Background
Chen Chih-lin was born in Haicheng, Fujian, China in 1897.
Chen Chih-lin was born in Haicheng, Fujian, China in 1897.
He was graduated from the Anglo-Chinese College, Fuzhou, in 1902.
Chen Chin-lin travelled in the Straits-Settlements and Dutch Colonies between 1904 and 1905. He was a principal of the Changchow Middle School, Fujian, in 1906. Mr.Chen served as a vice-president of the Fujian Provincial Assembly from 1908.
He worked as a finance commissioner of Fujian from October 1912 to February 1913 and from December 1914 to May 1914. In 1914 Mr. Chen was elected senator of the parliament in Peking. Then he held the posts of a general-manager of the Fujian Industry Company, director of the Fuzhou Electric Light Co., Fuzhou Motor-Car Co., and the Whapao Mining Co., manager of the Woo-hong Bank of Amoy, Chinese manager of the American-Oriental Bank of Fujian, Fuzhou.