The Country in My Heart

2020-09-30 10:11:44 source: Zhejiang News App


The holiday season begins with China's National Day on Oct. 1, marking 71 years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. What does it mean to love our country? We can better understand the love of our country by realizing what it means by making contributions to our motherland in our daily life. Since the founding of our Republic, brave patriots have worked to give us the many freedoms we enjoy today. Patriotism is not just a type of lip service or cliché, it is also about our dedication to our work, our contribution to the marginalized groups, as well as our love for the whole society. We do have a lot of things to do in order to make our country a better nation. 


This special report of "The Country in My Heart" has selected eight inspiring stories from ordinary Zhejiang people who have put their patriotic words into practice. 


刘乐霞.jpeg

(Teacher Liu Lexia)


Liu Lexia, a veteran teacher of many years, is widely known as "Teacher Liu" by her students and neighbors. In her retirement, she has been dedicated to off-campus counseling services for a few students who are mentally ill. She is always reading for some help.

 

In order to help students who suffered from financial hardship, Teacher Liu has been always trying to do better funding works for them.

 

In addition, Liu has also helped many deviant youths at her own expense and has often contacted them to care about their mental health statues, trying to help them to set more accurate standards and to be more realistic in evaluating themselves so that they can have a healthy self-concept.

 

Like many other retired people, retirement is an opportunity to pursue lifelong hobbies or interests. Teacher Liu has formed an art association for old people. The group of old buddies often plan programs by themselves and go to rural areas, enterprises, or nursing homes to make voluntary performances, thus enriching the leisure time of those people living there.

 

Teacher Liu has always said that she wants to live an enriching and enthusiastic life without any regrets. And also, she indicated in the interview that she is always ready to offer some help to people who are in need.

 

张蓓蓓.jpg

(Ms. Zhang Beibei)


After graduating from the school, Zhang Beibei was assigned to a small village in Pingyang County, Wenzhou City to work as a barefoot doctor. At that time, transportation from Wenzhou to the countryside was very inconvenient. It was only possible to get there by bus or even on foot. The medical facilities were also poorly equipped. During the next 30 years, she had also served as a nurse, the head nurse, and the director of the nursing department of a local hospital in Pingyang County.

 

At the beginning of her retirement, she got the chance to return back to downtown Wenzhou City. During her morning exercises, she said that she had always found some uncivilized behaviors such as throwing away wastes optionally and damaging the environment, which made her feel very uncomfortable. Seeing so, she wished that she could make some contributions to society rather than be a financial burden. Grandma Zhang thereafter organized a group of 52 retired people to voluntarily pick up wastes and protect the river in their free time.

 

For almost 7 years, these veteran volunteers have insisted on such kind of works on a daily and weekly basis. They aim to build a strong volunteer crew of environmental protection, so as to make their local community a better habitable place.

 

Grandma Zhang said during the interview that, she had a very deep feeling for China, her motherland. It makes her feel proud that her hometown Wenzhou has already turned into a picturesque, scenery, and prosperous habitable city. The 71 years of history have made backwardness a thing of the past. She just feels so proud of China. 

 

徐海亚.jpeg

(Xu Haiya)


Xu Haiya, who was born in a small village of the Pubagang Town, the largest county of Taizhou City, joined the only listed company in the local community after graduating from the university. In 2008, she came across with nutrition and health sciences occasionally and fell in love with this vibrant industry. Thereafter, she quit her job and went home to start her ecological agriculture career.  

 

Up to now, Xu's farmland has expanded from the original dozens of acres to the present 110 acres, and the number of agricultural varieties has also increased from two or three to 40 or 50. In addition, the whole processing is traceable, pesticide-free, green, and organic, thus truly realizing the zero distance "from the head of the field to the table".

 

With the rise of the Internet, Xu began to dabble in the new e-commerce arena. In 2015, she registered an official account on WeChat and also opened stores on other online shopping platforms such as Ele.me, Meituan, Youzan, and so on. Every season, her team will launch various online campaigns to attract customers, thus boosting more online orders, as well as offline purchases.

