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Mr. Chang Lu-ch'uan was born at Huant'ai Hsien, Shantung Province, in 1880. He graduated from a High School in Shantung and the Agricultural School at Paoting. After graduation he joined an enterprise for the colonization and cultivation of Fengtien Province. Subsequently he interested himself in an investigation into the agricultural conditions of several districts in North China. He also made a trip to Japan to investigate the agricultural condition of that country. During the First Revolution which resulted in the establishment of the Republic in 1912, Mr. Chang led an army and captured Kaomi and Chucheng, Shantung, which declared independence of the provincial authorities. After the abdication of the Manchus, he went to Tsinan, capital of Shantung, and rendered