What bank did a supporter of the man known as "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China co-found?
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Lin Hsiung-cheng Lin Hsiung-cheng (; November 5, 1888 - November 27, 1946), born in Pangkio, Tamsui District, Taipeh Prefecture, Fujian-Taiwan Province, Qing Taiwan (modern-day Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan), was a Taiwanese banker and philanthropist. He was a member of the Lin Ben Yuan Family, the richest family of Taiwan in the late Qing dynasty and Japanese-ruled Era. He was the richest person of Taiwan in his time. He joined the Tongmenghui in 1904, and supported the Sun Yat-sen's revolutions as a patronage. Lin was a co-founder of the Hua Nan Bank. He also participated in other businesses such as sugar production, railroad building, or coal mining. His father was Lin Erh-kang (林爾康). His only son is Lin Ming-cheng, the current chairman of Hua Nan Financial Holdings.
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Sun Yat-sen Sun Yat-sen ( ; 12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925) was a Chinese physician, writer, philosopher, calligrapher and revolutionary, the first president and founding father of the Republic of China. As the foremost pioneer of the Republic of China, Sun is referred to as the "Father of the Nation" in the Republic of China (ROC), Hong Kong, Macau and the "forerunner of democratic revolution" in People's Republic of China (PRC). Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the years leading up to the Xinhai Revolution. He was appointed to serve as Provisional President of the Republic of China when it was founded in 1912. He later co-founded the Nationalist Party of China, serving as its first leader. Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and he remains unique among 20th-century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
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Jiang Chaoliang Jiang Chaoliang (; born August 1957) is a Chinese banker and politician, and current Communist Party Secretary of Hubei province. In the past, he has served as the governor of Jilin province in Northeast China, and an executive at China Development Bank and the Agricultural Bank of China.
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Hu Huaibang Hu Huaibang (; born 25 September 1955) is the chairman of China Development Bank, a Fortune Global 500 company.
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Zhang Qun Zhang Qun or Chang Chun (; May 9, 1889 – December 14, 1990) also known as Zhang Yuejun (張岳軍), was premier of the Republic of China and a prominent member of the Kuomintang. He served as secretary general to the President of the Republic from 1954 to 1972 and senior advisor to Presidents Chiang Kai-shek, Yen Chia-kan, Chiang Ching-kuo, and Lee Teng-hui. Under the influence of his wife, Ma Yu-ying, he became a Christian in the 1930s.
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Bank of Beijing The Bank of Beijing () () is a bank based in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Founded on January 8, 1996 as Beijing City Commercial Bank (sometimes referred to as Beijing Commercial Bank), it adopted its present name in January 2005.
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Peng Shuzhi Peng Shuzhi (also spelled Peng Shu-tse; Chinese: "Péng Shùzhī" 彭述之; 1896–1983) was an early leader of the Communist Party of China and became a Trotskyist.
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Li Tse-fong Li Tse-fong (21 September 1891 – 5 October 1953) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician. He was the founder of the East Asia Bank and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
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Tan Kim Ching Kapitan China Tan Kim Ching (; a.k.a. Tan Kim Cheng; 1829Feb 1892) was a Singaporean politician and businessman. He was the eldest of the three sons of Tan Tock Seng, the founder and financier of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. He was consul for Japan, Thailand and Russia, and was a member of the Royal Court of Siam. He was one of Singapore’s leading Chinese merchants and was one of its richest men in Singapore at that time. He was also the first Asian member of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. After his father, Tan Tock Seng's death, he became the Kapitan China of the Straits Chinese community. He is believed to have been the Head of the Triad in Malaya.
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Fang Zhichun Fang Zhichun () (September 11, 1905 – July 31, 1993) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was a cousin of Fang Zhimin. He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1924 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927. In January 1928, along with his cousin and Huang Dao, he organized an uprising in Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province. In 1937 he went to Yan'an, Shaanxi Province and in 1938 he went to the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he was arrested and imprisoned in Xinjiang by local warlord Sheng Shicai. In June 1946, he married Zhu Danhua, the widow of Mao Zedong's younger brother Mao Zemin, and became the stepfather Mao Zedong's nephew Mao Yuanxin.
