注意的是年报里那封数千字的董事长致辞。曹晖宣布：2026年福耀迎来创业50周年，将开启“二次创业”，第一条就是“数字与智能双轮驱动，开启‘二次创业’”——全面深化数字化与智能化转型，重塑生产与管理模式，打造真正意义上的“数字福耀”；同时向内深潜、向管理要效益，推动全价值链精益化与智能化升级[s23][s24]。他在2025年10月与北汽集团董事长张建勇座谈时首次对外定调：“福耀坚守‘当好汽车工业配角’的定位，不断延伸产业链，自主攻克原材料、生产设备等‘卡脖子’难题。”[s5]
“数字福耀”的落点具体而清晰。福耀提出构建“业务专家+AI应用专家”双轨融合的人才体系，把人工智能深度嵌入研发设计、生产管理、市场分析与客户服务；以福清绿色智慧工厂为样板推进“黑灯工厂”建设，为每一片玻璃建立“数字身份证”，应用数字孪生仿真平台使产品研发周期缩短30%以上[s5][s36]。战略目标上，公司规划到2030年全球市占率从2025年的约37%提升至45%以上，国内保持70%以上；高附加值产品收入占比从54.2%向2027年60%、2030年75%推进，推动单车玻璃价值从传统的约600元向3000至5000元升级，把福耀从“全球汽车玻璃供应商”重塑为“汽车智能光学系统解决方案商”[s37][s36]。2026年公司计划总资金需求498.62亿元，其中77.3亿元用于资本开支，重点投向数字化转型[s36]。
新战略在2026年迎来第一次压力测试。上半年福耀实现营业收入219.71亿元，同比增长2.44%，在国内汽车产销同比下降约4%的行业背景下跑赢大盘；但归母净利润39.70亿元，同比下降17.37%——下滑主因是汇兑损益剧烈波动，当期汇兑损失8.03亿元，而上年同期为汇兑收益6.02亿元，一正一反形成约14亿元差额；若扣除汇兑因素，利润总额实际同比增长约4.78%[s25][s45]。同期高附加值产品收入占比较上年再升8.03个百分点，汽车玻璃毛利率提升1.55个百分点，主业“技术溢价”的逻辑仍在兑现[s25]。曹晖面对的，正是一家成熟龙头在汇率周期与产业变革交汇处的典型难题。
支撑战略转型的，是长期不吝投入的研发体系。2025年福耀研发投入合计19.13亿元，同比增长14.03%，占营业收入的4.18%，且全部费用化处理；近十年公司累计研发投入超过88亿元，拥有专利逾4000件[s23][s38]。技术弹药转化为产品结构：智能全景天幕、可调光、抬头显示、超隔绝、镀膜可加热等高附加值产品收入占比升至54.2%，汽车玻璃销售收入418.89亿元、占总营收九成以上[s22][s23]。客户结构同样稳固，福耀已进入全球前二十大车企供应链、国内主机厂覆盖率接近百分之百，为特斯拉供应约七成汽车玻璃、覆盖Model 3、Model Y与Cybertruck等主力车型，比亚迪全系玻璃由福耀主供，全球份额约三成五[s38][s44]。当玻璃从安全件变成承载显示、调光、通信、发电功能的智能交互界面，曹晖押注的“技术溢价”逻辑正在兑现。
外部环境的风浪也在接班后接踵而至。2026年4月21日，福耀在福州召开2025年度股东会，已卸任董事长的曹德旺现身，面对投资者关于美国加征关税的提问，他依旧是那个强硬的“玻璃大王”：“你要征多少税是你的事”，“我如果不赚钱绝对不做”，“如果遇到不讲道理的情况，大不了我就把（美国）工厂关掉”[s38]。狠话的底气来自进退自如的布局：福耀在中国18个省区市及海外13国共设有34个主要生产基地，美国之外，墨西哥、匈牙利、德国、俄罗斯产能梯次展开，必要时北美供应可经美墨加协定的零关税通道由墨西哥转接[s38][s43]。同一场股东会上，曹德旺把经营层面的问题留给儿子：董事长管战略，决定做什么、做到什么程度，具体执行交给经营团队；他同时再次公开评价曹晖“干得比我强”[s38]。一放一接之间，父子两代在治理上的分工已然清晰。
2026年5月，他以福耀董事长身份出现在人民大会堂国宴，与马斯克、黄仁勋、库克同席[s31][s33]。统战系统媒体评论说，鲁伟鼎和曹晖的座次，藏着中国制造“嵌入”美国实体经济的密码：一个是万向集团鲁冠球之子、深耕美国数十年的汽车零部件二代，一个是在通用旧址上雇佣两千多名美国工人的福耀新掌门[s32]。对曹晖而言，这张座位图更像一道时间的闭环——1989年车间里那个搬玻璃的学徒，三十七年后作为中美产业共生关系的象征，坐到了全球科技巨头身边。

**English:** On the evening of October 16, 2025, Fuyao Glass issued an announcement: out of the need to drive the strategic optimization of the company's governance structure and its sustainable development, Chairman Cao Dewang had submitted his resignation, and the tenth meeting of the company's eleventh board of directors elected Cao Hui as chairman, while he also took on the role of legal representative and chairman of the board's strategic-development committee; Cao Dewang was appointed honorary chairman for life.[s2][s46][s3] Cao Dewang's current term as chairman had originally been due to run until January 2027, so the handover came more than a year early.[s5][s34] Facing the press, the 79-year-old spoke plainly: "I am eighty years old now; it is time for me to retire. My thinking is that stepping down is better for Fuyao—letting the new generation take over."[s4] The announcement also disclosed that in the first three quarters of 2025 the company's revenue was 33.3 billion yuan, up 17.62% year on year, and net profit was 7.064 billion yuan, up 28.93%: what Cao Hui took over was a machine running at high speed.[s4]

On March 17, 2026, Fuyao released its 2025 annual report, the first annual scorecard under Cao Hui's chairmanship: full-year operating revenue of 45.787 billion yuan, up 16.65% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders of 9.312 billion yuan, up 24.20%; basic earnings per share of 3.57 yuan; and net operating cash flow of 12.055 billion yuan—all three core indicators at all-time highs.[s22][s23][s40] For the year it sold 169.18 million square meters of automotive glass, up 8.54%, equivalent, at 4.2 square meters per vehicle, to fitting out 40.28 million cars;[s22] full-year cash dividends were 5.48 billion yuan, 58.85% of attributable net profit.[s40]

More notable than the figures was the several-thousand-word chairman's letter in the annual report. Cao Hui declared: in 2026, as Fuyao marks the 50th anniversary of its founding, it would launch a "second entrepreneurship," the first item being "the dual-wheel drive of digitalization and intelligence, opening a 'second entrepreneurship'"—comprehensively deepening digital and intelligent transformation, reshaping production and management models, and building a genuine "Digital Fuyao"; at the same time driving inward and asking management for efficiency, pushing lean and intelligent upgrading across the entire value chain.[s23][s24] He had first set the tone externally at his October 2025 symposium with BAIC Group chairman Zhang Jianyong: "Fuyao holds firmly to its positioning as a 'supporting player serving the automotive industry,' continuously extending the industrial chain and independently conquering 'chokepoint' problems in raw materials, production equipment and beyond."[s5]

The landing points of "Digital Fuyao" were concrete and clear. Fuyao proposed building a "dual-track integrated" talent system of "business experts plus AI-application experts," embedding artificial intelligence deeply into R&D and design, production management, market analysis and customer service; taking the Fuqing green smart factory as the model for "lights-out factory" construction; giving each sheet of glass a "digital identity"; and applying digital-twin simulation platforms to shorten product R&D cycles by more than 30%.[s5][s36] On strategic targets, the company planned to raise global market share from roughly 37% in 2025 to over 45% by 2030, while holding above 70% domestically; to push high-value-added products' revenue share from 54.2% toward 60% by 2027 and 75% by 2030; and to lift glass value per vehicle from the traditional roughly 600 yuan to 3,000-5,000 yuan, reshaping Fuyao from a "global automotive-glass supplier" into an "automotive intelligent-optical system solution provider."[s37][s36] For 2026 the company planned total funding needs of 49.862 billion yuan, of which 7.73 billion was for capital expenditure, focused on digital transformation.[s36]

The new strategy met its first stress test in 2026. In the first half Fuyao achieved operating revenue of 21.971 billion yuan, up 2.44% year on year—outperforming the market against an industry backdrop in which domestic auto production and sales fell about 4%; but net profit attributable to shareholders was 3.970 billion yuan, down 17.37%—the decline driven mainly by sharp swings in foreign-exchange gains and losses: the period saw an FX loss of 803 million yuan against an FX gain of 602 million yuan in the same period a year earlier, a positive-to-negative swing of roughly 1.4 billion yuan; stripping out the FX factor, total profit actually grew about 4.78% year on year.[s25][s45] In the same period the revenue share of high-value-added products rose another 8.03 percentage points and automotive-glass gross margin improved 1.55 points, so the core "technology premium" logic kept delivering.[s25] What Cao Hui faced was precisely the classic dilemma of a mature leader at the intersection of an exchange-rate cycle and industrial transformation.

Underpinning the strategic transformation was an R&D system that never stinted on long-term investment. In 2025 Fuyao's total R&D spending was 1.913 billion yuan, up 14.03% year on year and equal to 4.18% of operating revenue, all expensed; over the past decade cumulative R&D investment had exceeded 8.8 billion yuan, and the company held more than 4,000 patents.[s23][s38] The technological ammunition converted into product mix: high-value-added products such as intelligent panoramic roofs, dimmable glass, head-up displays, super-insulation and coated heatable glass rose to 54.2% of revenue, while automotive-glass sales revenue was 41.889 billion yuan, more than ninety percent of total revenue.[s22][s23] The customer base was equally solid: Fuyao had entered the supply chains of the world's top twenty automakers, with near-total coverage of domestic original-equipment manufacturers, supplied roughly seventy percent of Tesla's automotive glass across main models including the Model 3, Model Y and Cybertruck, and was the principal glass supplier across the BYD range, with a global share of about thirty-five percent.[s38][s44] As glass turns from a safety part into an intelligent interactive interface carrying display, dimming, communication and power-generation functions, the "technology premium" logic Cao Hui bet on is being redeemed.

The headwinds of the external environment also arrived in succession after the handover. On April 21, 2026, Fuyao held its 2025 annual shareholders' meeting in Fuzhou; the now-former chairman Cao Dewang appeared, and facing investors' questions about American tariff increases he was still the hard-line "glass king": "How much tax you want to levy is your affair," "if I can't make money I absolutely won't do it," and "if we run into unreasonable circumstances, if the worst comes to the worst I'll shut down the [American] factory."[s38] The blunt words were backed by a layout free to advance or retreat: across 18 Chinese provinces and regions and 13 countries overseas Fuyao had 34 major production bases, and beyond the United States, capacity in Mexico, Hungary, Germany and Russia unfolded in tiers—if necessary, North American supply could be routed through Mexico under the zero-tariff channel of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.[s38][s43] At the same shareholders' meeting Cao Dewang left operational questions to his son: the chairman sets strategy, deciding what to do and to what degree, while concrete execution goes to the operating team; and he once again publicly judged Cao Hui to be "doing the job better than I did."[s38] Between the letting go and the taking up, the two generations' governance division of labor was now clear.

In May 2026, he appeared in his capacity as Fuyao chairman at the state banquet in the Great Hall of the People, seated at the same table as Musk, Huang and Cook.[s31][s33] Media in the united-front system commented that the seating of Lu Weiding and Cao Hui held the code of how Chinese manufacturing is "embedded" in the real American economy: one is the son of Lu Guanqiu of the Wanxiang Group, a second-generation auto-parts figure who has worked the United States for decades; the other is Fuyao's new helmsman, who employs more than two thousand American workers on the old GM site.[s32] For Cao Hui, that seating chart is more like the closing of a loop in time—the apprentice hauling glass in the workshop in 1989 had, thirty-seven years later, taken his place beside the global technology giants as a symbol of the symbiosis between Chinese and American industry.

