On this day, 37 years ago, on May 14, 1988 (March 29, 1988, the famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader Zhuang Xiquan passed away. Zhuang Xiquan (1888-1988) Zhuang Xiquan, honorary chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, died in Beijing at 11:16 a.m. on May 14, 1988 due to long-term illness. He was 100 years old. Zhuang Xiquan was born in Anxi, Fujian Province. He was born in a merchant family in Xiamen on September 9, 1888. He studied at the East Asia Academy in Xiamen and the academy run by the former Qing Dynasty. He started doing business in Shanghai at the age of 18. In his early years, he followed Dr. Sun Yat-sen and engaged in industry to save the country. After Shanghai was restored at the end of 1911, in order to solve the dilemma of lack of food and pay for the army and lack of livelihood for the people, Zhuang Xiquan was entrusted by the Shanghai Military Government to organize a "Nanyang Payroll Team" to rush to Nanyang to raise funds. During this fundraising, Zhuang Xiquan joined the Alliance in Penang. In 1912, Mr. Sun Yat-sen became the honorary chairman of China Industrial Bank in Shanghai and planned to raise 10 million yuan. To this end, Zhuang Xiquan was ordered to raise funds in Singapore, Penang, Myanmar and other places for the second time, and exceeded the task of overseas IPO in less than three months. China Industrial Bank was the first bank established after the Republic of China, and Zhuang Xiquan served as an associate of the bank's Nanyang branch. In 1916, Zhuang Xiquan founded the China National Products Company in Singapore, and the next year he founded Nanyang Girls 'School to explore the path of "saving the country through education." In 1920, when the British colonial authorities in Singapore promulgated regulations restricting Chinese education, Zhuang Xiquan angrily initiated the establishment of the "Overseas Chinese Academic Affairs Maintenance Office." At that time, more than 200,000 signatures were signed on the protest letter. This was a large-scale patriotic movement that took place overseas after the May 4th Movement in China. As a result, Zhuang Xiquan was arrested twice by the colonial authorities and expelled from the country in early 1921. After returning to China, Zhuang Xiquan and his wife Yu Peigao founded the Xiannan Women's Normal School and co-authored the book "The Crisis of British Education in Nanyang". In 1925, during the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Zhuang Xiquan joined the Kuomintang and served as an executive member of the Fujian Provisional Provincial Party Headquarters. After the May 30th massacre in Shanghai, he organized a diplomatic support group in Xiamen to carry out strikes and boycotted Japanese goods. Therefore, he was taken to Taiwan by the Japanese Consulate in Xiamen and imprisoned. In the summer of 1934, he was arrested by agents of the Blue Shirts in Xiamen for running the "Pioneer Daily" with Wang Yuting in the Philippines to promote anti-Japanese and anti-Chiang activities. After being rescued and released by various parties, he went to the Philippines to continue running the "Pioneer Daily" and operated Soviet films. During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhuang Xiquan actively participated in the torrent of anti-Japanese and national salvation and did a lot of useful work to consolidate and develop the party's anti-Japanese and national salvation united front. From 1938 to 1941, he presided over the Fujian National Salvation Comrades Association in Hong Kong to provide relief to refugees, founded Jianguang School and Lihua Girls 'Middle School, and assisted the Taiwan Revolutionary League in publishing the magazine "War Japan". From 1942 to 1945, the Fujian-Taiwan Association and the Fujian-Taiwan Construction Association were organized in Guilin and Chongqing. In 1942, when the Southern Working Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Guangxi Provincial Working Committee were destroyed, Comrade Zhuang Xiquan used his identity as an overseas Chinese to cover underground party members to persist in the struggle and traveled more than a thousand miles long, not daring to sell all his family assets in Hong Kong to fund the revolution. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhuang Xiquan returned to Hong Kong and Singapore to manage progressive films and import and export trade. In 1947, he joined the Democratic League in Hong Kong and served as a member of the Hong Kong Commerce and Industry Council. He actively assisted the party in doing a lot of overseas united front work. On the eve of the liberation of the country, Zhuang Xiquan was entrusted by the Southern Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to fly to Singapore and invited Mr Tan Jiageng to return to China to attend the China People's Political Consultative Conference. When New China was founded in 1949, Zhuang Xiquan was appointed as deputy chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Central People's Government. He returned to China in early 1950 and took up office. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhuang Xiquan has been engaged in overseas Chinese affairs. In 1951, he served as deputy chairman of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission of China, director of the Production Relief Department, and director of the Refugee Treatment Committee. In 1956, he was elected as the vice chairman of the first All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese. After the death of Mr. Chen Jiageng, he was elected as the acting chairman of the All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the Third, Fourth and Fifth National People's Congress. After 1978, he successively served as Vice Chairman of the Fifth and Sixth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chairman of the Second All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese, Honorary Chairman of the Third All-China Federation of Overseas Chinese, Chairman of Huaqiao University and President and Honorary President of China Overseas Chinese Historical Society. In 1982, he joined the Communist Party of China at the age of 95, realizing his long-cherished wish. Before the Cultural Revolution, Zhuang Xiquan, together with He Xiangning, Liao Chengzhi, Chen Jiageng, Fang Fang, etc., assisted the central government in formulating a series of overseas Chinese affairs policies, and went deep into overseas Chinese villages, received visiting overseas Chinese, and organized visits. They have done a lot of work and made outstanding contributions in resettling returned overseas Chinese, developing production in overseas Chinese villages, safeguarding the legitimate and legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese, and their relatives, as well as strengthening the unity of overseas Chinese and enhancing the friendship between people of all countries. He was upright and dared to speak out. During the expansion of the anti-Rightist campaign, he resisted the influence of the "Left" and protected some returned overseas Chinese cadres. During the Cultural Revolution, they were extremely indignant at the crimes of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's counter-revolutionary cliques that brought disaster to the country and the people and persecuted returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and worried about the fate of the country. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Zhuang Xiquan has ignored his age and frail health, and has devoted his efforts to bring order out of chaos in the overseas Chinese community, the construction of two civilizations in the hometown of overseas Chinese, and the improvement and development of the Overseas Chinese Federation. He has also sent messages to relatives and friends overseas, hoping to realize the great cause of the reunification of the motherland as soon as possible. Zhuang Xiquan is a famous patriotic overseas Chinese leader and one of the main leaders of overseas Chinese affairs in New China. Over the course of a century, he has gone through hardships and hardships, encouraged himself with "Forever Love China", and developed from an old democratic revolutionary to a loyal communist fighter. This is the glorious road he has traveled. He cares about the country's destiny and pursues the light. As the times continue to advance, he devotes everything he has to the revolution. He is frank and aboveboard, adheres to principles, speaks out righteousness, and thinks about the interests of returned overseas Chinese, relatives of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese everywhere. He is approachable, makes friends widely, unites comrades; He is self-reliant and obeys his official duties, and lives a simple life; Seeking truth and being pragmatic, having a deep style of work, having been in business and politics for decades, he is upright and has clean arms. As a result, he is deeply loved by returned overseas Chinese, their relatives and overseas Chinese, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. In 1937, Zhuang Xiquan and Zhuang Yanlin represented the overseas Chinese community at the National People's Congress of Shanghai Zhuang Xiquan (left) Chen Jiageng (center) Zhuang Mingli was in Zhongnanhai