Racing from cyberspace to the marketplace

E-gaming is becoming big business in China and is spawning a new generation of handset heroes, as Sun Xiaochen reports.

Dreams sometimes start in the most unlikely places - for example, a stuffy basement Internet bar in Shaoyang, a small city in Central China's Hunan province, where rebellious teenagers hang out after school.

Zhang Ning, aka xiao8, his ID in the online game community, was once one of these "hooligans" as he immersed himself in the virtual cyber-world as an escape from his parents and the challenges posed by real life.