### 8. 传承的样本：父子之间、社会责任与民企接班的世界命题 / A Specimen of Succession: Father and Son, Social Responsibility, and the World's Question of Private-Firm Inheritance

曹晖接班之所以被反复研究，不在于他是曹德旺的儿子，而在于福耀几乎绕开了家族企业传承的所有典型陷阱。曹德旺的做法可以概括为“三个十年”：用十年以上的时间让儿子在车间、市场和海外一线磨出真本事；用一次放手的创业让他证明独立成事的能力；再用一次公允的并购和制度安排，把接班的利益障碍提前清除。
放在中国民企代际更替的大背景下，这个样本更显稀缺。改革开放后崛起的第一代创始人正集中迈入耄耋之年，方太集团老掌门人茅理翔曾系统梳理企业传承的“十大难题”：舆论压力、家族矛盾、元老阻力、两代分歧、父不交权、子不愿接，条条都是现实中企业分家、内耗乃至折戟的导火索[s5]。许多家族企业倒在“仓促交棒”或“迟迟不放”上：一纸遗嘱式的任命压不住元老，占股七成的少主换不来团队真心，而创始人恋栈不退、少主到了知天命之年仍是“见习掌门”的情形同样比比皆是。福耀的路径几乎是反着走的——曹晖从19岁入厂到55岁接任，在生产、销售、海外、集团管理、独立创业每个岗位上都留下了被业绩验证的记录；当权力真正交接时，他已无需再向任何人证明自己，市场、员工与元老对新掌门的认可，是在三十六年里逐笔积累起来的[s5][s34]。
曹德旺从不掩饰对儿子的栽培逻辑。他说，曹晖“之前只是想自己出去创业”，“因为我是白手起家的，他希望自己也能白手起家，做出一番成绩后，再来接我的班”[s7]；他也早早对外放话，“曹晖作为未来接班人的计划，不会动摇”[s5]。他对儿子的评价落在能力而非血缘上：“一般的年轻人跟曹晖是不能相比的，第一他吃苦耐劳，第二非常敬业，对业务也很熟悉。”[s5] 交棒之后，他在股东会上公开给儿子站台，称“他干得比我强”，并表示自己基本退出日常管理[s38][s5]。而曹晖对父亲的回应始终保持着一种克制的敬畏，那句“我不如父亲，因为我培养不出第二个曹晖”[s6]，既是谦逊，也是对“创始人不可复制”这一传承本质的清醒。
在曹德旺看来，接班不只是家事。“福耀玻璃是国家的财产，是股东的财产，（接班人问题涉及）福耀员工的饭碗，处理这件事情，必须慎重。”[s34] 他曾动员很多人去做曹晖的工作，从血浓于水的亲缘谈到社会责任，最终促成儿子态度转变[s34]。福耀的治理结构也为交接提供了缓冲：职业经理人团队在管理层中占相当比例，女婿叶舒（曹晖妹夫）等家族成员与专业高管并行，董事局战略委员会中既有外部专家也有创业元老，既保证家族对企业的战略控制，又避免“一言堂”[s39][s38]。曹晖本人在上市公司仅持股约0.46%，却全票当选董事长，合法性来自董事会与治理制度，而非股权多寡[s40][s38]。
与父亲那种高辨识度的公众形象相比，曹晖多年来近乎刻意地保持低调。媒体能拍到的画面里，他衣着朴素、言辞简短，极少接受专访，为数不多的公开表达都围绕产品、技术与管理本身；2025年他在上市公司领取的年薪为161.95万元，远低于父亲任内776.19万元的水平，也低于不少同级别职业经理人[s40]。早年在香港和美国，他与普通员工同吃同住、开车通勤，美国绿榕时期租住在离工厂不远的公寓里，习惯用数据和报表说话[s5][s6]。这种作风延续到决策风格上：他不像父亲那样以个人魅力驱动组织，而更倚重体系——福耀卓越管理系统、九大国家级研发平台、覆盖全球基地的MES制造执行系统，本质上都是把创始人个人的判断力沉淀为组织能力[s23][s5]。曹德旺那句“员工崇拜我，曹晖不崇拜，他不盲从”[s5]，恰从反面说明：儿子要建立的，是一种不依赖个人崇拜的权威。
家族成员的安排同样体现“制度优先”。曹晖的妹夫叶舒长期在福耀体系内成长，2017年起接任集团总经理，与曹晖形成“董事长管战略、总经理管执行”的搭配；另一位亲属何世猛等也在管理层各司其职[s8][s39]。家族成员进入企业的前提，是与职业经理人一样从基层岗位逐级历练、接受同一套考核，而非凭身份空降。曹德旺为这套安排定的调子很朴素：“福耀玻璃是国家的财产，是股东的财产”[s34]——家族可以掌舵，但企业不属于家族。
社会责任是曹晖从父亲手中接过的另一份遗产。他是第十四届全国政协委员、全国工商联常务委员、民建中央委员、福建省民营企业商会会长、福建省慈善总会名誉会长[s1][s39]。2026年全国两会上，他围绕制造业人才与民生密集建言：建议启动“新时代工匠职教体系重塑工程”，立法推动制造业龙头企业深度参与职业院校办学，为高端制造储备百万青年工匠[s26]；建议统筹发展银发经济，推广毫米波雷达跌倒监测、智能护理机器人等适老设备，让智能养老产品“飞入寻常百姓家”[s27]。这些提案延续了他从生产线出发看问题的一贯视角。
公益上，曹晖早年便与父亲同行：2009年父子捐赠2亿元用于西南旱区扶贫，近十万贫困户受益；2010年玉树地震，父子以个人名义捐款1亿元[s29][s30]。他是河仁慈善基金会发起人之一，2021年、2022年连续登上中国慈善榜获“年度慈善家”称号[s47][s29]。2025年12月，香港大埔宏福苑发生严重火灾，他以个人名义捐赠1000万港元用于受灾民众紧急救助与善后，表示将秉持父亲“兼善天下”的公益理念[s28]。接班后的第一个月，他个人再捐千万元级善款，被外界视为新一代掌门对家族公益传统的公开确认。
曹晖还要承接父亲在企业之外布下的更大的局。2011年，曹德旺发起成立河仁慈善基金会，开中国家族企业捐赠股权设立基金会的先河；2021年他又宣布捐资百亿元创办福耀科技大学，以“制造业黄埔”为目标培养高端工科人才[s29]。这两笔倾注晚年心力的投入，与曹晖2026年两会提案中“职业教育450万人才缺口”的焦虑一脉相承——在父子二人的排序里，为中国制造“造人”与造玻璃同等要紧[s26][s29]。河仁基金会多年来持续助学、救灾、扶贫，福耀科技大学已于2025年开始招生，这些都不并表福耀玻璃，却构成福耀这家企业社会角色的另一半。曹晖作为河仁基金会发起人与家族产业的新掌门，接过的不只是一家上市公司，还有一份“兼善天下”的家族承诺[s29][s47]。
拉长时间看，曹晖的三十六年回答了一个困扰无数中国民企的问题：创二代如何赢得权杖？答案不是等待，而是被一层层淬火——车间里的六年让他懂得产品，香港的六年让他懂得市场，北美的十三年让他懂得规则与世界，总经理九年让他懂得组织，三锋的三年让他懂得从零到一，副董事长的七年让他懂得全球布局。当2025年权杖交到他手上时，福耀已经不需要他再证明“我是谁”。他要回答的，是下一个问题：在玻璃变成智能界面、中国制造业从规模走向技术的时代，福耀如何再赢一次。这一次，没有父亲在前面开路了。

**English:** Cao Hui's succession is studied again and again not because he is Cao Dewang's son but because Fuyao has avoided nearly every typical trap of family-business succession. Cao Dewang's approach can be summarized as "three decades": spending more than ten years letting his son grind out real competence on the workshop floor, in the market and on overseas front lines; letting him found a business of his own to prove he could succeed independently; and then, through a fair acquisition and institutional arrangement, clearing the interest obstacles to succession in advance.

Against the broader backdrop of generational change in Chinese private enterprise, the specimen looks all the rarer. The first-generation founders who rose after the reform and opening up are now collectively entering their eighties and nineties, and Mao Lixiang, the old patriarch of Fotile Group, once systematically catalogued the "ten great difficulties" of business succession—pressure from public opinion, family conflict, old-guard resistance, rifts between the generations, fathers who will not surrender power, sons who will not take it up—each one a real-world fuse for corporate breakups, internal friction and even collapse.[s5] Many family firms fall at "rushing the handover" or "never letting go": a will-style appointment cannot subdue the old guard, a young master holding seventy percent of the shares cannot buy the team's genuine loyalty, and cases of founders clinging to office while the heir remains a "trainee chieftain" past fifty are likewise everywhere. Fuyao's path runs almost the reverse: from entering the plant at nineteen to taking over at fifty-five, Cao Hui left a record verified by performance in every post—production, sales, overseas, group management and independent entrepreneurship; when power truly changed hands he no longer needed to prove himself to anyone, and the recognition of the new chief by markets, employees and old guard had been accumulated transaction by transaction across thirty-six years.[s5][s34]

Cao Dewang never hid the logic of how he cultivated his son. He said Cao Hui had "beforehand simply wanted to go out and found his own business," because "I started from scratch, and he wanted to start from scratch himself, to make his own mark, and only then come and take over from me"[s7]; he also gave early public assurance that "the plan for Cao Hui as the future successor will not waver."[s5] His assessment of his son rested on capability, not bloodline: "Ordinary young men cannot be compared with Cao Hui—first, he is hardworking and can endure hardship; second, he is utterly dedicated and very familiar with the business."[s5] After the handover he publicly backed his son at the shareholders' meeting, saying "he does the job better than I did," and indicated he had basically withdrawn from day-to-day management.[s38][s5] And Cao Hui's response to his father always kept a restrained reverence; his line "I am not my father's equal, because I could never bring up a second Cao Dewang"[s6] is at once modesty and a clear-eyed recognition of the essence of succession—that the founder is irreproducible.

In Cao Dewang's view, succession is not merely a family matter. "Fuyao Glass is the property of the country and of shareholders, and [the succession question involves] the rice bowls of Fuyao's employees; handling this matter demands caution."[s34] He once mobilized many people to work on Cao Hui, arguing from the kinship of blood being thicker than water to social responsibility, and ultimately brought about his son's change of heart.[s34] Fuyao's governance structure also provided a buffer for the handover: professional managers occupy a considerable share of the management tier, family members such as son-in-law Ye Shu (Cao Hui's brother-in-law) run alongside professional executives, and the board's strategic committee contains both outside experts and founding-era veterans, ensuring the family's strategic control of the enterprise while avoiding a one-voice hall.[s39][s38] Cao Hui himself holds only about 0.46% of the listed company, yet was elected chairman by a unanimous vote; his legitimacy comes from the board and governance institutions, not from the size of his equity.[s40][s38]

Compared with his father's highly recognizable public image, Cao Hui has over the years kept a low profile almost deliberately. In the footage the media can capture, he dresses plainly, speaks briefly, rarely gives one-on-one interviews, and his few public statements all revolve around products, technology and management itself; his salary from the listed company in 2025 was 1.6195 million yuan, far below the 7.7619 million yuan of his father's tenure and below many professional managers of comparable rank.[s40] In his early years in Hong Kong and the United States he ate and lived alongside ordinary workers and commuted by car, renting an apartment not far from the plant during the Greenville Glass years, accustomed to speaking through data and reports.[s5][s6] This style carried into his decision-making: he does not drive the organization by personal charisma as his father did but leans more on systems—Fuyao's excellence-management system, its nine national-level R&D platforms, its MES manufacturing-execution system spanning global bases are all, at bottom, the settling of a founder's personal judgment into organizational capability.[s23][s5] Cao Dewang's line "the employees worship me; Cao Hui does not; he never follows blindly"[s5] says from the reverse side just what the son is building: an authority that does not depend on personal cult.

The arrangements for family members likewise reflect "institutions first." Cao Hui's brother-in-law Ye Shu grew up within the Fuyao system over many years and from 2017 succeeded as group general manager, forming with Cao Hui a pairing of "the chairman sets strategy, the general manager executes"; other relatives such as He Shimeng likewise hold their own places in management.[s8][s39] The precondition for family members entering the enterprise is that, like professional managers, they train level by level from grassroots posts and accept the same set of assessments, rather than parachuting in on identity. The tone Cao Dewang set for these arrangements was plain: "Fuyao Glass is the property of the country and of shareholders"[s34]—the family may steer, but the enterprise does not belong to the family.