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Yi Huiman Yi Huiman is a Chinese banker, the chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
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Chen Yuan Chen Yuan (), born in January 1945, was the Chairman of the China Development Bank from March 1998 to April 2013. He has since then served as a Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He is the son of Communist politician Chen Yun.
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China Everbright Limited China Everbright Limited is a Hong Kong based financial services company in asset management, investment and merchant bank in the Greater China region, including Mainland China and Hong Kong. It is parented by China Everbright Group, a state-owned enterprise operated under the supervision of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (via Central Huijin Investment and the Ministry of Finance).
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Li Guixian Li Guixian (; born August 1937) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China, and a governor of People's Bank of China in 1988-1993.
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Annie Wu (businesswoman) Annie Wu Suk-ching (), SBS, JP, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese businesswoman and activist of Taishan, Guangdong origin. She is the daughter of Hong Kong businessman Dr. James Tak Wu
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Wang Jingwei Wang Jingwei (Wang Ching-wei; 4 May 1883 – 10 November 1944); born as Wang Zhaoming (Wang Chao-ming), but widely known by his pen name "Jingwei", was a Chinese politician. He was initially a member of the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT), but later became increasingly anti-communist after his efforts to collaborate with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ended in political failure. His political orientation veered sharply to the right later in his career after he joined the Japanese.
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He Xiangning He Xiangning (; 27 June 1878 – 1 September 1972) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter, and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai, she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongmenghui. As Minister for Women's Affairs in Sun's Nationalist government in Guangzhou (Canton), she advocated equal rights for women and organized China's first rally for International Women's Day in 1924. After her husband's assassination in 1925 and Chiang Kai-shek's persecution of the Communists in 1927, she stayed away from party politics for two decades, but actively worked to organize resistance against the Japanese invasion of China.
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Tian Jiyun Tian Jiyun (; born June 1929 in Feicheng, Shandong) is a politician in the People's Republic of China, known as a supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The best-known feature of his biography is the speech of 1992, delivered in the Central Party School, in which he ridicules the "leftists" (those who did not support the new policy of openness). Tian proposed they establish their own "economic zones" preserving all the worst features of the old system.
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Ju Zheng Ju Zheng (; November 8, 1876 – November 23, 1951) was a Chinese politician who was a leader in the Chinese Nationalist Party, or KMT, in the 1930s and 1940s. As president of the Judicial Yuan, he administered China's court system from 1932 to 1948. He ran in the presidential election of 1948 as the token opponent of Chiang Kai-shek. He was also known by his courtesy name Juesheng (Chueh-sheng).
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Kai Ho Sir Kai Ho, CMG, JP, MRCS (; 1859–1914), born Ho Shan-kai (), was a Hong Kong barrister, physician and essayist in Colonial Hong Kong. He played a key role in the relationship between the Hong Kong local community and the British colonial government. He is remembered as a supporter of the Reform Movement and as a teacher of student Sun Yat-sen, who would become the founding father of the Republic of China. Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong, was named after him and his son-in-law Au Tak, though he died in 1914, long before the idea of an aerodrome was first mentioned in 1925.
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Liang Wengen Liang Wengen ( born 1956) is a Chinese entrepreneur in the fields of heavy manufacturing and the founder and chairman of the Sany Heavy Industry. In 2011, he became the richest man in mainland China, and was tipped to become a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, with a net worth of about USD $8 billion. However he lost that position, and as of February 2014 he was the fifteenth richest person in China, with a net worth of about $5.9 billion.
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Jiang Jianqing Jiang Jianqing (; born 1 February 1953) is the Chairman of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's largest bank by assets and 2nd market value; he has held the position since 2005.