The factory and offices of Guan Yuxian - Chairwoman of ORG Can-Making - are located in Eastern Beijing, around a one-hour drive in the same direction as the airport. It is Sunday but in China this is relatively unimportant. In this country, business meetings and business meals on weekends is absolutely normal. Once I enter the factory premises and the offices hall, I immediately realise that large sums of money have to be handled there and that the business has to yield high profits. At the same time, it was evident they were working with large-scale enterprise organization systems and management styles.

They take me to the meeting room. As it frequently happens in China, ...

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