Background
Mr. Chow was born in Weiyang, Fujian, China.
Mr. Chow was born in Weiyang, Fujian, China.
In 1916 Chow Sing-nan was a chief of Finance Bureau of the Headquarters of the Cantonese Generalissimo in South Fujian, then in 1918 was a chief of Public Works Bureau, Zhangzhou, Fujian. In the period from 1920 to 1925 he occupied various positions:a director of the Zhangzhou-Longyan Public Roads Board and concurrently commissioner of Municipal Affairs, Xiamen, chief of Bureau for Financing Military Expenditures, Zhangzhou, and later for Superintending the Raising of Military Funds In Zhangzhou-Meihsien between 1922 and 1923. Since 1925 Chow Sing-an served as an engineering councillor to the Zhangzhou-Xiamen Naval Garrison Commander, Xiamen.
Mr. Chow held the position of a Quarter-Master of the Xiamen Staff-Office of the 19th Route Army and chief of Engrineering Board of Military Roads.
In Zhangzhou, when Mr. Chow acted as a chief of Engrineering Board of Military Roads, with a loan of $6,000 advanced by the local Chamber of Commerce, more than $2,000,000 were raised and spent on the following: complete reconstruction of roads throughout the whole city, building of bunds, markethalls, development and construction of Zhangzhou-Shima, Shima-Haiteng, Haiteng-Pukongr, Zhangzhou-Nanjing, Zhangzhou-Poonan and Zhangzhou-Longyan motor roads with a total length of over 200 Chinese li.
He also promoted and organized the Tingchow-Zhangzhou-Longyan See-Hsin Motor Bus Company, offering the first longdistance omnibus service connecting Xiamen with the interior districts in Xiamen. With $20,000 appropriation, more than $22,000,000 were raised and expended on a ten-thousand feet Bunding, 89 motor roads with 298,385 feet in length, reclamation and development of new areas of 17,000,000 sq. ft., a $800,000 Zhongshan Park, a Chunsan Memorial Hospital, a House for the Care of the Aged, Experimental Farm for Agriculture and Forestry, a motor road encircling the whole island, and a Land Surveyance Board.