Social responsibility is another piece of the legacy Cao Hui took from his father. He is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an executive member of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, a member of the central committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association, president of the Fujian Private-Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, and honorary president of the Fujian Charity Federation.[s1][s39] At the 2026 national Two Sessions he offered dense proposals centered on manufacturing talent and people's livelihood: he proposed launching a "new-era craftsman vocational-education system reshaping project," legislating to push manufacturing leading enterprises into deep participation in running vocational colleges, and storing up a million young craftsmen for high-end manufacturing;[s26] and he proposed coordinating the development of the silver economy and popularizing age-friendly devices such as millimeter-wave radar fall monitoring and intelligent nursing robots, so that smart-elderly-care products could "fly into ordinary people's homes."[s27] These proposals carry on his consistent perspective of looking at problems from the production line.

In public welfare, Cao Hui walked alongside his father early on: in 2009 father and son donated 200 million yuan for poverty relief in the drought-stricken southwest, benefiting nearly a hundred thousand poor households; after the 2010 Yushu earthquake, the father and son donated 100 million yuan in their personal names.[s29][s30] He is one of the founders of the Heren Charitable Foundation, and in 2021 and 2022 appeared successively on the China Charity List as "Charity Figure of the Year."[s47][s29] In December 2025, after a severe fire at Wang Fuk Yuen in Tai Po, Hong Kong, he donated HK$10 million in his personal name for emergency relief and aftermath aid to the affected residents, saying he would uphold his father's public-welfare ideal of "bringing good to all under heaven."[s28] In his first month after taking over he personally donated another ten-million-yuan-level sum, regarded by outside observers as the new chief's public confirmation of the family's charitable tradition.

Cao Hui must also carry on the larger arrangements his father laid beyond the enterprise. In 2011 Cao Dewang founded the Heren Charitable Foundation, setting the precedent in China of a family business donating equity to establish a foundation; in 2021 he announced a ten-billion-yuan donation to found Fuyao University of Science and Technology, aimed, as a "Whampoa of manufacturing," at cultivating high-end engineering talent.[s29] These two investments, into which he poured the energies of his later years, are of one pulse with the anxiety in Cao Hui's 2026 Two Sessions proposal over the "4.5-million talent gap" in vocational education—in the ordering of father and son, "making people" for Chinese manufacturing is as important as making glass.[s26][s29] The Heren Foundation has for years continued to support education, disaster relief and poverty alleviation, and Fuyao University of Science and Technology began enrolling students in 2025; none of this is consolidated into Fuyao Glass, yet it constitutes the other half of the social role of the enterprise called Fuyao. As a founder of the Heren Foundation and the new helmsman of the family's industry, Cao Hui took over not merely a listed company but a family commitment to "bringing good to all under heaven."[s29][s47]

Seen across a long span, Cao Hui's thirty-six years answer a question that troubles countless Chinese private enterprises: how does a second-generation entrepreneur win the scepter? The answer is not waiting but being quenched layer by layer—the six years on the shop floor taught him the product, the six years in Hong Kong taught him the market, the thirteen years in North America taught him the rules and the world, the nine years as general manager taught him the organization, the three years at Sanfeng taught him zero to one, and the seven years as vice chairman taught him global layout. When the scepter was placed in his hands in 2025, Fuyao no longer needed him to prove "who I am." What he has to answer is the next question: in an age when glass has become an intelligent interface and Chinese manufacturing moves from scale to technology, how does Fuyao win again. This time, there is no father out in front clearing the way.

## 卷尾 Editorial Conclusion

2026年3月，福耀玻璃发布曹晖接任董事长后的第一份年度报告。在那封数千字的董事长致辞里，他没有过多回顾父辈的功勋，而是把目光投向一个充满AI意味的未来：“数字与智能双轮驱动”“二次创业”“数字福耀”[s23][s5]。一家靠沙子和火焰起家的制造企业，在五十岁这年，开始谈论数据、算法与智能光学。
这组对照意味深长。曹德旺那一代企业家，解决的是“有没有”的问题——在一穷二白的底子上建起工厂、打赢官司、走向世界，靠的是胆识、直觉和“乱拳打死老师傅”的草莽韧性；曹晖这一代要解决的，是“好不好”的问题——当全球份额已达约35%、当玻璃从安全件变成智能座舱的交互界面，增长不再来自更便宜的成本，而来自更聪明的产品、更精细的管理和更确定的技术判断[s5][s37]。父子两代人的分野，正是中国制造业从“成本优势”迈向“技术驱动”的缩影。
接班从来不是一个瞬间，而是一段漫长的退火。曹晖的三十六年提供了一个罕见的完整样本：继承人的合法性不来自血缘，而来自车间里磨出的老茧、法庭上赢下的裁决、市场里签下的订单，以及一次敢于出走、证明“离开父亲也能成事”的创业。曹德旺看懂了这一点，所以他收购三锋、清理关联交易，然后彻底退后，只保留一个“终身荣誉董事长”的头衔，把决策的空间完整留给儿子[s6][s9][s34]。这种“退干净”的智慧，与把儿子“扔”进车间的冷酷，其实是同一种父爱的两面。
当然，悬念并未全部揭晓。接班后的第一个完整财年，福耀营收与净利双创历史新高；但2026年上半年，人民币汇率波动带来8.03亿元汇兑损失，净利润同比下滑17.37%，尽管扣掉汇兑因素主业仍在增长[s22][s25]。关税壁垒、地缘政治、智能化军备竞赛、国际三巨头的收缩与反扑，都是曹晖必须独自面对的考题。父亲那句“不赚钱绝对不做，大不了关掉美国工厂”的硬气[s38]，到了儿子这里，需要被翻译成更精细的全球产能调度与技术下注。
在全国两会的会场里，这位千亿级企业的董事长反复谈论的却是另一件事：职业教育、青年工匠、智能制造领域450万人的人才缺口[s26]。这或许是理解曹晖的一把钥匙——他终究是从生产线走出来的人，相信制造业的根本在人、在手艺、在每一道工序里那0.05毫米的精度。他也延续着父亲“兼善天下”的轨迹，从玉树地震到西南旱区，从河仁基金会到香港火灾的千万港元捐赠[s29][s28]。
2015年，福耀美国代顿工厂生产的首片挡风玻璃被卡里林历史博物馆收藏，陈列在通用汽车七年前在这座厂房下线的最后一辆汽车旁边[s17]。一片旧时代的终曲与一片新时代的序章，被玻璃这种透明的物质安静地连接起来。三十多年前，十九岁的曹晖在福清的钢化炉旁学会一个朴素的道理：在炉里多烤一秒，出来就是两种命运。今天轮到他掌炉了。火没有变，沙子没有变，变的是看火的人——以及他想烧出的那块玻璃的形状。

In March 2026 Fuyao Glass published its first annual report after Cao Hui took over as chairman. In the several-thousand-word chairman's letter, he did not dwell at length on the achievements of his father's generation; instead he turned his gaze toward a future charged with the language of artificial intelligence: "the dual-wheel drive of digitalization and intelligence," "a second entrepreneurship," "Digital Fuyao."[s23][s5] A manufacturing enterprise built from sand and flame had, in its fiftieth year, begun to speak of data, algorithms and intelligent optics.

The contrast is rich with meaning. The generation of entrepreneurs led by Cao Dewang solved the question of "existence"—building factories, winning lawsuits and going out into the world from a foundation of poverty and blankness, relying on daring, intuition and the rough-hewn resilience of "untrained fists beating the master." The generation led by Cao Hui must solve the question of "quality": when global share has already reached roughly 35%, and when glass has turned from a safety component into the interactive interface of the smart cabin, growth no longer comes from cheaper costs but from smarter products, more refined management and more certain technological judgment.[s5][s37] The divide between father and son is precisely the microcosm of Chinese manufacturing's move from "cost advantage" toward "technology-driven development."

Succession has never been a single instant; it is a long annealing. Cao Hui's thirty-six years offer a rare, complete specimen: an heir's legitimacy derives not from bloodline but from the calluses ground into his hands on the shop floor, the rulings won in the courtroom, the orders signed in the marketplace, and one bold departure to found a business that proved he could succeed "away from his father." Cao Dewang understood this, which is why he acquired Sanfeng, cleaned up the related-party transactions, and then withdrew completely, keeping only the title of "honorary chairman for life" and leaving the entire space for decision-making to his son.[s6][s9][s34] The wisdom of this "clean withdrawal" and the ruthlessness of "throwing" his son into the workshop are, in truth, two faces of the same fatherly love.

Not all the suspense has been resolved, of course. In his first full fiscal year as successor, Fuyao's revenue and net profit both reached record highs; yet in the first half of 2026, renminbi exchange-rate volatility produced 803 million yuan in foreign-exchange losses and net profit fell 17.37% year on year, even though, stripping out the currency effect, the core business kept growing.[s22][s25] Tariff barriers, geopolitics, the arms race of intelligentization, and the retreat and counterattack of the three international giants are all examinations Cao Hui must now face alone. His father's defiant line—"if it doesn't make money, I absolutely won't do it; if the worst comes to the worst, shut down the American factory"[s38]—now has to be translated, by the son, into more finely calibrated global capacity scheduling and technology bets.

At the sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, what the chairman of this hundred-billion-yuan enterprise talked about repeatedly was something else: vocational education, young craftsmen, and the talent gap of 4.5 million people in intelligent manufacturing.[s26] This is perhaps a key to understanding Cao Hui—he is, after all, a man who came up through the production line, who believes that the root of manufacturing lies in people, in craftsmanship, and in the precision of 0.05 millimeters in every single process. He also continues his father's trajectory of "bringing good to all under heaven," from the Yushu earthquake to the drought-stricken southwest, from the Heren Charitable Foundation to the ten-million-Hong-Kong-dollar donation after the Hong Kong fire.[s29][s28]

In 2015, the first windshield produced at Fuyao's Dayton plant in the United States was acquired by the Carillon Historical Park museum, where it was displayed beside the last car General Motors had rolled off the line in that same building seven years earlier.[s17] A finale of the old era and a prelude to the new were quietly joined by glass, that transparent substance. More than thirty years ago, the 19-year-old Cao Hui learned a plain truth beside the tempering furnaces in Fuqing: one second longer in the furnace, and what comes out is a different fate. Today it is his turn to tend the furnace. The fire has not changed, the sand has not changed; what has changed is the man watching the fire—and the shape of the glass he means to fire.

## 金句 Pull Quote

> 我80岁了，该退休了。我是想，退下来对福耀更有好处，让新一代人（去接手）。

> "I am eighty years old now; it is time for me to retire. My thinking is that stepping down is better for Fuyao—letting the new generation take over." — Cao Dewang, commenting to the media on his resignation as chairman, October 2025.

