In the patriotic history of modern overseas Chinese in china, Mr. Ant Guangyan occupies a very important position, and he was the first patriotic overseas Chinese to sacrifice for the motherland during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In 1879, Ant Guangyan was born in a poor family in Chenghai City, Guangdong Province, China, and when he was three years old, his parents died one after another. At the age of 17, he decided to go abroad, when he first arrived in Vietnam.
At the age of 23, he moved to Thailand, became rich from the shipping industry and rice milling industry, and later became a local business leader, and was even elected as the chairman of the Thai Chinese Chamber of Commerce at that time. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937, the motherland was in the most dangerous moment, when Ant Guangyan handed over all the business of the company to his wife and nephews to manage, and he himself stood up and held high the banner of anti-Japanese national salvation. Ant Guangyan took the lead in mobilizing his subordinates to refuse to deliver goods for Japanese merchants, and took the lead in refusing to sell Siamese rice to Japan, leading the overseas Chinese to carry out a boycott of Japanese goods.
This dealt a heavy blow to Japan's wartime economy, causing trade between Japan and Thailand to halve in half a year. At the same time, he also raised patriotic donations among overseas Chinese through various forms, and took the lead in subscribing to the national salvation bonds, raising more than six million yuan of foreign exchange funds for the motherland's War of Resistance. At that time, in order to solve the cold body of the anti-Japanese soldiers in the motherland, he organized overseas Chinese to donate clothes in the name of overseas Chinese charity, and bought all the cloth in Thailand within three days.
After the opening of the Burma Highway, he once again took the lead in donating trucks and mobilizing overseas Chinese mechanics to return to China to serve. In addition to donating trucks, medicines, and remittances, Ant Guangyan also founded China Daily in Bangkok to promote anti-Japanese resistance. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many Young Overseas Chinese from Thailand went to the motherland to participate in the war, and at that time, there were only 300 people who went to Yan'an, which accounted for half of the young overseas Chinese in Yan'an, and most of them were introduced and sponsored by Ant Guangyan.
From May 1939 onwards, Ant Guangyan ventured back to China to actively campaign for the War of Resistance, and his actions angered the Japanese puppet regime, and after repeatedly rejecting the enemy's threats and inducements to stop his anti-Japanese activities, the enemy finally plotted to assassinate Ant Guangyan. On the evening of November 21, 1939, Mr. Ant Guangyan was assassinated at Yaowarat Road in Bangkok, and on his deathbed, he still told his family in a weak voice: Although I am dead, Er and so on are free of pain, China will surely win.