Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuel Zaragoza. In this edition,

the immigrant from China living the American dream. I do feel we have made great contribution

as immigrant and this country thrive as long as stories like mine are still happening.

What May Shih's story of setting up a U.S.-based global candle business

tells us about the American economy

and what it says about China's growth as an economic superpower?

That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.

Breaking news is a racist attack in Chinatown.

Police say she made slurs, threatened violence, and said, quote, you brought the corona to this country.

It's a tough time to be an Asian American in the United States.

Amid the coronavirus, attacks on Asian Americans haven't been unusual.

Before a man suddenly appears and violently strikes her. But this is Immigrant Heritage Month in the U.S.

And among those celebrating is Mei Shi, a Chinese-American businesswoman who founded Pacific

Trade International and its subsidiary Chesapeake Bay Candle.

They're candles you can buy pretty much anywhere in America these days.

A couple of years ago, May sold the candle business and sat down to write a book

about her commercial journey from China to the US.

The book is called, appropriately, Burn.

But May she told me there was little in her early years that

foreshadowed where she'd end up. I grew up in China that is very isolated and it's extremely

sort of uniform in a sense that everyone works for the government. I actually grow up in a city

called Hamzhou. But growing up, there was very little entrepreneurship.

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