'The most important person is gone': Heartbreak of a family of missing Malaysia Airlines passenger
Brothers Li Peng and Li Zhi ran a business together with factories in China and Malaysia; Li Zhi was aboard doomed flight MH370
Li Zhi and his brother Li Peng were a dream team.
Zhi was the older, logical, careful, left-brained brother. Peng was the younger, eager, creative free spirit. Peng, 38, always dreamed of being an entrepreneur. But Zhi, three years older and with a wife, wanted to climb the corporate ladder. The little brother nudged his sibling for years. In 2006, Zhi quit his job as a quality control engineer for Motorola and joined his brother in business.
The duo opened two factories in China and one in Malaysia. Zhi took care of planning, structure, the legal mumbo jumbo. Peng focused on people, and his wife handled administration and accounting.
Zhi was stubborn, and he wanted his brother to be more cautious. Yet they were close. The brothers and their wives lived with their mother in the same apartment block in the northern city of Tianjin .
The next 50 years of my life will be very different. Very different
The family never imagined they'd have to go on without Zhi.