Its president, Feng Jun, founded the company in 1993, when he sold keyboards, taking a profit of only five yuan (then around 90 cents) apiece to encourage distributors to sell lots of them.

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Assume a five to seven percent annual increase in the value of the yuan for the foreseeable future.

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Seeing as the yuan is not a fully convertible currency, this may still take at least five years.

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