Chen Wangshan, an extremely poor young man in the southwestern mountainous area, started with a hatchet and thirty yuan in 1980. He has experienced industrial start-up, trade arbitrage, aviation cross-border, real estate empire, collapse at the peak, imprisonment and reflection, and second entrepreneurial venture in the barren hills in his seventies - ups and downs in the past forty-five years. His personal destiny is a microcosm of China's business history in the past forty years of reform and opening up.
