Chinese tycoons' offices

Liu Chuanzhi stands in his office in Beijing on Nov. 12, 2013. Liu Chuanzhi is a benchmark figure among the first generation entrepreneurs of China. He founded Lenovo as a small computer sales company in a shack near the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing in 1984. After 30 years of development, the group has now become the world's second largest PC maker and a multinational personal technology company that develops desktop and notebook computers, workstations, servers, storage devices, IT management software, and other related products and services. Liu said, "Although I started my business at 40, I still think I was born at the right time." [Xinhua photo]