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Mr. Pien Yin-ch'ang was born at Tientsin, Chihli, in 1870. In the Ching Dynasty, he held the post of Senior Secretary of the Board of Works and also of the Board of Justice. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), Mr. Pien was elected associate director of the General Chamber of Commerce of Tientsin. Upon the organization of the Tientsin Chinese Merchants Volunteer Corps following the establishment of the Republic, he was made its commanding officer. He was also a member of the executive committee of the Tientsin Red Cross Society. In 1913, the United Chamber of Commerce of Chihli was formed, and at the inaugural meeting which was held in Peking in March, he was elected the chairman of its