Chapter 344: Finding the Meaning of Making Money (1st Update)

As we all know, the United States is a country with a very huge gap between the rich and the poor, and rich people can be rich enough to buy luxury houses, helicopters, and yachts.

And the poor often have to find a way to solve even a meal.

The people squatting on the streets of New York to ask for food are not necessarily the elderly and the disabled, and some young people who are still passable will also sit in the bustling crowd when they are desperate, with a homeless cardboard in front of them to ask for food!

On the subway in New York, you can often see beggars talking under various names, most of whom say that they are homeless as soon as they open their mouths.

Or there is a child waiting to be fed or something, anyway, saying how pitiful and pitiful he is, begging for a few coins or a little food!

Therefore, Lin Zitan was not surprised to watch the video sent back by Xiao Zheng, but how to do a good job in the anti-theft work of the supermarket is indeed a problem, otherwise such things will emerge in endlessly.

Unlike the domestic thief who caught the thief and sent it directly to the police station, the thief here can't be caught directly, if you run into them, they will bite back and say that you are violating human rights or something, so Lin Zitan's shop is all equipped with the latest cameras.

Although the investment is more expensive, detailed evidence can be taken, and although it is rare for an African woman to be so arrogant, it often happens, so security is also very important.

Lin Zitan told Xiao Zheng to find more old black guards in the local area, so that they could manage their own people. Fortunately, these five big and three rough security will have a deterrent effect on ordinary petty theft, and most of the cashier staff are black.

So these thieves don't know whether the owner of this supermarket is Chinese or a partnership with foreigners, so the security personnel take turns to work, and slowly these petty thefts are slightly better.

When it came to the end of the year, I found that although the cost of this supermarket in Brooklyn was slightly higher, it was still making money overall.

Because their farm development is quite successful, in addition to supplying vegetables for their own supermarket, all the green plants propagated this year have also been put on the shelves.

Lin Zitan asked them to set up a row of shelves in the supermarket to sell these well-cared for spring plants, most of which are preferred by Chinese, some people buy decorations for the New Year, and some restaurants and shops will also buy decorations for the façade.

Lin Zitan's goal is to start expanding a farm next year to breed green plants, and then do green plant wholesale, because in the past two years, Flushing, Chinatown and Eighth Avenue have successively opened many Chinese flower shops specializing in flowers and plants.

After understanding, these flower shop owners generally take goods from foreigners' farms, and the price is low because their purchase volume is not much.

Lin Zitan's farm is mainly based on the needs of Chinese florists, specializing in green plants. Strive to take down all the Chinese market.

In fact, most Chinese entrepreneurs in foreign countries start to develop from the Chinese community around them, and Lin Zitan's supermarkets and real estate are of course no exception, including his early Hongrong Freight was also launched to earn money from Chinese compatriots.

Therefore, unlike the wealthy Chinese who generally become rich in the United States, Lin Zitan does not like to donate a large amount of wealth to their alma mater like the so-called second and third generations.

In order to get a lot of publicity or a sense of leaving a name in history, Lin Zitan is more enthusiastic about the development of his Chinese community.

As the saying goes, what is taken from the people is what is taken for the people, so every time a Chinese community asks him or their company to donate, he will donate a little more or less.

His own charity has slowly changed from just helping newcomers improve their skills and languages, to an organization that regularly participates in community charities.

They also hand out school supplies to Chinese children on the streets of Chinatown or in front of a church, and brunch to Chinese Americans who can't afford to eat.

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Lin Zitan's familiar industry has shifted from freight to supermarkets, and then from supermarkets to real estate and network technology, which can be regarded as a small achievement over the years, but as a person with an enterprising spirit,

Stopping is regression, so whenever there is an opportunity, Lin Zitan will be invited to participate in some industry gatherings or elite gatherings.

Sometimes he meets many leaders in the same industry who are of Chinese descent, which also makes him feel a sense of pride that the Chinese are getting stronger and stronger in the United States!

Just like African-Americans can be presidents, Lin Zitan's dream is to see the day when our Chinese descendants can also become presidents of the United States.

On this day, Lin Zitan was invited to a business reception hosted by the Asian-American Alliance, a New York City-based nonprofit organization founded in 1989 that manages a community fund.

More than 800 Asians gathered in a ballroom in Midtown Manhattan to eat tender steaks drizzled with truffle butter and bid at charity auctions at ski and golf resorts.

Lin Zitan noticed that the organizers of the Asian-American Alliance, the heads of many charitable foundations, and even the directors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were of Chinese descent, which made him feel proud.

Before the charity dinner began, Lin Zitan chatted with the attendees for a while, and found that most of the people attending the banquet were Korean immigrants and their children, of course, they belonged to the newly wealthy class of Asian Americans.

Many of them have benefited from the boom in the financial and tech industries. Although there are also Chinese entrepreneurs, their enthusiasm for donations is not very enthusiastic, Lin Zitan thinks that this probably has a lot to do with the fact that Chinese rich people don't like to show off their dews.

After all, people of Chinese descent on the road to success do suffer more than the average ethnic group, especially those in Province F who made a fortune in restaurants, and their children or descendants will either continue to work in the restaurant industry.

Either they've just made a little bit of success in their own business, so not so many of these big charities are invited.

In this charity dinner, Lin Zitan met an admirable Chinese entrepreneur and great philanthropist----- Wang Jialian.

Since his resignation in 2002, he has been committed to philanthropy in the Chinese community, and has initiated or supported the "Smile Train" and the "National Center for Missing and Exploited Children" in the United States.

"Asian American Cultural Center", "World Children's Relief Fund", "Wang Jialian Community Medical Center", "Long Island Plains Chinese School" and other projects.

Wong's community health centers, located in Chinatown, Chinatown and Flushing, provide primary care to patients. The medical center serves all patients, regardless of language, culture, or ability to pay.

Many Chinese people in foreign countries do not think that the moon abroad is relatively round and the air abroad is relatively fresh, so they go to foreign countries to start a business and live, and sometimes it is just a last resort.

For example, Wang Jialian, for example, many successful entrepreneurs or philanthropists who care about the motherland, they will always try their best to give back to their motherland and their ethnicity.

Of course, there are also some migrated second generations who have not undergone the influence of the traditional culture of the motherland, and the third generation has been influenced by the culture of the United States for many years.

The so-called "banana" people who slowly westernized themselves in singing the national anthem of God bless the United States every day, some people even do not hesitate to feel "ashamed" that they are yellow-skinned.

This kind of person is either a rebel who came out of the political desertification environment in the Taiwan region, or some traitors who "kneel" under the banner of the stars and stripes and cannot get up.

After the banquet, Lin Zitan offered to donate $1 million to Wang Jialian Community Hospital, and has since become a long-term donor to the charity, because he feels that it is worth spending more money on this aspect than anything else!