The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class. What China has done is nothing short of an economic transformation, and the citizens of this country have every right to be proud.

The governor's office received hundreds of threatening letters and e-mails; others threatened to kill his children. S. Through a combination of part-time jobs financial aid and scholarships Locke attended Yale University graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972.

Gary Faye Locke (born January 21 1950) is an American politician who has been the United States Ambassador to China since 2011. He was the first Governor of a state in the Continental United States of Asian descent and is the only Chinese American ever to serve as a Governor. He was the 21st Governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005 and served in the Obama administration as United States Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011.