I am an Industry Relations Strategist for a corporate event management agency located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We manage corporate events primarily for technology companies and their meetings around the world including China. 
I am the one of the great-grandsons of Arthur and Mabel Billing who arrived in Fuzhou in 1907. My grandmother,  Elisabeth Billing was born in Fuzhou December 1909. Her father, Arthur W. Billing founded a vocational high school in Fuzhou and taught animal husbandry.  I was fortunate to visit Fuzhou in 2017 with family members Dean Billing and Ernie Billing when we presented the museum with a panoramic photo of Kuliang taken in 1920. We were thankful to see the house which the Billing family used in Kuliang and meet the Guo family who now own the house.
I will be accompanied by my spouse, Michael Farris, who is retired. He was also a part of the group visit in 2017 and has fond memories of visiting all the locations which were connected to our family history.