"I simply want people in the city to know where their food comes from," Li explained.

“我只是想让城市里的人知道他们的食物打哪儿来。”李解释说。

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—Li Tao, there will be a big concert in our city next month. —What exciting news.

——李涛，下个月我们的城市将有一场大型音乐会。 ——令人激动的消息。

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"Even though I'm from the country, I want to improve my life and be like people in the city," li says.

“虽然我从农村来，但我想像城市里人一样改善我的生活，”李说。

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En route to the Eiffel Tower, the next morning, we passed a group of African street venders, and Li mentioned that the city is a magnet for illegal immigrants.

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"Even if I wanted to contribute more to the city, people always think that the Li family is taking over local businesses, which is not something that I wanted to see, " Mr. Li said.

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For the entire quarter-century that FORBES has been measuring global billionaires, Li has controlled a huge swath of the teeming city of 7 million people below.

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