Williams met Li, a mining engineer, in 1997 while running a construction materials firm in Tianjin.

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Mr Lewis originally began studying at the university college in Swansea in 1927 with the aim of becoming a mining engineer, but switched courses and transferred to Aberystwyth in 1928.

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While working there, he went to a mining college and became an engineer.

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