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Jon Huntsman was officially nominated the American Ambassador to China on May 15, 2009 to replace the ambassador who had taken the post in 2001.
Jon Huntsman was born in March, 1960 in California, USA. His father is a billionaire philanthropist and his family founded chemical company Huntsman Corp, which has operations in China. Back in 1980s, the junior spent a month in Beijing as a White House assistant for President Ronald Reagan. He studied chemistry in a university in Utah and then studied business management in Pennsylvania. In 1987, he was sent to work as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan where he learned to speak both Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect, a vernacular mainly spoken in Taiwan, southern Fujian, and eastern Guangdong provinces. After returning to America, he worked for his father and acted as CEO of Huntsman Corp. In 1992, he was appointed assistant minister of the Commerce Department in the administration of George H.W. Bush in charge of trade and East Asia affairs. He was later appointed American Ambassador to Singapore. This appointment made him the youngest American ambassador in 100 years. He served as the deputy trade representative in the administration of George W. Bush.
In 2004, Jon Huntsman was elected Utah governor. He was reelected. In 2006, he led a trade mission to visit China, promoting trade ties between USA and China. Huntsman was the only one of all the governors in America who can speak Chinese fluently. He expressed his best wishes in Chinese at the Chinese New Year in Utah during his governorship.
Jon Huntsman speaks fluently Chinese. He reads books about China. His house abounds with Chinese artifacts such as antiques and paintings and calligraphic artworks. During his governorship in Utah, he promoted Chinese language learning in schools. He believes that language is the harbinger of cultural exchanges. For America, Mexico, Canada, China and India are most important in the future. Mexico and Canada play a key part because of their geographical propinquity. Chinese, on the other hand, is the language spoken by the largest people group in the world. For America, Chinese-American relationship is very important in the 21st century and learning Chinese is a very important investment into the American future.
Under his leadership, the Chinese language has been listed as a strategic language in Utah. Since the spring of 2009, the Chinese language course has been offered in public schools in Utah. It became a must for 4,000 students in these schools.
Jon Huntsman has a daughter he and his wife adopted 11 years ago in Yangzhou, a city on the Yangtze River in eastern China’s coastal Jiangsu Province. When picked up by the police in a local vegetable market, the 2-month-old baby girl was found smiling happily without knowing that she had been deserted by her birth parents. The girl was born on May 19, 1999 and the Huntsmans adopted her on December 15, 1999 from the Yangzhou Social Welfare Agency. An official at the agency even thought the girl bore a resemblance to the Huntsmans. Jon Huntsman named her Yang Leyi.
Before she came to China with her parents in 2009, Yang Leyi had just finished studies at the fourth grade in a grade school in Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Huntsman are so proud of her that they happily view themselves as citizens of Yangzhou.
Jon Huntsman introduced his daughter to the media at his press conference after he officially took the post in Beijing. He joked, “Yangzhou is famed for producing beautiful girls. Take a look at my daughter and you will know it’s true.”
Jon Huntsman is a rising star in the Republican Party. The modest man is regarded as a down-to-earth realist. President Obama chose him partly out of domestic political consideration and partly out of consideration concerning China-America relations. □
Jon Huntsman was born in March, 1960 in California, USA. His father is a billionaire philanthropist and his family founded chemical company Huntsman Corp, which has operations in China. Back in 1980s, the junior spent a month in Beijing as a White House assistant for President Ronald Reagan. He studied chemistry in a university in Utah and then studied business management in Pennsylvania. In 1987, he was sent to work as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan where he learned to speak both Mandarin and the Minnan Dialect, a vernacular mainly spoken in Taiwan, southern Fujian, and eastern Guangdong provinces. After returning to America, he worked for his father and acted as CEO of Huntsman Corp. In 1992, he was appointed assistant minister of the Commerce Department in the administration of George H.W. Bush in charge of trade and East Asia affairs. He was later appointed American Ambassador to Singapore. This appointment made him the youngest American ambassador in 100 years. He served as the deputy trade representative in the administration of George W. Bush.
In 2004, Jon Huntsman was elected Utah governor. He was reelected. In 2006, he led a trade mission to visit China, promoting trade ties between USA and China. Huntsman was the only one of all the governors in America who can speak Chinese fluently. He expressed his best wishes in Chinese at the Chinese New Year in Utah during his governorship.
Jon Huntsman speaks fluently Chinese. He reads books about China. His house abounds with Chinese artifacts such as antiques and paintings and calligraphic artworks. During his governorship in Utah, he promoted Chinese language learning in schools. He believes that language is the harbinger of cultural exchanges. For America, Mexico, Canada, China and India are most important in the future. Mexico and Canada play a key part because of their geographical propinquity. Chinese, on the other hand, is the language spoken by the largest people group in the world. For America, Chinese-American relationship is very important in the 21st century and learning Chinese is a very important investment into the American future.
Under his leadership, the Chinese language has been listed as a strategic language in Utah. Since the spring of 2009, the Chinese language course has been offered in public schools in Utah. It became a must for 4,000 students in these schools.
Jon Huntsman has a daughter he and his wife adopted 11 years ago in Yangzhou, a city on the Yangtze River in eastern China’s coastal Jiangsu Province. When picked up by the police in a local vegetable market, the 2-month-old baby girl was found smiling happily without knowing that she had been deserted by her birth parents. The girl was born on May 19, 1999 and the Huntsmans adopted her on December 15, 1999 from the Yangzhou Social Welfare Agency. An official at the agency even thought the girl bore a resemblance to the Huntsmans. Jon Huntsman named her Yang Leyi.
Before she came to China with her parents in 2009, Yang Leyi had just finished studies at the fourth grade in a grade school in Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Huntsman are so proud of her that they happily view themselves as citizens of Yangzhou.
Jon Huntsman introduced his daughter to the media at his press conference after he officially took the post in Beijing. He joked, “Yangzhou is famed for producing beautiful girls. Take a look at my daughter and you will know it’s true.”
Jon Huntsman is a rising star in the Republican Party. The modest man is regarded as a down-to-earth realist. President Obama chose him partly out of domestic political consideration and partly out of consideration concerning China-America relations. □