"When the Communists seized the mainland in 1949, Jardine's was forced to hand over 10 million British pounds in capital, despite a promise that 'nothing in Shanghai will change,'" the Taiwan magazine Commonwealth reported in an in-depth article on the company.
「一九四九年中共佔領大陸後，怡和洋行一如英國政府，旁人皆走我獨留，然而卻在中共保證『上海一切不變』的承諾聲中，被迫交出達一千萬英鎊的所有資產」，國內天下雜誌對怡和洋行深入採訪後指出。