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Mr. H. Chao was born at P'ingtu Hsien, Shantung Province, in 1873. He received an engineering education in Tsingtao and started his career as a draftsman. In 1920 Mr. Chao was engaged by the Tao Ching Railway and in 1905 was transferred to the Shanghai-Nanking Railway as Chief Draftsman of the Woosung-Shanghai Section. In 1908 he became Chief Draftsman to the Chief Engineer of Tientsin Pukow Railway. In 1909, at the request of Governor Yuan Hai-kuan of Shantung, he assisted Lao Tzu-chan in making a survey of the proposed Chefoo-Weihsien Railway of Shantung. In 1911 he became assistant engineer of the Hsu-chowfu Section of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and in 1914 was promoted as chief of the engineering section of the Tientsin Pukow Railway Ad-