SCCCI

SCCCI Chinese Business Culture Hub

SCCCI CHINESE BUSINESS CULTURE HUB

This website serves as a comprehensive platform dedicated to preserving and SCCCI heritage and culture. Through curated exhibitions, extensive collection, and insightful publications, we offer profound insights into the intertwined relationship between Singapore and SCCCI’s heritage.

Artefacts Highlights

The Chamber’s official seal (1906)

The Chamber’s official seal was bestowed by the Qing government in 1906. This seal is 13 cm tall and 7 cm wide. From a business history perspective, it is not only a Chamber seal, but also a testimony to a century of overseas business exchange and trade development between the Chinese entrepreneurs of modern China and Singapore. All official documents must be stamped and signed to validate the document. It shows the credibility of the document and also the integrity and credibility of the authority.

The official seal of the Chamber (1929)

The Chinese name of the Chamber was changed from Xin Jia Po Zhong Hua Shang Wu Zong Hui to Xin Jia Po Zhong Hua Zong Shang Hui in 1917. Thereafter, the Chinese government’s Ministry of Industry and Commerce reissued this seal to the Chamber.

Xu Beihong presented the Chamber with a painting of a rooster (1934)

Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was a pioneer of Chinese modern art. He visited Singapore at least seven times. As part of his 1939 trip to Singapore, he exhibited at two locations – the Victoria Memorial Hall and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

National Service Medallion (1967)

The Singapore government introduced National Service in 1967. The Chamber specially made limited edition medallions to present to enlisted youths. The Medallion features the words of “Jin Zhong Bao Guo” (serving the country with utmost loyalty) and “National Service”.

World Chinese Entrepreneurial Convention Seal (1991)

The World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention Seal is kept with the Secretariat of World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention. The term of the Secretariat is six years and rotated between Singapore, Hong Kong and Thailand. The Chamber was the first Secretariat of the World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention.

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Minister in Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Finance and Second Minister for National Development Indranee Rajah and Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Social and Family Development Sun Xue Ling visited the SCBCH on 8 October 2022.

President Halimah Yacob visited the SCBCH on 22 January 2023.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officiated the opening ceremony after completion of the Chamber building’s refurbishment on 10 September 2022. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong and Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry Tan See Leng also attended the opening ceremony.

Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies Heng Swee Keat and Minister for Education Chan Chun Sing attended the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration and visited the SCBCH on 10 September 2022.

President of Timor-Leste José Ramos-Horta led a delegation to visit the SCBCH on 9 December 2022.

The President of Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry Low Kian Chuan led a delegation to visit the SCBCH on 14 September 2022.

On 15 February 2023, Mr Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law (left), accompanied by SCCCI President Kho Choon Keng (centre), visited the Reflecting Upon the Past, Moving Forward As One: The Civilian War Memorial Special Exhibition on its launch.

Jurong Pioneer Junior College invited SCCCI to share the process of developing the Hill Street Virtual Heritage Trail and the online exhibition on Reflecting the Past, Looking Forward to the Future to JPJC students on 20 April 2022, strengthening the understanding of SCCCI among the younger generation.

The Chamber’s researchers were invited to deliver a public talk at the National University of Singapore, History Department, to share about SCCCI and the curatorial process behind the development of the SCBCH on 10 March 2023. This serves to strengthen the younger generation’s understanding of the SCCCI Chinese Entrepreneurial Spirit and its culture.

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