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People: Entreprenuer making small flasks a big business

Hu Yi, from Jinhua, Zhejiang province, has made small flasks into a big business by selling 3 million of them to European and US markets annually. About 10 years ago, when Hu first inherited his family business, the stainless steel flask manufacturing company was about to go bankrupt. To revive the business, he won a $500,000 order from Russia and invested all his money into purchasing laser beam welding instruments, improving product quality and labor productivity.