The Former Residence of Mr.Bao Yugang
2 min readThe former residence of Mr.Bao Yugang is located in the new rear house of Baoxin Village，Zhuangshi Town，Zhenhai District.It is the place where Mr.Bao Yugang，the”World Shipping Magnate”was born.Mr.Bao Yugang was the giant of commerce and finance.He was once the Vice Chairman of the Drafting Committee for the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China and the consultant of coordination team of construction and development of Ningbo City under the governance of the State Council.
The new rear house has high walls and deep courtyards.It is two-storey tile-roofedfacing the south composed of five two-lane masonry-timber structure rooms，which is typical residence in the south.Outside the entrance on the eastern side is the vast field with interlaced footpaths and rivers.Zhongbao Village（钟包村）was originally called the Heng River Batardeau as the ancestors once built the batardeau on the bank of the Heng River to store water for the village.
According to the recordation in Bao’s Genealogy of the Heng River Batardeau collected by Tianyi Chamber，Bao’s brothers and sisters were the 29th generation of the offspring of Bao Zheng，a famous judge in the Northern Song Dynasty.During the late period of the Northern Song Dynasty，Bao’s ancestors traveled to Lin’an along with Emperor Gaozong of the Northern Song Dynasty.The subsequent generations of offspring came from Lin’an to Zhenhai（called Dinghai then）and had been living in the Heng River Batardeau ever since.Bao Yugang’s father，Bao Zhaolong and his mother Chen Saiqin had three sons and four daughters.Bao’s brothers and sisters were all bornand brought up in the new rear house.It was here that Mr.Bao Yugang married his wife，Huang Xiuying.
Mr.Bao Yugang had been back to his hometown for six times during the period of 1984to 1989.The new rear house was rebuilt twice.In 1989，Zhenhai District government appropriated funds to refit two rooms at the western side as the exhibition rooms for Mr Bao’s former residence and created the full-body bronze statue for Bao Zhaolong and marble monument with inscriptions.In the exhibition rooms，there are pictures of Mr Bao Yugang indicating some historic events，including those showing that Mr.Bao Yugang was received by the national leaders such as Deng Xiaoping and that he funded the establishment of Beijing Zhaolong Hotel，Bao Zhaolong Library of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Ningbo University.
