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Chen Jiageng (English name: Tan Kakhkee,1874101-1961August 12), an overseas Chinese entrepreneur, Tongan, Fujian Province.
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[Editor] Entrepreneurship course
Chen Jiageng was born in 1874, 10 and 2 1. His father, Chen, made a living in Nanyang in his early years and ran Shun 'an Rice Shop in Singapore. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, Chen Jiageng also came to his father's shop to study management. I went back to Fujian to get married at the age of 20, and then studied in my hometown for a year. At the age of 22, he went to Singapore to manage the rice shop.
1905 In the spring, due to the closure of the rice shop, Chen Jiageng began to stand on his own feet and embarked on the road of entrepreneurship. He first opened the "Xinlichuan Huangli Factory" (producing canned pineapples), and then inherited the legacy "Nisshin Company" (producing canned pineapples). After only three months of operation, he made huge profits. That summer, he opened the "Qian Yi" rice shop. Soon, seeing that other overseas Chinese, such as Chen Qixian and Lin Wenqing, have achieved success in the rubber industry, they decided to engage in rubber planting. After 20 years of development, by 1925, Chen Jiageng had 15000 mu rubber plantation, which was one of the largest rubber growers among local overseas Chinese. At the same time, he also opened a rubber products factory to produce rubber shoes, tires and other products. The three pillars of Chen Jiageng industry are rubber plantation, raw rubber factory and rubber products factory. In addition, he also manages more than ten kinds of industries such as canned pineapple, rock sugar, soap, medicine and leather. His sales outlets are all over major cities in Southeast Asia, as well as Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xiamen, Guangzhou and other places. The period from 1923 to 1925 was the heyday of Chen Jiageng's development. At that time, it owned assets of150,000 yuan (Singapore dollar, the same below). In just three years, he made a profit of about 6.5438+0.07 million yuan, employed tens of thousands of people, and his economic power dominated the entire Malaysian peninsula.
[Editor] Initiate education
Although Chen Jiageng was a great industrialist who ruled Nanyang, his personal life was very simple. He wrote in his autobiography, "My personal family has only a few thousand dollars, and a month's salary is enough to pay. It doesn't cost 10 thousand yuan to build a house in Jimei. He has nothing. " But he is very charitable, especially for setting up education, and he is very enthusiastic. As early as 19 13, he founded a primary school in his hometown, and 19 18 founded a normal school, a middle school for boys and girls in all primary schools and kindergartens. With the prosperity and development of his career, he constantly founded water navigation schools, business schools, agriculture and forestry schools, kindergarten teachers schools and so on. In Jimei, science museums, libraries and hospitals have also been established, making Jimei a systematic and complete learning village.
Chen Jiageng statue in front of Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall of Xiamen University. The peak of Chen Jiageng's donation to running schools is 192 1 year. He felt the backwardness of Fujian's culture and education and the lack of talents, so he decided to invest 1 10,000 yuan to establish Xiamen University. All the expenses of running a school were borne by him, including the operating expenses of the university of 3 million yuan, which he also paid in 12. For Xiamen University, he devoted all his efforts, from hiring principals and faculty to site selection, design and construction of school buildings. He ran around trying to make Xiamen University a famous university in China at that time.
In Singapore, Chen Jiageng is also very concerned about the education of the children of overseas Chinese. 19 19 established the large-scale "Singapore Nanyang Overseas Chinese Middle School", which was the highest institution for overseas Chinese in Nanyang at that time. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, she founded Water Navigation School, Nanqiao Demonstration School and Nanqiao Girls' Middle School. At that time, a church asked Chen Jiageng to donate 654.38 million yuan to set up a university, but Chen Jiageng generously agreed, but proposed to offer Chinese courses at the same time.
