Zhao Xiaolan

Author: Zhang Kerong
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: I took a photo in my hometown with a group of children surrounding me, and there was also a pig beside us. I took this photo so that it could remind me to face and overcome any difficulty when I encounter challenges. This reminder gives me great confidence and strength. When I face difficulties, I tell myself that I am Chinese, and we have a history of 5,000 years. Although we have experienced various hardships, we have survived them, so I believe we must use these experiences to encourage ourselves. We come from a great historical nation, the Chinese nation is a great nation. Now our culture and traditions will become richer and stronger. If I fail at something, I think I can always go home.
Zhao Xiaolan 108 people, 108 stories; it took 4 years, with several transoceanic field trips. Unraveling the complexities, telling the successes and failures, the indescribable impact that can only be encountered, measuring their journey of the heart. Bridging the distance, sharing with you the glory and dreams that can move every Chinese person. Every story has a reason to stir the heart. There are times of prosperity and adversity, places of vastness and narrowness, and positions of honor and disgrace. The ups and downs of life, the warmth and coldness, are all no longer important here. Let us get closer, touch these unique yet highly charming individuals, and believe that in this changing era, the moving stories buried deep in their hearts and the growth experiences that shine with the light of humanity will allow people to enter their inner world and life journey, their thought tracks and emotional realms, to feel and understand a heartfelt, sorrowful, yet gentle confession, and the impact their existence has on the times, life, and cultural changes.
The Chinese Abroad is the first panoramic documentary in the history of Chinese-language television to comprehensively record the Chinese diaspora worldwide. It has now begun to air on 100 television stations across Singapore, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and within China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong's Phoenix Chinese Channel, Europe Channel, and America Channel. It has ranked in the top 10 in viewership ratings in over 40 television stations.
In 2001, at the age of 48, Zhao Xiaolan became the 24th U.S. Secretary of Labor, becoming the first Chinese cabinet member in American political history. Zhao Xiaolan was born in 1953 in Jiading, Shanghai. She immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of 8. In 1975, she graduated from Manhattanville College with a major in economics. In 1979, she obtained a master's degree from the Harvard Business School and later served as a senior accountant at Citibank in New York. From 1983 to 1984, she was selected as a "White House Fellow." From 1984 to 1986, she served as the vice president of international finance at the Bank of America in San Francisco. In 1986, she left her career in business for politics and became the deputy administrator of the Maritime Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation. In 1988, she served as the chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission. In 1989, she became the undersecretary of transportation.