Born on December 26, 1916, jiangyin, jiangsu province, young at the church of England founded business college, kunshan, jiangsu province agricultural bank accounting opens the career, because of abacus "quick and accurate", called "iron abacus", after the liberation in English, business administration, accounting, such as teaching, in the present before and after the Shanghai university of science and technology, zhejiang university of technology, coaching, employed as a professor, value engineer.

Since 1937 in kunshan, jiangsu province farmers bank jobs fall in love with an abacus, maybe a lucky chance which the love and work, collection and research the footprint of the abacus throughout his life, his years in half a century and a work on the abacus of collection, collection the abacus close to both at home and abroad, the abacus data thousands, enjoy "the first person of abacus collection" high reputation in China, Taiwan abacus museum director Mr Cai Jingyu regarded him as a "king" abacus.

He retired back to Shanghai in the 1980 s, open "bao-ding Chen calculate showroom", this is one of the earliest folk museum, insist on free and open to attract and receive tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign visitors and media, the interviewer to fill the gaps in national wenbo, carry forward the Chinese traditional culture. The father of accounting, the father of accounting, was greatly impressed by his visit to the exhibition room and named the exhibition room as an "abacus maze". In the 1990s, he moved to the Internet with the "abacus showroom", making the ancient abacus a modern light, and the abacus culture was renowned both at home and abroad.

Bao-ding Chen is a rare one academic collectors, he not only to collect, display, pay more attention to the research, writing, literature has a "modern abacus teaching material", "abacus collection", "modern folk collection guide, the abacus calculation data collection, the chinese-english and english-chinese abacus calculation vocabulary, etc., the" modern abacus teaching material "by the ministry of education recommend for the teaching material, higher vocational colleges, lixin accounting press reprint even printed nearly 20 years, classic, filled with the world. He actively advocating "collection", and for the collection of academic research and practice, for private collection industry to promote and popularize, folk collectors in China, having the effect that cannot replace, is an excellent representative of a coordinate type. His book, "the guide to modern folk collection", is rich in content and variety, and is a must-read for collection.

Chen baoding, with his knowledge and reputation, has won respect from the international community. He has made unremitting efforts to promote friendship and exchanges between China and Japan. As a patriot, he did not forget the honor of his country, and said that "the Chinese abacus originated in Rome". He studied and consulted the dictionary, and was the name of "Chinese abacus", Yang wei.

Bao-ding Chen covered 2009.3 93th the spring and autumn period and the journey in life, his collection, the wind is moist posterity, the China association for the abacus, a memorial of the upright character of the old man, Shanghai collection is a model of "Shanghai collection generation".