Sun Bingyan

Sun Bingyan

Sun Bingyan (February 23, 1912 to April 30, 2002) is a famous entrepreneur, outstanding social activist and Chinese social leader in Singapore. After the reform and opening up, it was one of the earliest Chinese leaders to promote cultural and economic exchanges and cooperation between overseas Chinese businessmen and Chinese associations and China.

Life of the characters

Mr. Sun Bingyan (1912-2002) is a famous entrepreneur, outstanding social activist and Chinese social leader in Singapore. He was born in suncuo village, Tong'an County, Fujian Province on February 23, 1912 (the sixth day of the first lunar month). In 1926, after graduating from Le'an school founded by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, he went to Singapore to make a living. In 1932, with the capital of 2000 yuan accumulated as apprentices and clerks, the forest company was founded to manage Fangcai. In the 1970s and 1980s, it developed into a forest enterprise group with more than 20 branches and subsidiaries. It has made great achievements in the construction, finance, electronics, commerce and other aspects of Singapore. In 1983, he retired and took over the post of chairman of the board of directors of forest enterprises. Since 1938, Mr. Sun Bingyan has been following Mr. Tan Kah Kee to participate in the Anti Japanese and national salvation activities, and has been the chairman of the Singapore Branch of the South overseas Chinese fund raising and relief association. In 1956, as a member of the Singapore Malaysia industrial and commercial delegation, he was received twice by Premier Zhou Enlai and once by Vice Premier Chen Yi during his visit to China. Since the 1950s, he has supported the overseas Chinese Museum, Tong'an Tongmin hospital and Le'an school founded by Mr. Tan Kah Kee in his hometown for a long time, either donating money and materials, or raising funds to enrich, expand and build; and set up an education fund in Xiamen to award teaching and learning. The total donation in Xiamen is about 8 million yuan. Sun Bingyan has lived in Singapore for 77 years. He joined the local nationality in 1965 and became a citizen of the host country. However, in his old age, he often said, "I will think about how I want to help China become stronger. I have feelings. My feelings for my hometown are getting deeper and deeper. Until the last days of his life, he had been ardently in love with his hometown; he had been deeply in love with his ancestral country. it takes ten years for a tree to grow and a hundred years for a man to grow. Sun Bingyan's attachment to his ancestors and hometown has always made him think more and farther. His concern for his hometown has lasted for decades since he left his hometown, especially in the last stage of his life. He has to come back several times a year, and he always has endless things to do in his hometown. In his last days when his mind was still very clear, he still placed ardent hope on the villagers and relatives at home and abroad, hoping that everyone would make concerted efforts to build a better hometown. Mr. Sun Bingyan has maintained trade relations with China since he signed the general distribution contract of Wuyang brand cement with China Mining Corporation in 1956. In May 1981, he led a delegation of 29 Singaporean Chinese businessmen to visit Fujian, visited Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou and Wuyi, and signed several cooperation agreements with Fujian authorities. Since then, he has led overseas businessmen to travel between Singapore and several Chinese cities, such as Xiamen, Beijing and Harbin, looking for investment and entrepreneurship opportunities. In 1985, he cooperated with Xiamen Kaiyuan hotel to operate Singapore Hotel. He is one of the earliest Chinese leaders who promoted cultural and economic exchanges and cooperation between overseas Chinese businessmen and Chinese communities and China after the reform and opening up. In Singapore, Mr. Sun Bingyan served as the director of Fujian guild hall in 1940. Since he joined in founding sun's Guild in 1941, he has become the backbone of many associations. From the 1960s to around 2001, he was re elected chairman (president) of sun's guild, Jardine's club, China swimming club, Tong'an club and vice chairman of Fujian club. During his tenure as vice president and President of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (1960-1969), he organized and led activities such as safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese businessmen, promoting regional economic exchanges, collecting blood debts from Japan, and building a memorial to the people in distress. After entering the 1990s, efforts have been made to promote the exchanges and cooperation of Tongan people around the world and the friendship with their hometown, resulting in the holding of the world Tongan Friendship Conference. On January 29, 2001, the children held the "celebration of Mr. Sun Bingyan's ninth birthday". More than 800 people, including Singapore president Wang Dingchang and former president Huang Jinhui, attended the ceremony. Sun Bingyan died on April 30, 2002. During the funeral, Zhang Jiuhuan, Chinese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Singapore, together with other officials of the embassy, political leaders such as former Singapore president Huang Jinhui and former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dun Jiahua, local community leaders, representatives of industry and commerce, finance, culture and education, sports, religion and other sectors, either went to express their condolence in person, or sent charitable gift certificates, flower wreaths, sent elegy, published elegy, or sent telegrams to express their wishes It expresses sorrow and admiration. Other organizations and organizations in Malaysia and the Philippines, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, the governments of Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province and Fujian Province, and the governments of Beijing, Harbin, Quanzhou and Xiamen were called to express their condolence. They were also friendly to Mr. Sun Bingyan with the provincial and Municipal Federation of overseas Chinese, Overseas Exchange Association and Overseas Friendship Association. On the day of the funeral, Cai Tianbao, vice president of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, read out the memorial ceremony. Lin Changli muyuan, a Buddhist resident in Singapore, presided over the Buddhist ceremony.

Character family

Mr. Sun Bingyan has three wives, namely Zhu, Fu and Zhang. He has six sons and three daughters, 25 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Most of the descendants live in Singapore, some in the United States and Australia. After his wife Zhu's death, Mr. Sun Bingyan once "tried" to make a couplet to express his feelings about life: "floating life is really like a dream, and you can't go up and get along with each other. Why don't you fight for me

Social evaluation

Mr. Sun Bingyan's life is a historical miniature of the modern Chinese people's emigration to become overseas Chinese and their naturalization to the country of residence as a foreign Chinese. With his wisdom and sweat all his life, he nourishes his motherland, Singapore, but he also dreams of China, the country of his ancestors, which is far away from the ocean. It is not difficult for us to touch the old man's eternal Chinese heart. When he came to the end of his life journey, he was still so ardently in love with his hometown of China, and still so deeply in love with his relatives and children. Let's comfort him with such a sincere word: China's tomorrow will be better and better!

Chinese PinYin : Sun Bing Yan