As long as Ren is around, there will be at least one Dhobi at work since he isn't likely to have enough money to retire unless his children get one of those high-tech jobs and support him in his old age.
The rags-to-riches story of Ren Zhengfei, the chief executive, is fleshed out: the son of rural schoolteachers, he left the army in 1983, founding the company with savings of 21, 000 yuan four years later.