In a few years, it was to become China’s first multi-million dollar tech company, touted to be China’s IBM. He was among those who had bankrolled the movement, hoping that the pro-democracy protests could usher in political reform, transparency and economic opening-up. “Yes, so the government said that our company was the ‘command, staff and logistics department of the 1989 student movement,” Wan said. Unfortunately, 1989 ended such a golden period of development and the fate of the Stone company began to reverse, Wan said. Clearly, the accusations were serious enough for Wan not to be able to return to China in the last 30 years since 1989.

Source: Hindustan Times June 03, 2019 12:22 UTC