Chen Jiageng donated a total of more than100000 yuan for education in his life, which is equivalent to all the real estate he owns. It is estimated that if he had bought gold at that time, it is estimated that the current value has reached about 654.38 billion US dollars. In a letter to Jimei School, Chen Jiageng wrote: "Without education, industry will be depressed and people's livelihood will be increasingly scarce ... It is sad to think about this. Our country is now under the control of a big country, and success or failure is at stake. If we don't hurry to catch up, we can't escape the elimination of natural performance. So I have traveled overseas for decades, and I have been worried about the gains and losses of my life, which is not enough to inspire me. I am independent of my study, and spare no effort at the expense of money. It is for this reason. " This letter fully illustrates his profound views on China's education and rise.
[Editor] Devote oneself to politics
Although Chen Jiageng lived in Nanyang, he always cared about China and actively supported China's revolutionary activities. He met Sun Yat-sen and joined the League 19 10, actively supporting Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary activities. After the Revolution of 1911, Chen Jiageng served as the chairman of Fujian Security Conference, and raised funds to support Fujian, thus stabilizing the local situation.
Chen Jiageng also actively supports cultural undertakings. He supported the International News Agency and China Business Daily sponsored by Fan Changjiang, Xia Yan and others, and also remitted money to support the reopening of Popular Life Weekly in Zou Taofen.
1928 after the Jinan tragedy in China, overseas Chinese in Nanyang launched a massive solidarity movement. Chen Jiageng served as the chairman of Shandong Disaster Relief Association, actively raised funds to help refugees, and also launched a boycott of Japanese goods. 1937, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression broke out in an all-round way. Nanyang Overseas Chinese Relief Association for Motherland Refugees was established in Singapore, and Chen Jiageng was elected as its president. He took the lead in donating money and organizing various activities. In the past 1939, overseas Chinese in Nanyang remitted more than 360 million yuan to the motherland. During the four and a half years from the Lugouqiao Incident to the outbreak of the Pacific War, they donated about/kloc-0.5 billion yuan, which greatly supported China's anti-Japanese forces.
Chen Jiageng also insisted on resisting Japan to the end. In view of the compromise plan of Wang Jingwei and others, he put forward the famous proposal of "making peace first, then the enemy" at the second meeting in Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which greatly encouraged the warring factions in Chongqing at that time.
1940, 66-year-old Chen Jiageng personally led a condolence group to visit China. He has been to Chongqing, Yan 'an and other places, and has had contact with both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. 194 1 year, the Japanese army occupied Singapore, and Chen Jiageng was forced to take refuge in Indonesia and other places. Thanks to the cover of overseas Chinese, he was able to spend more than three years in the period of terror safely.
1946 after the civil war broke out, Chen Jiageng opposed American aid to Chiang Kai-shek and called the President of the United States and Congress in the name of the Chairman of the Overseas Chinese Federation to protest. He also boycotted the National Assembly convened by Chiang Kai-shek, pointing out that Chiang Kai-shek was arbitrary, so he did not hesitate to flatter foreign countries to consolidate his position and eliminate dissidents. Compared with thieves such as Shi Jingtang, Qin Gui, Wu Sangui and Wang Jingwei, it is even worse. "
1947, the Association of Overseas Chinese in Singapore for Peace and Democracy in the Motherland (hereinafter referred to as "ADPL") was organized to actively support the democratic parties in their struggle to stop the civil war.
1949 In May, Chen Jiageng returned to China at the invitation of Mao Zedong to attend the preparatory meeting of the China People's Political Consultative Conference. In September of that year, he attended the China People's Political Consultative Conference as the chief representative of overseas Chinese. 1On October 6th, I attended the founding ceremony in People's Republic of China (PRC) at Tiananmen Gate.
Since then, Chen Jiageng has served as a member of the Central People's Government, a member of the Standing Committee of the First China People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Central Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee, a vice chairman of the East China Administrative Committee, a chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, a member of the First the NPC Standing Committee, and a vice chairman of the Third China People's Political Consultative Conference.
12 August 12, Chen Jiageng died in Beijing at the age of 87. Buried in Jimei Olympic Park, Fujian.