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    Lifting the Veil

    Dec 02, 2021 4 minutes
    By Ma Miaomiao
    Copyedited by Elsbeth van Paridon

    As the offspring of a Chinese immigrant, Madagascar’s Ambassador to China Jean Louis Robinson has every reason to explore his ancestral roots in China and learn about its development.

    His grandfather moved to Madagascar from Foshan, a city in Guangdong Province. In 2008, Robinson returned to Foshan for the first time in search of all things related to his lineage. After years of frequent visits, when Robinson saw local members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) testing out various measures to help villagers out of extreme poverty and promote rural development, he

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