## 履历时间线 Career Timeline

- **1970** 出生 / Born
  - 曹晖出生，福耀集团创始人曹德旺长子，后入中国香港籍，民建会员。他先后获美国贝克大学工商管理硕士学位，获评高级经济师、正高级工程师，日后从福耀车间一线工人一步步成长为集团董事长，是中国民营企业代际传承中最受注目的创二代之一[s1][s39]。
  - EN: Cao Hui was born, the eldest son of Cao Dewang, founder of the Fuyao Group; he later took up Chinese (Hong Kong SAR) residency and became a member of the China Democratic National Construction Association. He successively earned an MBA from Baker College in the United States and the professional titles of senior economist and professor-level senior engineer, and in time grew step by step from a front-line Fuyao workshop worker into the group's chairman—one of the most closely watched second-generation entrepreneurs in the generational succession of Chinese private enterprise.[s1][s39]
- **1989-11** 进入福耀车间 / Enters Fuyao's workshop
  - 十九岁的曹晖高中毕业后进入福耀，从车间搬运、切割等最苦工位做起。曹德旺向车间主任约法三章：不公开曹晖身份、不搞特殊化、安排最苦最累的活。曹晖常年三班倒、吃住都在公司，历任生产班组长、车间主任，六年一线历练为他日后务实的管理风格打下底色[s1][s6]。
  - EN: The 19-year-old Cao Hui entered Fuyao after graduating from high school, starting on the harshest shop-floor posts such as hauling and cutting glass. Cao Dewang laid down three iron rules to the workshop director: do not reveal Cao Hui's identity, allow no special treatment, and assign the hardest and most exhausting work. Cao Hui worked rotating shifts year-round and ate and lived at the company, serving successively as production team leader and workshop director; six years of front-line tempering laid the foundation for his later pragmatic management style.[s1][s6]
- **1994-03** 任福耀香港总经理 / General manager of Fuyao Hong Kong
  - 曹晖调任福耀（香港）有限公司总经理，从零搭建海外销售渠道，全面负责启动海外市场业务拓展；此前他已于1992年出任三益发展有限公司总经理，管理历练起步很早。在港六年，他完成从生产管理者到市场经营者的转变，为福耀产品进入国际售后市场建起最初的贸易网络[s1][s39]。
  - EN: Cao Hui was transferred to be general manager of Fuyao (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd., building the overseas sales channels from scratch and taking overall responsibility for launching overseas-market development; earlier, in 1992, he had already become general manager of Sanyi Development Co., Ltd., so his management training began very early. In his six years in Hong Kong he completed the shift from production manager to market operator, and built the first trade network for Fuyao products entering the international aftermarket.[s1][s39]
- **1996-07** 派驻北美 / Posted to North America
  - 曹晖出任美国绿榕玻璃公司（Greenville Glass Industries）财务总监、后任总经理，常驻美国南卡罗来纳州，开始长达十余年的北美历练。他从财务、销售到公司运营全面介入，深入了解美国的法律环境、劳工文化与商业规则，为后来应诉反倾销和建设代顿工厂积累了一线经验[s39][s1]。
  - EN: Cao Hui became finance director, and later general manager, of Greenville Glass Industries in the United States, permanently stationed in South Carolina and beginning a North American stint that would run more than a decade. He involved himself across the board, from finance and sales to company operations, gaining deep understanding of the American legal environment, labor culture and commercial rules, and accumulating front-line experience for the later anti-dumping defense and the building of the Dayton plant.[s39][s1]
- **2001-08** 任福耀北美总经理 / General manager of Fuyao North America
  - 曹晖出任福耀北美玻璃工业有限公司总经理，统管北美市场的开拓与经营。时值中国入世前后、中美贸易摩擦初起，他在任上主导了加拿大、美国两起反倾销案的一线应诉，是福耀北美业务和国际化战略承上启下的关键操盘者[s39]。
  - EN: Cao Hui became general manager of Fuyao North America Glass Industry Co., Ltd., with overall charge of developing and operating the North American market. It was the period around China's WTO accession, when Sino-American trade frictions were just emerging; in office he led the front-line defense in both the Canadian and American anti-dumping cases, acting as the key operator linking past and future in Fuyao's North American business and internationalization strategy.[s39]
- **2001-12-18** 加拿大发起反倾销调查 / Canada opens anti-dumping investigation
  - 加拿大海关与税务总署应PPG加拿大公司申诉，对中国产替换挡风玻璃立案反倾销调查，福耀等四家中国企业涉案，涉案金额约1800万美元，为中国加入世界贸易组织后首起反倾销案。正在北美一线的曹晖承担起联系律师、协调应诉的前线指挥职责[s15][s12]。
  - EN: Acting on a complaint by PPG Canada, the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency opened an anti-dumping investigation into replacement windshields from China; four Chinese companies including Fuyao were involved, with the affected trade worth about US$18 million—China's first anti-dumping case after joining the World Trade Organization. Cao Hui, on the North American front line, took on the field-commander role of contacting lawyers and coordinating the defense.[s15][s12]
- **2002-02** 美国裁定倾销成立 / U.S. rules dumping established
  - 美国商务部终裁福耀挡风玻璃倾销税率11.8%，其余五家中国企业税率8.22%。面对高额关税可能失去美国市场的危局，曹德旺决定重金聘请美国本土律所正面应战，曹晖在美负责律师对接、成本数据组织与经销商协调，福耀随后提起上诉[s13][s14]。
  - EN: The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a final determination setting Fuyao's windshield dumping duty at 11.8% and the rate for the five other Chinese companies at 8.22%. Faced with the danger of losing the American market to high tariffs, Cao Dewang decided to spend heavily on top-tier American law firms and fight head-on; Cao Hui, in the United States, handled lawyer liaison, cost-data organization and distributor coordination, and Fuyao subsequently appealed.[s13][s14]
- **2002-08-30** 加拿大反倾销案全胜 / Complete victory in the Canadian anti-dumping case
  - 加拿大国际贸易法庭终裁中国汽车玻璃在加销售不构成实质损害，PPG申诉被驳回。胜诉关键是福耀应诉团队发现PPG在加拿大销售的玻璃实为其美国工厂生产、与福耀同属出口商的破绽。中国入世后反倾销第一案以全胜告终，福耀在北美市场站稳脚跟[s11][s12]。
  - EN: The Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled finally that the sale in Canada of Chinese automotive glass caused no material injury, and PPG's complaint was dismissed. The key to victory was Fuyao's defense team finding that the glass PPG sold in Canada was actually produced in its American plant, making it an exporter like Fuyao. China's first anti-dumping case after WTO accession ended in complete victory, and Fuyao gained a firm foothold in the North American market.[s11][s12]
- **2003** 起诉美国商务部 / Sues the U.S. Department of Commerce
  - 福耀向美国国际贸易法院提起诉讼，正式起诉美国商务部，质疑其反倾销裁决的公正性，成为第一家敢于正面挑战美国商务部反倾销裁定的中国企业。这场诉讼历时四年多，曹晖团队在美一线提供财务成本数据与证人协调支持[s13]。
  - EN: Fuyao filed suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade, formally suing the U.S. Department of Commerce and challenging the fairness of its anti-dumping determination, becoming the first Chinese company daring to confront a Commerce Department anti-dumping ruling head-on. The litigation ran more than four years, with Cao Hui's team on the American front line providing financial-cost data and witness-coordination support.[s13]
- **2004-05** 美国税率降至0.13% / U.S. duty cut to 0.13%
  - 美国商务部行政复审初裁将福耀倾销税率由11.8%大幅降至0.13%，同年10月终裁维持。这意味着福耀对美出口的关税壁垒基本瓦解，也验证了福耀市场经济地位抗辩和成本数据体系的扎实，为后续税率彻底归零奠定基础[s13]。
  - EN: The U.S. Department of Commerce's administrative-review preliminary ruling cut Fuyao's dumping duty sharply from 11.8% to 0.13%, and the October final ruling that year upheld it. This meant that the tariff wall on Fuyao's exports to the United States had essentially collapsed; it also validated the solidity of Fuyao's market-economy-status defense and its cost-data system, laying the groundwork for the duty to go to zero altogether.[s13]
- **2005-12** 获贝克大学MBA / Earns MBA from Baker College
  - 曹晖从美国贝克大学（Baker College）获得工商管理硕士学位。在北美工作期间他坚持边干边读、系统补上现代管理课程，这份与一线实践同步完成的学业，构成他从车间学徒走向跨国企业管理者的知识底色[s3][s39]。
  - EN: Cao Hui received a Master of Business Administration degree from Baker College in the United States. While working in North America he insisted on learning while working, systematically completing modern-management courses; this degree, finished in step with front-line practice, formed the knowledge foundation for his rise from workshop apprentice to transnational-enterprise manager.[s3][s39]
- **2006-09** 出任福耀玻璃总经理 / Becomes general manager of Fuyao Glass
  - 曹晖就任福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司总经理，从北美一线回到集团总部。任内九年，他主导搭建以九大国家级科研平台为核心的研发体系，推行精益管理与产线智能化升级，坚定深耕汽车玻璃主业、当好汽车工业配角的战略定位，推动福耀完成H股上市与多基地扩张[s1][s3]。
  - EN: Cao Hui took office as general manager of Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd., returning from the North American front line to group headquarters. In his nine years in the post he led the building of an R&D system centered on nine national-level scientific-research platforms, promoted lean management and the intelligent upgrade of production lines, held firmly to the strategic positioning of deep cultivation of automotive glass as "a supporting player serving the automotive industry," and drove Fuyao through its H-share listing and multi-base expansion.[s1][s3]
- **2007-05** 美国案终裁倾销幅度为0% / Final U.S. ruling: dumping margin zero
  - 美国国际贸易法院接受商务部重审裁定，终裁福耀倾销幅度为0%。从2002年11.8%的税率到2006年重审0%、再到法院终裁维持，福耀历时五年彻底打赢美国反倾销官司，成为第一家告赢美国商务部的中国企业，也为中国企业运用国际贸易规则维权树立范本[s13][s6]。
  - EN: The U.S. Court of International Trade accepted the Commerce Department's redetermination and ruled finally that Fuyao's dumping margin was zero. From the 11.8% duty of 2002, to the 2006 redetermination at zero, to the court's final upholding, Fuyao spent five years completely winning the American anti-dumping case, becoming the first Chinese company to defeat the U.S. Department of Commerce and setting a model for Chinese companies using international trade rules to defend their rights.[s13][s6]
- **2014-01** 收购代顿通用旧厂 / Acquires the old GM plant in Dayton
  - 福耀买下通用汽车2008年金融危机中关闭的俄亥俄州代顿莫瑞恩废弃装配厂，购入价约1500万美元，规划总投资约6亿美元改造为汽车玻璃工厂，占地675亩。这是当时中国汽车零部件企业最大规模的对美制造投资，也是美国铁锈地带再工业化的标志性项目[s38][s16]。
  - EN: Fuyao bought General Motors' abandoned assembly plant in Moraine, Dayton, Ohio, closed in the 2008 financial crisis; the purchase price was about US$15 million, with a planned total investment of roughly US$600 million to convert it into an automotive-glass plant covering 675 mu. This was the largest manufacturing investment in the United States by a Chinese auto-parts enterprise at the time, and a landmark reindustrialization project in America's Rust Belt.[s38][s16]
- **2014-07** 收购PPG芒山浮法线 / Acquires PPG's Mt. Zion float lines
  - 福耀与美国PPG公司签约，收购其伊利诺伊州芒山工厂两条浮法玻璃生产线，为代顿工厂就近供应原片玻璃、完善北美产业链布局。两条浮法线于2016年6月全线投产，使福耀美国实现从浮法原片到汽车玻璃成品的垂直一体化[s18]。
  - EN: Fuyao signed with the American firm PPG to acquire its two float-glass production lines at the Mt. Zion, Illinois plant, supplying raw glass close at hand to the Dayton plant and completing the North American industrial-chain layout. The two float lines went into full operation in June 2016, giving Fuyao America vertical integration from float raw glass to finished automotive glass.[s18]
- **2015-07** 卸任总经理 / Steps down as general manager
  - 曹晖辞去担任近九年的福耀玻璃总经理职务，公司公告称其希望专注于其他商业事务；同年8月起改任副董事长。这次辞职出乎外界意料，实则是他独立创业、证明离开父亲也能成事的开始，也被视为福耀接班布局中刻意安排的一环[s7][s39]。
  - EN: Cao Hui resigned from the Fuyao Glass general-manager post he had held for nearly nine years; the company announcement said he wished to focus on other business affairs, and from August that year he became vice chairman. The resignation took outsiders by surprise, yet it was in fact the beginning of his independent entrepreneurship, proving he could succeed away from his father, and is also regarded as a deliberately engineered link in Fuyao's succession layout.[s7][s39]
- **2015-11-16** 创办三锋控股 / Founds Sanfeng Holding
  - 福建三锋控股集团有限公司成立，曹晖任法定代表人，主攻汽车维修后市场和高端汽车配件供应链。这块业务直面零售与消费者，与福耀直供整车厂的模式逻辑迥异。三锋三年做到年营收7.29亿元、净利润5352万元，成为曹晖独立成事能力的证明[s10][s8]。
  - EN: Fujian Sanfeng (Triplex) Holding Group Co., Ltd. was established, with Cao Hui as legal representative, focusing on the automotive repair aftermarket and the high-end auto-parts supply chain. This business faces retail and consumers directly, following logic very different from Fuyao's model of supplying automakers directly. Sanfeng reached annual revenue of 729 million yuan and net profit of 53.52 million yuan in three years, becoming proof of Cao Hui's ability to succeed on his own.[s10][s8]
- **2016-10-07** 代顿工厂竣工投产 / Dayton plant completed and goes into production
  - 福耀代顿工厂正式竣工投产，占地675亩，雇佣两千多名当地员工，规划年产逾450万套汽车玻璃，为美国市场提供约四分之一配套，俄亥俄州州长出席庆典。工厂从通用废墟变身全球领先汽车玻璃单体工厂之一，日后获奥斯卡奖的纪录片《美国工厂》即取材于此[s16][s21]。
  - EN: Fuyao's Dayton plant was formally completed and put into production, covering 675 mu, employing more than two thousand local workers, and planned to produce over 4.5 million sets of automotive glass a year, supplying about a quarter of the American market; the governor of Ohio attended the ceremony. The plant was transformed from GM's ruins into one of the world's largest single-site automotive-glass factories, and it was here that the later Oscar-winning documentary American Factory found its subject.[s16][s21]
- **2017-11** 工会投票被否决 / Union vote rejected
  - 福耀代顿工厂员工就是否加入美国汽车工人联合会（UAW）举行投票，结果868票反对、444票赞成，工会动议被否决。此前工厂经历了OSHA安全罚单、劳资摩擦与媒体争议，投票结果标志着福耀的管理模式在铁锈地带获得多数工人认可[s20][s42]。
  - EN: Employees of Fuyao's Dayton plant held a vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW); the result was 868 against and 444 in favor, and the union proposal was rejected. The plant had earlier gone through the OSHA safety fine, labor friction and media controversy, and the vote marked the acceptance of Fuyao's management model by the majority of workers in the Rust Belt.[s20][s42]
- **2018-06-26** 福耀2.24亿元收购三锋 / Fuyao acquires Sanfeng for 224 million yuan
  - 福耀全资子公司福耀香港以2.24亿元收购三锋控股持有的福建三锋集团100%股权，交易以评估值为基础、经独立董事审议公开披露。曹德旺明言此举是为曹晖接班铺路、消除关联交易障碍，称曹晖接班的时候就不会有麻烦[s9][s6]。
  - EN: Fuyao's wholly owned subsidiary Fuyao Hong Kong acquired 100% equity of Fujian Sanfeng Group held by Sanfeng Holding for 224 million yuan, in a transaction based on assessed value, reviewed by independent directors and publicly disclosed. Cao Dewang said plainly that the move was to pave the way for Cao Hui's succession and remove the related-party-transaction obstacle, so that when Cao Hui took over there would be no trouble.[s9][s6]
- **2019-08** 《美国工厂》上映 / American Factory released
  - 以代顿工厂为拍摄对象的纪录片《美国工厂》上映，由奥巴马夫妇高地制片公司与Netflix出品，记录中国管理层与美国工人在文化、效率与工会问题上的碰撞磨合。2020年2月，影片获第92届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片奖，福耀与曹德旺由此进入全球公众视野[s21]。
  - EN: The documentary American Factory, taking the Dayton plant as its subject, was released; produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions and Netflix, it records the collision and grinding-in between Chinese management and American workers over culture, efficiency and the union question. In February 2020 the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Oscars, bringing Fuyao and Cao Dewang into global public view.[s21]
- **2022** 增资美国6.5亿美元 / Adds US$650 million in America
  - 福耀对福耀美国增资6.5亿美元，用于扩建镀膜与边窗生产线，并投向伊利诺伊州浮法及太阳能背板玻璃项目。代顿工厂投产六年后已全面盈利，成为福耀海外利润的重要支柱，也彰显了福耀深耕北美市场、以本地化产能穿越贸易摩擦的长期决心[s21]。
  - EN: Fuyao added US$650 million in capital to Fuyao America, used to expand coating and side-window production lines and to invest in float-glass and solar-backglass projects in Illinois. Six years after the Dayton plant went into production it had become fully profitable and an important pillar of Fuyao's overseas profit, also demonstrating Fuyao's long-term determination to deepen its presence in the North American market and ride through trade frictions on localized capacity.[s21]
- **2025-03** 追加4亿美元建美国浮法线 / Adds US$400 million for a U.S. float line
  - 福耀披露追加4亿美元投资，在伊利诺伊州建设一条汽车级浮法玻璃生产线，进一步提升北美原材料自给率与供应链韧性。在中美贸易摩擦反复的背景下，福耀以本地化产能和约三成的北美市占率构筑起难以替代的产业地位[s21]。
  - EN: Fuyao disclosed a further US$400 million investment to build an automotive-grade float-glass production line in Illinois, further raising North American raw-material self-sufficiency and supply-chain resilience. Against a backdrop of repeated Sino-American trade frictions, Fuyao used localized capacity and a North American market share of roughly thirty percent to build an industrial position hard to replace.[s21]
- **2025-10-16** 当选福耀玻璃董事长 / Elected chairman of Fuyao Glass
  - 福耀玻璃第十一届董事局第十次会议接受曹德旺辞任董事长，选举曹晖为董事长、法定代表人及战略发展委员会主任，曹德旺被委任为终身荣誉董事长。交接较原定任期提前一年多，七十九岁的曹德旺称退下来对福耀更有好处、让新一代人接手；曹晖三十六年的接班历练至此收官[s2][s3]。
  - EN: The tenth meeting of Fuyao Glass's eleventh board accepted Cao Dewang's resignation as chairman and elected Cao Hui as chairman, legal representative and chairman of the strategic-development committee; Cao Dewang was appointed honorary chairman for life. The handover came more than a year ahead of the original term, with the 79-year-old Cao Dewang saying that stepping down was better for Fuyao and let the new generation take over; Cao Hui's thirty-six years of succession training had reached its conclusion.[s2][s3]
- **2025-12** 捐赠1000万港元救灾 / Donates HK$10 million for disaster relief
  - 香港大埔宏福苑发生严重火灾后，曹晖以个人名义捐赠1000万港元，用于受灾民众紧急救助与灾后善后。他表示将秉持父亲兼善天下的公益理念。接班后仅两个月即以个人名义捐出千万级善款，被视为新一代掌门对家族慈善传统的公开确认[s28]。
  - EN: After a severe fire at Wang Fuk Yuen in Tai Po, Hong Kong, Cao Hui donated HK$10 million in his personal name for emergency relief and post-disaster aftermath for the affected residents, saying he would uphold his father's public-welfare ideal of bringing good to all under heaven. Donating a ten-million-level sum in his own name just two months after taking over was seen as the new chief's public confirmation of the family's charitable tradition.[s28]
- **2026-03-17** 发布接班后首份年报 / Releases first annual report after handover
  - 福耀发布2025年年报：全年营收457.87亿元、同比增长16.65%，归母净利润93.12亿元、同比增长24.20%，三项核心指标双创历史新高。曹晖在董事长致辞中宣布2026年创业50周年之际开启二次创业，以数字与智能双轮驱动打造数字福耀，成为他接棒后的首份战略纲领[s22][s23]。
  - EN: Fuyao released its 2025 annual report: full-year revenue of 45.787 billion yuan, up 16.65% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 9.312 billion yuan, up 24.20%, with the core indicators reaching double record highs. In his chairman's letter Cao Hui announced that in 2026, the 50th founding anniversary, the company would launch a second entrepreneurship, building Digital Fuyao on the dual-wheel drive of digitalization and intelligence—his first strategic program after taking the helm.[s22][s23]
- **2026-03** 两会建言工匠职教与银发经济 / Two Sessions proposals on craftsman education and the silver economy
  - 全国两会上，全国政协委员曹晖建议启动新时代工匠职教体系重塑工程，立法推动制造业龙头企业深度参与职业院校办学，破解智能制造领域约450万人才缺口；并建议统筹发展银发经济，推广毫米波雷达跌倒监测、智能护理机器人等适老设备，让智能养老产品飞入寻常百姓家[s26][s27]。
  - EN: At the national Two Sessions, national political consultative conference member Cao Hui proposed launching a new-era craftsman vocational-education system reshaping project, legislating to push manufacturing leading enterprises into deep participation in running vocational colleges so as to crack the roughly 4.5-million talent gap in intelligent manufacturing; he also proposed coordinating development of the silver economy and popularizing age-friendly devices such as millimeter-wave radar fall monitoring and intelligent nursing robots, so that smart-elderly-care products could fly into ordinary people's homes.[s26][s27]
- **2026-05-14** 出席中美国宴 / Attends the China-U.S. state banquet
  - 特朗普访华欢迎宴会在人民大会堂举行，曹晖与特斯拉创始人马斯克、英伟达CEO黄仁勋、苹果CEO库克等同席。福耀为特斯拉供应约七成汽车玻璃、代顿工厂供应全美约三分之一汽车玻璃，这一座次被视为中美制造业深度绑定、产业链相互嵌入的象征[s31][s32]。
  - EN: At the welcome banquet for the visiting U.S. president in the Great Hall of the People, Cao Hui was seated at the same table as Tesla founder Elon Musk, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Apple CEO Tim Cook. Fuyao supplies roughly seventy percent of Tesla's automotive glass, and the Dayton plant supplies about a third of all automotive glass in the United States; the seating was seen as a symbol of how deeply Chinese and American manufacturing are bound together and how their supply chains are embedded in one another.[s31][s32]
- **2026-08-18** 接班后首份半年报 / First half-year report after handover
  - 福耀2026年半年报显示，营业收入219.71亿元、同比微增2.44%，在国内汽车产销下降约4%的背景下跑赢行业；归母净利润39.70亿元、同比下降17.37%，主因8.03亿元汇兑损失（上年同期为6.02亿元汇兑收益），扣除汇兑因素利润总额实际增长约4.78%，高附加值产品占比持续提升[s25][s45]。
  - EN: Fuyao's 2026 half-year report showed operating revenue of 21.971 billion yuan, a slight year-on-year increase of 2.44%, outperforming the industry against a roughly 4% decline in domestic auto production and sales; net profit attributable to shareholders was 3.970 billion yuan, down 17.37%, driven mainly by an 803-million-yuan FX loss (against a 602-million-yuan FX gain in the same period a year earlier)—stripping out the currency factor, total profit actually grew about 4.78%, and the share of high-value-added products kept rising.[s25][s45]

