According to the Southeast Morning Post,
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the opening of the port of Singapore this year
Recently, the Monetary Authority of Singapore
The first S$20 commemorative banknote was introduced
Remarkable
On the back of this $20 commemorative note
8 pioneers were printed
They have a lot to offer
One of them is Chinese
And it is also a Fujianese!!!
This is the first time that Singapore has launched a $20 commemorative banknote.
There are 2 million copies
Let the public exchange the equivalent value.
The $20 commemorative banknote is long like this
The new banknote condenses the 200-year history of Singapore's opening!
front
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Portrait of Singapore's first president, Yusov Ishaq, and the then Supreme Court and City Hall (now the National Gallery singapore).
back
It is a portrait of 8 pioneers who came to Singapore in the early 19th century.
The lower right corner of the new banknote represents the busy and thriving Singapore at the time of the opening of the port, and on the left is Singapore, the financial center lined with skyscrapers today. Ancient and modern are connected by a meandering Singapore River, symbolizing the long history.
8 pioneers are all very promising!
Government of Singapore
A special list is also made
Introduce them one by one
They are respectively
Chen Jiageng, a pioneer in Chinese education
Known as Mother Teresa of Singapore, Hui Zhe
Outstanding female educator Dr. Wang Huiqing
The father of modern Malay literature, Vinci Abdullah
Henry Lydley, the first director of the Botanical Garden
Indian philanthropist Billais
Distinguished female sportswoman Alice Pennyward
Malay anti-Japanese hero Anandsadi
Among them, everyone is most familiar with Chen Jiageng!
Chen Jiageng was a native of Jimei Society, Tong'an County, Quanzhou Province, Fujian Province (present-day Jimei District, Xiamen, Fujian). Then he started his business in Southeast Asia and became the "rubber king". His life is legendary, destroying his family and learning, no ancients have ever come, and few people have come.
Mr. Chen Jiageng is a famous industrialist, known as the "rubber king" of Nanyang. At its peak, Chen Jiageng's direct agents distributed in the world spread across five continents, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Americas, etc., forming an international sales and trade network. Its representatives are vigilant to revitalize the chinese nation's industrial and commercial registered trademarks, the Chinese bell label, and are also recognized by the people of the world with the circulation of goods.
Chen Jiageng company product advertisement (provided by Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall)
Chen Jiageng has founded and funded various types of schools in Jimei, Xiamen and southern Fujian, as well as Singapore, with a total of 118 schools. In today's Jimei School Village and Xiamen University, Chen Jiageng is revered by teachers and students as the "school master". Jiageng students all over the world! Mr. Jia Geng founded Xiamen University has 87 alumni associations at home and abroad, of which nearly 30 are overseas.
Mr. Jiageng visits teachers and students during the relocation of Anxi in Jimei School (courtesy of Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall)
Jimei School Village (Photo by Zheng Xiaodong, reporter of Xiamen Daily)
What is less well known is that Mr. Chen Jiageng was the first chairman of Quanzhou Sixth Middle School. "Chen Jiageng was able to survive when Quanzhou Sixth Middle School was facing the dilemma of suspension." Regarding this past, Chen Jiageng once recorded in his "Memoirs of Southern Overseas Chinese": "There is a private middle school in Quanzhou, which was painstakingly founded by people in various academic circles, with good results, and then due to economic difficulties, it will be stopped, and Yu Nian Quanzhou is a cultural district, and cannot bear to give up, so it is donated to maintain." The private middle school mentioned by Mr. Chen Jiageng is now Quanzhou No. 6 Middle School. It is said that after Chen Jiageng learned of Quanzhou's private survival difficulties in 1925, he began to donate funds to support the Sixth Middle School in January of the following year.
In fact, Mr. Jiageng's contribution and influence are far from being limited to southern Fujian, but also in many parts of the country and even in the world, they have left a deep imprint of Chen Jiageng or Jiageng's spiritual influence, and even in space, there is a planet named "Jiageng Star". Jiageng Star, Jiageng Jellyfish, Jiageng Road, Jiageng Park, "Jiageng" Research Ship, Jiageng Road, Jiageng Park, etc. named after him, and Jiageng Building of the University of California, Berkeley, etc., all reflect the world's admiration and nostalgia for him.
In August 1961, Mr. Chen Jiageng passed away. In order to commemorate Mr. Chen Jiageng, who was praised by Chairman Mao Zedong as "the banner of overseas Chinese and the glory of the nation," and to study and carry forward mr. Chen Jiageng's patriotic spirit, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese convened a meeting in Beijing on October 2, 1961, to attend the National Day ceremony and sightseeing, and to discuss the preparation of the "Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall."
Inauguration of the Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall
At the meeting, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese issued a written opinion on "Preparing for the Establishment of the Origin of mr. Chen Jiageng's Memorial Hall", proposing that overseas Chinese should donate funds to build a memorial hall for Mr. Chen Jiageng at Huaqiao University in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, as the auditorium of Huaqiao University. The construction of the memorial hall was officially started in May 1980, and on October 23, 1983, it was handed over to Huaqiao University after a grand inauguration ceremony presided over by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. The construction of the Chen Jiageng Memorial Hall fully reflects the reverence and remembrance of Mr. Chen Jiageng by the vast number of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong and Macao compatriots, embodies the state's care and love for the education of overseas Chinese, and is also a microcosm of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese donating to Huaqiao University.