他原是温州市邮电局的一名干部。1994年,他的妻子下岗失业,为了能多挣些钱贴补生活,他毅然辞去了邮电局的工作。当时有人说他脑子出了毛病。但他有他的打算,他细心研究过,日本的打火机在中国销势旺盛。他筹划着办个打火机厂,并且一定要击败日本人。他对关心他的同事说:“我不混出个人样来,不回来见你们!” He was originally a cadre at Wenzhou Post Office. In 1994, his wife was laid off and unemployed. In order to make more money to supplement his life, he resolutely resigned from the post office. Someone at the time said that he had a problem with his brain. But he had his plan, he carefully studied, Japan’s sales of lighters strong in China. He planned to set up a lighter factory, and must beat the Japanese. He said to his colleagues who care about him: “I do not want to come here and see you.”