Chinese-American worker Yin Jihua.

Yin integration comes from rural Chengdu, Sichuan. She lost her mother when she was young, grew up in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and later moved to Taiwan Province Province with her father. He studied hard under the care of his sisters, was admitted to the Department of Engineering of the National national cheng kung university in Tainan, Taiwan Province Province, and obtained an engineer degree at 1962.

After graduation, with the encouragement and help of her sister, Yin Jihua came to the United States by boat with dozens of dollars. Like other international students at that time, Yin Jihe spent his first few years studying and working in different places. Later, with the encouragement of his sister Yin, he went to Washington University in Seattle for further study and obtained a master's degree in civil engineering. I also met Huang Chunfang, the other half who shared joys and sorrows with him and created a career world together in Huada.

After finishing his master's degree, Yin Jihe worked as an engineer in Bethel and Fluor, famous engineering companies in San Francisco, and Huang Chunfang worked as a social worker in the municipal government. In his spare time, Yin Jihua works part-time, doing small projects that the company doesn't want to do, buying dilapidated houses for renovation, and then selling them after a makeover. After several years of hard savings, they bought several apartments, and Mr. and Mrs. Yin became millionaires.

I have worked hard all my life and achieved little in my career. Most people want to retire in peace, but Yin's integration is different. One day at lunch, I chatted with my American colleagues. Looking at the golden letter M on McDonald's across the street, he asked my colleague what kind of people can own McDonald's chain restaurants.

Colleague said: anyone, as long as you have confidence and perseverance to overcome difficulties. Who knows that the colleague's answer and encouragement in the future has fueled Yin Jihe's determination to develop into a prestigious McDonald's. But not everyone can apply to run McDonald's chain stores. McDonald's has strict rules and regulations and training system, what's more, few people in China operated McDonald's at that time. However, Yin Jihua didn't give up. He has been trying to apply.

1984 The opportunity came, and 48-year-old Yin Jihe and his wife got the opportunity to win a bankrupt McDonald's in Oakland next to San Francisco. McDonald's is in a bad position. Its windows are full of bullet holes. However, Yin Jihe and his wife are determined to accept the challenge. Qixin's operation is not only on the right track, but more importantly, because they have made great efforts in the community and improved the surrounding environment.

Silicon Valley, famous for its high-tech and fast-paced technology, is full of examples of young upstarts getting rich overnight. It seems unbelievable that it is a late bloomer. However, Yin Zhenghe, a star who owns 20 McDonald's chain stores in four counties and eight cities in the Bay Area, won the Minority Business Award awarded by the Minority Development Agency of the US Federal Department of Commerce in 2003, but admitted that "until he was 48 years old, he was still a dumb engineer and faced with a double crisis of occupation and age."

Yin Zhenghe, who came to the United States from 65438 to 0964, had the same simple ideal as many foreign students in Taiwan Province Province of China at that time: study hard, find a decent job after graduation, earn more money by virtue of his own contribution and diligence, get married and have children. 1984, when the economy was depressed, the company working for 13 had to move to another state. Yin Jihua faces two choices, either accepting layoffs or moving to another state with the company. This unexpectedly made Yin Integrated think about his future. By chance, he got the right to operate a McDonald's in Auckland. Running a McDonald's in an area with a concentrated African-American population and extremely poor public security is beyond his imagination. "There are loopholes everywhere on the roof, toilet paper is always taken away, and people come to pester customers for money at any time, or jump directly to the cash register. It is a place where even the police are unwilling to come. " Because he has no experience in knowing people, he even recruited people from the underworld by mistake.

How to make this store achieve peace and double its turnover within one year is an understatement. He said that in addition to strengthening staff management, the most important thing is to serve the community. Generous donations to local schools and churches have won him a high reputation. "The residents know my kindness and my help to their children. Over time, even the harassed people did not come. " This dull engineer always puts integration with the community first now. "We want others to know our willingness to serve the society."

Yin Jihua, who currently owns 20 chain stores, doesn't think there is any secret to his success. "My thinking is relatively slow. The only tricky thing is that I love peace, live a fair life, like learning, and I am more persistent and meticulous than the average person." In his view, everything is easier said than done, so we should learn to start from an early age.

According to Sing Tao Daily, six years ago, Yin Jihe, the Chinese proprietor of Yin's McDonald's in the United States, and more than 40 Asian-Pacific groups in Greater Sacramento held an Asian voter education conference, which attracted more than 400 participants for the first time. Then, before the general election in June+10 in 5438, the annual voter education and candidate forum organized by the Asia-Pacific Public Affairs Association (APAPA) became a great event to promote Asian-Pacific people to participate in politics, register voters and vote. Yin Jihua, the founder of APAPA, reviewed the changes in the past six years and thought that the voting rate of Asian-Pacific people needs to be further improved, while Asian-Pacific people have made political progress.

Yin Jihua pointed out that the purpose of APAPA's annual voter forum is to strengthen the voice of Asian-Pacific voters, concentrate candidates from the whole state and even the whole country, and give voters, especially Asian-Pacific voters, more opportunities to understand and participate.

He said, I still remember the first meeting, where 400 people attended, and then the number of participants increased rapidly. Last year 1500 people attended the meeting, which attracted more than 2000 people this year. Considering that there are actually no major problems in this year's election, people are naturally happy with the concern of the society.

He pointed out that Asian-Pacific people began to see some political achievements, and the number of Asian-Pacific people who successfully entered the state legislature or became elected officials at the state level increased. However, compared with six years ago, the voting changes of Asian-Pacific voters are not very obvious. Considering that the Asian-Pacific community has immigrated to the United States for more than 50 years, it is only in the last 30 or 40 years that the community has paid more attention to politics and participated in elections and voting, and it will take time to continue to promote this aspect.

Therefore, Yin Integration revealed that considering that there will be a series of important elections next year, the San Francisco Bay Area Division of the Asia-Pacific Public Affairs Association will plan to start voter registration activities throughout the Bay Area from the beginning of next year, hoping that more Asian-Pacific voters will register to participate in the elections.