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Private entrepreneurs are no longer enemies of the people, but billioniare Yin Mingshan's application to join the Communist Party keeps getting rejected

• By Peter Harmsen / AFP

The image of tiny bound feet stepping gingerly across rough countryside is etched into the memory of Yin Mingshan, one of China's richest men. The feet, a sign of nobility in old China, belong to his mother, and as the recollections from half a century ago gain shape and color, Yin little by little remembers being a shivering 12-year-old boy thrown into a hostile world.

The Communists had just seized power, and in the city of Chongqing they were channeling all their restless zeal into land reform, a euphemism for merciless war on the former ruling classes.

"They chased my mother and me from our home, took away everything we owned, and sent us packing with just what we could carry on our backs -- a pair of chopsticks, a bowl, five pounds of rice," he said.

Today, aged 67, Yin exudes power and influence as he sits in his dark suit in a spacious office overlooking the sprawling factory compound of motorbike-making conglomerate Lifan Group in suburban Chongqing.

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Lifan Group

Chinese motorcycle and automobile manufacturer

Lifan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. (Lifan Group or Lifan,^[3][4]Chinese: 力帆, lit. 'Power Sail') is a civilian owned Chinese motorcycle and automobile manufacturer headquartered in Chongqing, China. It was founded in 1992 and began to manufacture automobiles in 2005, with license-built microvans and a small sedan developed by Lifan.^[5]

Lifan's vehicle products include passenger cars, microvans, dirt bike engines, entry-level motorcycles, mini-vehicles, and commercial trucks.^[6] The company's non-vehicle-related activities include the manufacture of sports shoes and winemaking.^[7] Outside of China, Lifan is currently best known for the sale of small passenger cars in emerging markets.

History

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Lifan was founded by former political dissident Yin Mingshan in 1992 as a motorcycle repair shop with a staff of nine. Mingshan has a long history of conflict with government authority but currently enjoys a positive relationship with the Chinese Communist Party.^[7] The company was originally called "Chongqing Hongda Auto Fittings Research Centre".^[8] The company was renamed Lifan Industry Group in 1997.^[8] It expanded into