Abandoned babies in Indonesia can be traced back to 1947 74 years ago. Delong Xiong was born in Indonesia and was abandoned just after meeting his parents. Fortunately, Xiong and his wife, overseas Chinese in Meizhou, work in Indonesia. When they saw the poor abandoned baby, they decided to adopt him, and after seven months, they became Delong Xiong's adoptive parents according to legal procedures.
There were four girls in the kind bear family, three of whom were adopted. During the time when they didn't have enough to eat, the couple also adopted a foreign abandoned baby that had nothing to do with it. Not only did they never mistreat him, but they also took great care of their youngest son and named him "Delong", which means "The bear family got a dragon". At the same time, they hope that he can honor his ancestors and have both ability and political integrity. It can be seen that the couple loved this little son from the beginning. Someone will definitely ask the couple what they do. How did you manage to adopt so many children?
In fact, the couple are not rich, mainly making bread for a living, but poverty does not hinder their noble character of charity. They tried their best to make these children who lost their families feel the warmth of home, so that Delong Xiong was filled with gratitude every time he recalled his childhood. He thinks it is instinctive to love his children, and it is a great kindness for adoptive parents to love their children so much. Accompanied by his adoptive parents, Delong Xiong not only learned Chinese, but also learned many stories of China heroes, so the traditional culture of our country slowly took root in his heart.
Especially this incident left a deep memory for Delong Xiong, that is, every New Year's Day, adoptive parents will send money to their hometown no matter how difficult it is. One year, the family really didn't have any extra money to send to their hometown, so the foster mother sold her only bracelet and sent back all the money for selling bracelets.
At that time, Delong Xiong was only seven or eight years old. When he was young, he looked at the bracelet with tears on his face. He didn't understand why he sent money to his hometown. So his foster mother said something that he would never forget, touching Delong Xiong's little head and saying, "Son, no matter how hard life is, you can't forget your family." How much influence did this feeling have on later Delong Xiong?
Bearing in mind their kindness and leaving a mark, the couple, like many overseas Chinese, chose to leave their hometown to make a living. Although the couple's educational level is limited, they are unambiguous in their children's education. Adhering to the concept that no matter how poor you are, you cannot be poor in education. Even if you don't eat, you should support your children to go to school. In this way, the five children grew up slowly. Delong Xiong didn't want to see their parents working so hard, so in order to relieve their pressure, he dropped out of school at the age of 16 and entered the society.
Maybe Delong Xiong is a born businessman. He achieved little success soon after he entered the business world. It only took two years later. Delong Xiong, 18 years old, opened a local sponge factory and became his own boss. Less than half a year after the factory opened, it paid off180,000 foreign debt. Without the pressure of foreign debt, life is finally on the right track. Just when Delong Xiong thought he could support the family, an accident happened.
I wonder why the sponge factory caught fire. The fire made the sponge factory in Delong Xiong disappear instantly, and my parents rushed over as soon as they heard the news. Delong Xiong looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help crying. The couple looked at their little son who was crying at this time and could not help but burst into tears. The couple quickly put away their emotions and began to inspire his little son to cheer him up again, comforting: "We are still young, and as men, we can't come again."
In order to make Delong Xiong make a comeback, the couple secretly sold their house, just to earn some money for their youngest son to make a comeback. When Delong Xiong saw his adoptive parents take out all their savings, he secretly made up his mind to repay his adoptive parents with his life. With this experience of failure, Delong Xiong became more calm.
With his extraordinary business ability, he found another business opportunity, that is, doing tobacco and alcohol business. With a clear goal, it took him less than 10 years to expand the tobacco and alcohol business to various countries and become a famous multinational company. With more and more abundant funds, it began to explore various industrial fields such as finance, trade, tourism, real estate development and media.
Today, his industries include American Daxing Bank, Hollywood Hotel, Lion Real Estate Investment Co., Ltd. and many other well-known enterprises.
After becoming a large multinational group, Delong Xiong immigrated to the United States and became a local overseas Chinese leader. Later, he began to run for the interests of overseas Chinese, and even spent a lot of money to buy American Chinese daily newspapers. At the same time, he contacted several printing houses and bought them together. He opened a column in American newspapers to expand China's international influence and let the world know about China. Now the International Daily has become an introduction to the construction of China.
Delong Xiong, whose career is in full swing, has always had a wish in his heart. He often said: "Although I am a foreigner and have the appearance of a foreigner, I have always had special feelings for our country, always maintained a warm heart and was full of Hakka feelings." Because my adoptive parents, Delong Xiong, grew up under the influence of our culture, the concept of "loving China" has long been deeply rooted.