 

The farm produces a wide range of fruits and vegetables, including cherry tomatoes, iced grass, fruit kohlrabi, chestnut pumpkins, kohlrabi, and sky watermelons, all of which will be sold to customers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. The annual sales usually amount to more than 4 million yuan, according to Xu.

 

In order to improve the income level of her neighborhood, Xu has set up five outreach bases to integrate her neighbors’ good products into the new e-commerce retail channels, so as to help them open the market sales. With the help of Xu Haiya, the annual output value of the base has reached 200,000 yuan, which quadrupled several times than the amount of those previous years. In the future, Xu will also set up two new bases in the Shaliu Street to explore new varieties, new technologies, and new models and further expand the market.

 

张旭霞.jpeg

(Zhang Xuxia)


Zhang Xuxia is a post-80s who was born in a village of the Rui'an City in Wenzhou City. In 2016, her life path was totally changed by a misdiagnosis. Thanks to God, it was just a mistake and would not impact her life at all.

 

After that, she discovered the new world in her hometown where the tranquil environment and scenery make her calm down and relax. She told herself that the mountains were so full of treasures and it was just quite good to do agriculture here.

 

At the beginning of 2017, Zhang came up with the idea of joining agriculture. In that year, she and several like-minded partners set up a company and started the innovative and entrepreneurial work of integrating cultures and creativity into the traditional agricultural industry.

 

Pingyangkeng Town is next to Gaolou Town, where there are ten thousand of acres of bamboo forests and ecological fields, as well as the fragrant Nanshan Suomian noodles and the world's intangible cultural heritage- wooden types. There are abundant agricultural specialty resources here. However, due to its remote geographical location and inconvenient transportation, agricultural development has always been in a low and scattered state. Under this background, a new public platform called "Shankang Agriculture" came into being in November of 2017.

 

The platform consists of 22 village collectives, which now have merged into 8 villages. Its original intention was to build a platform to push local high-quality agricultural products to the market and solve the problem of "thinning out".

 

Nowadays, Shankang Agriculture has established a professional team integrating agricultural product development, the building of featured agricultural base, and platform operations.

 

Just when "Shankang Agriculture " is flourishing, the COVID-19 in early 2020 has brought unexpected difficulties to Zhang's team.

 

After a few intensive discussions, Zhang and her partners decided to switch to the live-streaming model. So far, Zhang’s team has built up its own live-streaming group. “What we need to do now is to build up the live-streaming bases, standardize the process and train more "influencers of the countryside", so that in the future, those villagers can advertise their own agricultural products by their own", she said.

 

郑霞.jpeg

(Doctor Zheng Xia)


On the morning of September 9th, in the critical care unit of Building 5, Qingchun Hospital District, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical College, the reporter met Zheng Xia who was making the rounds of the wards. After receiving the honor of being an outstanding individual for the tremendous contributions and achievements in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctor Zheng rushed back to the work immediately.

 

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctor Zheng, is the first expert of Zhejiang Province, dispatched to aid Wuhan, joined the national critical expert group, and fought against the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly 72 days in the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital.

 

From being at a loss dealing with the virus, in the beginning, to gradually figuring out the treatments, Doctor Zheng had successfully stabilized the patients' conditions and finally helped them to recover. Doctor Zheng Zheng Xia had never retreated from the front line and had always kept her words of saving the people first.

 

After constant exploration and research, Doctor Zheng and her team found that continuous prone position ventilation can improve the condition of critically ill patients, especially the oxygenation index of tracheal intubation patients, and strive for more time for patients. In mid-February, a patient in his 50s was admitted to the ICU ward.

 

The patient weight more than 90 kilograms and need seven or eight medical staff to help him turn over and ventilate in a prone position. Every time, with a look, a gesture, everyone would understand and come to the bedside to help him. The patient was unable to speak but showed his gratitude with gestures. After tracheal intubation, the patient's respiratory state deteriorated again. The team used a non-invasive ventilator to assist in the treatment and finally rescued the patient back. Soon, the patient had returned to the state of oxygen inhalation through a nasal catheter and stable breathing.

 

Zheng and her colleagues worked all day in the ICU, more than 10 hours a day, racing against time and fighting against the disease. Relying on the perseverance and great love of not fearing death and sacrificing themselves to saving lives, Zheng and her colleagues are had done their best to treat every patient as far as possible.

