On June 3, 2000 (May 2, 2000 in the lunar calendar), outstanding social activist An Zikai passed away in Hong Kong. Photo caption: The portrait of An Zijie, an outstanding social activist, famous patriot, well-known Hong Kong industrialist, and Vice Chairman of the Ninth National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference, died in Hong Kong at 15:12 on June 3, 2000 due to illness. He was 88. Mr. An Zijie was born in Dinghai, Zhejiang Province and was born in Shanghai on June 26, 1912. In his early years, he studied in the Department of Economics at Shanghai St. Francis College. In 1938, he worked as an import and export firm in Hong Kong. After the fall of Hong Kong, he left Hong Kong and moved to Chongqing in 1941. After 1942, he worked in the Central Trust Bureau of the National Government. He returned to Hong Kong in 1949 and settled down. After 1950, he successively participated in the establishment of South China Dyeing Factory, Zhongnan Textile Factory, and Yongnan Textile Factory. From 1965 to 1968, he served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Cotton Textile Industry Association. From 1965 to 1975, he served as Vice Chairman of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee of Hong Kong. After 1969, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hong Kong Southlink Industrial Co., Ltd. and Director of Hong Kong Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Shanghai Commercial Bank, Shaw Brothers Pictures Co., Ltd., and successively served as Hutchison Whampoa Co., Ltd., Kowloon Motor Co., Ltd., Hainan Development Co., Ltd., Hang Lung Co., Ltd., and Orient Overseas Container Shipping Co., Ltd. From 1970 to 1975, he served as Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries. From 1970 to 1974, he served as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. From 1974 to 1978, he served as a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. From 1973 to 1975, he served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Training Authority. From 1975 to 1979, he served as Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. After 1976, he was awarded an honorary doctor of law from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and was hired as an honorary professor at Beijing University of International Business and Economics, Tsinghua University, Guangzhou University of Foreign Trade, Jiangxi Normal University and other universities. After 1981, he appointed Honorary President of Hong Kong China Language Society and Honorary President of Beijing Chinese Character Modernization Research Society. After 1988, he appointed a senior consultant to the Shenzhen Municipal People's Government. After 1990, he served as Chairman and Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong One Country, Two Systems Economic Research Center. Mr. An Zijie has served successively as a member of the Standing Committee of the Sixth and Seventh National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and as Vice Chairman of the Eighth and Ninth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During Hong Kong's return to the motherland, he successively served as Vice Chairman of the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, Chairman of the Basic Law Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Advisor on Hong Kong Affairs, Vice Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and Vice Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mr. An Zikai is a well-known industrialist in Hong Kong. He has made outstanding contributions to Hong Kong's industrial development and international trade in establishing Hong Kong's post-war pillar industry, the textile industry. In his youth, Mr. Anzijie was at a time when Japanese imperialism invaded the three northeastern provinces of our country. Faced with bullying by the great powers and the decline of the country, he made up his mind to revitalize the national economy and save China with industry. Not only did he master English proficiently at school, but he also taught himself Japanese, French, German and Spanish hard at work, laying a good foundation for his future international trade career. Although he has experienced the hardships of war and his life has been displaced, he is still indomitable and self-reliant. He is engaged in commercial business and struggles to make a living, while studying commercial theory and writing diligently. In 1937, he translated and published the Japanese version of "A Study of Indirect Costs". In 1947, in an extremely difficult environment and not afraid of difficulties, he wrote a 600,000-word monograph "International Trade Practice" in three years. The famous scholar Mr. Ma Yinchu wrote the preface to the book. Academic circles have commented that this book has been circulated and has a long-standing influence. It is a representative work of its own in the study of China's international trade practice and still has important value and role in the study of international trade. After 1950, he devoted himself to the development of Hong Kong's textile industry. After several years of struggle, not only has the company made great progress, but also promoted Hong Kong's textile industry to achieve unprecedented prosperity. In 1969, he co-founded Nanlian Industrial Co., Ltd. with friends and served as chairman of the board of directors. In 1995, he was appointed honorary chairman. Nanlian integrates textiles, bleaching and dyeing, knitting, wool spinning, and garment