Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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Catalog King "Ye Jianhua was originally a photography entrepreneur. One day, Hu Jinlin approached him and asked him to take a product catalog for his motor products. Inspired by this, Ye specifically took catalogs for companies in Liushi Town. He has a bit of a sales mind. He always marks the product name and basic data on the catalog, and also indicates the "national price" and "Liuzhou market price" respectively. Distributors who know nothing about electrical appliances go to various places, and as soon as they take out this catalog, it is clear at a glance. He was sentenced to one and a half years in prison for being listed as one of the "Eight Great Kings" in this business. After his release from prison, Ye Jianhua dared not do this business again, so he opened a photo studio, an advertising company, and a car repair shop, and the "Catalog King" eventually became a thing of the past.

The youngest but longest serving prisoner is the "King of Mining Lanterns" Cheng Buqing. After he was sentenced by public trial, his family could no longer establish themselves in Liushi, and his parents and siblings were forced to flee to other places. After Cheng Buqing was released from prison, he went to Shanghai to do business, but his whereabouts are unknown. The fate of 'Contract King' Li Fangping is very similar to that of Cheng. After being imprisoned for four months, he was released and fled to Shanghai, and later settled in Canada. Wang Maiqian, known as the 'King of Old Goods', died of liver cancer in 1995 at the age of 50.