Beginning as a Gold Medal Buyer in 1980

In 1980, Qin Dong, a young employee of Yunshan Textile Factory, was reborn. Faced with the leaky roof at home and his younger siblings who were waiting to be fed, Qin Dong made a bold decision: He applied to be transferred to the supply and marketing department, which was the most difficult and tiring position in the factory and no one wanted to go there. From then on, he became a buyer who traveled across the country carrying a yellow satchel and riding a green leather car. What others see as drudgery becomes a gold mine in his eyes. In a coal mine in Shanxi Province, he exchanged several boxes of unsalable cans for coal that was in short supply; In the bungalow in Shanghai, he used his sharp tongue to win the share of the latest high-quality fabrics; in the tea house in Guangfu, he negotiated the first foreign trade order of the whole factory over morning tea. Some people say that he is a "second-rate dealer", while others respect him as the "God of Wealth of Qin". In this era when supplies were allocated and services were handled by notes, Qin Dong used yellowed letters of introduction to weave a vast network leading to the richest man. "I'm not doing business, I'm just exchanging what I have." - Qin Dong, who stood at the pinnacle of the times, said this many years later.