making. It has more than 70 subsidiaries. Its products are exported to various countries. It was a well-known textile group in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. He has devoted a lot of effort to the development of Yugoslavia. While strengthening corporate macro management, he also focuses on corporate technological innovation. The "Three Warps and One Weft" twill cloth he and his directors researched and designed has opened up markets in South Africa, Europe, America and Southeast Asia. In the mid-1970s, Southern Alliance adapted to the development of the world economic situation and actively changed its business strategies. Its business expanded to real estate, shipping, electronics and other aspects, forming a diversified development pattern. Mr. An Zikai has made important contributions to Hong Kong's industrial development and market prosperity. Mr. An Zijie is an outstanding social activist. In the early 1960s, Hong Kong's textile exports were blocked. He was recommended by his peers as the head of the textile regiment and led a team to lobby in European and American countries. After experiencing hardships, he traveled to more than a dozen countries, allowing Hong Kong textiles to enter the European and American markets in one fell swoop. He made outstanding contributions to promoting the smooth entry of Hong Kong's textile industry into the international market. He was elected as the chairman of the Cotton Textile Industry Association. During his tenure as chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and the Federation of Industries, he led delegations to represent Hong Kong in world trade conferences many times. He traveled to five continents and made positive contributions to promoting the development of Hong Kong's international trade and won widespread praise at home and abroad. He has won many honors internationally. When serving as a member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of Hong Kong, he went deep into the private sector, visited the public, observed the people's sentiments, and traveled to Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and outlying islands. He was concerned about the overall development of Hong Kong. After inspecting new industrial areas in Kowloon, Yau Ma Tei, Kwun Tong and other places, he put forward suggestions for overall city planning, which played a positive role in promoting Hong Kong's municipal construction. He cares about the development of fisheries and the construction of public housing, and tries his best to solve practical difficulties for the people. During his tenure as vice chairman of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee of Hong Kong, he often visited primary and secondary schools to understand the quality of teaching and did a lot of useful work to develop Hong Kong's education. In 1983, after he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he actively participated in and discussed politics, cared about and supported the country's reform, opening up, and modernization, and put forward many valuable and constructive opinions and suggestions. During his tenure as vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he actively participated in consultations on major national policies and important affairs, cared about the work of the People's Political Consultative Conference, actively promoted and guided Hong Kong members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to participate in and discuss politics, and made unremitting efforts to promote exchanges and cooperation between Hong Kong and the mainland. He also established the "An Zijie International Trade Research Award" in Beijing in 1991, contributing to the teaching and research of international trade theory in China. Mr. An Zijie is a famous patriot. He firmly supported the great concept of "one country, two systems" put forward by Comrade Deng Xiaoping and made important contributions to Hong Kong's return and the smooth implementation of "one country, two systems". In 1983, the negotiations between the Chinese and British governments on the Hong Kong issue entered a critical moment. The highly respected Mr An Zijie was invited to serve as a standing member of the Sixth National Committee of the China People's Political Consultative Conference. After that, he devoted himself to the work of Hong Kong's return to the motherland with great enthusiasm. At that time, he put forward the "16 suggestions for maintaining prosperity and stability in Hong Kong", which played a positive role in stabilizing people's hearts in Hong Kong. Starting from 1985, during the nearly five years of drafting the Basic Law, he conscientiously performed his duties, actively organized the Basic Law Advisory Committee with a firm belief in "one country, two systems", and carried out a series of promotion and consultation activities in conjunction with the drafting process of the Basic Law. He has presided over 8 plenary meetings of the Advisory Committee and more than 30 executive committees, gathered opinions from people from all walks of life on the formulation of the Basic Law, and submitted a total of 57 reports to the Drafting Committee. In 1988, he was hospitalized due to overwork and suffered a heart attack. In his hospital bed, he was still concerned about the work of the Advisory Committee. He worked hard and made important contributions to the successful formulation of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, a law of historical