A sad denouement In 1949 the communists took over mainland China. Tan Kah Kee, then 76 years old, took part in organizing celebrations to commemorate "founding the new nation." Afterwards, he decided to leave the enterprises in Singapore behind and return alone to his home town Jimei from which he had been separated for nine years. He spent the last 12 years of his life there.
一九四九年共黨取得大陸政權後，已經七十六歲高齡的陳嘉庚參與籌組「開國」大典，隨後決定離開新加坡的家業，隻身回到闊別九年的故鄉集美，在此度過了人生最後十二個年頭。