He Dropped Out of School for His Mother, Then Became a Billionaire CEO

Yang Kailin was born in a rural village in a remote mountain region. Bright, cheerful, optimistic, and resilient from childhood, he was in his second year of high school when his mother developed kidney failure. Determined to keep her alive, he left school and went to work on a construction site. He went to Shenzhen twice, and both times returned with regrets. His father was diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away soon afterward. His mother endured kidney failure for more than a decade before she, too, died. Still single at nearly thirty, Yang Kailin set off for Shenzhen a third time, stopping to say goodbye at his parents’ graves before he left.

Five years later, Mr. Yang came back