Wang Xiaolai

Wang Xiaolai

Wang Xiaolai (1887-1967), a native of Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, began commercial activities in 1907. Set up Zhabei business group, Zhabei shopping mall and Zhabei Engineering Bureau. Sole proprietorship and partnership to set up Dalai, Tianlai and other silk reeling factories, to set up Kailai Xingye company. He has served as the president of all China Chamber of Commerce, all China Federation of chambers of Commerce, Zhabei chamber of Commerce. He has worked in Shanghai Commercial Bank, Jianghai bank, Central Trust Company, Tongyi trust company and China personnel insurance company. He served in Nanjing National Government as the chairman of the Shanghai Provisional Senate, standing member of the central Relief Committee, member of the National Political Council, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee, and was elected to the National Congress.

After the founding of new China, Wang Xiaolai was a representative of the head office of the people's Bank of China, a Shanghai Municipal People's representative and a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. Wang Xiaolai died in Shanghai in 1967 at the age of 80.

Life experience

Wang Xiaolai, a native of Shengxian County, Zhejiang Province, participated in the restoration meeting in 1907. Qiu Jin fled to Shanghai to engage in business after the incident. She was the accounting manager of Zhejiang Gangshan tonghuigong yarn factory and heyihe silk factory in Shanghai, set up by her father-in-law Lou yingzhai, and began business activities. In 1910 (the second year of Xuantong), he and his friend Wang Linyan founded Zhabei business group, set up Zhabei shopping mall and Zhabei Engineering Bureau. Later, he established several reeling factories, such as Dalai, Tianlai, Tailai and Chunlai, with sole investment and partnership, and successively served as directors of Shanghai Commercial Bank and Central Trust Company. When Shanghai was restored in the 1911 Revolution, the Zhabei business group took part in the capture of the north railway station. Since then, he had frequent contacts with Chen Qimei, Chiang Kai Shek and others. During the second revolution, Shanghai organized yuan Jun to ask for help, and once supported him with pay. Since 1914, he has been the honorary school manager of private Shanshan primary school in Shengxian county and funded the school running. Together with Wang miaoda and Wang Xiaoben, he founded Zhixiang hospital in the county. In 1924 (13 years of the Republic of China), he was elected as the director of Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. In 1926 (the 15th year of the Republic of China), he was elected president of Zhabei chamber of Commerce and chairman of Shanghai concession tax paying Chinese Association. In July of the same year, he went to Guangdong to visit the new deal on behalf of the Shanghai business community, met with Chiang Kai Shek, Zhang Qun and others, and participated in the Northern Expedition oath meeting. He was ordered to be wanted by the warlord sun Chuanfang for "Publicizing Chihua". In the spring of 1927 (the 16th year of the Republic of China), he instigated the Zhabei security corps to respond to the third armed uprising of Shanghai workers. After the victory of the uprising, he was promoted as a representative of the business community and served as chairman of the Shanghai Provisional Municipal Committee. After the April 12 coup, he served as chairman of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, standing member of Jiangsu and Shanghai Finance Committee, deputy director of the special tax department of the Ministry of finance, and director of the national cigarette special tax bureau. In 1930, he was elected as the first, second and fourth chairman of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. He also served as chairman of the National Federation of chambers of Commerce and director of the State-owned Investment Promotion Bureau. In Shanghai, we have received many students and become a "maritime news man". From the September 18th Incident in 1931 (the 20th year of the Republic of China) to the outbreak of the comprehensive anti Japanese War, he successively served as a member of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Anti Japanese Association, chairman of Jiaoji railway, chairman of Shanghai provisional Council, general manager of Shanghai fish market and general manager of Xi Hu highway automobile company. In 1936, he also served as the president of CAAC, actively planning to donate airplanes. During the Anti Japanese War, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the central Relief Committee, the second to fourth national political Councillor, and director of the Political Department of the special party Department of the rescue corps of the Kuomintang Red Cross Association. He was assassinated by the traitor Fu Xiaoan for his insistence on resisting Japan. In 1945 (34 years of the Republic of China), he served as the chairman of the Central South trade association, general manager of Kailai Xingye company and China Life Insurance Company in Chongqing. After the victory of the Anti Japanese War, he served as the chairman of the National Federation of chambers of Commerce, the chairman of Zhongyi trust company, Tongyi trust company, Jianghai bank, Southeast automobile company and other enterprises, and the director of Bank of China and Central Trust Company. In October of the same year, he was elected as the chairman of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce. He was a supervisor of Shanghai Chamber of Commerce since March 1946. In November 1946, he was elected to the National Congress. It has been revealed that the political situation at that time was "although the sky is bright, the clouds have not yet opened". On the eve of national liberation, he refused to go to Taiwan and took refuge in Hong Kong. When he returned to Shanghai in early 1950, he was received and entertained by Chairman Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai. He was appointed as the representative of the head office of the people's Bank of China to attend relevant meetings held by various ministries as nonvoting delegates. In 1954, he was elected the Shanghai Municipal People's representative. In 1958, he was a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference. In the 1930s, he went back to his hometown in Shengxian county and bought Dong Hu Tao's other business with a huge sum of money. He set up a "baby care" nursery. He wrote a couplet by himself, saying: "not only do you love your parents and children, why do you care for yourself and me?" the banner is "treat all the same". It was a good story in Shaocheng.

personal anecdote

Wang Xiaolai's cultural studies are very good, and she won the examination as a scholar. Wang Xiaolai's father, Wang Zhixiang, wrote excellent running script, which had a great influence on Wang Xiaolai. The author Chen Zhengshu wrote in his book "ten news people on the sea" that "he had written a beautiful regular script when he stepped into the small study of bainidun for the first time and accepted the examination of the teacher." When he was a teenager in his hometown, inspired by the "hundred day reform of Kang and Liang", he took part in the recovery meeting and often liked to talk about the current situation and dance with guns and sticks. Later, after Qiu Jin's crime, he went to Shanghai to do business. In his father-in-law Lou yingzhai's mill, he worked as a cashier manager and began commercial activities. during his career in Shanghai, he began to write poems and paintings, and met friends through literature. When Lu Xun died in 1936, Wang Xiaolai wrote elegiac couplets to mourn. He is interested in both eastern and Western cultures. He can not only dance western social dance, but also swim in western style. Wang Xiaolai witnessed and witnessed the revolution of 1911, the third armed uprising of workers in Shanghai, the "April 12" counter revolutionary coup, the war of resistance against Japan, the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the founding of new China, which gave birth to his extraordinary life. Chu Hao in his article "officials are light, people are heavy! Wang Xiaolai's cultural feelings of "hearing people on the sea" describes: "Wang Xiaolai also set up his ambition in his" 50 years of self narration ": to be rich before the age of 30, flat before the age of 40, and poor before the age of 50. If you reach the goal, you will be good to the whole world. If you are poor, you will go your own way. " "Worship feeds most people, but neglect accumulates most gold."

Chinese PinYin : Wang Xiao Lai