The late president Chiang Ching-kuo recorded in his diary how on the eve of the retreat from the mainland, his father President Chiang Kai-shek specially instructed him to go to Shanghai to oversee the removal to Taiwan of the gold bullion stored there in the vaults of the Central Bank of China.
蔣故總統經國先生在日記中提及，大陸撤退前夕，老總統特別吩咐他到上海，督促將上海中央銀行庫存的黃金運送來台。