China News Service, Hangzhou, October 5th. Question: What are compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan busy during the National Day holiday?
Author Zhang Yin Zhang Bin Xiang Jing Dong Yixin Liu Zilin
What are compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan busy during the National Day holiday? Recently, China News Network learned about their holiday dynamics from four interviewees. They are among the tens of thousands of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Some have gained new feelings about career development, some are ushering in important moments in life, and some are promoting Chinese food culture. The following is spoken by the interviewees.
On October 1, the first day of the National Day holiday, Yiwu International Trade City, Global Digital Trade Center and other places in Zhejiang welcomed many consumers. Photo by Dong Yixin
Hong Kong businessman Hung Ya-ling: Accompanying her children to "take over the reins" in Yiwu, Zhejiang
During this year’s National Day holiday, the Global Digital Trade Center in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province was much busier than usual. As a Hong Kong businessman who has been rooted in Yiwu for many years, I run a toy store here, and now my son is in charge of the store every day. Taking advantage of the increase in customer flow during the holidays, I accompanied my son to take care of the business. The next step is to let him officially take over.
In fact, cultivating the next generation to take over is not an easy task.
Most young people today have their own ideas and are not necessarily willing to engage in traditional industries that their parents are familiar with. Some people are willing to take over the family business, while others want to take a different path. For me, it is a good start if the child is willing to give it a try.
After these two busy days are over, I plan to go to Xinjiang with my family and charter a car for a free trip to see the great rivers and mountains of our country. After the trip, the child will continue to return to Yiwu to run a store. I will continue to provide him with experience support and try my best to let him go on his own.
Doing business is the accumulation of generations, and succession cannot be forced. I hope that my son can feel the development vitality of the mainland through actual business operations and gradually find a development path that suits him.
Macau youth Yu Chaoyu: busy with cultural tourism on the coast of the East China Sea
Because of work and entrepreneurial opportunities, I came to Ningbo, Zhejiang more than ten years ago and worked in waterfront cultural tourism in Meishan Bay, Beilun, Ningbo. Over the years, I have been working and living here, and Ningbo is an important starting point for my career development.
As a cultural traveler, I am basically on duty every year during the long holidays. I have a lot of work to do such as reception services, security and planning activities.
During this year’s National Day holiday, we developed many experience projects around water leisure. Tourists can come and go sailing or yachting, or they can stroll around the resort and have something to eat. The coast of the East China Sea has a particularly festive atmosphere. People bring their families and friends out to play, and children also like these water sports very much.
After so many years, my biggest feeling is that people’s way of traveling has been changing. In the past, it might just be to see the attractions, but now more and more people want to participate and experience them. Coastal cities like Ningbo still have a lot of room for water-based cultural tourism in the future. I hope to bring more interesting projects to Meishan Bay, especially by drawing on the experience and practices of Hong Kong and Macao, so that everyone can come here not only to see the sea, but also to play with the sea and "close to the sea".
Mainland Taiwan compatriot Ye Rong: My wife and I got married in Taipei
During this year’s National Day holiday, I have something very important to do—I got married in Taipei on October 3.
My wife Du Dayu is a girl from Henan. We met and fell in love in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and finally "cultivated" this year. This time I returned to Taipei just for the wedding. After arriving on September 30, I asked her whether she wanted to drive to Hualien first.
She was still a little hesitant at the time, thinking that the wedding was coming soon. Would this arrangement make the elders feel that they did not pay enough attention to them? I told her that I had already communicated with my father, and everyone in the family thought it was okay. Instead, they felt that it was not easy to come back and asked me to take her to walk more and experience the scenery of the treasure island.
On the wedding day, we held a simple wedding banquet. More than 30 relatives and friends ate, drank tea, and chatted. I also introduced her to everyone. There are no complicated rituals or cumbersome etiquette, but the atmosphere is very natural and friendly.
Before, she was always worried about what she was not doing well enough, but after just a few days of experience, she gradually relaxed. During this holiday, she not only saw the beautiful scenery of Treasure Island, but also officially entered my family. To me, this is probably the simplest version of "one family on both sides of the Taiwan Strait".
American overseas Chinese Fu Bin: Let more people fall in love with Shengzhou Xiaolongbao
The motherland is celebrating the National Day holiday, and our overseas Chinese are also very happy. Especially for myself, the Shengzhou Xiaolongbao factory opened in the United States is very busy, and I feel "more happy while busy".
I have lived in the United States for 13 years. Last year, I opened a Shengzhou Xiaolongbao store in the United States, and the market response exceeded expectations. In May of this year, my team and I started to transform from single store operations to factory production. Currently there are nearly 10 employees in the factory. Production capacity continues to increase, and orders are still in short supply.
Our products are mainly supplied to the American catering market. In the past few days, one store in San Francisco alone needs more than 20,000 xiaolongbao, and the order volume continues to grow. In order to adapt to the American market, we have streamlined our product line and retained three types of xiaolongbao with pork, beef and vegetable fillings, among which pork filling is the most popular.
Shengzhou Xiao Long Bao is an authentic Chinese snack. I hope that by promoting Chinese food culture, the taste of China will continue to spread in the United States, and more people will fall in love with China because of its food. (over)
