Tan Kah Kee (1874-1961), also known as Jia Geng, also known as Ke Ci, was a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader. On September 12, the 13th year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (October 21, 1874), Tan Kah Kee was born in Jimei Village, Rende, Tong'an County, Fujian. At the age of 9, he attended Nanxuan Private School. At the age of 17, he went to Singapore to help his father run a rice store. Soon, his father went bankrupt. After starting his own business, Tan Kah Kee first repaid all his father's debts and gained a good reputation. After that, his career went smoothly. In Singapore, Tan Kah Kee was the first to introduce rubber and plant it on a large scale. He was the first to process rubber products and put them into large-scale industrial production. It also operates a pineapple canning factory. It also expanded its business to Thailand, Malaya, Xiamen and other places. At its peak, it opened more than 30 factories, more than 100 shops, cultivated more than 15,000 acres of rubber and pineapple orchards, and employed more than 32,000 employees. In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), he had become the "Rubber King" in Southeast Asia, a famous entrepreneur and a millionaire. After Tan Kah Kee became rich, the first thing he thought of was to establish schools and serve the country. He said: "The prosperity of a country depends entirely on its people, and the development of its people depends entirely on education. Education is the foundation of a country." As early as the 20th year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1894), he donated 2,000 silver dollars to establish Ti Zhai in his hometown. School. In March of the 3rd year of the Republic of China, Jimei Senior Secondary School was founded. After that, it successively established girls' elementary school, normal school, middle school, kindergarten, fishery, business, agriculture and forestry, Chinese studies junior college, infant normal school, etc., and gradually developed, building an electric light factory, Hospitals, science museums, libraries, large stadiums. The world-famous Jimei School Village was built in the former remote fishing village. In the 8th year of the Republic of China, he began to prepare for the establishment of Xiamen University, pledging 1 million yuan for the founding fee, and annual fees of 3 million yuan paid in 12 years. At that time, his accumulated assets were only 4 million yuan. On April 6, 2010, Xiamen University officially opened under Wulaofeng, with a Normal Department (arts and sciences) and a Business Department. By the 25th year of the Republic of China, Xiamen University had developed to nine departments in three colleges: liberal arts, science, and law and business, becoming one of the five universities with the most departments in the country at that time. In the 26th year of the Republic of China, Tan Kah Kee asked the National Government to turn Xiamen University into a national university because his business went bankrupt and he was unable to afford Xiamen University. While shouldering the huge expenses of Jimei and Xiamen University, Tan Kah Kee also contacted overseas Chinese in Singapore in the 10th year of the Republic of China, organized the Tong'an Education Association, and supported the establishment of more than 40 primary schools in Tong'an County. In the 13th year of the Republic of China, Tan Kah Kee changed the Tong'an Education Association into the Jimei School Education Promotion Department. By the 24th year of the Republic of China, it had subsidized 73 primary and secondary schools in 20 counties and cities in the province, with a total subsidy of 193,227 silver dollars, all borne by Tan Kah Kee. In his hometown of overseas Chinese, Tan Kah Kee vigorously advocated the establishment of Chinese schools and served as the Prime Minister of Tao Nan School in Singapore. In the 4th year of the Republic of China, he donated money to establish Chongfu Girls' School in Singapore. In the 8th year of the Republic of China, he donated 30,000 yuan to establish the Nanyang Overseas Chinese Middle School. Later, he donated more than 400,000 yuan as the school fund. In March 1936, Nanyang Girls' High School was founded. There is a glorious name in the history of overseas Chinese that will always be engraved in the hearts of millions of overseas Chinese and respected and missed by the people of the motherland. This person is Tan Kah Kee, whom Chairman Mao praised as "the flag of overseas Chinese and the glory of the nation." He "made important contributions to the victory of the Chinese people's revolution." The famous industrialist and entrepreneur Tan Kah Kee was born on October 21, 1874 in Jimeishe, Tong'an County, Fujian Province (now part of Xiamen City) into an overseas Chinese family. Two of the five great-grandfather Chen Shici brothers settled abroad. His father, Ying Ji (also known as Qi Bai), traveled to Singapore and opened a rice shop. The eldest uncle Ying Jie and the second uncle Ying Zuo also went abroad. At the age of 17 (1891), Tan Kah Kee crossed the ocean and went to Singapore to make a living. At first, he mainly served in the Shun An rice store run by his father. He worked for 13 years until 1904, when he raised more than 7,000 yuan (Lat currency, the same below) to create Pineapple Cannery, known as "New Lichuan"; soon after, it took over a Nissin company that also operated a pineapple cannery. Within three months, the two factories made a profit of ***40,000 yuan.