Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Ch'en Lien-pai

Mr. Chan Lim Pak

陳廉伯

(Ch'en Lien-pai)

Mr. Chan Lim Pak was born in Namhoi, Kwangtung, in 1884, He was president of the General Chamber of Commerce in Canton 1920-1922 and is at present Commander-in-Chief of the Merchants Volunteers of the Province of Kwangtung and Colonel-in-Chief commanding the ten regiments in Canton City proper. The Canton Corps consists of 7,000 well-trained and equipped men in active service with 6,000 recruits awaiting assignments pending the completion of their six-months course of instruction in military science and tactics being given by regular army officers. Mr. Chan is a major-general (brevet) in the ranks of the Chinese Army, an honor accorded him by Peking several years ago in consideration of his service in the promotion and development of the best armed corps of civilians for local defense purposes without any financial support from the government local or central except good-will and recognition. Mr. Chan gives liberally toward all forms of useful charity and education, being a director in many schools and hospitals, besides financing a primary school in his home town. He was many years president of the Canton Chinese Silk Association and is the president of the Canton Mining and the Kwangtung Export Associations. In business Mr. Chan is Chinese agent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Shameen, Canton, and general manager of the Tee Lee Ming Company, chief director of Chung Kwock Po Lee S. S. Company and of Cheong Wah Insurance Company; president of Lepack Company of Canton and Hongkong; proprietor of Cheong Chen Silk Firm, and one of the directors of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, Chen Kwong Company, Chu Kong Motor Boat Company, and other leading Chinese firms of Hongkong and Canton. He owns the fastest motor-boats in Canton and his house in the western suburb of Canton is the finest in this city. Mr. Chan has refused many offers for political office, and he has served only as trade commissioner to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, an honorary position awarded him in recognition of his service to commerce and finance in South China. In February 1921 Mr. Chang was decorated by the Peking government with the Second Order of Paokuang Chiaho. In May 1923 he received the Second Order of Tashau Chiaho.