Ancient trading street for small goods helps fuel some big dreams

Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of stories about ordinary people who have made an extraordinary contribution to China's reform and opening-up over the past four decades.

Zheng Juxuan started his first business in 1979 selling buttons from a bamboo bed on a sidewalk in Wuhan's Hanzheng Street.

The street, which runs along a central stretch of the Yangtze River, has been a magnet for small-commodities traders in Central China for about 500 years.