Zhang Rongting's childhood family was poor and he only went to a private school for six years. 2 1 year-old, went to Surabaya, the Netherlands to make a living, set up Yongchuan company, and operated white sugar. Later, he went to Singapore to open Nanqing Co., Ltd. and Fengtai Tea House, the largest tea house in Southeast Asia, and the first Nanjing native to operate tea in Nanyang. After Zhang Rongting became rich, he put forward a long-term vision for his relatives in his hometown to develop tea production. In 35 years of the Republic of China (1946), he said in a letter to his relatives in his hometown: "My village is located in a mountainous area. Where there is soil, there is money. If you can plant it, why bother to be poor? " If you can organize the public to plant tea mountains, Tingdang will be a shield for funds. "Since then, he has remitted RMB 6,543,800+0.5 million to the Trusteeship Committee of Taxia Village Dam Standard Public School Fund. At the same time, I told the villagers about the tea knowledge accumulated for many years, and often sent books and magazines about tea planting, and introduced tea seedlings from Anxi through various relationships. When some villagers want to buy farmland with subsidies and collect rent from the valley, Zhang Rongting wrote several letters, pointing out: "Tea planting is a chronic investment, which takes five years to produce benefits. Only by hard work and persistent cultivation can there be hope of success. "Under his careful guidance and encouragement, the villagers made every effort to develop Chashan. From 1949 to 1990, the tea planting area of the whole tea farm founded by Zhang Rongting reached more than 2,000 mu, with an annual output of1000,000 kg. There are more than 700 acres of orchards with an annual output of more than 750,000 kilograms. There are only two kinds of tea and fruit, and the average annual income of local people is more than 500 yuan.
After the founding of New China, according to Zhang Rongting's suggestion, the tea garden carefully cultivated 20 million tea seedlings, and assisted Qujiang, Shiqiao, Banliao, Shuyang, Tianzhi, LAM Raymond, Tian Ling, Shangtang, Nankeng, Gaogang, Zhu Jin, Zhuge and Xia Feng 184 townships and Gaotou and Raoping in Yongding County, Guangdong Province. Since then, tea production in Nanjing has developed rapidly.
From 65438 to 0984, the annual output of tea in the county reached 385,000 kg, which is the main tea producing area in Longxi area.
Zhang Rongting not only attaches importance to the industrial development in his hometown, but also cares about intellectual development. 1954 65438+In February, he wrote to the person in charge of the tea garden, suggesting that Qujiang Middle School be rebuilt in the original site of the collapsed Qujiang Huang Jia Middle School. The person in charge of the tea garden called relevant people to set up Qujiang Middle School Committee, worked out the school-building plan, and drew drawings to reply to Zhang Rongting. Zhang Rongting immediately donated 60,000 yuan after receiving the letter, and mobilized fellow countryman Zhang Shunchou to donate 50,000 yuan, and Jasmine Zhang donated 8,000 yuan to build Qujiang Middle School in the original site of Huang Jia Middle School. On the eve of the completion of the school building, Zhang Rongting and his wife made a special trip back to their hometown to watch the development of the school building and Chashan. Qujiang Middle School has trained more than 3,500 junior and senior high school graduates since it was founded on 1990. 1973, Zhang Rongting died in Singapore at the age of 77.
Zhang Rongting's kindness in loving his country and hometown has been praised by the party and government at the provincial, city and county levels for many times. 1984 10, the Longxi regional administrative office ratified him and awarded him the first prize of enthusiastic hometown public welfare. 1On June 20th, 985, in front of the ancestral hall of Zhang Deyuantang under the tower, villagers in southern European villages erected a stone dragon flag for him to remember forever. The flag body is engraved with the words "Rongting public welfare mulberry, donated money to cultivate and establish Everbright tea farm, advocated the construction of Qujiang middle school, imported grain and oil to help villagers tide over the difficulties, and made great contributions". In the same year, in 65438+February, the villagers of Taxia Village built a "Rongting" for him and set up a monument to commemorate it.