 

李伟文.jpeg

(Doctor Li Weiwen)


After receiving the commendation in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Li Weiwen's WeChat account continuously received messages of praise and tribute. After returning to the Lishui City of Zhejiang Province, he immediately devoted himself to the daily work of outpatient service and ward rounds.

 

When the time dated back to January 23 this year,.Doctor Li was notified to attend the emergency meeting as soon as he got off the night shift. At the meeting, he learned that the epidemic prevention situation was getting more serious and the front line in Wuhan lacked enough doctors and the epidemic was spreading to the whole country, it was necessary to set up a team in Lishui City and also dispatch a medical team to aid Hubei. And Doctor Li was one of the team members.

 

The sudden epidemic completely disrupted Li's holiday plan. He originally planned to go back to his hometown for the Spring Festival, but because of the pandemic, he could only apologize to his wife and daughter who had been waiting for him in his hometown. Finally, Li still went back to his hometown because he knew that once he entered the isolation ward or Wuhan, he would not be able to meet his family for a long time.

 

Starting from the New Year's Eve, Li joined the preparation of a centralized treatment plan against COVID-19 in Lishui. During his work, he took part in the learning and training sessions every day and was on standby 24 hours a day.

 

It was until January 30th that the rescue center began to receive the first confirmed COVID-19 case. As the first batch of doctors stationed in the rescue center, Li participated in the treatment of the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in the isolation ward.

 

Li was the first to enter the negative pressure isolation ward, with the same courage when he fought against SARS 17 years ago. In 2003, SARS wreaked spread widely in China. Lishui Central Hospital has also set up an isolation ward and admitted a highly suspected case who just returned from Hong Kong. 

 

In the isolation ward, Li took ward rounds, adjusted treatment plans, and comforted patients. He treated every patient with consistent professions, seriousness, and extreme responsibility. Every patient knew these and got moved in their hearts. A discharged patient said that When he see Dr. Li every day, he felt full of hope and was not afraid at all.

 

山姆.png

(Sam)


Sam has been in Yiwu for 7 years and has opened 3 restaurants here. He is busy and has been living a full life.

 

Sam's hometown is Sydney. Before he came to China, he traveled through more than 100 countries and changed many jobs. In 2009, Sam came to China. The first stop was Shenzhen, after that he went to Guangzhou and then Yiwu. When he arrived in Yiwu for the first time, he wanted to buy some goods and went back to do business in his hometown. However, he finally chose to stay because he encountered a "difficult problem".

 

"When I first came to Yiwu, I thought it was too small and there were basically no western restaurants suitable for me. I have to go to a foreign fast-food restaurant every day to fill my empty stomach. I don't like it." For this reason, Sam conducted market research and found that although there are many foreign restaurants in Yiwu, there were not many specialized Western restaurants. At that time, he thought that since there were so many foreigners in Yiwu, the prospect of opening a Western restaurant could be great.

 

Therefore, Sam stayed in Yiwu and opened a Western restaurant with authentic foreign taste.

 

In 2010, Sam's first store opened. "It is very close to the world's largest small commodity market. This is an opportunity given to me by Yiwu." The restaurant is located in an unknown alley on Binwang Road. “Its location is somewhat remote, but its business is hot,” he said.

 

In order to better integrate Western cuisine with local tastes, Sam has made a lot of research and innovation of dishes to make the food more suitable for customers' tastes. "Opening a restaurant, just like doing business with Yiwu people, requires continuous innovation in order to attract and retain more customers."

 

Sam came up with a new menu with 29 new dishes that had just been launched this year, all of which were the result of his painstaking research in the past two months. "The menu is updated every six months, and each new dish will be listed by photos to facilitate customers to make more intuitive choices." For this reason, Sam's restaurant is highly praised by diners from all over the world. Even on some well-known websites abroad, the food critics give the five-star ratings.

 

In Sam's view, Yiwu people are more hardworking than people in many places. He said when he first came to Yiwu, he had to work five days a week and felt very hard. Later he knew that most Yiwu businessmen work seven days a week, except the Chinese New Year. "I've also gradually become a hardworking new Yiwu person who worked seven days a week", he said. 

