Some 100 leading local entrepreneurs got together in the city of Wenzhou on Sept 9, to swap ideas and share their successful techniques and experiences in expanding businesses overseas under the guidance of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Lin Dexian, a native of Wenzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province, is president of San Francisco-based ABLE International Group Inc.
In 1963, Yang Yiying opened the Shanghai Restaurant in Bonn, Germany and later went to the Netherlands to operate in the real estate industry.
Sun Huakai was born in the city of Wenzhou, in East China's Zhejiang province, in 1955.
Hu Yundi was born in 1914 in Yuhu town, Wencheng county – administered by Wenzhou city – and went to Italy to make a living in 1933.
Chen Zhiyuan donated $463,200 in 2007 to establish the rural poor student aid fund to support students from poor families studying in Wenzhou University to graduation.
In 1999, invited by the Wenzhou government, Chen Yongkun returned to the city – located in East China's Zhejiang province – to invest in the Wenzhou World Trade Center.
Hu Shoujin subsidized the construction of the Yuhu highway in Wencheng county and Qingtian county's Shankou bridge.
Pan Jinzhao was among the first group of overseas Chinese people who invested in the reconstruction of the urban area of Wenzhou city, East China's Zhejiang province.
