19 13 years, Jimei, who returned to his hometown, founded Jimei Primary School, Jimei Middle School, Normal School, Aquatic Products, Navigation, Commerce, Agriculture and Forestry (collectively referred to as Jimei School) and Xiamen University. Teachers and students of Xiamen University and Jimei Xue Cun all respect them as "school owners".
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 said at the conference that he called on overseas Chinese to support War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression of the motherland.
1938 10 after the fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan, China's external traffic was on the verge of paralysis. The newly-built Yunnan-Myanmar highway has become the main artery of military transportation. Not only a large number of military vehicles are needed, but also a large number of skilled drivers and automobile mechanics are urgently needed. The General Manager's Office of Southwest Import and Export Materials Transportation of the Military Commission of the National Government invited Mr. Chen Jiageng to recruit drivers and repairmen in Nanyang (commonly known as "Nanqiao Technician" or "Overseas Chinese Technician"). 1In February, 939, the Southern Overseas Chinese Association led by Chen Jiageng quickly issued the No.6 notice "Recruiting automobile maintenance drivers to return to China for service". On the one hand, Chen Jiageng called on overseas Chinese to donate money and materials and buy a large number of cars and munitions; On the other hand, he personally went to various ports in Nanyang to give speeches and mobilize, and the vast number of overseas Chinese youths responded enthusiastically and signed up one after another. Bai Qingquan and others first signed up in Singapore and immediately approved 30; Liao Guoxiong, Lai Yuguang and others. He took the lead in registering in Bazhou and Bagan, and immediately approved 50 applicants. On February 18 of the same year, the first batch of 80 members of the Nanqiao Mechanic Returning Service Group set off in Singapore, and the Nanqiao General Association held a grand farewell party. Chen Jiageng encouraged everyone: "You are returning to China to serve millions of overseas Chinese, so you must stick to it." . A newspaper in Singapore published a special farewell issue, praising the first batch of returned mechanics as "eighty pioneers". [3]