Wen's family was quite famous in Chongqing's raw silk export industry in its early years. Wen Shaohe's fourth uncle, Wen Yousong, and his cousin, Wen Xigu, both own silk factories, which created an atmosphere for the development of machine silk reeling industry in Chongqing and had a great impact on promoting the production of national silk industry. Wen Yousong was the leader of Chongqing Raw Silk Gang, and was promoted as the president of Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, so Wen Shaohe's family has a deep relationship with Chongqing's industrial and commercial circles. He graduated from Chengdu and returned to Chongqing. Wen Yousong relied heavily on him and invited him to be the director (secretary) of the General Chamber of Commerce to help organize meetings and become Wen Yousong's right-hand man. As early as 19 14, Wen Shaohe suggested that the General Chamber of Commerce should run a newspaper as a tool to publicize current affairs, which was endorsed and supported by the person in charge. After a period of preparation, Chongqing Business Daily was officially published on April 25th, 19 14, becoming one of the famous newspapers in Chongqing. The first president of the newspaper was Zhou, a former young scholar and a well-known figure in education. After Zhou left office, Wen Shaohe took over, which lasted for seven or eight years. He once wrote that the purpose of publishing Business Daily is to promote the development of industrial property economy. Its main contents are: spreading local industrial and commercial news, reflecting industrial and commercial opinions, stating industrial and commercial sufferings, publicizing important documents of the General Chamber of Commerce and accounting spirit, and opposing measures taken by local authorities to hinder economic development. When he presided over the newspaper, he really carried out the above-mentioned policy of running the newspaper, which represented the interests of the industrial and commercial circles and was well received by the Chamber of Commerce.
1922, the National General Chamber of Commerce held a conference on China in Shanghai, and the Chongqing General Chamber of Commerce sent Wen Shaohe as a representative to attend. He collected and sorted out the views of Chongqing business circles on China in advance, and made a statement at the meeting. The content is practical and to the point, attracting the attention of all parties. At the meeting, he met with famous scholars such as Zhang Taiyan, Zhang Jizhi, Liang Qichao and Huang Yanpei, and presented them with awards. After returning to Chongqing, I rushed to convey my reputation in the business world. 1923, director of the general chamber of commerce. 1924 when Chongqing silk industry association was reorganized, it was elected as the director-general (later renamed as the chairman) of the silk industry association because of its efforts to revitalize the silk industry and expand sales. 1928 was re-elected as the president of Chongqing Chamber of Commerce, and was re-elected many times in the future. At that time, the New Shu Newspaper in Chongqing once praised Wen Shaohe for his "integrity, fairness and expectation, so every chamber of commerce election was unanimously elected".
At that time, the focus of the chamber of commerce has been to raise money from warlords and deal with commercial disputes. Wen Shaohe, on the other hand, has always held the aim of education, but he still hasn't slackened his ambition after joining the Chamber of Commerce. After he met Huang Yanpei in Shanghai from 65438 to 0922, he often wrote back and forth, which benefited a lot. Especially for the development of vocational education, we have a further understanding and urge the Chamber of Commerce to set up schools and cultivate business talents. 1925, "Chongqing Chamber of Commerce Private Business Vocational Middle School" started. The board of directors is composed of representatives from various industries elected by the Municipal Chamber of Commerce, with Wen Shaohe as the principal and teaching in person, and later served as the chairman of the school for many years. 1932, at his initiative, another ordinary middle school was founded, named "Chongqing Chamber of Commerce Private Middle School", and the board of directors was still established by the Chamber of Commerce, with him as the principal. 1934, approved by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education, the two schools were named Shang Yi Vocational School and Tonghui Middle School respectively (the latter two were merged and renamed Chongqing No.30 Middle School). At this time, the school is developing day by day, the number of students is increasing, and the school building is not enough to apply. Wen Shaohe obtained the consent of the boards of directors of the two schools and allocated funds to buy land for the abbot 1 10 of the teaching hall at Lianglukou, Chongqing today, and built a new school site, which was completed and moved on 1935. The two schools adopt a two-in-one system and form a board of directors to be responsible for the school affairs of the two schools. Most of the faculty and staff of the two schools are responsible for the affairs of the two schools, getting paid, saving manpower and financial resources, and also having quite distinctive administrative features. Commercial vocational schools offer western-style courses, such as books, statistics and accounting. , trained new accounting talents to meet the needs of the industrial and commercial circles at that time. Most graduates are employed by various enterprises. From the establishment of the school to 1944, Wen Shaohe has been in charge of school affairs for twenty or thirty years, and has made certain contributions to promoting vocational education and cultivating business talents.
Later, he participated in the preparation of Chongqing University.
