Many of Ms Li's neighbours have similar stories. Juyi is based in Wenzhou, a city 250km south of Shanghai whose resilient entrepreneurs have made it the standard-bearer of China's private-sector economy. By some estimates, the city has 300,000 small businesses.
But there is one thing about Juyi that does not quite chime with Wenzhou's reputation for rugged individualism. An entire floor of the company's office is given over to celebrating the Chinese Communist party and one of the rooms for party members boasts six imposing framed portraits: in order, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Deng.
China this week celebrates the 30th anniversary of its “reform and opening up” policy, when Deng Xiaoping loosened controls on the economy and unleashed a long stretch of high-octane growth that has pulled tens of millions out of poverty. Concerts, seminars and speeches will mark the event.