The Confucian Enterpreneurs, is a group of entrepreneurs with Confucianist mind. They have common people in mind, and help the world through various ways. Although they are in business area, but they still insist that the righteousness always come first. In the filed of “Cultural China”, which is deeply influenced by Confucian thoughts, especially in the East Asia,  Confucian Enterpreneurs has been a model of an integration of Humanism and Business achievements. So far, when the globe suffers “the economy’s slow down”, the entrepreneurs around the globe are almost all facing challenges. How to reproduce and develop confucian businessman’s value system and how to make the economy more open and sustainable, are most concerned topics both in the academic filed and business field. 

Mr. Tu Weiming and Professor Zhou Shengchun from Zhejiang University co-founded the Confucian East Asian Civilization Research Center in 2006, and it has been established for ten years. Subsequently, Mr. Tu established the World Ethics Institute at the Peking University, from the beginning of 2013, and held "Discourse on Confucian Enterpreneurs" for three times. 

Cheung Kong School of Business, as a business school, which firstly put forward to cultivate the entrepreneurial spirit of humanity, it firstly added the humanities curriculum and public practice into business education in 2004 and established Cheung Kong Humanistic Committee. Professor Tu was invited to serve as the chairman, and President Xiang Bin is also one of the earliest advocates of the new business civilization. Therefore, “Discourse on  Confucian Enterpreneurs in 2015”, which was jointly organized by World Ethics Institute and Cheung Kong School of Business, was held aiming at expanding the public culture space in which Confucian scholars and entrepreneurs as the main body, and exploring the possibility of new civilization that can be able to bear new business culture. 

In hosting this event, the Center for Confucian Entrepreneurs and East Asian Civilization at Zhejiang University, the World Ethics Institute at Peking University, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business hope to highlight the complexities faced in reforming values in contemporary China, and offer a space for imagining how we can use humanity’s core capacity of rational conscience to develop new values. Furthermore, out of respect for the power of the market economy’s creative destruction, we are grateful that entrepreneurs are sharing their experiences navigating the complex relationship between wealth and meaning and capital and ethics, and discuss how they use their rational conscience in the process of reforming values and working to build a harmonious and prosperous future for humanity.