He donated the university to the nation, and it was changed to a state university, even though in the early 1950s, he asked his son-in-law Lee Kong Chian, who inherited his business, to donate a large sum of money, putting up altogether 17 buildings at Xiamen University.
即使如此，到了一九五○年代初期，他又請接續他事業的女婿李光前捐助鉅款，前後為廈門大學建了十七棟樓！