Star migrant engineer shares secrets of trade and battles injustice
Like millions of migrant workers who left rural homes for job opportunities in cities following the introduction of reform and opening-up in 1978, Huang Jiusheng started from a humble beginning.
Unable to afford further schooling, he dropped out of high school at the age of 17 in 1982 and went to Zhengzhou, the provincial capital of Henan, where he started peddling rice and laying bricks at construction sites.
But he has since achieved things few of his peers could even imagine emulating, like attending a top Peking University program for corporate executives and addressing thousands of fellow freshman in 2013, or being received seven times by the country's top leaders, including President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, over the last decade.
