September 2020
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 53m
English
1944–
With a loan from a Chinese state-backed institute, Liu Chuanzhi founded the technology company Lenovo. Even though the loan came with many strings attached and Chuanzhi had little experience in business management, he successfully built the company into one of the world’s largest personal computer manufacturers.
Born in 1944, Liu Chuanzhi studied at the People’s Liberation Army Institute of Telecommunication Engineering in Xi’an, central China. In 1984, while a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, he acquired a loan from the Academy to set up computer company Legend ...
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