In the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Guangdong in the early years, there was a boom in going abroad.
There are many people who have crossed the ocean to other countries to find a way to make a living, and this trip is a foreign country, and it is difficult to return to their ancestors.
The roots of overseas Chinese compatriots are also mostly distributed in these provinces, and they have a deep attachment to their hometown.
Born in the Gabonese Republic of Africa, Jean Ping was told by his father from an early age that they were of Zhejiang descent and could not forget their ancestors.
He served as minister of various departments in the Gabonese Republic and also competed for the presidency of the Gabonese Republic.
Jean Ping, who is constantly walking on his career, is very sober, he is never afraid of politicians attacking his origins, and he never denies that he is a "Wenzhou person", which is the strong and unique charm of Jean Ping's heart.
Jean Ping was a second-generation immigrant born in the Gabonese Republic of Africa, and his father, Cheng Zhiping, was an authentic Chinese.
In the last century, there were more immigrants running to European countries, and it is also very bumpy to say that the reason why Cheng Zhiping wandered to Africa is also very bumpy.
Cheng Zhiping's hometown was famine-stricken, and he traveled to France to do some small business, and then boarded a boat to Gabon, Africa.
At that time, Gabon was a French colony, and the two sides were more frequent, so Cheng Zhiping wanted to come here to try his luck and sell porcelain.
But Cheng Zhiping soon encountered "Waterloo", first, he did not understand the language of the local Gabonese, and second, porcelain was difficult to sell.
He prepared to return to France by boat, but because he missed the sailing period, he had to settle in Gabon temporarily.
Cheng Zhiping is an active man, after discovering that the porcelain market is not large, he took advantage of the local seaside advantage to become a fisherman, and soon accumulated a large amount of wealth.
He used this principal to build a lumber mill and turned into a rich man.
Cheng Zhiping, who intends to develop in the local area for a long time, needs to be fully integrated, and he marries the daughter of the chief of the Miyene tribe, with the full support of the Miyene tribe.
His business grew bigger and bigger, and everyone enthusiastically called him "Ping".
In 1942, as soon as Cheng Zhiping's son was born, he carried his son to the church to find a priest to give him a name, and the priest gave the child the name "Jean Ping".
Cheng Zhiping privately gave his son a Chinese name, "Cheng Rangping", and taught him to remember half of his Chinese blood.
Cheng Zhiping, who had entered the rich class, had become a decent man, and he sent Jean Ping to France for a better education and to study economics at the University of Paris I.
Usually, he will also take his son to various social gatherings and use his personal connections to give his son "social relations lessons".
After seeing the gap between Gabon and France, Jean Ping's heart was touched.
His mixed-race status has also become a laughing stock for others, and the reasons behind this are because his country is not strong enough.
With the lofty ideal of Jean Ping, instead of choosing to take over his father's timber business, he wanted to enter politics.
Jean Ping, a rare high-ranking talent, was thrown an olive branch by the Gabonese government, giving him three positions.
The three positions are Vice President of the Bank, Head of the Airline and served on UNESCO.
The first two have prompted Jean Ping to build up his strength quickly in Gabonese politics, while the latter, although working within the Organization, has only started from the bottom.
Unexpectedly, Jean Ping did not choose the first two smooth shortcuts, he chose the third most unfavorable position.
This choice became the starting point of his career and the first stop of his dream.
The first stop of Jean Ping's political career was UNESCO, and the work of grassroots administrators and assistants was well handled by him.
In UNESCO, it is necessary to contact people from different countries and different classes, and Jean Ping has accumulated rich diplomatic experience and learned a lot of means in the past few years.
Jean Ping's modest study and steady work style is also well received, and his boss admires this down-to-earth young man.
In selecting Gabon's representative to UNESCO, Jean Ping was uncontroversially elected.
Next, Jean Ping entered Gabon's political circle as a representative, representing Gabon in many large international conferences such as the African Union Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly.
Gabon's diplomatic history is inseparable from the figure of Jean Ping, who is committed to creating a good communicative image for Gabon.
At this time, Cheng Zhiping, as a giant in Gabon's timber industry, turned his profession into Gabon's political arena and made a lot of efforts for his son's career.
Father and son have mixed well in Gabon and have also gained a lot of fame.
Here is an additional mention of Cheng Zhiping's deeds, after the end of World War II, it left a mess for the world, and economic crises are things that often erupt.
Other companies stationed in Africa are laying off employees and collecting funds, and Cheng Zhiping refuses to lay off employees and spends time with his own employees through the crisis.
Refusing to lay off employees has earned Cheng Zhiping a good reputation, and his timber business has become a leading enterprise in Gabon.
