To: energyplay who wrote (55684 ) 11/7/2004 1:46:07 PM From: BubbaFred Respond to "Can a pair of hustling immigrants with little experience build an electronics giant?" Heck, I met a fellow in Shanghai who owns of an architectural firm and has 51% ownership of a fancy restaurant who has a humble beginning as a common laborer at building construction sites only 10 years ago. He came to Shanghai from the next door poor agricultural province but used his other awareness skills to go beyond common laborer status. He is not even a high school graduate. He married the accountant of the architectural firm, so his finances is under control. Yeah, I spoke to him through interpreter and developed much respect for him. Smooth, easy going, moderately soft spoken fellow, but super sharp. He must have plenty of people skills, can read people. And here is the scary thing - there are many many more like him there in China. It also points out the future of China. In many respects they are where US was in early 1900's and there is no doubt so much capital is flowing into China just the way Europeans were pouring capital into US in late 1800's and early 1900's. Railroads and new factories were big part of US industrialization then.
