Chinese property tycoon works as street cleaner six days a week to teach her children the value of hard work
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 5, 2013 21:41
A Chinese property tycoon is working as a street cleaner – because she wants to teach her children the virtue of hard work.
Millionaire Yu Youzhen, 53, owns 17 flats and has become wealthy on the back of the Chinese property boom.
But instead of pampering herself with her wealth and enjoying lazy days at the salon, spa or shopping, she instead insists on getting up at dawn six days a week to sweep, scrub and empty bins along a two mile stretch of busy road in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
‘I want to be a role model for my son and daughter. I don’t want to sit around idly and eat away my fortune,’ said Yu.
She said she didn’t want to give her children the impression that being a rich landlady and living off proceeds from her enviable portfolio was an easy way of life.
‘That lifestyle would only harm them in the long run,’ Yu added.
Both of her children are wage-earners with her son earning a salary of £200 per month as a driver and her daughter earning £300 a month in an unspecified job, according to Chinese newspaper reports.
Yu earns a measly monthly salary of £130 from her less than glamorous employer – the Wuchang District Urban Management Bureau.
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