## 常问问答 FAQ

**Q1: 曹晖是谁？和曹德旺是什么关系？**

A: 曹晖，1970年生，中国香港籍，正高级工程师、高级经济师，福耀玻璃工业集团股份有限公司董事长，福耀集团创始人曹德旺的长子[s1][s39]。他1989年11月进入福耀，从车间一线工人做起，历任生产班组长、车间主任，随后被派往香港、北美历练，1996年起任美国绿榕玻璃财务总监、总经理，2001年起任福耀北美玻璃工业有限公司总经理，2006年至2015年任福耀玻璃总经理[s1][s39]。他还是第十四届全国政协委员、全国工商联常务委员、民建中央委员、福建省民营企业商会会长[s1]。2025年10月16日，曹德旺辞任董事长，曹晖当选福耀玻璃第十一届董事局董事长并担任法定代表人[s2][s3]。他接手的福耀，是全球规模最大的汽车玻璃专业供应商，全球市场占有率约35%、国内约三分之二，2025年营收457.87亿元、净利润93.12亿元，产品配套全球前二十大车企[s22][s38][s44]。曹晖也是中国民营企业代际传承中受关注度最高的“创二代”之一：与多数凭血缘直接接班的少主不同，他从车间搬运工干起，历经香港、北美十余年一线历练，又曾辞职独立创业，用三十六年时间走完生产、销售、国际化、集团管理的每一级台阶[s5][s6]。

**Q1 (EN): Who is Cao Hui, and what is his relationship to Cao Dewang?**

A: Cao Hui, born in 1970, is a Chinese national holding Hong Kong SAR residency, with the professional titles of professor-level senior engineer and senior economist; he is chairman of Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd. and the eldest son of Cao Dewang, founder of the Fuyao Group.[s1][s39] He entered Fuyao in November 1989 as a front-line workshop worker, serving successively as production team leader and workshop director, and was then posted to Hong Kong and North America for training; from 1996 he served as finance director and general manager of Greenville Glass in the United States, from 2001 as general manager of Fuyao North America Glass Industry Co., Ltd., and from 2006 to 2015 as general manager of Fuyao Glass.[s1][s39] He is also a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an executive member of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, a central committee member of the China Democratic National Construction Association, and president of the Fujian Private-Enterprise Chamber of Commerce.[s1] On October 16, 2025, Cao Dewang resigned as chairman and Cao Hui was elected chairman of Fuyao Glass's eleventh board of directors, also becoming its legal representative.[s2][s3] The Fuyao he took over is the world's largest specialist automotive-glass supplier, with a global market share of roughly 35% and about two-thirds of the domestic market, 2025 revenue of 45.787 billion yuan and net profit of 9.312 billion yuan, supplying the world's top twenty automakers.[s22][s38][s44] Cao Hui is also one of the most closely watched "second-generation entrepreneurs" in the generational succession of Chinese private enterprise: unlike most heirs who take over directly on bloodline, he began as a glass hauler on the shop floor, went through more than a decade of front-line training in Hong Kong and North America, and then resigned to found his own business, walking every rung of production, sales, internationalization and group management across thirty-six years.[s5][s6]

