Following Tenren's successful experience in Taiwan with establishing a rest stop with shops and restaurants by a major highway in Toufen, Miaoli County, Lee saw the business possibilities of China's freeway network, which has recently undergone enormous expansion. He won contracts to manage rest stops on the Xiamen-Shantou freeway in Fujian and Sichuan's Chengdong freeway, the first private organization permitted to begin such an enterprise in China.
由於早年天仁在台灣苗栗頭份省道旁設休息站、門市及餐廳的成功經驗，讓李瑞河看好近年中國不斷修建完工的高速公路，更史無前例地，以私營公司的名義在廈汕高速公路及四川的成東高速公路，各簽下一個休息站服務區。