Chapter 23 Unstoppable China Valley

Montgomery has really changed. Hatch, who is waving the flag for the supremacy of English, successfully ran for election and entered the Montenegrin City Council by virtue of the voter information obtained by collecting citizens' signatures and driven by the emotions of the old residents to protect themselves.The new parliament was completely occupied by the right-wing forces headed by Hatch and conservative representative Ken Borg.The first thing they have to do after coming to power is to regain the so-called lost ground. The English dominance faction that was reprimanded by Li Wanruo righteously and angrily back then will always have a chance to counterattack now.Hatch and his fellow parliamentary colleagues have been active in planning since they came to power.Under their urging, the new city council passed what he had wanted to do for many years but hadn't succeeded-the English Dominance Act was officially passed with a majority vote.

Soon, the municipal bulletin published by the former city government no longer included Chinese, and the Community Relations Committee, which was established by Li Wanruo and introduced to various places by the White House and the federal government as experience, was also cancelled.The Chinese signs in the streets and alleys, as well as the Chinese signboards on the shops and car parks, also failed to avoid the catastrophe... Those policemen drove whining police cars, waved sticks in their hands, and searched for everything in the Chinese district. The Chinese signs that are not pleasing to the eye are then destroyed indiscriminately.And that's just the beginning.Immediately afterwards, the city council passed a resolution No. 9004, implementing a one-year ban on any construction proposals and application plans in Montgomery.Mengshi is like a sports car that is already on the fast lane and suddenly comes to a sudden brake.Qi, this is all messed up.Residents of the whole city of Montgomery and foreign investors from other places seemed to have encountered a big earthquake overnight. They never imagined that the west coast of the United States, which had already entered the late 1980s, would suddenly see the wheel of history being pulled back for more than a hundred years. The dark and ignorant age before.

What's the matter?The vast number of Chinese people in the Chinese community, which already has more than half of the population, were stunned: Has the world really changed? Why?Ask them yourself!If I had known today, why didn't you care about the election?Not active in voting? ...I thought Li Wanruo would definitely be elected, so I didn't vote. Why?Think of yourselves!Thinking that participating in politics has nothing to do with you, if a few more of you vote for your compatriots, today's Meng City will suddenly be covered with dark clouds and stormy? When the Chinese community and the Chinese media were shocked, they finally began an unprecedented introspection.And when the first Chinese-American female mayor in the United States was brilliant in her political career, the news of her tragic defeat in the election broke out in Mongolia, which caused a shock far beyond the Chinese district of Zishi. At that moment, all Chinese districts in the United States felt a huge shock, especially San Francisco, which is separated from Montenegro with the highest concentration of Chinese, caused an uproar even more.Chinese leaders from all walks of life have come forward to make statements and deliver talks.Huang Xilun, the former general chairman of the Chinese General Association, said sadly: I have always believed that the victory of any Chinese is the victory of all Chinese; the failure of any Chinese is the failure of all Chinese.However, such words are usually not listened to.The defeat of Li Wanruo is the turn of those who only care about their own interests and not the interests of all Chinese people to wake up!Xie Guoxiang, a senior politician and member of the San Francisco Council, pointed out angrily: I noticed that many people were criticizing and maliciously slandering rumors involving race in the early stages of the election in Montenegro. I think this is the most shameful and vicious approach.However, a short article titled "Story Hearing" written in the name of a reader pointed out even more sharply: Someone was considered to be hostile to Taiwan because Li Wanruo shook hands with the Chinese Premier at the White House at the invitation of President Reagan. forgetfulness.As President Kennedy said: Victory has a hundred fathers, but failure cannot find a single mother.Should we also reflect on this: What exactly did our mother do when Li Wanruo lost the election?

It's time to wake up!After seeing all kinds of bad deeds of the extreme right forces infringing on the legitimate interests of Chinese people after they came to power, the Chinese finally understood who was right in the decisive battle between Li Wanruo and the extreme rightists.Especially those builders who vigorously opposed Li Wanruo at the beginning felt even more painful, because in this struggle they thought that the opposition who supported Li Wanruo would gain the greatest benefit in the development and construction of Meng City, but now they have suffered the greatest loss. .Therefore, with guilt and money, they begged Li Wanruo to come out of the mountain again.

We will give you as much as you want, as long as you can return to the Mongolian political arena, you will be able to defeat those newcomers! Li Wanruo, who had been hoping for more people to support her political donations, made the builders look cold this time: Thank you for your kindness.Then he said earnestly and sincerely: I will never participate in this recall action.Not to mention running for parliamentarians. Now is the time for self-discipline and introspection. Old immigrants help new immigrants actively participate in social activities.Don't forget to give back to Duqu to make money in Mengshi, change our image, and cultivate successor talents.Two years later, we will elect Chinese representatives together...

