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Mr. En Yee Edward Sheng was born at Changchow, Kiangsu, in 1892. He was the fourth son of the late Sheng Kung Pao and one of the leading business men and philanthropists in China. He was educated at the Industrial High School, Peking, and later at the London University, England, and Columbia University, U. S. A. His first industrial school training, supplemented by an investigation of industries in Japan in 1911, decided him to take up a business career. He is a director and the assistant manager of the Han Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Co., president of San Sin Cotton Manufacturing Co., the Commercial Bank of China, and the Foong Sheng Industrial & Commercial Development Corporation. During the past few years, when China was visited with floods and famines, he was always among the foremost to contribute large sums to the relief of the poor, thereby saving thousands of lives. Mr. Sheng was awarded the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho in February 1920; the Second Class Tashou Pao-Chiaho in July 1921; the Fifth Order of Merit in December 1921; the First Class Tashou Chiaho in September 1922; the Third Class Wenhu in November 1922; and the First Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho Decoration in March 1923.