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SHENZHEN, China - From Alibaba to Tencent, Chinese tech firms rarely find massive success outside of their own huge domestic market.

One start-up from Shenzen is doing business with thousands of schools around the world. Makeblock is the company teaching children to build robots and code at the same time. 

Jasen Wang, CEO & Founder of Makeblock: "This is a robot. It's like animal."

When Jasen Wang was a young boy toys were not robot, just model cars or plastic figures, and even those toys were out of reach.

Jasen Wang: "I grew up in very poor family. My parents, they were farmers."