[The Most Beautiful Struggler]
CinemaGuangming Daily reporter Li Danyang
October 21, 2019 is an important day for the overseas Chinese community – the 145th anniversary of the birth of the famous overseas Chinese leader Chen Jiageng. At this time of year, all Chinese people will commemorate Mr. Chen Jiageng and remember his spirit of striving to start an overseas business and his innocent feelings of caring for his hometown. Babaylan
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Cinema Chen Jiageng, born on October 21, 1874 in Rendeli, Tong’an County, Fujian Province (now Tong’an District, Xiamen City). He went to Singapore to do business with his father at the age of 17, and later Komiks independently operated a pineapple canning factory, rice shop and rubber plantation. Because of his diligence and hard work and good management, Komiks has become a famous and prominent industrialist in all ports in Nanyang in just over 20 years.
KomiksMore than 20 years of diligenceKomiks, struggle is the most distinctive tone. In a letter to a friend, Chen Jiageng once said this: “To achieve success in a very successful career, Komiks should also suffer from great hardship. If you lack sufficient perseverance, you will be slightly worse than that of a little bit of strength.If you are willing, you will get tired of your heart. How can you achieve success? ”
In addition to his extraordinary perseverance, integrity is also the creed that Chen Jiageng has always adhered to. In 1904, after his father’s business went bankrupt, Tan Jiageng, who was in his thirties, started his business in pineapple cultivation and processing industry and successfully interplanted rubber. In 1907, he paid off his father’s debts on his behalf and overseas Chinese in China. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan has won credibility.
Although he is in Nanyang, Chen Jiageng has always cared about his motherland. He joined the China Tongmenghui in the spring of 1910 to support the 1911 Revolutionary Movement and Fujian Province’s finances.
In 1912, Chen Jiageng planned to organize Jimei Primary School, and then successively established Komiks middle school, normal school, Jimei aquatic navigation, business, agriculture and forestry education, forming Jimei Village, which combines various schools and public institutions, and in 1921 Babaylan founded Xiamen University.
After the Japanese army committed the Jinan tragedy in 1928, Chen Jiageng led the Chinese society to carry out the anti-Japanese and national salvation movement. He took the lead in donating money to buy debts and donating goods, carefully planning and organizing, so that the Southern Overseas Chinese Association raised more than 400 million yuan in national money for the motherland in just over three years. In addition, he organized relief associations in various places Cinema donated cold clothes, medicines, and cards to the soldiers in front. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945, Tan Ka-Gen returned to Singapore. After the founding of New China, Tan Ka-Gen returned to China to settle down and served as a member of the Central People’s Government, a member of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, a member of the East China Military and Political Committee, the Chairman of the All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese, and the People’s Political Consultative Conference of China.ema Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Governance Consultative Conference. In August 1961, he died of illness in Beijing and was buried in Jimei Aoyuan, Xiamen.
Cinema Mao ZedongCinema once wrote an inscription for Chen Jiageng: “The flag of overseas Chinese is the glory of the nation.” Today, Mr. Chen Jiageng has passed away for 58 years, but his great personality and noble qualities of “loyalty, honesty, perseverance, diligence and innovation” have become a spiritual torch, conveying downward from generation to generation.
Guangming Daily ( KomiksOctober 21, 2019, 04th edition)