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Don't you think it's strange that the owner of an American company died, why do so many Chinese care? can still be on China's hot search, what does it have to do with us? The reason behind it, aside from the fact that the car accident itself is bizarreIt also has a lot to do with the background of the person concerned.
The party is called Zhao Anji, you can know it at a glance, it is Chinese, this American company called Fumao Group, the background is even more unusual, the Zhao family is known as the "first Chinese family" in the United States, and its status is very prominent. It all started in 1928. This year, Zhao Anji's father Zhao Xicheng was born in Shanghai, calculated that he is now more than 90 years old, in 1946, Zhao Xicheng was admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University, studying navigation, and later, he went to the United States to study, and in 1964, he founded Fumao Group in the United States, relying on the diligence and courage of the Chinese, and soon made the enterprise bigger.
What does this Fumao Group do? To put it simply, it is to buy a ship to run cargo transportation, as we all know, because of the low cost of shipping, the vast majority of the world's goods are shipped, but Fumao Group is a bit big in this industry, and it is already one of the world's top 500, and Zhao Xicheng has also become a famous "Chinese ship king" in the United States. In 2018, when Zhao Xicheng was old, he handed over the company to the youngest of his six daughters, Zhao Anji, who had just died in a car accident.
What does Fumao Group have to do with China? There's a lot going on here. Zhao Xicheng was from Shanghai to the United States, and he has a lot of affection for ChinaIn 1987, his shipping business had grown and he began to support the development of China's shipping industry. At that time, the domestic reform and opening up had just begun, and the shipping industry had no money, no technology, and no talentsFumao Group was the first to put two ships 6The order for 40,000 tons of cargo ships was given to China, helping China's bulk cargo ships open the door to the US market.
In 2002, when we had just joined the world's leading organization, looking for the world's leading partners, and Fumao Group, we ordered 12 ships from China50,000 tons of cargo ship order, followed by a few 200,000 tons, many people don't know, to build a 200,000 ton cargo ship, the production cycle may take up to 10 years, a ship's ** also to hundreds of millions, it is definitely a big order, just in January 2024, according to domestic ** reports, Fumao Group has placed an order with China Shipbuilding Group, and the title of the news is directly written "Old friends from Chinese shipyards are back".
Fumao's orders, are we most needed when to get, a strong stimulus to the development of China's shipbuilding industry, but also to feed a large number of shipping industry chain enterprises, now you see, China's shipbuilding industry whether it is the amount of orders or the amount of orders, have surpassed Japan and South Korea ranked first in the world, if there is no Fumao orders, such brilliant results may come later.
Therefore, Fumao Group has indeed made a lot of contributions to China's manufacturing industry, especially the shipbuilding industry, in Zhao Xicheng's own words, and has no intention of making Chinese money at all. Zhao Lao misses the old feelings, and the ships of Fumao Company are also named after the Chinese "Mei" character, either called "Guomei" or "Anmei", and when you go to ** others know at a glance that this is a Chinese ship.
The Zhao family not only takes care of Chinese business, but also set up a ** association in Shanghai, Zhao Anji himself is one of the directors of the Shanghai Mulan ** association, the Zhao family uses the money earned in the United States to engage in charity in China, this ** association, specifically to fund poor Chinese college students, helped many college students who study navigation and shipping.
At this point, Fumao Group, a company that has close contacts with China and has deep roots, the sudden death of its chairman is indeed very regrettable for many Chinese. In Zhao Anji's obituary after his death, it was also specifically mentioned that although she was born in the United States, she never forgot her roots and helped build a bridge of communication between the East and the West throughout her life.
Another reason why this matter has attracted attention is also related to the partisan struggle in the United States.
The Zhao family is known as the most powerful Chinese family in the United States, and another reason is that Zhao Xicheng's other daughter, Elaine Chao. Although Elaine Chao is a Chinese face, she has twice served as a cabinet member during the ** term of the Republican Party, served as the secretary of labor and the deputy secretary of transportation, and has an unusual relationship with the Bush family and the Trump family. In addition, Chao's husband McConnell, who is also a Republican bigwig, is the leader of the Republican Party in the US Senate.
In the past, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were gentlemen's disputes, ** sat in turns, quite harmonious, but now it is for the upper position, and the bayonet is red at every turn, the Democratic Party is chasing and beating Trump, and the Fumao Group is the big funder of the Republican election, therefore, this car accident is also dyed with some "conspiracy theory" colors, some people say that this car accident is precisely someone who knocked on the Zhao family and took the opportunity to suppress Trump.
According to a report by Caixin, Zhao Anji's death in a car accident was due to the truck driver driving drunk and hitting the car she was riding, resulting in her death on the spot, although the consequences are serious, but according to the current law in the United States, this is at most a negligent death, and the sentence is likely to be less than 3 years.
There are many rumors, but no one can say how credible it is, and I hope that the United States can intervene in the investigation as soon as possible, return the deceased to an innocent person, and give an explanation to the family.
In any case, the unexpected loss of the principal of the Fumao Group is a great impact on the enterprise, and the 96-year-old Zhao Xicheng is unlikely to come forward to regain power, and he has to choose the right person from among the other daughters, even if someone wants to do it, whether he has the ability to take over, it is difficult to say, if the Fumao Group encounters operational difficulties, it will even be swallowed up by American Jewish capital.
It can be seen from thisIn the United States, the closer a business person is to politics, the more dangerous he becomesNo amount of wealth can buy back life, in the end, I still want to sincerely thank Zhao Anji and the Zhao family for their contributions to China's development, and may the deceased rest in peace.