Start-up Stories: Meng Fang Ning

Meng Fang Ning is in her sixties, and owns and runs a successful online business selling snacks and other products to customers all over China.

Ms Meng is very proud of her membership of the Communist party, an organisation she's belonged to for many years, and she has managed to find a way to reconcile her values with the realities of running a business by following the teachings of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping.

Ms Meng chose the screen name of 'Marxist Old Lady', which she says makes clear to customers and business partners what her values are.

At first, she only sold a small number of items, but today the range has expanded to include more than 200 products.

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