**Q2: 曹晖是什么时候正式接任福耀玻璃董事长的？**

A: 2025年10月16日，福耀玻璃召开第十一届董事局第十次会议，因曹德旺提交辞任董事长的报告，会议选举曹晖为公司第十一届董事局董事长，并担任法定代表人及董事局战略发展委员会主任；曹德旺被委任为终身荣誉董事长[s2][s3]。曹德旺本届董事长任期原本到2027年1月15日届满，此次交棒提前了一年多[s5][s34]。2025年11月5日，公司完成法定代表人变更登记，营业执照上的法定代表人由曹德旺变更为曹晖[s2]。曹德旺当时对媒体表示：“我80岁了，该退休了。我是想，退下来对福耀更有好处，让新一代人（去接手）。”[s4] 这场交接被视为中国民企代际传承的标志性事件：曹晖并非仓促上位，而是经历了六年车间、六年香港、十三年北美、九年总经理、三年独立创业和七年副董事长的完整淬炼，曹德旺更提前通过2018年收购三锋集团等安排扫清了关联交易障碍[s5][s9][s34]。交接后公司治理平稳过渡：曹德旺保留终身荣誉董事长头衔但基本退出日常经营，曹晖主抓战略，总经理叶舒负责执行；2026年4月股东会上，曹德旺再次公开评价儿子“干得比我强”[s38]。市场对这场交接的反应也相当平静——公告前后股价未见异常波动，机构普遍将其视为“预期内的平稳落地”[s34][s40]。

**Q2 (EN): When did Cao Hui formally take over as chairman of Fuyao Glass?**

A: On October 16, 2025, Fuyao Glass held the tenth meeting of its eleventh board of directors; as Cao Dewang had submitted a report resigning the chairmanship, the meeting elected Cao Hui as chairman of the company's eleventh board, and he also became legal representative and chairman of the board's strategic-development committee; Cao Dewang was appointed honorary chairman for life.[s2][s3] Cao Dewang's current term as chairman had originally been due to end on January 15, 2027, so the handover came more than a year early.[s5][s34] On November 5, 2025, the company completed the registration change of legal representative, with the business license updated from Cao Dewang to Cao Hui.[s2] Cao Dewang told the media at the time: "I am eighty years old now; it is time for me to retire. My thinking is that stepping down is better for Fuyao—letting the new generation take over."[s4] The handover is regarded as a landmark event in Chinese private-enterprise succession: Cao Hui did not come to office in haste but passed through the complete tempering of six years on the shop floor, six years in Hong Kong, thirteen years in North America, nine years as general manager, three years of independent entrepreneurship and seven years as vice chairman, and Cao Dewang had further cleared related-party-transaction obstacles in advance through arrangements such as the 2018 acquisition of Sanfeng Group.[s5][s9][s34] Governance transitioned smoothly after the handover: Cao Dewang kept the title of honorary chairman for life but basically withdrew from day-to-day operations, Cao Hui focuses on strategy, and general manager Ye Shu handles execution; at the April 2026 shareholders' meeting Cao Dewang again publicly judged his son to be "doing the job better than I did."[s38] The market's reaction to the handover was likewise calm—no abnormal share-price movement appeared around the announcement, and institutions generally saw it as "an anticipated, smooth landing."[s34][s40]

**Q3: 曹晖早年在福耀车间是怎么历练的？真的隐姓埋名吗？**

A: 属实。1989年11月，十九岁的曹晖高中毕业后进入福耀，曹德旺向车间主任提出三个要求：不能公开曹晖的身份，工作中不能搞特殊化，要给他安排最苦、最累的活[s6]。据媒体报道，曹晖穿着洗到掉色的工作服，开破旧的二手车，常常三班倒、吃住都在公司，从搬运、切割等工位干起，历任生产班组长、车间主任[s6][s1]。公开叙事多以“六年车间”概括这段基层经历；官方履历显示他1992年起出任三益发展、福耀香港等公司总经理，管理历练起步很早，但市场与跨国经营的课程是在之后补上的[s39][s5]。曹德旺后来用“见不得他舒坦”来解释这种刻意安排[s5]。这段经历的意义不止于吃苦：汽车玻璃是典型的流程工业，钢化、夹胶、镀膜每一道工序的火候和精度都直接决定成品率，曹晖日后推动精益管理、要求管理层“用数据说话”，底色正是在车间里养成的对产线的直觉[s5][s23]。1990年代初福耀还是一家创业不久的乡镇企业，曹晖进厂时公司刚经历从水表玻璃到汽车玻璃的转型，他也因此完整经历了福耀从作坊式工厂向现代制造企业蜕变的全过程[s6][s13]。曹德旺的教育逻辑一以贯之：他不相信“海归空投”式的接班，认为接班人必须先证明自己能在最苦的岗位上站住脚，才配谈战略与全局[s5][s34]。

**Q3 (EN): How was Cao Hui trained in Fuyao's workshop in his early years? Did he really conceal his identity?**

A: The story holds. In November 1989, after the 19-year-old Cao Hui graduated from high school and entered Fuyao, Cao Dewang put three demands to the workshop director: Cao Hui's identity was not to be revealed, he was to receive no special treatment in his work, and he was to be assigned the hardest, most exhausting posts.[s6] According to media reports, Cao Hui wore a work uniform faded from washing, drove a battered second-hand car, often worked three rotating shifts and ate and lived at the company, starting with posts such as hauling and cutting and serving successively as production team leader and workshop director.[s6][s1] The public narrative mostly sums up this grassroots stint as "six years on the shop floor"; the official resume shows that from 1992 he served as general manager of companies including Sanyi Development and Fuyao Hong Kong, so his management training began very early, while his lessons in markets and transnational operation were completed afterwards.[s39][s5] Cao Dewang later explained the deliberate arrangement as "I cannot bear to see him comfortable."[s5] The significance of the stint went beyond enduring hardship: automotive glass is a classic process industry, where the heat and precision of every process—tempering, laminating, coating—directly determine the yield rate, and the intuition for the production line Cao Hui developed in the workshop became the bedrock of his later promotion of lean management and his demand that managers "speak through data."[s5][s23] In the early 1990s Fuyao was still a recently founded township enterprise, and when Cao Hui entered the plant the company had just been through the shift from water-meter glass to automotive glass, so he personally lived through Fuyao's entire transformation from a workshop-style factory into a modern manufacturer.[s6][s13] Cao Dewang's educational logic was consistent throughout: he did not believe in "overseas-educated paratrooper" succession, holding that an heir must first prove he can hold his ground on the harshest posts before he is fit to speak of strategy and the big picture.[s5][s34]

**Q4: 曹晖在反倾销案中扮演了什么角色？官司结果如何？**

A: 2001至2007年间，福耀先后遭遇加拿大和美国两起汽车玻璃反倾销调查。曹晖作为福耀北美业务负责人，在美国一线负责联系律师、协调应诉，是应诉团队的前线指挥[s14][s1]。加拿大案中，福耀发现申诉方PPG在加拿大销售的玻璃实为美国生产、与福耀同属出口商的关键破绽，2002年8月加拿大国际贸易法庭终裁中国汽车玻璃不构成损害，中国入世后第一起反倾销案全胜[s11][s12][s15]。美国案中，福耀2003年起诉美国商务部，2004年行政复审将税率从11.8%降至0.13%，2006年重审裁定倾销幅度为0%，2007年美国国际贸易法院终裁维持0%，福耀成为第一家告赢美国商务部的中国企业[s13][s6]。这组官司对福耀的意义远超税率本身。入世之初，中国企业普遍缺乏应对国际贸易规则的经验，多数被诉企业选择放弃美国市场或接受高额关税；曹德旺却决定花重金聘请美国本土律所正面应诉，曹晖常驻美国一线，负责与律师团队对接、组织财务与成本数据、协调经销商出庭作证，国内材料则由集团法务负责人黄中胜统筹[s12][s14]。加拿大案的胜诉关键，是应诉团队从PPG的报关记录中发现其在加销售的替换玻璃实际产自美国工厂——申诉方自己也是“进口商”，损害指控自相矛盾[s11][s15]。两场官司打下来，福耀不仅保住了北美市场，更摸清了国际贸易救济的规则门道，为后来2014年大举赴美建厂、深度嵌入美国汽车产业链铺好了路[s13][s16]。曹晖在北美的十余年，也因此被曹德旺视为接班人必修课中“懂得规则与世界”的关键一段[s5]。

**Q4 (EN): What role did Cao Hui play in the anti-dumping cases, and how did the lawsuits end?**

A: Between 2001 and 2007 Fuyao faced two anti-dumping investigations over automotive glass, one in Canada and one in the United States. As head of Fuyao's North American business, Cao Hui was responsible on the American front line for contacting lawyers and coordinating the defense, and was the field commander of the legal team.[s14][s1] In the Canadian case, Fuyao found the key flaw that the glass PPG sold in Canada was actually produced in the United States, making PPG an exporter like Fuyao; in August 2002 the Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruled finally that Chinese automotive glass caused no injury, and China's first anti-dumping case after WTO accession was won outright.[s11][s12][s15] In the American case, Fuyao sued the U.S. Department of Commerce in 2003; the 2004 administrative review cut the duty from 11.8% to 0.13%, the 2006 redetermination set the dumping margin at zero, and in 2007 the U.S. Court of International Trade upheld zero on final ruling, making Fuyao the first Chinese company to defeat the U.S. Department of Commerce.[s13][s6] The significance of these lawsuits for Fuyao far exceeded the duty rates themselves. In the early WTO years Chinese companies generally lacked experience with international trade rules, and most named firms chose to abandon the U.S. market or accept high tariffs; Cao Dewang instead decided to spend heavily on top-tier American law firms and fight head-on, with Cao Hui permanently on the American front line, responsible for liaising with the legal team, organizing financial and cost data, and coordinating distributors to testify in court, while the domestic materials were coordinated by group legal-affairs head Huang Zhongsheng.[s12][s14] The key to winning the Canadian case was the defense team's discovery from PPG's customs records that the replacement glass it sold in Canada was actually made in its American plant—the complainant was itself an "importer," making its injury claim self-contradictory.[s11][s15] Across the two lawsuits Fuyao not only held its North American market but also learned the workings of international trade-remedy rules, paving the way for its large-scale move to build plants in the United States in 2014 and its deep embedding in the American auto-industry chain.[s13][s16] Cao Hui's more than ten years in North America were therefore regarded by Cao Dewang as the crucial section of the heir's required curriculum, the part in which he "came to understand the rules and the world."[s5]

**Q5: 曹晖为什么离开福耀去创业？三锋集团是怎么回事？**

A: 2015年7月，已担任福耀玻璃总经理近九年的曹晖辞职，官方说法是“希望专注于其他商业事务”[s7][s8]。同年11月，他创办福建三锋控股集团有限公司，主攻汽车维修后市场和高端汽车配件供应链——这块业务与福耀直供整车厂的B2B模式不同，需要直接面对零售与消费者[s8][s10]。曹德旺后来说明，曹晖“希望自己也能白手起家，做出一番成绩后，再来接我的班”[s7]。三锋发展迅速，2017年资产总额6.07亿元、营业收入7.29亿元、净利润5352.18万元[s6]。为消除关联交易障碍，2018年6月福耀以2.24亿元收购三锋100%股权，曹德旺称此举是为“曹晖接班的时候，就不会有麻烦”[s9][s6]。三锋的创业方向并非随意选择：汽车维修后市场（AM市场）客户分散、渠道复杂，与福耀长期面向整车厂的配套业务逻辑完全不同，曹晖借此补上了“从零到一做消费端生意”这一课；三锋同时布局高端汽车铝饰件等配件，与福耀后续收购德国SAM、延伸饰件产业链的战略形成呼应[s8][s36]。这次出走还有一层传承设计上的深意：曹德旺深知，一个没有独立证明过自己的少主，接不住一家全球化企业。他后来对媒体坦言，自己曾担心儿子不愿回来，“动员了很多人去做工作”，从亲情谈到福耀几万员工的饭碗和社会责任[s34]。而2.24亿元的收购价格以评估值为基础、经独立董事审议并公开披露，程序公允，既把三锋资产纳入上市公司体系、消除了未来关联交易的隐患，也让曹晖的回归没有留下利益输送的口实[s9][s10]。这一“放手创业—公允回购”的安排，后来被不少家族企业研究视为接班布局的范本[s34]。

