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YANG Zongfu and his Noah’s Ark
Born into a farmer family in Jiangxi Province, Yang graduated from Nanchang University majoring in economic management. The “invention lunatic” now owns 262 patents covering electronics, communication, chemistry and costume.
But it was his Noah’s Ark that shot him to overnight fame. He spent two years designing and manufacturing the ark in the Zhejiang Province city of Yiwu, a famous small commodities manufacturing and trading center. He calls them Noah’s Arks because “that is a symbol of human motivation and innovation when it comes to rescuing ourselves.”
Yang says the durable pods can float, survive extreme weather and temperature, roll on the ground and survive falls from high cliffs. They are also lined with silver fiber and impervious to nuclear radiation, he claims.
“I don’t really believe in doomsday, but I’ve saved an ark for myself,” Yang said in 2012.
Each steel pod is 6 meters in diameter and equipped with food and water for a year. Some made-to-order pods have a television, refrigerator and Internet connection.
Du Wenda and his flying saucer
The 52-year-old is a farmer from Anhui Province who started his dream of making a flying saucer when he was 15. It took him 20 years to make his first flying saucer. Now he wants to make one capable of carrying people.
Li Yuming and his submarine
Li was a shoemaker in Wuhan, capital city of central China’s Hubei Province. In 2004, when Li was 66 years old, the submarine that he made failed in an attempt to dive into the water.
Zhang Dousan and his helicopter
Born into a farmer family in 1956 in southern China’s Guangdong Province, Zhang was unable to finish primary school. But he started to make his helicopter at the age of 40. In 1998, his first helicopter flew into the sky with a continuous flying ability (range) of 500 kilometers.
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