Why is Fatty Ding called Fatty Ding?

The name of Ding Fatty Square comes from a China businessman named Ding Fatty.

In the 1970s, Fatty Ding opened a travel agency here and gradually bought several surrounding buildings to form a small commercial plaza. His travel agency provides air tickets and visas for China people from the United States to Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province and Hongkong, and provides transportation, accommodation, tour guides and other services for China people who come to the United States to visit relatives, study abroad and emigrate. Fatty Ding's business is booming, attracting many other Chinese businessmen to open restaurants, supermarkets, barbershops, gold shops and pharmacies. , forming a prosperous Chinese business circle. Since 1980s, Dingpangzi Square has become the most famous place in the Chinese community in Los Angeles, and it is also a must-see for many Chinese tour groups. At that time, there were no fewer than 100 long-distance buses to and from Dingpangzi Square every week, sending China people from south to north to all parts of the United States.