Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Lun Yun-hsiang

Mr. Lun Wan-sheung

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(Lun Yun-hsiang)

Mr. Lun Wan-sheung, chief engineer of the Canton Municipality, was born at Canton in 1884. Mr. Lun went to the United Kingdom for nine years and studied at the Victoria University in Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1914, after undergoing the full course of engineering. After graduation, he was for more than three years in the various departments of the Edinburgh Municipality. At the same time he studied the police and the detective system of the United Kingdom in the Police force of Edinburgh and Soctland Yard, the most famous detective office in the world. In 1916, when Mr. Lun returned to China, he joined the Public Works Department as engineer to the commissioner of Police of Kwangtung. In 1917, as soon as the Canton Municipality was established, Mr. Lun became the engineer-in-chief of this office. In March, 1920, he was also made engineer-in-chief of the Military Roads Bureau of Kwangtung, of which the Military Governor is the director-general. Since Mr. Lun took up his position in the Canton Municipality, he has pulled down about seven miles of the city walls and constructed more than sixteen miles of modern roads of the various width from 80 to 150 feet. He has also opened several gardens, and modern markets. He is now preparing his second plan of reform work which involves more than thirty miles of modern roads.