Making work part of lifestyle

Alan Ai leads co-working space firm WeWork's efforts to turn offices in China into joyful communities

Alan Ai, general manager of the China unit of WeWork, a provider of co-working spaces, has vivid memories of the dynamism of the country's economic reform and opening-up that started in 1978.

He was a child then, and his family felt the positive impact of the opening-up process. That, in turn, was to have a profound impact on his personal life and career.