 

Now, his business of the three restaurants has stabilized, but Sam does not want to stop there. This year, he is busy studying the market and intends to open a fourth restaurant. Next, he plans to take Yiwu as his "headquarters" and open-chain Western restaurants all over the country so that more Chinese can eat healthy and delicious Western meals.

 

迪恩.jpg

(Din Ziaud)

 

Din, known as Din Ziaud, is a 33-year-old Pakistani young man, who is currently running a company in Yongkang, specializing in the production of lithium electric tools,

 

Din first visited China in 2009. Over the past years, he was generally based in Yongkang and Yiwu, specializing in cross-border trade of hardware products such as gasoline saws, electric tools, generator accessories, auto parts, and other daily necessities such as clothing and small household appliances, etc.

 

Seven years ago, Din came to Yongkang for the first time to purchase a batch of electric tools. He was immediately shocked by the prosperous electric tool industry here. Din did not know at that time, that Yongkang was known as the "capital of electric tools" and the first angular polishing machine in China was born here. After years of development, the city has become the world's largest electric tool manufacturing and export base, with more than 1,000 electric tool manufacturing, related companies, and more than 230 enterprises above designated size.

 

In 2016, Din has a greater resolution. As there are more and more overseas orders for electric tools and the demand is increasing, the purchasing manufacturers have no time to produce them. For Din, starting a business in Yongkang has unique benefits. There are many supporting manufacturers, all kinds of parts can be purchased, and the price is advantageous.

 

In November last year, Yongkang Din Electric Tools Co., Ltd., which had been preparing for a long time, was formally established. Nowadays, the company has nearly 10 employees. It produces and assembles tens of thousands of lithium electric tools per month. In addition to meeting its own production needs, Din’s Company also supplies some accessories to those local electric tool enterprises.

 

Din was moved when many Yongkang people called him "an iron brother from Pakistan". All of those manufacturers are very happy to create an environment for him. Thus far, Din has set a small goal that he will find a standardized factory building of more than 1,000 square meters, employ 100 employees, provide them with free accommodation and use the earned money to help more elderly people.


(Edited by Ye Ke)

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The holiday season begins with China's National Day on Oct. 1, marking 71 years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. What does it mean to love our country? We can better understand the love of our country by realizing what it means by making contributions to our motherland in our daily life. Since the founding of our Republic, brave patriots have worked to give us the many freedoms we enjoy today. Patriotism is not just a type of lip service or cliché, it is also about our dedication to our work, our contribution to the marginalized groups, as well as our love for the whole society. We do have a lot of things to do in order to make our country a better nation. 


This special report of "The Country in My Heart" has selected eight inspiring stories from ordinary Zhejiang people who have put their patriotic words into practice. 


刘乐霞.jpeg

(Teacher Liu Lexia)


Liu Lexia, a veteran teacher of many years, is widely known as "Teacher Liu" by her students and neighbors. In her retirement, she has been dedicated to off-campus counseling services for a few students who are mentally ill. She is always reading for some help.

 

In order to help students who suffered from financial hardship, Teacher Liu has been always trying to do better funding works for them.

 

In addition, Liu has also helped many deviant youths at her own expense and has often contacted them to care about their mental health statues, trying to help them to set more accurate standards and to be more realistic in evaluating themselves so that they can have a healthy self-concept.

 

Like many other retired people, retirement is an opportunity to pursue lifelong hobbies or interests. Teacher Liu has formed an art association for old people. The group of old buddies often plan programs by themselves and go to rural areas, enterprises, or nursing homes to make voluntary performances, thus enriching the leisure time of those people living there.

 

Teacher Liu has always said that she wants to live an enriching and enthusiastic life without any regrets. And also, she indicated in the interview that she is always ready to offer some help to people who are in need.

 

张蓓蓓.jpg

(Ms. Zhang Beibei)


After graduating from the school, Zhang Beibei was assigned to a small village in Pingyang County, Wenzhou City to work as a barefoot doctor. At that time, transportation from Wenzhou to the countryside was very inconvenient. It was only possible to get there by bus or even on foot. The medical facilities were also poorly equipped. During the next 30 years, she had also served as a nurse, the head nurse, and the director of the nursing department of a local hospital in Pingyang County.

