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462 tions, such as general manager of Kiangsi Land Investment Co., managing director of Wah Foo Commercial Bank of China, president of Wuhu City Telephone Plant, manager of Lee Bros. & Co., special inspector of the currency bureau for Shanghai, advisor to the Bureau of Enemy's Property and advisor to the Governor of Chekiang. In 1919 Mr. Lee organized a Telephone plant in his native city of Ningpo. At the outset the number of subscribers was scarcely over two hundred, but it has now passed one. thousand. He also established the Tanang City Light plant. He is now the president of both plants and director of the Chartered Stock & Produce Exchange of Shanghai, the Polo Coal Mining Co. and the Union Bank of China. Besides his business activities, Mr. Lee is also connected with many social institutions, such as director of the Ningpo Guild, the Charitable Institute, is a member of the General Chamber of Commerce of Shanghai and the Association of Chapei and the World's. Chinese Students' Federation. He is a member of the Union Club. In 1920 Mr. Lee realized the necessity of forming an important establishment in order to promote the industrial and commercial enterprises in China. In pursuance of this object a company was organized the next spring, called the Foong Shen Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation, of which he was subsequently elected vice-president and assistant general manager.