Chen Jiageng with Sa Bendong
With the government approval of the written request from the founder of Xiamen University, Mr. Chen Jiageng, Xiamen University changed to national in 1937, and Sa Bendong, the physicists, electrical engineering expert and educator served as the first president. During the war of resistance against Japan, he organized Xiamen University to move to Changting, leaded whole university to overcome all the difficulties in an extremely hard situation, and turned Xiamen University into “the most perfect school in the east of Calcutta " at that time, thus laying a solid foundation for further development of Xiamen University in later.