Career
He and his three brothers quit their government jobs and sold their bicycles and watches to raise $120 in start-up capital. They invested in breeding quails and chickens to sell to other farmers near their home in rural Sichuan province and soon branched out into the animal-feed business. By 1992, their company, Hope Group, was one of the largest animal-feed groups in China and one of the largest non-government conglomerates in the country.