Like many educated Chinese at the time, he believed the future lay in learning from the West and so he came to France, in fact to Montargis, where there was an agricultural training college.

• 如同当时许多受教育的中国人一样，他坚信前途贵在向西方学习，所以他来到了法国，实际上是到了蒙达顿，那里有一所农业培训的大学。