{"id":893593,"date":"2026-03-22T04:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/china-single-mum-starts-business-with-us100-runs-clothing-brand-earning-tens-of-millions-yearly\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:12:39","slug":"china-single-mum-starts-business-with-us100-runs-clothing-brand-earning-tens-of-millions-yearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/china-single-mum-starts-business-with-us100-runs-clothing-brand-earning-tens-of-millions-yearly\/","title":{"rendered":"China single mum starts business with US$100, runs clothing brand earning tens of millions yearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-qa=\"GenericArticle-Content\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">A young Chinese single mother who started with a street stall and just 700 yuan (US$100) to her name has built a successful nationwide clothing business.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The \u201cnew Chinese-style clothing\u201d brand, now earns tens of millions of yuan each year and its success has inspired many people online.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">Dong Na, a single mother born in the 1990s from Zhengzhou in northern China\u2019s Henan province, has attracted public attention after sharing her entrepreneurial story.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<figure data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dong Na, above, talks about the very serious strain all her hard work has placed on her. Photo: Weibo\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.i-scmp.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,width=1024,format=auto\/sites\/default\/files\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/10\/432b927f-8732-4fa9-ac11-c52661dc952a_46b57e21.jpg\" title=\"Dong Na, above, talks about the very serious strain all her hard work has placed on her. Photo: Weibo\"><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\">Dong Na, above, talks about the very serious strain all her hard work has placed on her. Photo: Weibo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">In 2012, Dong became a single mother with no savings and no stable income.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">At her most difficult moment, she even had to borrow money from relatives just to buy milk powder for her child.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The age and personal details of her child have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">She said she was only in her early twenties at the time, and while many of her peers were still living carefree lives under the protection of their parents, she had to shoulder the responsibility of raising a child alone.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p> Erasmo Lanz <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/people-culture\/trending-china\/article\/3346072\/china-single-mum-starts-business-us100-runs-clothing-brand-earning-tens-millions-yearly?utm_source=rss_feed\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Chinese single mother who started with a street stall and just 700 yuan (US$100) to her name has built a successful nationwide clothing business. The \u201cnew Chinese-style clothing\u201d brand, now earns tens of millions of yuan each year and its success has inspired many people online. Dong Na, a single mother born in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":893594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1827,22378],"tags":[6052,8046],"class_list":{"0":"post-893593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-china","8":"category-single","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-single"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}