 

At the beginning of her retirement, she got the chance to return back to downtown Wenzhou City. During her morning exercises, she said that she had always found some uncivilized behaviors such as throwing away wastes optionally and damaging the environment, which made her feel very uncomfortable. Seeing so, she wished that she could make some contributions to society rather than be a financial burden. Grandma Zhang thereafter organized a group of 52 retired people to voluntarily pick up wastes and protect the river in their free time.

 

For almost 7 years, these veteran volunteers have insisted on such kind of works on a daily and weekly basis. They aim to build a strong volunteer crew of environmental protection, so as to make their local community a better habitable place.

 

Grandma Zhang said during the interview that, she had a very deep feeling for China, her motherland. It makes her feel proud that her hometown Wenzhou has already turned into a picturesque, scenery, and prosperous habitable city. The 71 years of history have made backwardness a thing of the past. She just feels so proud of China. 

 

徐海亚.jpeg

(Xu Haiya)


Xu Haiya, who was born in a small village of the Pubagang Town, the largest county of Taizhou City, joined the only listed company in the local community after graduating from the university. In 2008, she came across with nutrition and health sciences occasionally and fell in love with this vibrant industry. Thereafter, she quit her job and went home to start her ecological agriculture career.  

 

Up to now, Xu's farmland has expanded from the original dozens of acres to the present 110 acres, and the number of agricultural varieties has also increased from two or three to 40 or 50. In addition, the whole processing is traceable, pesticide-free, green, and organic, thus truly realizing the zero distance "from the head of the field to the table".

 

With the rise of the Internet, Xu began to dabble in the new e-commerce arena. In 2015, she registered an official account on WeChat and also opened stores on other online shopping platforms such as Ele.me, Meituan, Youzan, and so on. Every season, her team will launch various online campaigns to attract customers, thus boosting more online orders, as well as offline purchases.

 

The farm produces a wide range of fruits and vegetables, including cherry tomatoes, iced grass, fruit kohlrabi, chestnut pumpkins, kohlrabi, and sky watermelons, all of which will be sold to customers in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hangzhou. The annual sales usually amount to more than 4 million yuan, according to Xu.

 

In order to improve the income level of her neighborhood, Xu has set up five outreach bases to integrate her neighbors’ good products into the new e-commerce retail channels, so as to help them open the market sales. With the help of Xu Haiya, the annual output value of the base has reached 200,000 yuan, which quadrupled several times than the amount of those previous years. In the future, Xu will also set up two new bases in the Shaliu Street to explore new varieties, new technologies, and new models and further expand the market.

 

张旭霞.jpeg

(Zhang Xuxia)


Zhang Xuxia is a post-80s who was born in a village of the Rui'an City in Wenzhou City. In 2016, her life path was totally changed by a misdiagnosis. Thanks to God, it was just a mistake and would not impact her life at all.

 

After that, she discovered the new world in her hometown where the tranquil environment and scenery make her calm down and relax. She told herself that the mountains were so full of treasures and it was just quite good to do agriculture here.

 

At the beginning of 2017, Zhang came up with the idea of joining agriculture. In that year, she and several like-minded partners set up a company and started the innovative and entrepreneurial work of integrating cultures and creativity into the traditional agricultural industry.

 

Pingyangkeng Town is next to Gaolou Town, where there are ten thousand of acres of bamboo forests and ecological fields, as well as the fragrant Nanshan Suomian noodles and the world's intangible cultural heritage- wooden types. There are abundant agricultural specialty resources here. However, due to its remote geographical location and inconvenient transportation, agricultural development has always been in a low and scattered state. Under this background, a new public platform called "Shankang Agriculture" came into being in November of 2017.

 

The platform consists of 22 village collectives, which now have merged into 8 villages. Its original intention was to build a platform to push local high-quality agricultural products to the market and solve the problem of "thinning out".

 

Nowadays, Shankang Agriculture has established a professional team integrating agricultural product development, the building of featured agricultural base, and platform operations.

 

Just when "Shankang Agriculture " is flourishing, the COVID-19 in early 2020 has brought unexpected difficulties to Zhang's team.

