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Hu Yundi

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ezhejiang.gov.cn|Updated: August 20, 2021

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A Chinese restaurant operated by Hu Yundi in Turin, Italy in 1980. [Photo provided to ezhejiang.gov.cn]

Hu Yundi was born in 1914 in Yuhu town, Wencheng county – administered by Wenzhou city in East China's Zhejiang province – and went to Italy to make a living in 1933. As the county's first generation of old Chinese from the county to travel to Italy, Hu started with a leather workshop, then developed a leather wholesale company, then moved on to retail stores and operated Chinese restaurants.

To date, the five generations of Hu's family have more than 500 people living overseas, including more than 70 of Hu Yundi's immediate family members. 

Hu Yundi was elected as honorary president of the Turin Overseas Chinese Association in 1986. Many of his family members have invested in projects in Zhejiang, Shanghai and Beijing and have donated generously to Wenzhou's education, road traffic development and disaster relief work.


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