It is widely known that Zhejiang entrepreneurs keep up with the trend and have unlimited wisdom as well as innovation. Road to Success - Inspirational Stories of 30 Zhejiang Entrepreneurs, recently published by China Market Press, once again gives us a taste of the spirit of Zhejiang entrepreneurs and the legend of their success.

Tongxiang in Zhejiang does not produce wool but has the largest woolen sweater market in China. Yuyao in Zhejiang does not produce plastics but has the largest plastic market in China. Haining in Zhejiang does not produce leather but has the largest leather market in China.  There is no forest in Jiashan, Zhejiang, but the place owns China's largest wood processing market.

Long Liangxian, president and editor-in-chief of Entrepreneurs Daily, highly praised Zhejiang entrepreneurs in the book's preface. He makes a summary of Zhejiang businessmen's spirit, which includes industrious and pragmatic entrepreneurship, pioneering and open-minded spirit, self-correcting and tolerant spirit, and thinking style of capturing market advantages and abiding by promises. "It is with such spirit that Zhejiang people have broken into a new world of entrepreneurial mode," he said. 

Coincidentally, the editorial team of this book includes native Zhejiang editors. During the interview, they said that many of the first footprints in the history of China's private economy were made by Zhejiang entrepreneurs. In the book, we can find the answer to the spiritual code of Zhejiang's development and the magic weapon to get out of the predicament. The pick of 30 inspirational stories of Zhejiang entrepreneurs is a small epitome of Zhejiang's economic development and a crucial key for us to understand Zhejiang's development.

Some people say while others are still waiting and seeing, Zhejiang entrepreneurs are already acting. This is what they like: once they are a step ahead of others, they will always be ahead of others.

(Compiled by Xu Yuhong, translated by Tao Mingzhou)