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China eyes innovation to spur growth

24 января, 2014

At 57 years old, Li Keren is at an age when most people start thinking about retirement.

But instead Mr Li has turned his hobby into a business and became an entrepreneur designing model aircraft.

But what makes Mr Li proudest are his innovations in the plane's design. He has built remote-controlled doors on the bottom of the aircraft that mean you can drop firecrackers when it is in flight.

It is all a bit of fun, he insists. But Mr Li is serious about protecting his designs.

"I fear that if I don't have a patent for my design that it would simply get stolen. For that reason, I don't even give people a drawing of my plan when asked."

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