China's Millennials Are Risk Takers - and They're Dreaming Big

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“Experimenters, moon-shooters and diverse” are the words 17-year-old Shanghai high schooler Owen Xu uses to define his generation.

The senior at the Stanford Online High School in China's financial capital has co-founded a startup focused on treating and reusing wastewater that aims to one day "solve problems affecting billions of people."