He is a legendary overseas Chinese businessman, a mixture of Indonesian and Dutch ancestry, and has nothing to do with China in terms of appearance, shape or place of birth. But this foreigner, after becoming a business magnate, not only did not help his own country, but desperately donated schools and hospitals to China.
He just kept foreign blood, but only admitted that he was a legendary overseas Chinese businessman who Chinese, Xiong Delong.
As a foreigner, why does Xiong Delong say that he is a Chinese?
Speaking of Xiong Delong's fate, it can be described as a twist and turn.
In 1947, Xiong was born in Indonesia to a Dutch father and an Indonesian mother. Before Xiong Delong was born, his father abandoned their mother and son and disappeared without a trace, and after giving birth to him, his mother was unable to raise Xiong Delong, so she threw him outside the door of an orphanage in Indonesia.
Xiong Delong was lucky, and once the Chinese couple loved Xiong Delong in the orphanage for only eight months, they took him back. Even if the family conditions of Chinese couples are not rich, they can't bear to see such a young child without parental care.
Chinese is kind and simple, because in addition to Xiong Delong, the couple has adopted several Indonesian orphans. In order to make these orphans have a better living environment, the husband and wife usually save money and teach them to read and write.
As a Chinese parent, he often told Xiong Delong about Some Chinese History and Customs, so when he was a child, he always pestered his parents to teach him Chinese, hoping that when he grew up, he could personally set foot on this ancient civilization that raised his parents. In the explanation of his parents, Xiong Delong understood what is "falling leaves back to the roots" and what is "not forgetting the original heart".
What impressed him was that no matter how difficult his adoptive parents were, they would always help their old family members when they were in difficulty. Xiong Delong did not understand that the family was already so difficult, why they had to sell jewelry to help the old family. His parents told him in a serious tone that Chinese would remember the phrase "don't forget the roots" since ancient times, no matter where they are, the blood of Chinese flows inside their bodies, engraved with the brand of Yanhuang descendants.
Although we are in a foreign country, we are always thinking about our families across the ocean, and those who forget the "fundamental" are not counted as Chinese. The words of his parents made Xiong Delong finally understand where his "roots and roots" were, and he was more determined to take the road to go in the future, as well as his "identity".
Growing up, Xiong Delong began his own entrepreneurial path, with extraordinary talent and keen business sense, he opened a sponge factory. The benefits of the sponge factory made Xiong Delong earn a lot of money, and also allowed his parents to start living a worry-free life, just when he planned to save more money to take his parents to Visit his parents in China, an accident came.
A sudden fire burned Xiong Delong's years of hard work, property damage and various compensation, and swept away the funds he had accumulated over the years. At this moment, he was discouraged, lost all his fighting spirit, and drank alcohol every day to dispel his sorrows.
Just when Xiong Delong was in a slump, his adoptive parents found him and handed him 100,000 yuan, telling him that there was an old Chinese saying called "comeback". Later, I learned that in order to make him regroup, his parents sold their house for the 100,000 yuan.
Looking at the 100,000 yuan in his hand, Xiong Delong was incredibly moved. He promised his adoptive parents that they would return the money as soon as they earned, but the parents comforted him that Chinese parents never wanted their children in return, as long as the children could be safe and happy than anything else.
At that moment, he wondered what a magical place China was to produce such noble people.
The encouragement of his parents allowed Xiong Delong to regain his self-confidence and successfully run a tobacco and wine factory, and Xiong Delong, who relied on the tobacco and wine factory to "make a comeback", set his sights on overseas. He has invested in a variety of industries such as finance, real estate, and fast food in the United States, and has truly achieved daily gold and built a huge business empire.
While succeeding, he never forgot the teachings of his adoptive parents, not only declaring himself a Chinese to the outside world, but also wanting to set foot in the magical land of China.
In 1987, Xiong Delong finally had the opportunity to take his parents back to China, where he had cherished. He went with his adoptive parents to his hometown of Meizhou, Guangdong Province, to accompany them on the last journey of their lives. But Xiong Delong did not forget China after the death of his adoptive parents, and he always remembered the phrase "do not forget the fundamentals" in his heart.
To this end, in the later years, he has donated hundreds of millions of yuan to Meizhou and invested in the establishment of more than 50 schools, hospitals and museums. Meizhou Jiaying University, Meizhou Overseas Chinese Museum, and Jiaying Bridge were all funded by Xiong Delong.
When the disaster occurred in China, Xiong Delong donated 10 tents, 10 masks, 100,000 gloves and various supplies to China at the first time. Xiong Delong said that as long as China needs him, he will stand up for the first time and do something for the motherland.
In addition, Xiong Delong is also committed to actively helping China expand its influence in the world, in order to let more people understand China, he bought the "International Daily" in the United States, on which he published the various achievements and cultures of New China.
In order to let overseas wanderers see the strength of the motherland, Xiong Delong did something that no one had ever done before.
He published a message in the newspaper that he was going to raise the five-star red flag in Los Angeles, and when the news was released, countless Overseas Chinese rushed to Los Angeles to witness this sacred moment.
On October 1, 1995, the 46th birthday after the founding of New China, and the first flag-raising ceremony for China's birthday on American soil, Xiong Delong hoped that in this way, overseas wanderers would celebrate the birthday of the motherland.
On that day, Xiong Delong, who was already full of white hair, carefully raised the national flag to the top of the flagpole as the national anthem of the People's Republic of China sounded. Countless Chinese present shed tears of excitement with Xiong Delong.
In addition to raising the national flag, Xiong Delong also paid a huge amount of money to charter two planes to pull banners hovering over the United States, which read several shiny large characters "Long live the People's Republic of China."
After the ceremony, everyone found that this old man who worked hard to publicize China's National Day was not a Chinese. In the face of the questions raised by everyone, Xiong Delong firmly replied that although he did not shed the blood of Chinese, his soul belonged to China.
Xiong Delong transformed from an abandoned baby into a giant of the business empire, not only because of his personal talent, but also because of the influence of his adoptive parents' own noble qualities and tireless teachings. Xiong Delong learned from his adoptive parents what is "following and Ben" and what is "not forgetting the original heart".
The Chinese nation has a wealth of traditional virtues, the most basic of which is that people must not forget their roots, to understand the Entu newspaper, Xiong Delong's behavior is a good interpretation of this traditional virtue. Although he did not keep Chinese blood, he will always be our family.