I'm so sorry, we thought you were going to be elected... A builder is ashamed.However, Li Wanruo didn't feel better than them, because she loved the city of Monterey Park more than anyone else, cherished the city's hard-won development more than anyone else, and loved her Chinese compatriots more than anyone else—for more than 20 years Her social work has enabled her to understand and appreciate more than others the difficulties of growing up in the United States as a minority. At this time, facing the painful lessons of blood, the Chinese in Mengshi showed unprecedented sobriety and awareness. On July 15, 1986, 600 representatives of Chinese descent from Southern California, organized by Zhu Miaozhen, Wu Guoqing and others, held a protest against exclusion of new immigrants, returning my basic rights and demanding that Li Wanruo return to power and dismiss the new congressmen. Slogans and slogans passed through the streets of Mengshi in a mighty way, and finally held a demonstration for several hours in front of the city government building.Along the way, a large number of Chinese compatriots joined the demonstrations. Some of them were old Chinese residents in their 60s and 70s, and some were new immigrants who had just moved here.

According to the law, in a city like Montgomery, if more than 1,000 citizens jointly sign and propose a motion, the government must carry out reforms or hold special elections for removal.So the leaders of the Chinese community immediately launched a campaign to collect signatures from citizens after the demonstration. In just a few months, the number of signatures calling for the removal of the new councilor reached more than 6,870. In February 1987, the Election Department of the Los Angeles County Government made a decision to formally approve the recall of the joint signature.Although due to various complicated legal reasons, the removal of the members of the new council of Vinh City failed, but the strong power and lion-like awakening of the Chinese people made the anti-Chinese and anti-Chinese forces that were once rampant no longer dare to act rashly.The most important point is that many Chinese who had no awareness of participating in politics in the past began to see the necessity and importance of participating in politics from the serious consequences of Li Wanruo's defeat.

Li Wanruo never forgets to support and support the younger generation. During her tenure as a city councilor in 1982, she met Wu Guoqing and Zhao Meixin, a young couple living in Los Angeles.When they were engaged in community service work together, Li Wanruo found that the two of them had a strong interest in politics, so he suggested that they move to Mongolia and encouraged them to join Chinese political associations.Later, when Zhao Meixin ran for the school district committee, Li Wanruo arranged for her entire campaign team to help her in the election and won.Then Li Wanruo joined forces with people from the community to successfully assist her in marching into the Mongolian forum.

In 1990, when Jiang Guoliang, a Chinese-American lawyer, ran for the Mongolian City Council, Li Wanruo specially asked for a month's leave from the unit she served in the county government to support him in the election.After Mr. Jiang was elected, he worked hard and served the new immigrants more actively, and was well received in the community.But what disappointed Li Wanruo the most was that the two city councilors, Zhao and Jiang, did not cooperate, and it was not easy for the Chinese to exert their political power.When Jiang Guoliang proposed a bilingual emergency phone service in the parliament, Zhao Meixin actually stood on the side of the conservatives and opposed it.As a result, the Chinese residents were greatly dissatisfied, which almost led to a recall storm.Zhao Meixin later changed her original intention under the pressure of the community, and instead supported the bilingual emergency phone service proposal.After a period of time, this American native-born Chinese American gradually understood the needs of new immigrants and provided services for them.

In 2000, Li Wanruo encouraged Latino California Senator Su Lisi to run for Congress, challenging another Latino Martinez, who was incumbent at the time.Her only request to Su Lisi is to ask Su Lisi to support Zhao Meixin to run for the California Representative.As a result, both Su and Zhao were successfully elected.When Li Wanruo talked about this incident, his relief and pride were beyond words. In today's Monterey Park City, various constructions have once again experienced rapid development, and the interests of the Chinese have been consolidated and improved unprecedentedly.Asians, mainly Chinese, have changed from a minority in the past to a majority in this city.These unwelcome guests now account for 60% of the local population and a major source of electoral votes.Therefore, Montenegro is hailed by all walks of life in the United States as the first stop for the Chinese in the United States to develop eastward.The San Gabriel Valley, which has been written by Dutch priests for hundreds of years, has since become the famous China Valley!

One day, in the largest assembly square in Mongolia, the Chinese community jointly held an unprecedented and impossible award ceremony in the future.The name of this award is the Fighter Award.This person is Li Wanruo, a Chinese award winner who has made historic and special contributions to the city of Montreal! From this day on, the residents of Montenegro and the descendants of Chinese Americans will remember for generations that there is such an outstanding lady in this city who changed the name of the San Gabriel Valley and the course of its history, and she is a Chinese.