Mr. Chen Jiageng, a famous overseas Chinese industrialist and educator (1874- 196 1 year).
/kloc-When he was 0/7 years old, Mr. Chen Jiageng went to Singapore to study business with his father. Because of his diligence and good management, he has developed into a famous industrialist in Nanyang ports in just over 20 years. From 65438 to 0893, Mr. Chen Jiageng returned to his hometown for the first time, that is, he invested 2,000 yuan to set up the "Sports Learning Book" in Jimei, which was the beginning of Mr. Chen Jiageng's donation to promote learning. 19 10 Mr. Chen Jiageng attended the League in Singapore and gave great support to Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities.
19 1 1 After overthrowing the Manchu government, Mr. Chen Jiageng held the belief of "rejuvenating the country through education" and "rejuvenating the country through periodicals", and successively established Jimei primary school, girls' primary school, normal school, middle school, kindergarten, water navigation, business, agriculture and forestry, women's normal school, naive normal school, rural normal school and Chinese studies specialty in his hometown. Mr. Chen Jiageng devoted his life to education and sincerely served the country, and was deeply admired by people at home and abroad. He was once praised by Grandpa Mao as "the banner of overseas Chinese and the glory of the nation".
1903, his father Chen went bankrupt, and Mr. Wang independently operated to repay his father's debts. 1In the spring of 904, Mr. Chen Jiageng used 7,000 yuan to build his first humble factory with thatch in the mountainous area of Danshuigang, a suburb of Singapore, and founded the Xinlichuan pineapple cannery. With his "precision, diligence and prudence", he stood out in Singapore's shopping malls and established a solid position in foreign countries, thus becoming one of the giants of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia in the 1920s.
He continued to buy land and set up factories in Singapore. The early workshops were simple in style, much like Malay houses. 19 1 1 year, Mr. Chen Jiageng visited a "mingcheng" rice mill founded by overseas Chinese in Beiliu, Bangkok, and was inspired to improve the workshop. These functional industrial workshops were built by him, which laid a good foundation for his future construction activities.
At 19 10, Mr. Chen Jiageng joined the alliance supporting the Xinhai Revolution. "It is not a day's work to stay in South Asia for a long time, cherish the motherland and serve the country." 19 12 years, overthrew the feudal monarchy of the Qing dynasty and established the government of the Republic of China. Mr. Chen Jiageng was deeply encouraged: "Politics has a bright future, but what is everyone's responsibility?" Enthusiastic and reserved, he "wants to do his duty as a citizen" and decided to go back to China to do two things: set up a factory and run a school.
As early as the winter of 1894, Mr Chen Jiageng invested 2000 yuan to establish a learning school in Jimei. 19 13 years, with his investment, two primary schools in Jimei township were established, which was the beginning of Mr. Chen Jiageng's schooling.
During the four years of1915-1918, Mr. Chen Jiageng gained more than 4.5 million yuan from various businesses, and his real assets were about 4 million yuan. "The year before last, Ness learned that normal schools in Fujian Province were corrupt and lacked teachers. If you can, you should run a normal school and a middle school in Jimei. " "We hope to train teachers extensively in the future to meet the needs of primary education in southern Fujian and Nanyang, so as to develop education, improve people's wisdom and transform society. "