盧作孚故居

盧作孚故居

盧作孚故居是在合川文化街芭蕉院建于晚清的一樓一底小青瓦房，面積900平米，古樸滄涼。

盧作孚（1893年—1952年），合川人。始欲教育救國，1925年后創(chuàng)辦民生公司，開發(fā)渝合航線，開始實(shí)業(yè)救國。先后創(chuàng)建合川電燈廠 、自來水廠 、機(jī)械碾米廠 ，抗戰(zhàn)時(shí)期合營華鎣公司、大昌鐵廠、海鑫鋼鐵廠和制藥廠 ，又辦合川瑞山小學(xué)、藥廠 、醫(yī)院,建公園、運(yùn)動(dòng)場、科學(xué)館、圖書館、日?qǐng)?bào)社，整改市政，安裝電話，開辟西山坪農(nóng)場、天府煤礦，建川北鐵路、辦三峽織布廠。十年奮斗，民生公司面目一新，成為民國鄉(xiāng)村建設(shè)模范。1938年武漢大撤退，他冒著日機(jī)轟炸，指揮宜昌軍工物質(zhì)日夜搶運(yùn)重慶，被譽(yù)為“中國的敦克爾大撤退”。1944年代表中國出席紐約國際通商會(huì)議，橫向投資合資企業(yè)58家，他任18家董事長。1950年經(jīng)安排，他自香港回大陸，為新中國航運(yùn)事業(yè)作出巨大貢獻(xiàn)。

Former Residence of Lu Zuofu

Former Residence of Lu Zuofu was a tile-roofed house with two floors, that was built in late Qing Dynasty in the Banana yard of Hechuan’s Cultural street, with an area of 900 square meters. It is primitive and desolate.

Lu Zuofu (1893-1952) was from Hechuan. He wanted to save the country though education and he had established Minsheng Company in 1925 to exploit the route from Chongqing to Hechuan, starting to save nation by engaging in industry. He had established electric lamp plant of Hechuan, water plant, mechanical rice mill successively, and during the War of Resistance, he had jointly operated Huaying Company, Dachang ironworks, Haixin steelworks and pharmaceutical factory, and he had established Ruishan primary school of Hechuan, pharmaceutical factory, hospital, parks, playgrounds, science museum, library, daily newspaper offi ce, and he had rectified and reformed municipal administration, installed telephone, and open up farm of Xishanping, Tianfu coal mine, and established northern Sichuan railway and weaving factory of three gorges. After 10-year effort, Minsheng Company has presented an entirely new appearance, thus to become the model of rural construction in the Republic of China. In 1938, under the situation of bombing of Japanese airplanes, he guided the goods of war industry of Yichang to rush transport Chongqing day and light during the big withdrawal of Wuhan, which was hailed as “the China’s Dunkirk Evacuation”. In 1944, he attended New York international trading conference on behalf of China, and invested 58 joint venture enterprises, and he was appointed as the chairman of 18 enterprises. In 1950, he came back the mainland from Hong Kong through the arrangement. He had made a great contribution to the shipping industry of new China.