**Q5 (EN): Why did Cao Hui leave Fuyao to start a business? What is the story of Sanfeng Group?**

A: In July 2015, Cao Hui, who had been general manager of Fuyao Glass for nearly nine years, resigned; the official explanation was that he "wished to focus on other business affairs."[s7][s8] That November he founded Fujian Sanfeng (Triplex) Holding Group Co., Ltd., focusing on the automotive repair aftermarket and the high-end auto-parts supply chain—a business unlike Fuyao's B2B model of supplying automakers directly, requiring face-to-face dealings with retail and consumers.[s8][s10] Cao Dewang later explained that Cao Hui "wanted to start from scratch himself, to make his own mark, and only then come and take over from me."[s7] Sanfeng grew fast: in 2017 it had total assets of 607 million yuan, operating revenue of 729 million yuan and net profit of 53.5218 million yuan.[s6] To remove the related-party-transaction obstacle, Fuyao acquired 100% of Sanfeng for 224 million yuan in June 2018; Cao Dewang said the move was so that "when Cao Hui takes over, there won't be any trouble."[s9][s6] The direction of Sanfeng's venture was not chosen at random: the automotive aftermarket (AM) has dispersed customers and complex channels, following logic entirely different from Fuyao's long-standing original-equipment supply to automakers, and through it Cao Hui completed the lesson of "doing a consumer-facing business from zero to one"; Sanfeng also laid out high-end automotive aluminum trim and other parts, echoing Fuyao's later acquisition of the German SAM firm and its extension of the trim-industry chain.[s8][s36] The departure carried a further meaning in succession design: Cao Dewang knew well that an heir who had never proven himself independently could not carry a globalized enterprise. He later admitted to the media that he had once feared his son would not come back and "mobilized many people to work on him," arguing from family affection through to the rice bowls of Fuyao's tens of thousands of employees and the firm's social responsibility.[s34] The 224-million-yuan acquisition price was based on an assessed value, reviewed by independent directors and publicly disclosed—a fair procedure that brought Sanfeng's assets into the listed-company system, eliminated the latent hazard of future related-party transactions, and left Cao Hui's return with no opening for accusations of interest transfer.[s9][s10] This arrangement of "let go to start a business, then buy back fairly" has since been regarded by many family-business studies as a model succession layout.[s34]

**Q6: 曹晖和《美国工厂》纪录片里的美国工厂是什么关系？**

A: 福耀美国代顿工厂位于俄亥俄州莫瑞恩市，前身是通用汽车2008年关闭的废弃装配厂。福耀2014年购厂，累计投资约6亿美元改造，2016年10月竣工投产，雇佣两千多名当地员工，是全球领先的汽车玻璃单体工厂之一，也是中国汽车零部件企业当时规模领先的对美投资[s16][s38]。纪录片《美国工厂》2019年上映、2020年获第92届奥斯卡最佳纪录长片奖，核心记录的是曹德旺与福耀美国管理团队同美国工人、工会之间的磨合[s21][s41]。曹晖当时任集团总经理，且有十余年北美经营履历，是美国项目的核心决策者和北美业务资深操盘者，与工厂的选址、建设和后续运营深度交织[s1][s5]。2025年福耀美国子公司营收79.17亿元、净利润8.84亿元[s5]。需要说明的是，纪录片的镜头主要对准曹德旺本人以及中美双方的基层管理者与工人，曹晖并未作为片中主要人物出现；但美国项目恰是他职业生涯中分量最重的一仗：1996年起他就常驻美国，历任绿榕玻璃财务总监、总经理和福耀北美总经理，在北美生活和工作了十三年，对美国的法律环境、劳工文化和商业规则有切身体会[s1][s39]。代顿工厂从选址谈判、改造建设到投产运营的关键阶段，他都深度参与；工厂遭遇OSHA安全罚单、工会组织运动等风波时，北美一线的应对也与他多年积累的当地经验直接相关[s19][s20]。代顿之后，福耀持续加码北美：2022年增资6.5亿美元扩建镀膜与边窗产能，2025年再宣布追加4亿美元在伊利诺伊州建设汽车级浮法玻璃生产线，美国工厂如今供应全美约三分之一的汽车玻璃，雇佣当地员工超过三千人[s21][s38]。可以说，纪录片记录的是曹德旺的全球化决断，而把决断变成持续盈利的现实，靠的是包括曹晖在内的团队十余年的经营。

**Q6 (EN): What is Cao Hui's relationship to the American factory in the documentary American Factory?**

A: Fuyao's American Dayton plant is located in Moraine, Ohio, and its predecessor was the shuttered GM assembly plant that General Motors closed in 2008. Fuyao bought the plant in 2014, invested cumulatively about US$600 million in renovation, and saw it completed and put into production in October 2016; it employs more than two thousand local workers, is one of the world's largest single-site automotive-glass factories, and was at the time the largest investment in the United States by a Chinese auto-parts enterprise.[s16][s38] The documentary American Factory, released in 2019 and winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Oscars in 2020, mainly records the grinding-in between Cao Dewang and Fuyao's American management team on one side and American workers and the union on the other.[s21][s41] Cao Hui was then the group's general manager and, with more than a decade of North American operating experience, was a core decision-maker on the American project and a seasoned operator of the North American business, deeply interwoven with the plant's siting, construction and later operations.[s1][s5] In 2025 Fuyao's U.S. subsidiary posted revenue of 7.917 billion yuan and net profit of 884 million yuan.[s5] It should be noted that the documentary's cameras are aimed mainly at Cao Dewang himself and at grassroots managers and workers on both the Chinese and American sides; Cao Hui does not appear as a principal character in the film. Yet the American project is precisely the weightiest battle of his career: from 1996 he was permanently stationed in the United States, serving as finance director and general manager of Greenville Glass and then as general manager of Fuyao North America, living and working in North America for thirteen years, with firsthand understanding of America's legal environment, labor culture and commercial rules.[s1][s39] He was deeply involved in the plant's key stages, from site negotiations and renovation-construction to commissioning and operation; when the plant ran into the OSHA safety fine and the union organizing drive, the front-line response in North America drew directly on the local experience he had accumulated over the years.[s19][s20] After Dayton, Fuyao kept adding to North America: in 2022 it put in a further US$650 million to expand coating and side-window capacity, and in 2025 it announced another US$400 million to build an automotive-grade float-glass line in Illinois; the American plant today supplies roughly a third of all automotive glass in the United States and employs more than three thousand local workers.[s21][s38] One might say that the documentary records Cao Dewang's strategic decision to globalize, while turning that decision into sustained profitable reality depended on more than a decade of operation by the team, Cao Hui included.

**Q7: 曹晖提出的“二次创业”和“数字福耀”是什么？**

A: “二次创业”是曹晖在福耀2025年年报董事长致辞中提出的战略纲领。他宣布2026年福耀迎来创业50周年，将全面深化数字化与智能化转型，核心抓手是打造真正意义上的“数字福耀”：以“数字与智能双轮驱动”重塑生产与管理模式，构建“业务专家+AI应用专家”双轨融合的人才体系，把人工智能深度融入研发设计、生产管理、市场分析与客户服务[s23][s22]。具体举措包括为每一片玻璃建立“数字身份证”、以福清绿色智慧工厂为样板建设“黑灯工厂”、用数字孪生平台把研发周期缩短30%以上[s36]。业务目标上，福耀规划到2030年全球市占率从约37%提升至45%以上，高附加值产品收入占比向75%推进，从汽车玻璃供应商升级为汽车智能光学系统解决方案商[s37]。提出“二次创业”，背景是福耀所处的行业坐标正在变化：全球汽车玻璃市场中福耀份额已达约35%，靠规模扩张的增长模式接近天花板；与此同时，电动化、智能化让玻璃从安全件变成智能座舱的交互界面——全景天幕、可调光、抬头显示、镀膜加热、5G天线集成等功能，使单车玻璃价值从传统的数百元向数千元升级[s23][s37]。曹晖的打法是用数字化把五十岁的制造企业重新做一遍：全球工厂以MES制造执行系统为核心接入信息处理中心，打通部门墙并把协同延伸到产业链上下游，用数字孪生、AI质检和黑灯工厂提升效率与良品率；组织上则推行“业务专家+AI应用专家”双轨人才，让懂玻璃的人和懂算法的人配对工作[s23][s5]。2026年公司计划总资金需求498.62亿元，其中77.3亿元资本开支重点投向数字化与智能化改造[s36]。在曹晖的表述里，“数字福耀”不是一句口号，而是把研发、生产、管理、服务全价值链用数据重做一遍的系统工程，也是他接棒后区别于父辈时代最鲜明的战略标签[s5][s24]。

**Q7 (EN): What are the 'second entrepreneurship' and 'Digital Fuyao' proposed by Cao Hui?**

A: The "second entrepreneurship" is the strategic program Cao Hui set out in his chairman's letter in Fuyao's 2025 annual report. He announced that in 2026, as Fuyao marks its 50th founding anniversary, the company will comprehensively deepen digital and intelligent transformation, with the core lever of building a genuine "Digital Fuyao": using the "dual-wheel drive of digitalization and intelligence" to reshape production and management models, constructing a "dual-track integrated" talent system of "business experts plus AI-application experts," and embedding artificial intelligence deeply into R&D and design, production management, market analysis and customer service.[s23][s22] Concrete measures include giving each sheet of glass a "digital identity," building "lights-out factories" on the model of the Fuqing green smart factory, and using a digital-twin platform to shorten R&D cycles by more than 30%.[s36] On business targets, Fuyao plans to raise global market share from roughly 37% to over 45% by 2030 and to push the revenue share of high-value-added products toward 75%, upgrading from an automotive-glass supplier into an automotive intelligent-optical system solution provider.[s37] The backdrop to the "second entrepreneurship" is a shift in Fuyao's industry coordinates: in the global automotive-glass market its share has already reached about 35%, so the growth model of scale expansion is approaching its ceiling; at the same time electrification and intelligentization are turning glass from a safety part into the interactive interface of the smart cabin—functions such as panoramic roofs, dimmability, head-up displays, coated heating and 5G antenna integration are lifting glass value per vehicle from the traditional few hundred yuan to several thousand yuan.[s23][s37] Cao Hui's approach is to use digitalization to remake the fifty-year-old manufacturer all over again: global factories connect into the information-processing center around the MES manufacturing-execution system, breaking down department walls and extending collaboration up and down the industrial chain, using digital twins, AI quality inspection and lights-out factories to raise efficiency and yield; organizationally he pushes the "business expert plus AI-application expert" dual-track talent model, pairing people who understand glass with people who understand algorithms.[s23][s5] For 2026 the company plans total funding needs of 49.862 billion yuan, of which 7.73 billion yuan in capital expenditure is focused on digital and intelligent upgrading.[s36] In Cao Hui's framing, "Digital Fuyao" is not a slogan but a systems engineering of redoing the entire value chain—R&D, production, management and service—with data, and it is also the sharpest strategic label distinguishing his tenure from his father's era.[s5][s24]

