Mettle earns metal man a medal

Curtis Shih talks with a colleague at one of Sunspring Industry's factories in the Dawang Comprehensive Economic Development Zone in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province. Taiwan native, who runs a plant in Guangdong, wins prestigious labor honor Curtis Shih said he found more than just sugar cane fields when he arrived in the Dawang Comprehensive Economic Development Zone in Zhaoqing city, Guangdong province, in 1997. Meanwhile, Shih's company has become one of the major metal manufacturing plants in the city, with more than 70 percent of its products sold to Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States and Japan. Production at the company, which has more than 1,800 employees, enjoyed year-on-year growth of 36 percent last year, said Shih, who is also executive vice-president of the Zhaoqing City Taiwan Compatriots Investment Enterprise Association.