When Leaf Hua Li joined Shenzhen-based Tencent in 2000 as employee number 18, the tech start-up was barely known; it had not yet come up with WeChat and indeed only became a listed company four years later. But it was part of an emerging ecosystem that included Huawei, drone-maker DJI, Ping An Insurance, the Beijing Genomics Institute and others that would soon put Shenzhen on the global map and attracted the brightest young minds from all over China.
2000年,當李華(Leaf Hua Li)加入總部位于深圳的騰訊(Tencent)成為第18位創始員工時,騰訊還是一家名不見經傳的科技初創企業;當時它尚未推出微信(WeChat),要再過四年才成為一家上市公司。但它是當時剛出現的一個生態系統的一部分,這個生態系統中還有華為(Huawei)、無人機制造商大疆(DJI)、中國平安(Ping An Insurance)、華大基因(BGI)等公司。這些公司很快將使深圳享譽全球,它們也吸引著來自全中國各地的最聰明的年輕人才。