N.C. Governor Pat McCray
invited N.C. Chinese American Elites to visit his Governor mansion
August 31, 2016
Wednesday
afternoon, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory invited Chinese Americans in
North Carolina
to his
Governor mansion. 12 Chinese American elites visited lead by Chairman John Wei
of Chinese America Economic & Culture Association (CAECA). They are CAECA
President Meng Li, CAFA-NC Executive board Jianping Yang, NCCBA Senior Vice
President Candong Chen, NCCSEA President Zhaohui Wang, Asian Focus President
Lily Chan, Entrepreneur Kevin Li, Entrepreneur Lisa Huang, General Manager
Roger Yiu, Real Estate Tycoon Hannah Chan and her
husband Leo Chan, Journalist Jack Wang, they received warmly welcome by
Governor McCrory and had a group photo taken to mark the significant moment.
Governor
McCrory previously served a record 12 years as the 53rd Mayor of the
city of
Charlotte
with tremendous achievements, he was elected as 74th Governor of
North Carolina since 2013, CAECA Chairman John Wei was being refered to
Governor McCrory shortly before his election by former Senator Speaker pro temp
Harris Blake. Governor McCrory built up profound relationship with Chairman
John Wei who had been invited to the Governor’s mansion with other Chinese
elites since Governor McCrory in office, to this day they finally visit.
Twelve
Chinese elites arrived at 5pm, Governor McCrory waited and warmly embraced
every visitor, he was so happy when he met Meng Li and Jack Wang from
Charlotte
where he was a
Mayor for 12 years.
Chairman
John Wei and President Meng Li of CAECA represented all Chinese American handed
Governor McCrory two gifts, Chinese Opera face patterns and a red tie with
pandas on it. Governor appreciated and cherished these precious gifts, he is a
huge fan of Chinese culture, he was excited when having a “cute” panda tie and
can’t wait to wear it, then he wore the Chinese panda tie to next activity of
Agriculture Department on that evening.
Governor
McCrory prepared delicate desserts, biscuits, cakes and all kinds of beverages
to show his hospitality to Chinese.
After
meeting with Chinese American elites, Governor expressly told his mansion
director David Robinson to tour them around. he is so delighted to see Chinese
guests today and he decided to open second floor-tour which in his governor
history till now, merely opened six times, he wanted to show his affections to
Chinese Americans by this privilege. All twelve Chinese American elites felt
great honor and showed gratitude to Governor McCrory, by the way, they are
proud of themselves who did great contributions to enter into American
mainstream society and to Chinese Americans involving into N.C. Politics.
The
Governor’s Palace was built in downtown Raleigh, at the cross street of Blount
and E Jone St, the current Governor Mansion covers about five acres with more
than fifty rooms, it has more than 120 years history which was begun in 1883
and completed in
1891 in
the
Queen Anne gingerbread cottage style of Victorian architecture. It has 36000
squire feet of living, office, basement, and storage indoor areas. Most of the
building materials for the house are
North
Carolina
products. The mansion’s main floor (the
public floor) is decorated in rich greens, burgundy, and gold with period
furniture, all previous governors’ pictures and decorations from across
North Carolina
, it has
the main guest room, grand library, gorgeous dining room and kitchen. Governor
McCrory displayed an oil painting with the image of an absolutely lifelike cute
dog which has been adopted and remain to be his family’s favorite.
Second
floor has the First Family’s living rooms, First Lady’s office and several
guest rooms. There is a special picture hang on the corner captured Chinese
Americans elites’ eyes. It was a black and white picture with a perky pilot fly
a plane. Daved Robinson said the handsome man in picture is First Lady’s
father, it was the precious one taken from his period when he served the U.S.
Air Force.
After
visit, Ms.Hannah Chan felt great honor and said: “ My pleasure to visit the
Governor’s Mansion, we can feel Governor’s high culture artistic appreciation
from all art works displayed in house taken from NC Art Gallery. The Governors
snatch a little leisure from their busy life to keep on the reading habit and
keep on holding the Bible study group in Mansion to pray for our
North Carolina
. As local
residents, we should keep on praying for our state too, we wish that our
Governor McCrory will lead
North
Carolina
being praised by all of our people, we wish
our NC state a bright future on our economy and on every thing!”
Translated by Tina Guo
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