Two months later, it was the wedding of his daughter Jenny Downing, which made me feel a little emotional, and before I knew it, I was already a fifty-five-year-old man, and even my daughter was going to get married, and he was very satisfied with his son-in-law.

This young man's name is Locke, born in 1950, one year older than his daughter Jenny, born in Seattle, Washington, USA, and his ancestral home is Wantou Jilong Village, Mingtang Township, Taishan 2nd District, Guangdong, China (now Changtang Jilong Village, Shuibu Town, Taishan City, Guangdong Province); is the third generation of this immigrant family.

Although the family conditions are not very good, the young man works very hard, and relies on the savings of odd jobs and various scholarships to further his studies at Yale University. He graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1972 and a law degree from Boston University in 1975, where he currently serves as president of the Washington State Bureau of Rationing.

Because Tang Ning never thought of sacrificing his daughter's happiness to achieve any political marriage, he did not interfere with his daughter's marriage, but when he knew that Jenny chose Locke, he was still very happy, not because the small official of the rationing bureau made him happy, but because he knew the deeds of Locke in later generations, and knew that he was a very honest, self-disciplined, and responsible model official.

He served as governor of Washington State in 1996 and 2000, the first Chinese-American governor in U.S. history, and in 2009 became the new secretary of commerce, the second Chinese-American secretary after Elaine Chao. But he is best known for his performances as U.S. ambassador to China.

On March 9, 2011, Gary Locke was nominated by Obama as the new ambassador to China, succeeding Jon Huntsman, the ninth ambassador who left at the end of April of the same year. On June 23, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee took the lead in approving the nomination. On July 27, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved Locke's appointment. On August 1, the Locke family arrived at the U.S. Department of State. He was formally sworn in under the auspices of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to represent the U.S. government and all the people in China. He pledged that the queen of China would devote himself to deepening Sino-US cooperation and working hard to establish a positive, cooperative and comprehensive Sino-US relationship.

On the evening of August 12 of the same year, the Luo family traveled lightly and took their families to Beijing to take up their new duties, which caused a lot of shock among the Chinese government and people. and the wide response from the media; On the afternoon of August 14, he met with the media for the first time at the residence of the US Ambassador to China. Locke, who had just arrived in China, had no entourage, no security guards, no flowers, applause and no luxury pomp and circumstance when he got off the plane. In this regard, Guangming Daily's website "Guangming Net" published a long article signed by Xiang Xiaodong entitled "Be Vigilant against the American "Neocolonialism" brought by Locke", criticizing Locke's light and simple behind. It is the infiltration of capitalism and Western values, and the embodiment of "neocolonialism" and "cultural colonialism" in the United States. At the same time, he pointed out that Locke's pro-people style "is the style of the Communist Party of China that shared weal and woe with the people in those years", and called on CPC members to "learn from Locke's civilian style of stepping on the earth, learn from his low-carbon lifestyle of saving social resources without pomp and circumstance, and learn from his pragmatic style of not talking about official words and clichés." However, the article was deleted shortly after.

On the afternoon of May 14, 2012, Beijing Daily reposted an article on the official Sina Weibo account titled "U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke drinking coffee and sitting in economy class is a show packaged as a 'civilian'". Putting forward the request to "ask Locke to disclose his assets", this Weibo instantly aroused onlookers and heated discussions among Chinese netizens. Linking Locke to one of China's most sensitive debates today is the issue of disclosing the private assets of mainland party and government officials. But in fact, the U.S. website provides continuous and clear access to all of Locke's assets during his public office from 2008 to 2010. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing has been quite open on the matter, proving that Gary Locke is the sixth richest among officials in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government. His annual salary was $191,300 when he was U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and now he is $179,700 as U.S. Ambassador to China. Many netizens forwarded the post to the official Weibo of Beijing Daily. The newspaper's director, Mei Ninghua, was asked to disclose his personal assets. However, Beijing Daily did not respond, and its official Weibo post asking Locke to disclose his assets was deleted.

Gary Locke was a very unusual diplomat, he was modest, low-key, and incorruptible. Self-discipline. Since he became ambassador to China in August 2011, he has never been seen or heard of dictating about China's affairs, but he has influenced China with his strict self-discipline and deeds, silently but profoundly and powerfully.

The alternative Locke is actually just an alternative in the eyes of the Chinese, and for himself, whether he is a governor or a cabinet member, he is just a flowing "soldier" in the iron camp. This "soldier" is hired by the taxpayers, and must regard the taxpayers as God, and every penny of his expenses must be subject to the supervision of the taxpayers. However, the Chinese are accustomed to officials holding up above temples and looking down on everything, accustomed to the superiority of officials enjoying privileges, and accustomed to the way of thinking about work and life under the official standard. As soon as an official stepped down from the altar and walked into the midst of the civilians, of course they would be surprised and surprised.

What Locke brings to the Chinese is precisely the impact of this stereotyped thinking. Civilians in China suddenly understood that the original American official was like Locke, and it turned out that it was wrong for the Chinese official to do that; China's bureaucrats also suddenly felt the pressure transmitted by the psychological changes of the common people: it turned out that officials should be like Locke Jiahui to be honest, honest and self-denying, and it turned out that officials could not have privileges, and it turned out that officials really had to be public servants of the people. The bureaucrats really feel that Locke's behavior and language are like a whip on themselves, and every time Locke acts, it is a silent and powerful whipping of himself.

To cite just one example, Gary Locke was invited to participate in the Boao Forum. As a result, the high price of the hotel at the main venue of the forum made the ambassadors shy away. The embassy staff confirmed that the price of the hotel is 3 times the standard for travel reimbursement in the United States, and Locke cannot afford to live there.

The shabby Locke of the shabby United States immediately went to the resort hotel in the distance, seemingly in disgrace, but left the Chinese bureaucrats living in luxury hotels with a big question mark: If the ambassador of the largest country today cannot afford to live there, how can you afford to live there?

No one answered, and no one dared to answer. Because China's travel reimbursement standard is only 1/2 of the level of the United States. In the light of Locke's actions, should Chinese officials ask themselves whether they should learn from him? (To be continued.) )