In 1988, a 26-year-old technician took over a debt-ridden street transformer repair shop in Xinjiang with 53 employees and no hope. Today, that company is TBEA — the world’s largest transformer manufacturer by capacity and the only one with mass production capability of ±1100kV UHV DC technology. This is the amazing story of how one man’s choice and a series of bold acquisitions built China’s transformer champion.