Los Angeles.

Like San Francisco on the West Coast, it was one of the first American cities to be discovered by the Qing Dynasty Chinese more than 100 years ago, so it was settled here very early.

A large number of immigrants from China who have crossed the ocean choose to live near Chinatown due to language barriers.

Today's Chinatown is no longer exclusive to the Chinese, immigrants from all over Asia like to live here.

Previously, the architectural style of this area was similar to that of the Chinese seventies, and Han Xuan had visited several times.

At the entrance, there is an antique Huaxia archway, and when night falls, the streets are full of red lanterns, and the shop signs are written in Chinese characters.

During festivals, there will be special dragon and lion dance performances on the street, and in this place where Chinese people are everywhere, you can completely get rid of the shackles of English and experience this "Little China" in the United States.

But in fact, the residents of this Chinatown have not had a good time.

Most of the first-generation immigrants dragged their families or left their homeland alone to come to the United States because they couldn't continue to survive in the country.

The vast majority of Chinese do not have enough funds to build luxury houses, and with the passage of time, most of the buildings here are dilapidated, just like coming to Guangdong Province and Xiangjiang many years ago.

Many things have been Americanized, such as the food eaten, the taste is more American Chinese food, and pure Chinese food is quite difficult to eat.

In addition to coming to eat, drivers generally do not recommend tourists to come to Chinatown to play, there are too many illegal and unscrupulous businesses, occasionally add tips to the bill, and the service attitude is not good, so that Chinatown's reputation plummets.

After decades of prosperity and glory, this old town is gradually declining.

The Chinese whose families are better off are eager to move out of here and draw a line with Chinatown, while the rest of the people, most of whom are not highly educated and have limited personal abilities, make the place more and more desolate and the crime rate is rising.

Most of the newcomers have some financial means, and they will choose to live in new Chinese settlements, where the living conditions are better.

When there is nothing to do, Mr. Han will come to visit the original neighborhood, and realize the embarrassing predicament that this neighborhood where he grew up is now facing, and he has the strength to do something, so he makes up his mind to help them improve their lives.

After Han Xuan learned of his plan, he volunteered to help, but the old man was not ready to let his grandson join in, and then considered that this could increase his grandson's influence in the Chinese circle and help him grow.

So the two partnered to start the old Chinatown renovation project, which was strongly supported by the Los Angeles city government, and also used a small amount of financial funds to help with policy support, which was mostly to save face for the old man......

The old Chinatown they came to at this moment is connected to the old town of Los Angeles, at the north end of Sunset Boulevard.

Once, except for the sides of the main road, the other areas were particularly dilapidated, and the kind of obsolescence that could not be changed by repainting the exterior of the houses, it was a kind of obsolescence that penetrated deep into the brick joints and permeated the atmosphere of a bygone era.

So this remodeling, a large area of houses was demolished, almost razed to the ground, and then rebuilt from scratch.

After getting out of the car, Han Xuan and his father were surrounded by bodyguards, passing under the tall building sign, and then they could see the sculpture of Mr. Sun......

A lot of old houses are gone.

The extra ones are new wooden houses with flying cornices, red pillars and black tiles, and one-, two-, or three-story structures.

The old headquarters of East West Bank has been demolished and now moved into a retro wooden house with a wooden signboard hanging above the gate.

Now Chinatown's advertising slogan is domineering, engraved on an oversized stone, written in Chinese "Give me a day, give you back a thousand years", and there is an English translation next to it.

It looks a little nondescript, this sentence was written by Han Xuan, and it suddenly came to mind at the beginning, and I copied it easily, poor Song Cheng......

Daddy Han scratched his head and said, "The change is so big, I don't even know the way, what about Li Ji's steamed bun shop?"

Xiao Li was my friend when I was a child, and every time I came over, I would always go to him to buy a few steamed buns, and I didn't eat breakfast today, just to keep my stomach for steamed buns. ”

In his sight, he could see smoke steaming from a corner, Han Xuan pointed over there and said, "It should be there, it's blocked."

Do you know how to get to your friend's house?

If it doesn't work, just call and ask, I'll find the person in charge of the demolition and reconstruction project, there is something I need to ask him, just to help us lead the way......"

Walking in the direction pointed by his son, Daddy Han really saw the steamed bun shop, this thing is difficult to buy in other places in the United States, he hasn't eaten it for a long time, he bought four meat buns in one go, and Han Xuan also took a cage of soup dumplings, which tasted pretty good.

The clerk was about to go crazy with excitement because of the arrival of the two of them, and he was reluctant to collect money, but unfortunately his dad friend was not there, and the clerk told him that he went to the Grand Canyon by car, and he had a good life depending on the situation.

After eating, I sat in the store and waited for a while, and Mr. Zhou, the person in charge of the Chinatown demolition project, quickly arrived.

He is Chinese, and he is also a member of the Committee of 100 and the North American Chinese Chamber of Commerce, he is in his fifties this year, specializing in the construction industry, with a large business scale and a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, and he is also an elite among the Chinese in North America.

Daddy had already called and asked for the address from a friend, and now the entire Chinatown is not allowed to drive, and they walked to the restaurant they were talking about.

After saying hello just now, Han Xuan asked the gentleman surnamed Zhou, whom he met for the first time, "The development work is okay, how much progress has been completed?"

My grandfather and I are expected to add $160 million to the neighborhood in the hope that the whole Chinatown will become like this. ”

"The project went pretty well.

According to the law, as long as the landlord agrees, we have the right to carry out the eviction, and the tenants who do not agree are almost always renting, so we can directly bypass them and obtain the landlord's consent.

Of course, we will not let those people be homeless, and we have arranged temporary shelters for them to live in, resettlement houses for rent at low prices, which are currently under construction, and the first batch has been completed, with an area of between 60 and 120 square meters, and the living environment is much better than before.

Residents who already have a property can get demolition and property compensation, and I believe that their life will be better in the future.

We have now completed more than 900 of these wooden houses, forming three blocks, and it may take four or five years to complete the renovation of all of them.

Mainly because there are too few skilled craftsmen, the number of construction teams is only more than 300 people, and the total number of apprentices is less than 1,000 people......"