Stuff reports:
Xiou Ping Lu knows the true meaning of hard work.
In her 50 years of life she has been a cleaner, a farmer, a hairdresser, a factory worker, a fruit picker, a business owner, a seamstress, a wife and mother.
”I use my hands to make money.
”I would never ask for help from any government,” she says.
A great attitude.
For Ping, everything she does is to provide for her children, a 17-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son who both attend Burnisde High School.
”My daughter wants to go to Otago University next year to study medicine,” she says from her Avonhead shop.
Ping has owned the Avonhead Chinese Takeaway and Catering shop in Staveley St for about four months now and says the business is thriving thanks to her ”good cooking and friendly smile”. …
Ping loves Christchurch and thinks New Zealand is ”the most beautiful country”. The only time she feels disheartened is when she hears stories of people resenting Chinese migrants for ”taking jobs”.
”It’s our culture to work hard . . . and make our contribution.”
We need more migrants like Ping, with such an attitude.
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