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Yellow Sheep River used to be a poor mountain village in Gulang County of Gansu Province, now has become a e-business village in western China. The person to create the mystery is Mr. Sayling Wen.

Mr. Sayling Wen was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. He was born in 1948 and later graduated from Taiwan University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Over the course of his career, he served as general manager of Jin Bao Electronics in1973, as well as general manager, president and finally vice-chairman of Inventec Group in 1980.

During his time as vice-chairman of Inventec Group, Mr. Wen was noted as a far-sighted visionary and placed in charge of strategic development. He used his keen business instincts to readily adapt to the lightening innovations in high-technology.

Though he rose to become a leader in enterprise, Mr. Sayling Wen's childhood was spent in an impoverished rural village in Taiwan. It was a time of immense hardship marked by lighting oil lamps, catching glowworms, and fetching well water. However, Mr. Wen also witnessed the progress of Taiwan's economic development as the island transformed from great poverty to great wealth. He was able to demonstrate his concern for the future of Taiwan and mainland China by drawing on his business acuity.

Mr. Sayling Wen was not only an outstanding individual in the field of high-technology, but also a respected scholar holding dear one long-cherished dream.At the age of 50, Mr. Wen retired from active daily business. He proceeded to found the Ming Ri Workroom in conjunction with famous cartoonist, Mr. Cai Zhi-Zhong. He deeply believed that culture was the very heartbeat of the nation, and that technology must form the foundation of new culture. He launched the English One-Step software program, World of Books, as well as authored multi-media and "handy" works. He also implemented the Town and Talent Project in mainland China in order to carry out the theory of developing western China within 10 years. Mr. Wen was always deeply concerned about what he could do for his country and how to best make the Chinese dream a reality.

Mr. Wen was renowned as a world traveler, forever roaming the globe and settling temporarily in any number of locations. His definition of family was his two suitcases and relatives. Endowed with an idealistic spirit and fortified with persistence, he lived out of hotels for 300 days a year. His only companions were his Compaq laptop computer and endless cartons of his favorite beverage. However, Sayling died of apoplexy in Taiwan in Dec of 2003. Mr. Wen left a unique and indelible mark in the changing world of high-technology and human civilization everywhere.