20世纪30年代潮州会馆的董事郭富生,是个颇有资产的鸦片土商,与不少潮州土行老板都有亲戚、朋友关系。其子郭启东自小就对旅沪潮州人的掌故很有兴趣,喜欢打听,因而对当时潮州商人在上海的经商情况有一定了解。据郭启东介绍,上海开埠以后,相继出现了南通盐商、南 Guo Fusheng, a director of the Chaozhou Guild Hall in the 1930s, is a rather opiate local businessman and has relatives and friendships with many Chaozhou-based landowners. His son, Guo Qidong, was very interested in the tragedies of Chaozhou people traveling to Shanghai since childhood. He liked to know about the business of Chaozhou businessmen in Shanghai at that time. According to Guo Qidong introduction, after the opening of Shanghai, Nantong salt merchants and Nanmen have emerged