Inside China's Elite Genghis Bodyguard School: Becoming A Bodyguard | TIME

Описание: Training bodyguards has been big business in China for years. The country has the world’s highest number of billionaires and all the elite trappings that go with them — including a need for private-security personnel.
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Squaring off in two rows, the new recruits at China’s elite Genghis bodyguard school pound each other's bare chests, faces grimacing in obvious pain. The school's founder, Chen Yongqing, strolls smiling down their ranks. After a few minutes, he blows his whistle and checks for red, bloody welts. Those whose skin has sufficiently ruptured are excused the next round of punishment; those with insufficiently crimson blemishes must go again.

Chen, a former Special Forces soldier specializing in counterterrorism, started his school in 2008 to cash in on that demand. “Before, people just thought bodyguards were thugs or gangsters,” says Chen, clad in fleece top and Ed Hardy jeans. “But we wanted to show that it can be a legitimate profession.”

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