Finally, 1979, China has just implemented reform and opening up. When Delong Xiong heard the news, he immediately came to China with his wife. He burst into tears as soon as he got off the plane. He doesn't know why he is crying. He has never been here, but he is very familiar with it. He came to Meizhou, Guangdong Province with gratitude for his parents' upbringing. When he met his grandmother, she guessed that this was his lovely grandson. Delong Xiong knelt before her grandmother.
At the moment, he felt that he had gone home. Later, in order to take adoptive parents back to their hometown to enjoy their old age, Delong Xiong specially built a two-story building.
Patriotism is touching. This time in China, he not only visited factories and schools, but also went to the hometown of Marshal Ye Jianying, a hero often mentioned by his adoptive parents, and finally realized his wish. When he saw the backward factories and people's lives at that time,
Delong Xiong believes that he is also a member of our country and must do his part for the development of our country. He knows that education is the foundation of a country's development. In order to improve the learning environment of Meizhou children, he directly donated several large dormitories to local schools to improve their school life. Later, I heard that the government said that Jiaying University would be established, and he also directly donated more than two million yuan. Later, he began to build hospitals and nursing homes and donated hundreds of millions of yuan to our country.
1997, Meizhou held a seminar on Hakka studies. At the seminar, Delong Xiong proposed that he would take the lead in pledging100000 yuan for the World Hakka Friendship Association.
Later, he served as the founding president of Meizhou Hometown Association in the United States and the image ambassador of the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism. He was recognized by 22 cities including Meizhou and won the honorary citizen award in these 20 cities, and also won the award of "the most socially responsible Chinese leader in the Asia-Pacific region".
In the following 20 years, he devoted himself to the development of the mainland, and successively sponsored more than 3,000 domestic grassroots cadres to go abroad for training. His contribution to China can't be completed in a few days. When people ask him how much money he earned during his stay in China? Delong Xiong replied: "I didn't come back to make money, but for my promise and returning to my home."
The speech at the opening ceremony of the China Merchants Association won applause from the audience. "Although I don't have this ethnic origin, my feelings for it are not weak. He was abandoned in an orphanage in Indonesia two months ago and adopted by overseas Chinese couples in Meixian. I am very grateful to them. My parents' motherland is my motherland, and my parents' hometown is my hometown. " His patriotic behavior was highly praised by our party, and he was hired as an economic consultant by many cities in Guangdong and Guizhou.
In order to promote Meizhou, the overseas edition of People's Daily is published simultaneously with Hong Kong Wen Wei Po and Hong Kong Commercial Daily, telling the story of our country while not forgetting to convey the story of Meizhou, and even pronouncing Meizhou dialect when spreading the voice of our country.
He believes that China's news should be seen not only by its own people, but also by the whole world. China should go out of the world, and the world should understand China. Delong Xiong actively participated in it and tried his best to tell the world the story of China objectively and truly.
With the death of their foster mother, the Xiongs unconsciously became two white-haired old people. Shortly after returning to my hometown in Meizhou, my foster mother Huang's health became worse and worse. During the countdown to life, Delong Xiong spent every day with her foster mother, singing songs that her foster mother sang to her when she was a child. Facing the mother who was in a coma for two weeks, relatives began to cry at the bedside. Delong Xiong wants her mother to leave happily.
Finally, tears flowed from the corner of my mother's eye, and she heard them. At this point, Delong Xiong fought back tears until the last moment of her mother's life when she stopped singing and began to cry.
After their parents died, Delong Xiong buried them in their hometown of Meizhou, which became the place most missed by Delong Xiong people. In recent years, Delong Xiong has been doing more and more things in China, constantly traveling in China, Indonesia and Singapore, and visiting his parents every time he comes to China.
Now Delong Xiong is over seventy years old with white hair, but he still hasn't stopped his patriotic steps. When the epidemic broke out suddenly in Wuhan, Delong Xiong immediately bought a large number of medical materials in Indonesia and sent them to Wuhan, including100000 medical gloves and100000 medical masks, as well as countless thermometer disinfectants. They were sent to Wuhan by China Southern Airlines, and at the same time, they constantly appealed to all patriotic China people to support our country.
He is most proud that his children also have the traditional virtues of our nation. Delong Xiong always pretends to be from China.
Although he has a pure foreigner's face, it is no exaggeration to say that he is a real China, but his blood is full of traditional China culture. His feelings for his adoptive parents and the whole country are touching. So culture is a person's second face and a real face. It can be said that he was there alone when he accepted the culture. Patriotism has never been divided into national boundaries. As young people in the new era, we should inherit and carry forward the spirit of patriotism.