His father, Young Ahin (Yang Zhukun), emigrated to Hawaii in 1872, aged 19, from present-day Zhongshan.

Young Ahin’s hometown village of Buck Toy (Bei Tai 北臺) was close to the Sun Yat-sen family village of Cui Heng; they spoke the same Zhongshan dialect, were good friends, business partners and could plan secrets of Chinese revolution activities from Hawaii.

He and his youngest son were staunch supporters of Sun’s revolutionary efforts for the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and later unification of China from its warring factions.

He spearheaded the first Chinese factory to manufacture airplanes, and commanded the design and building of the famed Rosamonde, named after Sun's wife, Soong Ching-ling; Mme.

Soong would fly as a passenger in the Rosamonde with pilot Huang Guangrui at the controls.On 20 September 1923, Young died from a torpedo explosion at the age of 31.