12th Cross-Straits Fair for Economy and Trade

Entrepreneurs of Fujian: Working Hard, Winning Supporting Their Hometown

Updated: 2010-05-19 11:04

China Daily, Fuzhou — “No matter where we are, we always keep our hometown in mind, in the hopes of devoting ourselves to motherland and benefiting our fellow countrymen,” said J.H. Chen, President of the Board of Royal Golden Eagle International (Indonesia), at the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Conference for Fujian Business People.

Businessmen of Fujian have been actively providing financial help for their motherland for more than a hundred years. Their generous support for the Hsinhai Revolution, the War of Resistance Against Japan, Reform and Opening-up, and many other events has shown their deep passion and love for their hometown.

Wu Yaqin, President of HK Parsons Music said that the older generation of Fujian businessmen believed in the idea of “working hard and winning” and contributed greatly to the development of their hometown with diligence and wisdom. Their deeds will always encourage the new generation of Fujianese businessmen.

Currently, Chinese people around the world are establishing a huge business circle, and overseas Fujianese businessmen are exerting an ever-greater influence on the world. Overseas Fujianese businessmen possess an amount of assets estimated at more than one trillion dollars. Moreover, overseas Fujianese businessmen have invested 67% of the total introduction of foreign capital in Fujian province and donated more than twenty billion yuan in the public welfare of Fujian. Wu was one of the entrepreneurs awarded for outstanding contributions to public welfare in Fujian province at the conference.

Wang Chuanshu, President of Chang Le American Association, told China Daily that to date, more than 300,000 people from Changle have lived in America and set up about twenty thousand businesses of various scales. Every year, they sent about one billion dollars back home, greatly contributing to the economic development of China.

Wang also said that overseas Changle people were working hard to integrate into local society, thus spreading the opening-up policies of the Chinese government and persuading more overseas companies to invest in China.

“No place is better than home. No matter where we are, we will always be attached to our mother land,” said J H Chen.

Last May, the State Council publicized Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Western Taiwan Straits Economic Zone, which outlines unparalleled opportunities for the development of Fujian. Chen said that overseas Chinese compatriots were greatly encouraged and they would seize the opportunity for development, with the spirit of “fighting and winning, united and chivalrous, patriotic and grateful.” Chen was very confident that Fujianese businessmen would forge valiantly ahead in the world economy and make further progress.

By Hu Meidong

Editor: Xie Fang