Carlan Dean, 48 years old this year, is the sixth generation of overseas Chinese in the United States.
His great-great-great-grandfather came to the United States across the ocean at the end of the Quintong Dynasty and was one of the many Chinese workers who participated in the construction of the American Pacific Railway.
Since that generation, the Dean family has taken root in the United States little by little by virtue of the hard-working quality. At first, the ancestor of the Dean family who went to the United States as a Chinese worker was still at the bottom of the American society at that time. And now, the Dean family in the United States has a fortune of tens of billions of dollars, which can be regarded as a model of struggle. At the same time, the Dean family also carried forward the characteristics of a generation of merchants along the southeast coast of China, and were very keen to unite their compatriots and develop together.
Decades ago, Carlan Dean’s great-grandfather founded the New York Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Gradually, this chamber of commerce has become one of the largest Chinese chambers of commerce in the United States.
After Carlan Dean took the position of the president of the New York Chinese Chamber of Commerce. He was committed to developing the New York Chinese Chamber of Commerce but the American Chinese Chamber of Commerce merged and was renamed to the American Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
And Carlan Dean is also fighting for it, hoping to become the first president of the American Chinese Chamber of Commerce after the merger.
However, there are two other Chinese chambers of commerce that are no worse than the New York Chinese Chamber of Commerce. These two Chinese chambers of commerce are the Los Angeles Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Chicago Chinese Chamber of Commerce.
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