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QQ's ten-year service in China
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Transtlate Many Chinese Internet users chat on-line with the help of a "penguin", or QQ, an instant Internet communication tool that put the bird as its image logo.
Ma Huateng, 38, made all this possible in ten years.
A lover of star watching, Ma described himself as a combination of idealist and realist.
"I'm introverted. My friends believed I was too shy to find a girl friend," Ma said. He found a girlfriend, now his wife, through chatting on-line with QQ.
Born in China's southern sea-surrounded Hainan Province, Ma loved watching stars and dreamed to be an astronomer.
He moved to Shenzhen in southern Guangdong Province when he was in middle school along with his parents. The booming city dragged Ma's dreams from the sky to the ground: the star-watcher began locking his eyes on the real world.
Ma was impressed by the slogan "Time is money, Efficiency is life" painted everywhere in the city. It was the most famous slogan born in Shenzhen, representing China's spirit of the reforms and opening-up.
The pioneering city provided chances for Ma to watch burgeoning reforms even in experiments. He saw people carry big bags of cash to buy stocks at the Shenzhen exchange market after China launched capital market in the late 1980s in Shenzhen and Shanghai.
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