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In 2003, Shenzhen announced a ban on motorcycles to stop a crime wave of motorcycle-riding bandits. Three brothers, Sun Muqian, Sun Muchu, and Sun Muchai, together with partner Yao Li, were running a motorcycle repair shop in their hometown of Chaoshan at that time and saw an opportunity. They rented a small factory in Longgang, in the northeastern part of Shenzhen, and started making electric bicycles by hand, exploiting a loophole in the motorcycle ban.
Fast forward to the present, and the business they started, TAILG Technology Co. Ltd., is now China’s third largest electric micromobility vehicle maker. It moved its headquarters from Shenzhen to Wuxi, about an hour by train from Shanghai, between 2007 and 2009, to better position itself geographically to build a national footprint.