Liu Chuanzhi, founder of PC maker Lenovo, 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." [Photo / Xinhua]