This story has been adapted into the comic drama "1993: Heading South, From an 85-Yuan Monthly Wage to a Factory with a Thousand Workers"
“I owe you my life. I'll repay you with the entire Pearl River Delta.”
[This book tells the story of a generation's blood, tears, and youth, adapted from personal experience]
[No System · No rebirth · True-to-life 1990s entrepreneurship · Manufacturing comeback · A formidable husband-and-wife team]
This isn't a feel-good power fantasy. It's the bloody history of an era in manufacturing, forged by migrant workers who staked their lives on making it.
In 1993, Chen Jianjun was tricked into a sweatshop in Dongguan and given the number 037.
In 1994, with a scar on his face and a woman at his side, he fought his way out through the barbed-wire fence.
In 2004, he was the chairman of Shunda Tools, and she was his sole business partner.
From prisoner in a sweatshop to hardware magnate,
from a cramped workshop in a tenement block to a major export factory,
they braved the storms of the Pearl River Delta and covered in ten years the distance others traveled in a lifetime.
Factory management, foreign trade negotiations, battles over equity, capital-backed takeovers...
Every order was a life-or-death gamble, and every expansion a wager on their future.
Dedicated to the migrant workers who headed south during the Reform and Opening-Up era, trading their youth for a chance to survive.
The hardships of life. The pursuit of goals through struggle.