Tung Chao Yung Shipping Museum
The Chao Yung Tung Shipping Museum was jointly founded by the Hong Kong Tung Foundation and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (founded in 1896) and is located in the New Central Courtyard of Jiao Tong University. The two-story Western-style building has a patio and was the school’s early student dormitory.
First floor
China Shipping History Museum on the first floor. Our country has a vast territory, is densely covered with rivers, and is surrounded by the sea. The ancestors who lived on this ancient land had an indissoluble bond with rivers, lakes, and seas very early on. They used their extraordinary wisdom to contribute a lot to the development of human shipbuilding and navigation.
Ming, once dominated the trend. As early as prehistoric times, they began to head for the vast ocean, leaving behind many wonderful legends: when history entered the threshold of the Middle Ages, the "Maritime Silk Road" had already closely connected the East and the West; in the early Ming Dynasty, when the world was just settled, the great navigator Zheng He led a huge fleet and sailed to the West seven times, creating a miracle in the history of world navigation; Shanghai, which is surrounded by rivers and seas, wrote a glorious chapter of the city prospering with sand ships based on its unique geographical advantages...
Second floor
The second floor is the Tung Chao Yung Exhibition Room. This room is divided into two parts: "Ocean Giant" and "Land Hero", which showcase his ideals and achievements in the shipping field, and reflect his enthusiasm and dedication to education, his strong interest in various arts, his keen attention to international affairs, his emphasis on family, and his cherishment of friendship, highlighting his pioneering spirit and personal charm.
Tung Chao-Yen, originally from Dinghai, Zhejiang, was born in 1912 into a small merchant family in Shanghai and died of illness in Hong Kong in 1982. The founder of China Orient Overseas Container Line, known as the "modern Zheng He", is one of the "Seven Great Shipping Kings of the World". He had the ambition to devote himself to the shipping industry very early on. Over the past few decades, he started from scratch and, through hardships, built a shipping empire with more than a hundred giant ships with a carrying capacity of more than 11 million tons, as well as a comprehensive multinational group including banking, insurance, real estate, shipbuilding, and oil and gas extraction.