 

After a few intensive discussions, Zhang and her partners decided to switch to the live-streaming model. So far, Zhang’s team has built up its own live-streaming group. “What we need to do now is to build up the live-streaming bases, standardize the process and train more "influencers of the countryside", so that in the future, those villagers can advertise their own agricultural products by their own", she said.

 

郑霞.jpeg

(Doctor Zheng Xia)


On the morning of September 9th, in the critical care unit of Building 5, Qingchun Hospital District, First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University Medical College, the reporter met Zheng Xia who was making the rounds of the wards. After receiving the honor of being an outstanding individual for the tremendous contributions and achievements in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctor Zheng rushed back to the work immediately.

 

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Doctor Zheng, is the first expert of Zhejiang Province, dispatched to aid Wuhan, joined the national critical expert group, and fought against the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly 72 days in the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital.

 

From being at a loss dealing with the virus, in the beginning, to gradually figuring out the treatments, Doctor Zheng had successfully stabilized the patients' conditions and finally helped them to recover. Doctor Zheng Zheng Xia had never retreated from the front line and had always kept her words of saving the people first.

 

After constant exploration and research, Doctor Zheng and her team found that continuous prone position ventilation can improve the condition of critically ill patients, especially the oxygenation index of tracheal intubation patients, and strive for more time for patients. In mid-February, a patient in his 50s was admitted to the ICU ward.

 

The patient weight more than 90 kilograms and need seven or eight medical staff to help him turn over and ventilate in a prone position. Every time, with a look, a gesture, everyone would understand and come to the bedside to help him. The patient was unable to speak but showed his gratitude with gestures. After tracheal intubation, the patient's respiratory state deteriorated again. The team used a non-invasive ventilator to assist in the treatment and finally rescued the patient back. Soon, the patient had returned to the state of oxygen inhalation through a nasal catheter and stable breathing.

 

Zheng and her colleagues worked all day in the ICU, more than 10 hours a day, racing against time and fighting against the disease. Relying on the perseverance and great love of not fearing death and sacrificing themselves to saving lives, Zheng and her colleagues are had done their best to treat every patient as far as possible.

 

李伟文.jpeg

(Doctor Li Weiwen)


After receiving the commendation in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Li Weiwen's WeChat account continuously received messages of praise and tribute. After returning to the Lishui City of Zhejiang Province, he immediately devoted himself to the daily work of outpatient service and ward rounds.

 

When the time dated back to January 23 this year,.Doctor Li was notified to attend the emergency meeting as soon as he got off the night shift. At the meeting, he learned that the epidemic prevention situation was getting more serious and the front line in Wuhan lacked enough doctors and the epidemic was spreading to the whole country, it was necessary to set up a team in Lishui City and also dispatch a medical team to aid Hubei. And Doctor Li was one of the team members.

 

The sudden epidemic completely disrupted Li's holiday plan. He originally planned to go back to his hometown for the Spring Festival, but because of the pandemic, he could only apologize to his wife and daughter who had been waiting for him in his hometown. Finally, Li still went back to his hometown because he knew that once he entered the isolation ward or Wuhan, he would not be able to meet his family for a long time.

 

Starting from the New Year's Eve, Li joined the preparation of a centralized treatment plan against COVID-19 in Lishui. During his work, he took part in the learning and training sessions every day and was on standby 24 hours a day.

 

It was until January 30th that the rescue center began to receive the first confirmed COVID-19 case. As the first batch of doctors stationed in the rescue center, Li participated in the treatment of the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in the isolation ward.

 

Li was the first to enter the negative pressure isolation ward, with the same courage when he fought against SARS 17 years ago. In 2003, SARS wreaked spread widely in China. Lishui Central Hospital has also set up an isolation ward and admitted a highly suspected case who just returned from Hong Kong. 

 

In the isolation ward, Li took ward rounds, adjusted treatment plans, and comforted patients. He treated every patient with consistent professions, seriousness, and extreme responsibility. Every patient knew these and got moved in their hearts. A discharged patient said that When he see Dr. Li every day, he felt full of hope and was not afraid at all.

 

山姆.png

(Sam)


Sam has been in Yiwu for 7 years and has opened 3 restaurants here. He is busy and has been living a full life.