During his tenure in the Chamber of Commerce, he attached great importance to the development of public utilities. 65438-0929, initiated and participated in the establishment of Chongqing Water Supply Company on behalf of the industrial and commercial circles. He was enthusiastic about the preparations and was promoted to vice chairman of the company's board of supervisors. In 1932, He, Zhao Zisheng, Wang and others also assumed the actual responsibility of running water supply companies. 1943 was promoted to be the resident director of the Standing Committee of the Company, and presided over the daily affairs. Before the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing's traffic was inconvenient and blocked seriously. In order to develop highway traffic, he once suggested that the city chamber of commerce organize "Baxian Automobile Road Co., Ltd." as the general manager. Businessmen shared the import and export goods, raised funds to build two highways, Chongqing-Bishan (Chongqing-Bishan) and Chongqing-Beibei (Chongqing-Beibei), and bought a batch of cars to drive from the pedestrian port to Ciqikou. He was elected as the general manager and tried to open up a new situation.
According to the general practice, the person in charge of the chamber of commerce must run an amateur enterprise. Wen Shaohe was originally from the education field and never worked in industry and commerce. Therefore, after he joined the Chamber of Commerce, he made great efforts to develop industry and commerce. At the end of the 20th century, I set up Yixin Toothbrush Factory in Shanghai with others, but it was quickly closed due to inexperience, improper employment and poor management. After serving as the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, he set up a "Tongde Brand" in partnership with others to engage in mountain products trade. Being unfamiliar with the business, he immediately declared failure, lost tens of thousands of yuan and had to borrow money to pay off his debts.
Wen Shao lived a simple life and behaved rigorously. He kept a diary every day all his life (all diary manuscripts were destroyed by Melia azada Lach in the ten-year robbery). He loved poetry and was good at calligraphy. He also has a high reputation among Hui compatriots. In the early years, Jingyi Primary School (now Zhongxing Road Primary School) was established in Ganziba (now Caijiashibao, Zhongxing Road, Central District of Chongqing) where the Hui people lived in concentrated communities, so as to train the children of the Hui people. This school has an outstanding reputation. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), when building the Yang Liang Highway, he took an active part in the work of the people's government and properly handled the matter of moving the graves of Hui compatriots, which was well received.
1938, when Wen Shaohe was the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, according to the regulations of the state party and government organs, as usual, officials from the Ministry of Social Affairs of the Kuomintang government introduced and filled in the form and joined the Kuomintang; During the period of 1938, the Kuomintang government was preparing to hold a national congress, and he was promoted as a representative of the National Congress of the Second Sichuan Merchants Group. On the other hand, in order to resist Japanese aggression and save the country, Qi Luyu, one of the leaders of Chongqing underground organization in the early days of China's * * * production party, initiated the establishment of the "Salvation Society" on 1936, and in the same year, together with other groups, held a "memorial service for the death of Mr. Lu Xun" in the auditorium of the Municipal Chamber of Commerce. With Wen Shaohe's full support, he attended the memorial service and delivered a eulogy.
During the period of 1946, Huang Yanpei and other Democrats held a symposium on promoting peaceful and democratic movements in Chongqing, and the news was published in Xinhua Daily the next day. In order to attack this symposium, the Kuomintang Municipal Committee drafted a notice in advance to denigrate the merger of China and asked them to sign it and publish it in the newspaper. When the city party department sent someone to send this "notice" to Wen Shaohe, Qiu Xiufu signed it. He thought about it for a long time, then deleted all the untrue words that distorted and attacked China's * * * production party, and said to the bearer, "If you want to publish it, just publish it according to the manuscript I deleted."
1949 years ago, Chongqing was near liberation. As a representative of the industrial real estate sector, Wen Shaohe, together with several heads of chambers of commerce, was guided by the underground party in eastern Sichuan and tried his best to maintain social order. In accordance with the instructions of the underground party, he took delaying measures and refused the order of the puppet garrison headquarters to force the chamber of commerce to hand over 3000 gold coins. On the day of Chongqing's liberation, he and three other business people crossed the river to Haitang Creek to welcome the vanguard troops of the People's Liberation Army into the city. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in the planning of China Democratic National Construction Association and served as the mass work of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce.
During the 1950 China People's Political Consultative Conference, President Mao Zedong met the participants and immediately shook hands with them, calling them "Mr. Wen Shaohe". When we met for the first time, we were so understanding, so kind, so polite and respectful. 1960 during the CPPCC meeting, President Liu Shaoqi invited the elderly over 70 to have a discussion and give them a cordial greeting, and each person was given a big apple. When the country was in economic difficulties, Wen Shaohe was invited to attend, showing such respect and deep affection for the producers of * * *. Under the leadership of the * * * Production Party, he actively participated in the socialist revolution and socialist construction, especially the socialist transformation of private industrial property rights industries by the Party, and actively supported and worked hard to implement it, making a useful contribution to the completion of this arduous overseas Chinese affairs.
After liberation, he successively served as chairman of Chongqing Municipal Committee of Democratic National Construction Association, vice chairman and chairman of Chongqing Federation of Industry and Commerce, vice chairman of Chongqing CPPCC, vice mayor of Chongqing Municipal People's Government, chairman of Chongqing Huimin Cultural Association, member of Southwest Ethnic Affairs Committee, member of Sichuan Provincial Working Committee of Democratic National Construction Association, vice chairman of Sichuan Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, member of Standing Committee of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, member of Central Committee of Democratic National Construction Association, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and member of Chongqing, Sichuan and Sichuan Provinces.