Hello, I'm Stephen Carroll.
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And I'm Caroline Hepgit in London, we're the hosts of the Bloomberg Daybreak Europe podcast.
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A few quick notes before we get started.
It's customary in Chinese for family names to come before given names.
So Xu Yanjun, Xu is his family name and Yanjun is his given name.
But almost everyone we spoke to and almost every document we reviewed for this story referred to him as Xu.