 

Sam's hometown is Sydney. Before he came to China, he traveled through more than 100 countries and changed many jobs. In 2009, Sam came to China. The first stop was Shenzhen, after that he went to Guangzhou and then Yiwu. When he arrived in Yiwu for the first time, he wanted to buy some goods and went back to do business in his hometown. However, he finally chose to stay because he encountered a "difficult problem".

 

"When I first came to Yiwu, I thought it was too small and there were basically no western restaurants suitable for me. I have to go to a foreign fast-food restaurant every day to fill my empty stomach. I don't like it." For this reason, Sam conducted market research and found that although there are many foreign restaurants in Yiwu, there were not many specialized Western restaurants. At that time, he thought that since there were so many foreigners in Yiwu, the prospect of opening a Western restaurant could be great.

 

Therefore, Sam stayed in Yiwu and opened a Western restaurant with authentic foreign taste.

 

In 2010, Sam's first store opened. "It is very close to the world's largest small commodity market. This is an opportunity given to me by Yiwu." The restaurant is located in an unknown alley on Binwang Road. “Its location is somewhat remote, but its business is hot,” he said.

 

In order to better integrate Western cuisine with local tastes, Sam has made a lot of research and innovation of dishes to make the food more suitable for customers' tastes. "Opening a restaurant, just like doing business with Yiwu people, requires continuous innovation in order to attract and retain more customers."

 

Sam came up with a new menu with 29 new dishes that had just been launched this year, all of which were the result of his painstaking research in the past two months. "The menu is updated every six months, and each new dish will be listed by photos to facilitate customers to make more intuitive choices." For this reason, Sam's restaurant is highly praised by diners from all over the world. Even on some well-known websites abroad, the food critics give the five-star ratings.

 

In Sam's view, Yiwu people are more hardworking than people in many places. He said when he first came to Yiwu, he had to work five days a week and felt very hard. Later he knew that most Yiwu businessmen work seven days a week, except the Chinese New Year. "I've also gradually become a hardworking new Yiwu person who worked seven days a week", he said. 

 

Now, his business of the three restaurants has stabilized, but Sam does not want to stop there. This year, he is busy studying the market and intends to open a fourth restaurant. Next, he plans to take Yiwu as his "headquarters" and open-chain Western restaurants all over the country so that more Chinese can eat healthy and delicious Western meals.

 

迪恩.jpg

(Din Ziaud)

 

Din, known as Din Ziaud, is a 33-year-old Pakistani young man, who is currently running a company in Yongkang, specializing in the production of lithium electric tools,

 

Din first visited China in 2009. Over the past years, he was generally based in Yongkang and Yiwu, specializing in cross-border trade of hardware products such as gasoline saws, electric tools, generator accessories, auto parts, and other daily necessities such as clothing and small household appliances, etc.

 

Seven years ago, Din came to Yongkang for the first time to purchase a batch of electric tools. He was immediately shocked by the prosperous electric tool industry here. Din did not know at that time, that Yongkang was known as the "capital of electric tools" and the first angular polishing machine in China was born here. After years of development, the city has become the world's largest electric tool manufacturing and export base, with more than 1,000 electric tool manufacturing, related companies, and more than 230 enterprises above designated size.

 

In 2016, Din has a greater resolution. As there are more and more overseas orders for electric tools and the demand is increasing, the purchasing manufacturers have no time to produce them. For Din, starting a business in Yongkang has unique benefits. There are many supporting manufacturers, all kinds of parts can be purchased, and the price is advantageous.

 

In November last year, Yongkang Din Electric Tools Co., Ltd., which had been preparing for a long time, was formally established. Nowadays, the company has nearly 10 employees. It produces and assembles tens of thousands of lithium electric tools per month. In addition to meeting its own production needs, Din’s Company also supplies some accessories to those local electric tool enterprises.

 

Din was moved when many Yongkang people called him "an iron brother from Pakistan". All of those manufacturers are very happy to create an environment for him. Thus far, Din has set a small goal that he will find a standardized factory building of more than 1,000 square meters, employ 100 employees, provide them with free accommodation and use the earned money to help more elderly people.


(Edited by Ye Ke)

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