Nie Qijie

Nie Qijie (October 1880 - December 12, 1953), also known as Yuntai, also known as Huijie, was a Chinese entrepreneur. Nie Qijie's ancestral home was Hengshan County, Hunan Province. He was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in October 1880. His father Nie Jichu (successively served as governor of Shanghai Daotai, Anhui, and Zhejiang). His mother, Zeng Jifen, was the daughter of Zeng Guofan. Nie Qijie ranks third. Moved to Shanghai in 1883. In 1893, he returned to Hunan to study as a scholar. He went to the United States to study and joined the Christian Brothers while studying abroad. In 1904, Futai Company was established in Shanghai and contracted to Huasheng Textile General Administration. In 1909, he acquired all the shares of Huasheng, changed its name to Hengfeng Textile New Bureau, and became the general manager. In 1915, he went to the United States for inspection and invited American cotton industry experts to China to investigate and help improve China's cotton cultivation. In 1917, he and Huang Yanpei initiated the establishment of the China Vocational Education Society. In 1919, it sponsored young Hunanese Cai Hesen, Li Weihan and others to study in France for work-study studies. In 1920, he was elected president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. In 1921, he initiated the founding of China Iron Works to manufacture textile machinery. In 1922, the Great China Cotton Mill was built in Wusong. In May 1922, he organized the "State Council" in the name of the president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce and published the "Draft Constitution of the State Council", proposing that "the Republic of China is a federated provincial republic". In 1926, he served as Director Hua of the Shanghai Public Settlement Bureau of Industry. In the same year, due to the serious losses of the Greater China Cotton Mill, he claimed to be ill and retired, closing himself up to think about his mistakes. I wanted to become a monk several times, but gave up because my mother was old. I practiced practice at home and became a Buddhist lay practitioner. From 1942 to 1943, he wrote a Buddhist pamphlet called "The Way to Preserve Wealth" to advise people to give away their wealth, which was serialized in Shenbao. In 1943, half of his leg was amputated due to bone tuberculosis. Died of illness in Shanghai on December 12, 1953, at the age of 73. He has written pamphlets such as "The Theory of Saving the Nation through Diligence and Thrift" and "Records of the Nie Family Association", and has translated books such as "Wireless Science" and "The Biography of Tolstoy".