Zhang Jianjun, a modern Chaoshan community animal, was reborn in Huaqiangbei in 2003. With the memories of later generations and the "business experience" passed down from his ancestors, he started by picking up electronic waste and struggled in the wave of copycat mobile phones. He used Kung Fu tea to negotiate, relied on his masters to consecrate him, partnered with a strange team of Hunan technology geeks, battled wits and courage with the gangsters, and turned his "local flavor" into a business legend. Watch how a Chaoshan boy used jokes to pile up a net worth of tens of billions in the mixed-race Huaqiangbei and write a money-making myth that belongs to the 2000s.
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Writing about selling mobile phones is like a spy novel
Writing about selling mobile phones is like a spy novel