| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JUNE 14, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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| INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN COVER STORY
Yang Yuanqing, Executive Director, Legend Holdings, China (int'l edition) YANG YUANQING IS THE REASON CHINA'S COMPUTER INDUSTRY IS THRIVING TODAY. So it's hard to believe he wanted to quit his job back in 1991 and head to a U.S. graduate school. That was popular among bright, young Chinese at the time. But when he offered his resignation at Legend Holdings, then a small computer company, the boss said no. Instead, he offered the whiz kid a new job as a sales manager. Yang accepted and has never looked back. Now Yang, 34, has risen to the company's top operational post, from which he has presided over Legend's remarkable success. From being mainly a distributor for multinationals, Legend has become China's top PC maker with profits of $35 million on sales of $1.5 billion last year. Next, Yang wants to sell a full package of PCs, Internet software, service providers, and portals to local Internet users. Says Yang: ''Our goal is educating Chinese how to best use the PC.'' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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