Watson has been coaching in China for the last decade and has been working with Ye since he was nine, describing the teenager's potential as "limitless".

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So, Mr. Ye resorted to what he knew best: He drew sketches for the renovation.

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He recently became a father when his wife, Ye Li, a former Chinese national team volleyball player gave birth to a baby girl in May 2010.

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The publishing monolith made his fortunes in the pages of ye old paper-based books, but it seems that he'll be paying off future mortgages with something else entirely.

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The Chinese youngsters will be up against the likes of Europe's Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley and Scotland's Ryder Cup player Paul Lawrie at the Binhai Lake course, but if Ye finds that youth is not quite a match for experience he has a secret weapon to hand.

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From that day on, he ended phone conversations with the phrase, 'Ye bani, ' or "I love you" in the Sonrai language.

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At 5 feet 8 and 141 pounds, Ye has better power-to-weight ratio than counterparts in other countries, he said.

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He worked extensively in theatre, writing the music for the play The Fairly Mak Ye Work.

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He claims the mall has a 20% occupancy rate measured by commercial area, although Ye declined to give specifics when challenged on that number.

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