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[quote=LIONPOWER,254449]Nearly three decades ago, teenager Zhou Xiaoguang struck it out alone to do small business in Northeast China. She squeezed into a train with two big packages full of embroidered goods. The weight of her load seemed to threaten to put her on the ground. Her face drooped with exhaustion.

The worse part was that the Zhejiang native was too poor to afford a hard berth ticket. So, she spent the following three days sitting in the corner of a carriage door. The place in which she stood was so narrow, she couldn't even stretch her legs and the nearby toilets filled the air with a foul stench.

At that point, Zhou would have given anything to be able to give up and go home.

Zhou Xiaoguang worked her way up to become a multi-millionaire. Courtesy of Zhou Xiaoguang

"I felt as if I was wronged to have to start working as a vendor at such a young age, and people hardly showed their respect. Instead, I become something of a spectacle," Zhou recalls, frowning behind her huge desk. Today, her spacious office takes up a tiny corner of the six-storey building in which she and 28 other family members live and work.

The oldest daughter in the family, who had to work hard to keep her little brother and five younger sisters from starving, has become a billionaire who owns one of the world's largest accessories manufacturing bases in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang Province.

Currently she employs a workforce of 6,000, and her company's annual export value has reached $30 million over the past few years. Her sales network covers more than 70 nations.[/quote]

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