langje, Pennsylvania, us.
"on the morning of July 26, 1988, the Northwest Airlines flight 747 landed in Shanghai with an old dream I wanted. Is it a success or a failure? I'm in China. " (from Lang's note)
this is his first visit to China. He is a trade representative of a company in the United States, and he goes to Shanghai to talk about TV component business. At the same time, it also promotes products for another American fertilizer company. Because of a common musical interest, in a concert on a night, he and Miss Tang, who studied music, had created the spark of love. From then on, his career life was legendary.
"how do you an American go to China to farm and do what the Chinese people most want to do?" This is the most frequently asked question by Mr. Lang, with reporters, officials and elderly farmers on the farm. He was a business man, a business man, after more than 10 years of the CEO, he came to China to do business, to seek dreams, who knows, the dream finally fell on the fields of hope. During the business activities in Shanghai, Lang also represented the American fertilizer company and the Shanghai earth fertilizer station to promote the fertilizer experiment. As a result of the original translation, he invited Miss Tang, who met at the concert, to do the translation.
Mr. Lang likes to eat vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli and other vegetables, but at that time few of these vegetables were seen in the Shanghai market and only high-end hotels were imported from abroad. But at that time, fewer flights and refrigerated equipment were lagging behind. The imported vegetables were not fresh. When Lang did fertilizer experiments, he also tried some vegetables. That year, broccoli grew so well that he got the trial sale of Hilton Hotel in Shanghai with the sensitivity of businessmen. The receiving department had not yet contacted the best broccoli, and asked why the broccoli had not been sold and did not accept the promotion.
and when langjs takes these dishes to the chef (German), the chief chef has two eyes: we can have such broccoli here! On Sunday, the chief chef, accompanied by the general manager of the hotel, inspects langjesse's production test farm, and purchases all the vegetables grown here, and has to place a long-term order. Lang, with the intuition of businessmen, thinks business opportunities are coming: China is opening up, high-end hotels are increasing, foreigners are coming in, and there are business opportunities for watercress.
, so he gave up his original occupation and began to rent farmland in Pudong six mile township to start a business, and became a vegetable farmer. At that time, langjs was immersed in the two ensemble of love and excitement. She was originally going abroad to study music, and was moved by Lang's sentence "I came in, you want to go out to do something", and stayed with him to start a business. And he likes challenges, and the instinct of advocating nature is aroused. He is full of hope for the market and he is full of yearning for nature. But after all, he was not a farmer, and he had no experience. He was in a country that was just open in a strange country. It was the most difficult for the local people to do.
when he came from the United States, he did not expect to be a vegetable grower in Shanghai. He came to China to look for opportunities. He had no chance to divide the opportunity. So he asked why he stayed as a vegetable farmer. He just smiled. Maybe, he's asking himself why...
warmth and excitement are transient, and more troubles are waiting for him.
when he first came to Shanghai, his main business was business activity, and the experiment of fertilizer experiment in Pudong six li township was amateur and entertaining. But once Langer took her newly married wife, Tang from Shanghai's foreign dances to a rural farm, the difference was too big. The roofs of the house were leaking, the door was closed, there was no shower, the outdoor pig farm stinked and the flies were flying. He can endure the simple living conditions and the unbearable environment. He believes that everything will change and the process of change is also joyful.
but the changing and unfaithful behavior of the farm's battalion has made Langes unacceptable and intolerable. At the beginning of the business, langje worked with the team to plant the vegetables, the brigade unearthed, the labor, and Lang took all the production costs, including the labor wages, and was also responsible for the sale, and the brigade received fixed income. After several negotiations, just starting production, the land is either expropriated or planned to be called, the production fields are constantly changing, and the cadres of the brigade often interfere with production and make him exhausted.
the farm's capital needed to invest in business depends entirely on its business subsidies in the US. The loss in the early stage of his business is what he expected. However, the cultural differences between East and West were unexpected. After many setbacks, he began to lose heart, and finally decided to give up the farm dream and pack up his new wife to return home.
an American growing vegetables in Shanghai is a novelty, and he has introduced more than 300 foreign vegetable varieties. It was a great concern at that time.
heard that langjs had to leave, when Shanghai's agricultural leaders came to hear. Seeing an American in such a hard condition, such a good variety of Western Chinese cabbage, he held the hand of Mr. Lang jelly, and said, "you have created a new way for Shanghai to grow vegetables. I express my gratitude to the government, and the government will create good working conditions for you." This open city in Shanghai does need such dishes and vegetables.
Lang is a lover of nature, and left with excitement. At that time, Jiefang Daily published an article "LONG, do not go". Many years later, Mrs. Lang told me that Lang is persistent and never gives up easily. He has always wanted to prove his pursuit and ability. So, later, his farm has experienced several moves from Pudong to Minhang, and from Minhang to Puan in Songjiang. Every place, not only the scale of the farm, but also the better.
many people asked him why he chose to grow vegetables, and what caused him to stay quietly for farming. I asked, too. Lang has no Western style concise answers, but uses language differences to repeatedly state "I just thought". I just thought... " From his complex expression, I vaguely found the answer: it was the earth and the woman.
earth is the power of his creation of devotion. He loves the earth and attracts the earth. Love is his spiritual sustenance. Here he found his beloved career, favorite woman, where else would he go?