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Article: China's capitalist frontier: once a subtropical backwater, Hainan island is a money magnet. (Pacific Summit)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 22, 1993
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Lin Ruijun's rise has been meteoric. Like most of his generation, Lin joined the Red Guards, rampaging through the streets of Shanghai in 1966 during China's Cultural Revolution. "Everyone was a Red Guard then," he says. When he graduated from college in 1967, he was sent back to "school" in poverty-stricken Anhui province for a year of tilling the soil and mindlessly memorizing nuggets of wisdom from the writings of Mao Zedong. After 17 years of teaching high school science in Anhui, Lin got his big break. In 1987, he landed a job as a clerk at the Pearl River Enterprises Co. in booming Guangzhou.
Today, Lin's name card folds open to list a dozen ...