Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built pdfdrive com

Chapter Three: From Student to Teacher
1
. A “
baozhang
.”
2
. The work involves five elements: 
taolu
(solo hand and weapons
routines/forms), 
neigong
and 
qigong
(breathing, movement and awareness
exercises, and meditation), 
tuishou
(response drills), and 
sanshou
(self-
defense techniques).
3
. “Benke.”
4
. “Zhuanke.”
5
. Although he probably coined the phrase much earlier.
Chapter Four: Hope and Coming to America
1
. Classified as 
getihu
(literally “single body units”) or individual
businesses, and 
siying qiye
, or privately owned businesses.
2
. Formerly named Lin’an, it was the capital of the Southern Song dynasty
from 1138 to 1276. In the thirteenth century, when Europe was in the Dark
Ages, Hangzhou is thought to have been the most populous city on earth,
with more than one and a half million inhabitants. Marco Polo and famous
Arab adventurer Ibn Battuta are both believed to have visited the city.
3
. China Post only guaranteed delivery in three days, but exporters needed
to get shipping forms to the port overnight. By taking the midnight train
from Hangzhou, Nie delivered the forms in time, charging multiple
exporters 100 yuan for each form but paying only once the 30 yuan needed
for the train ticket.
4
. Yunda, YTO, and ZTO.
5
. As the Communist Party appointed both the senior bank officials and the
senior executives of the SOEs, for better or worse there was no need for
independent credit assessments and controls.
6
. By the late 1990s Hong Kong and other overseas Chinese entrepreneurs
had set up more than 50,000 factories in Guangdong Province, which has
links to a diaspora of overseas Chinese numbering 20 million people. After
Deng Xiaoping’s southern tour, which established a number of special
economic zones, including Shenzhen, the overseas Chinese, including many
rich entrepreneurs, provided a ready supply of financing and export
markets. Guangdong’s location, adjacent to Hong Kong, and the world’s
busiest shipping routes gave it a further edge over Zhejiang.
7
. Written by journalist Zhou Jishan.

---

8
. According to a September 1995 article in 
Hangzhou Daily
.

---