**Q8: 曹晖接班后福耀业绩怎么样？为什么2026年上半年利润下滑？**

A: 接班后的第一个完整财年表现亮眼：2025年福耀实现营业收入457.87亿元、同比增长16.65%，归母净利润93.12亿元、同比增长24.20%，三项核心指标均创历史新高[s22][s23]。2026年上半年，公司营业收入219.71亿元、同比增长2.44%，在国内汽车产销同比下降约4%的背景下跑赢行业；但归母净利润39.70亿元、同比下降17.37%，主因是汇兑损益波动——当期汇兑损失8.03亿元，而上年同期为汇兑收益6.02亿元，一正一反形成约14亿元差额；若扣除汇兑因素，利润总额实际同比增长约4.78%，主业仍稳健[s25][s45]。同期智能全景天幕、可调光、抬头显示等高附加值产品收入占比再升8.03个百分点[s25]。拆开看，主业的基本盘仍然扎实：2026年上半年福耀汽车玻璃毛利率提升约1.55个百分点，海外业务延续高增长，福耀美国子公司2025年营收79.17亿元、净利润8.84亿元，营业利润率约13%，已成为稳定的利润来源[s25][s38]。利润波动主要反映了全球化企业的典型课题——福耀海外收入占比约一半，人民币汇率的阶段性走强会把以美元结算的利润在报表上“缩水”，这属于财务口径的波动，而非订单流失或竞争力下降[s45]。曹晖在业绩沟通中并未回避压力，同时强调公司将继续推进产品结构升级与全球化产能调度：2026年资本开支保持高强度，重点投向数字化转型、高附加值产品产能与海外基地建设[s24][s36]。曹德旺在2026年股东会上判断，全球汽车年销量将稳定在9000万辆左右，“现在已经不是单靠拼量的时候了，能实实在在赚到钱就好”[s38]——这与曹晖把增长动力从规模切换到技术溢价的思路，实为同一条路线的两种表达。

**Q8 (EN): How has Fuyao performed after Cao Hui took over, and why did profit fall in the first half of 2026?**

A: The first full fiscal year after the handover was impressive: in 2025 Fuyao achieved operating revenue of 45.787 billion yuan, up 16.65% year on year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 9.312 billion yuan, up 24.20%, with all three core indicators reaching all-time highs.[s22][s23] In the first half of 2026 operating revenue was 21.971 billion yuan, up 2.44% year on year, outperforming the industry against a backdrop in which domestic auto production and sales fell about 4%; but net profit attributable to shareholders was 3.970 billion yuan, down 17.37%, driven mainly by foreign-exchange gains and losses—the period saw an FX loss of 803 million yuan against an FX gain of 602 million yuan in the same period a year earlier, a positive-to-negative swing of roughly 1.4 billion yuan; stripping out the currency factor, total profit actually grew about 4.78% year on year, and the core business remained steady.[s25][s45] In the same period the revenue share of high-value-added products such as intelligent panoramic roofs, dimmable glass and head-up displays rose another 8.03 percentage points.[s25] Taken apart, the fundamentals of the core business remain solid: in the first half of 2026 Fuyao's automotive-glass gross margin improved about 1.55 percentage points, overseas business kept growing strongly, and Fuyao's U.S. subsidiary—2025 revenue of 7.917 billion yuan, net profit of 884 million yuan and an operating margin of about 13%—has become a stable source of profit.[s25][s38] The profit swing mainly reflects a classic issue for a globalized company: roughly half of Fuyao's revenue comes from overseas, and a periodic strengthening of the renminbi "shrinks" dollar-settled profits on the accounts; this is financial-statement volatility rather than lost orders or declining competitiveness.[s45] Cao Hui did not evade the pressure in earnings communications while stressing that the company will keep pushing product-mix upgrading and global capacity scheduling: capital expenditure stays high in 2026, focused on digital transformation, high-value-added product capacity and overseas base construction.[s24][s36] At the 2026 shareholders' meeting Cao Dewang judged that global annual auto sales will settle around 90 million vehicles and that "this is no longer a time for simply fighting on volume—what matters is genuinely being able to make money"[s38]—which, together with Cao Hui's switch of the growth engine from scale to technology premium, is really two expressions of the same route.

**Q9: 曹晖为什么说“我不如父亲”？父子两代风格有何不同？**

A: 曹晖曾说：“我不如父亲，因为我培养不出第二个曹晖。”[s6] 这句话是对创始人难以复制的清醒认知。父子风格形成互补：曹德旺是实业报国型的强势创始人，胆识与直觉驱动，常把“国家强大、社会进步、人民富足”挂在嘴边；曹晖则更沉稳理性，注重技术创新、制度建设与数据决策[s6][s5]。曹德旺评价儿子“吃苦耐劳、非常敬业、对业务熟悉”，并称“员工崇拜我，曹晖不崇拜，他做事情有自己的原则，有自己的思路，不盲从”[s5]。交棒后曹德旺公开称“他干得比我强”，自己基本退出日常管理[s38]。在持股安排上，曹晖在上市公司仅持股约0.46%、年薪161.95万元，控制权主要依靠家族持股平台与治理制度，体现了“靠能力而非股权立威”的传承设计[s40]。两代人的差异也体现在战略语境上：曹德旺创业时，中国汽车工业几乎一片空白，福耀要解决的是“有没有国产玻璃”的问题，靠的是胆识、成本控制和敢跟国际对手打官司的草莽韧性；曹晖接班时，福耀已是全球份额约35%的龙头，增长要靠智能玻璃、数字化管理和全球产能调度，考验的是技术判断与体系能力[s5][s37]。但两人在根本点上高度一致：数十年只做汽车玻璃一件事，不碰房地产、不追金融热点，曹晖反复强调福耀“当好汽车工业配角”的定位，与父亲“不赚钱绝对不做”的务实哲学一脉相承[s5][s38]。分工也已制度化：2026年股东会上曹德旺明确，董事长管战略、决定做什么和做到什么程度，具体执行交给以总经理叶舒为首的经营团队[s38]。曹晖则保持着从车间带来的习惯——少在媒体上露面，多在工厂和研发中心出现，年报致辞里谈得最多的是产品、人才和工序[s23][s5]。

**Q9 (EN): Why did Cao Hui say 'I am not my father's equal'? How do the two generations' styles differ?**

A: Cao Hui once said: "I am not my father's equal, because I could never bring up a second Cao Dewang."[s6] The remark is a clear-eyed recognition that the founder is irreproducible. The two styles complement one another: Cao Dewang is a forceful, industry-serving-the-nation founder driven by daring and intuition, fond of invoking "a strong country, social progress and a prosperous people"; Cao Hui is steadier and more rational, stressing technological innovation, institutional building and data-driven decisions.[s6][s5] Cao Dewang assessed his son as "hardworking, utterly dedicated and familiar with the business," and said that "the employees worship me; Cao Hui does not; he does things by his own principles, follows his own line of thinking, and never follows blindly."[s5] After the handover Cao Dewang publicly said "he does the job better than I do" and basically withdrew from day-to-day management.[s38] On shareholding arrangements, Cao Hui holds only about 0.46% of the listed company with an annual salary of 1.6195 million yuan, and control rests principally on family shareholding platforms and governance institutions—reflecting a succession design of "establishing authority through capability rather than equity."[s40] The generational difference also appears in the strategic context: when Cao Dewang founded the business, China's auto industry was nearly a blank sheet, and Fuyao had to solve the question of "whether Chinese-made glass exists at all," relying on daring, cost control and the rough-hewn resilience to sue international rivals; when Cao Hui took over, Fuyao was already a leader with about 35% global share, and growth must come from intelligent glass, digital management and global capacity scheduling, testing technological judgment and systemic capability.[s5][s37] Yet the two are at one on the fundamentals: for decades doing only the one thing, automotive glass, never touching real estate or chasing financial fads, and Cao Hui repeatedly stresses Fuyao's positioning as "a supporting player serving the automotive industry," in one line with his father's pragmatic creed of "if it doesn't make money, I absolutely won't do it."[s5][s38] The division of labor has also been institutionalized: at the 2026 shareholders' meeting Cao Dewang made clear that the chairman manages strategy—deciding what to do and to what degree—while concrete execution goes to the operating team led by general manager Ye Shu.[s38] Cao Hui, for his part, keeps the habits he brought from the workshop—little media exposure, more appearances in factories and R&D centers, and an annual-report letter that talks above all about products, people and processes.[s23][s5]

**Q10: 曹晖担任哪些社会职务？在公益慈善上做了什么？**

A: 曹晖是第十四届全国政协委员、全国工商联常务委员、民建中央委员，兼任福建省民营企业商会会长、福建省慈善总会名誉会长、仁善福来慈善总社名誉会长等职[s1][s39]。2026年全国两会上，他建议启动“新时代工匠职教体系重塑工程”，推动龙头企业深度参与职业院校办学、破解智能制造领域450万人才缺口；并建议统筹银发经济、推广毫米波雷达跌倒监测等智能养老设备[s26][s27]。公益方面，2009年曹德旺、曹晖父子捐赠2亿元援助西南旱区，2010年玉树地震父子以个人名义捐款1亿元[s29][s30]；他是河仁慈善基金会发起人之一，2021年、2022年两获中国慈善榜“年度慈善家”[s47]；2025年12月香港大埔宏福苑火灾后，他以个人名义捐赠1000万港元救灾[s28]。作为全国政协委员，曹晖的提案始终贴着制造业一线：职教提案直指智能制造领域数百万级的技能人才缺口，建议以立法形式明确龙头企业参与办学的权责，让企业深度参与课程设计与实训；养老提案则关注毫米波雷达跌倒监测、智能护理机器人等适老科技的普及，推动产品“飞入寻常百姓家”[s26][s27]。慈善传统上，曹德旺2011年发起河仁慈善基金会，开创中国家族企业捐赠股权设立基金会的先例，曹晖是发起人之一；基金会长期助学、救灾、扶贫，2009年西南旱灾父子捐出2亿元、近十万贫困户受益，2010年玉树地震再捐1亿元[s29][s30]。接班之后，他的公益角色进一步显性化：除香港火灾的千万港元捐赠外，他还以福建省民营企业商会会长身份组织闽商参与乡村振兴与救灾，2021年、2022年连续登上中国慈善榜获“年度慈善家”称号[s28][s47]。在福耀的叙事里，慈善与办企业从来不是两件事——曹德旺常说财富是“国家和社会让你暂时保管”的，曹晖用接班后一个月内的千万捐款，公开确认了这份家族承诺[s29][s28]。

**Q10 (EN): What social positions does Cao Hui hold, and what has he done in public welfare and charity?**

A: Cao Hui is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, an executive member of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, a central committee member of the China Democratic National Construction Association, and concurrently president of the Fujian Private-Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, honorary president of the Fujian Charity Federation and honorary president of the Renshan Fulai Charity Federation, among other posts.[s1][s39] At the 2026 national Two Sessions he proposed launching a "new-era craftsman vocational-education system reshaping project," pushing leading enterprises into deep participation in running vocational colleges to crack the 4.5-million talent gap in intelligent manufacturing; he also proposed coordinating the silver economy and popularizing smart-elderly-care devices such as millimeter-wave radar fall monitoring.[s26][s27] In public welfare, in 2009 Cao Dewang and Cao Hui as father and son donated 200 million yuan to aid the drought-stricken southwest, and after the 2010 Yushu earthquake the father and son donated 100 million yuan in their personal names;[s29][s30] he is one of the founders of the Heren Charitable Foundation and was twice named a China Charity List "Charity Figure of the Year" in 2021 and 2022;[s47] after the December 2025 fire at Wang Fuk Yuen in Tai Po, Hong Kong, he donated HK$10 million in his personal name for disaster relief.[s28] As a national political consultative conference member, Cao Hui's proposals stay close to the manufacturing front line: the vocational-education proposal targets the millions-level skilled-personnel gap in intelligent manufacturing, suggesting legislation to define the rights and responsibilities of leading enterprises participating in running schools so that enterprises deeply engage in curriculum design and practical training; the elderly-care proposal focuses on spreading age-friendly technologies such as millimeter-wave radar fall monitoring and intelligent nursing robots, pushing products to "fly into ordinary people's homes."[s26][s27] On the charitable tradition, Cao Dewang founded the Heren Charitable Foundation in 2011, setting the precedent in China of a family business donating equity to establish a foundation, with Cao Hui as one of the founders; the foundation has long supported education, disaster relief and poverty alleviation—father and son gave 200 million yuan during the 2009 southwest drought, benefiting nearly a hundred thousand poor households, and gave another 100 million yuan after the 2010 Yushu earthquake.[s29][s30] After taking over, his public-welfare role became still more visible: beyond the ten-million-Hong-Kong-dollar donation after the Hong Kong fire, he organized Fujian merchants, in his capacity as president of the Fujian Private-Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, to take part in rural revitalization and disaster relief, and appeared successively on the China Charity List in 2021 and 2022 as "Charity Figure of the Year."[s28][s47] In Fuyao's narrative, charity and running a business have never been two separate things—Cao Dewang often says wealth is something "the country and society let you hold in temporary custody," and Cao Hui, with his ten-million-yuan donation within a month of taking over, publicly reaffirmed this family commitment.[s29][s28]

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