At a certain stage of wealth accumulation, Cheng Zhiping in turn funded the construction of roads, hospitals and schools for the local area.
Local residents became more supportive of Cheng Zhiping and elected him speaker of Edinbue State.
After his father became speaker of the Edinbue state, Jean Ping did not take the opportunity to hastily transfer his contacts from the international to the domestic.
He believes that he still needs to accumulate more experience in handling government affairs, and other countries are the objects of his learning and absorption.
After Cheng Zhiping was re-elected speaker for two consecutive terms, he was elected by the local people to a status similar to that of honorary mayor.
Cheng Zhiping runs for various livelihood projects, he often pays out of his own pocket, and the locals affectionately call him "Father Ping".
In 1985, at the age of 71, Cheng Zhiping died of illness, and Gabon held a state funeral for him.
He went from a self-made foreign immigrant to the "flat father" loved by the people, and the hardships and efforts can be imagined.
After the death of his father Cheng Zhiping, Jean Ping returned to China in the 1990s.
He has taken over a number of state positions such as Minister of Information, Minister of Mines, Minister of Water Resources, etc., and can be said to have mastered key national areas.
Looking at Jean Ping's work history alone, it is not an exaggeration to guess that he will take over the presidency of the country next.
Jean Ping's goal is indeed the same, and he has two major contributions on the political road, one is the support of his own family and father, and the other is the support of Gabonese President Bongo Ondimba.
However, the second "nobleman" also brought him the most crucial turning point in his life.
After Jean Ping became Gabon's representative and participated in international affairs, Gabonese President Omar Bongo took note of Jean Ping, a talented and promising young man.
He had the heart to cultivate Jean Ping as his right-hand man, and he would take Jean Ping with him when he attended meetings and when he visited foreign countries.
Jean Ping has obviously benefited greatly from the study of President Omar Bongo, who has been involved in mediating and mediating the civil unrest in Angola, Chad, Madagascar and other countries, establishing diplomatic relations with other African countries, and speaking at the Federation for African Affairs.
In addition to these political skills, President Omar Bongo also married his eldest daughter to Jean Ping, giving him a lot of power and pulling Jean Ping into his family's sphere.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that President Omar Bongo values Jean Ping, but there is an irreconcilable contradiction between them - Jean Ping's brother-in-law.
Omar Bongo had a son named Ali Bongo, who, along with Jean Ping, became a popular candidate for the country's president, equal in politics.
No matter how much Omar Bongo favored Jean Ping, he would not be able to surpass his son's priority.
In the first presidential election, popular candidate Ali Bongo took over the father's place.
The radical leadership styles of Jean Ping and Ali Bongo, who were subservient, did not coincide, and the disputes between the two grew, and at one time they tended to be incompatible.
After Jean Ping divorced his wife and quit the ruling Democratic Party, he went completely against Ali Bongo.
Waiting for the end of Ali Bongo's first presidency, Jean Ping immediately entered the presidential election, where he was competing with his brother-in-law for the presidency.
On the podium competing with his brother-in-law for the presidency, Jean Ping said bluntly that "I am a Wenzhounese" without hesitation, and at the same time showed that he also loved Gabon and wanted to lead Gabon to a better future.
Jean Ping, who had won the majority of the electorate's hearts, thought that becoming president was already a winner, and the Election Commission suddenly said that it would recount the votes, and the result of this vote count was ali Bongo's re-election to the presidency of Gabon.
Frustrated in politics, Jean Ping resigned from all his positions, and he took his father's long-cherished wish to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, to find his roots and return to his ancestors.
The Overseas Chinese Office bridged Jean Ping's family search journey, allowing him to meet his nephew and others, whom he had never met.
Speaking of these things, Jean Ping had a smile on his face: "Relatives also brought me videotapes, one by one, pointing out to me which relatives there were in the family."
On this journey back to the roots, Jean Ping also went to recognize his ancestral ancestral temple, he was the 27th grandson of the Cheng Clan Ancestral Hall in Wenzhou, and his name can be openly registered on the family tree.
This added a touch of intimacy to Jean Pindo, and the scenic anecdotes he had heard from his father were slowly relived by him with a pair of eyes.
The journey was short but pleasant, and jean Ping, after his return to Gabon, was used to build bridges between the two countries and promote many friendly exchanges with China.
He also supported his hometown relatives to develop in Gabon, and China's commercial trade with Gabon increased year by year.
To this day, Jean Ping, like his father Cheng Zhiping, teaches his children to remember that they are "a Wenzhounese."
His children often come to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, when they reach adulthood, to feel the resonance and glory of their blood.