and international significance. In 1990, he participated in the establishment of the "One Country, Two Systems" Economic Research Center, focusing on how Hong Kong's economy developed and the major social issues facing Hong Kong during its transition period. From his decades of experience in industry and political participation in Hong Kong, he was convinced that the most important thing for Hong Kong's development was how to ensure social stability, and that the Basic Law could provide Hong Kong people with basic conditions for maintaining stability and prosperity. At the same time, he actively promoted the Basic Law in Hong Kong society. Since 1993, he has held important positions in the process of preparing for the establishment of the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Regardless of his age and frail health, he has frequently traveled between Hong Kong and Beijing, presiding over various meetings, attended various major activities, listened to and reflected the opinions of people from all walks of life in Hong Kong, and participated in the formulation of various plans and policies. During the difficult process of the China government resuming the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong, he has consistently adhered to the stance of loving the country and Hong Kong with enthusiasm and insight, provided suggestions and suggestions for the smooth transition and smooth transfer of political power in Hong Kong, worked selflessly, and made outstanding contributions. On July 2, 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government awarded him the Grand Bauhinia Medal. Since Hong Kong's return to the motherland, he has, as always, used his social influence to fully support the SAR government headed by Mr. Tung Chee-hwa in administering in accordance with the Basic Law, and continued to make new contributions to the implementation of the "one country, two systems" policy and maintaining Hong Kong's prosperity and stability. In his later years, he still remembered the great cause of reunification of the motherland and hoped to resolve the Taiwan issue as soon as possible in accordance with the "one country, two systems" policy and ultimately realize the complete reunification of the motherland. Mr. An Zijie is a famous linguist. For decades, he has worked tirelessly on the study of Chinese characters and written books. Promoting Chinese characters to the world and sparing no effort to promote Chinese culture was another patriotic move in his later years. From 1979 to 1995, he took advantage of his busy government and business breaks to write a total of 21 monographs on Chinese character studies. In 1982,"Solving the Mystery of Chinese Characters" written in English was published in Hong Kong, which immediately attracted the attention of people and experts at home and abroad. Since then, he has successively written the abbreviated Chinese version of "Solving the Mystery of Chinese Characters","Split Text and Cut Words Collection", the enlightenment chapter, the book writing chapter, and the complex simplified chapter of "An Zijie's Modern Thousand Character Text". In 1995, his monograph "The Yi Learning of Chinese Characters" written in English became a popular book for foreigners to learn Chinese characters. He invented the "Anzijie Six-digit Computer Coding Method for Chinese Characters" and the "Anzijie Writing Machine". "An Zijie Writing Machine" has the functions of editing, modifying, storing, transmitting and writing ten languages. It not only obtained patents from China, the United States, Britain, Japan and Singapore, but also was named after the inventor's surname. This is the first time in the history of patents in China. He was very concerned about literacy work in the mainland of the motherland and donated more than 50,000 volumes of Chinese character studies to education committees of provinces and cities across the country and poor areas in need. Mr. An Zijie's life was a patriotic life and a life of continuous progress following the pace of the times. He loves the motherland and Hong Kong, and has a strong sense of national responsibility and historical mission. He upholds the truth, is not afraid of evil, and dares to uphold justice. He worked hard to start a business, served society, was enthusiastic about public welfare, and was kind to others. He is open-minded, diligent and studious, brave in practice, knowledgeable and talented, and has rich books. Mr. An Zijie enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad. People from all walks of life in Hong Kong spoke highly of his "important contribution to the country and Hong Kong society" and praised him for "doing his best for the return of Hong Kong and the implementation of 'one country, two systems'"and" worthy of being a banner of patriotic and Hong Kong people." Mr. An Zijie's patriotic spirit and noble character will always be worthy of people's respect and remembrance. Photo caption: On February 17, 1990, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin and others cordially met and attended the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Photo caption: In April 1990, An Zikai and members of the Advisory Committee raised their glasses to celebrate the completion of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The Advisory Committee on the Basic Law has completed its historical mission. Photo caption: In October 1963, An Zikai led a Hong Kong textile trade delegation to visit Europe.