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Fortune
Nicholas Gordon

How Christina Zhu turned Sam’s Club into Walmart’s unlikely growth engine in China

(Credit: GRAHAM UDEN FOR FORTUNE)

Christina Zhu, the head of Walmart’s China business, remembers when Chinese shoppers did not have much choice.

As a child, she watched her parents wake up at 4:30 a.m. on Sundays to go to the wet market. “They had to haggle, and high-quality produce wasn’t always guaranteed,” Zhu, born in 1973, recalled at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau in September.

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