Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Pao Kuei-ch'ing

General Pao Kuei-ch'ing

鲍費聊字超九

General Pao Kuei-ch'ing was born at Hai-cheng Hsien, Fentien Province. He was graduated from the Kaiping Military Academy at Kaiping, Chihli. After graduation he joined the late President Yuan Shih-kai who was then training modern troops at Hsiao-chan, as a non-commissioned officer. However, General Pao's promotion was rapid. Shortly before the First Revolution he was promoted to the position of Brigade Commandant. From September 1913 to August 1915 General Pao was the Garrison Commissioner of Huhu, Anhui Province. From Anhui he was called to Peking becoming the Director of the National Military Training Institution, a very important position at that time. In July 1917 General Pao became Tuchun of Heilungkiang holding concurrently the post of Civil Governor of the same province. Simultaneously he was given the rank of a full General. The concurrent post he held only for a few months. During the time of the allied expedition to Siberia, General Pao was Director-General of the Chinese Eastern Railway and rendered efficient service in that capacity. Then he was also the director-general of the Ping-Hei Railway. In July 1919 General Pao was appointed Acting Tuchun of Kirin. In March 1920 he was awarded the Third Order of Merit. In June 1920 he was relieved of the directorship of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Chief Commandant of the Railway Defence Forces which two positions he had been holding concurrently. In September 1920 General Pao was ordered to act as Civil Governor of Kirin. In October 1920 he was awarded the Second Order of Merit. In March 1921 he was called to Peking and made a Chiangchun with “Ting-Wei” as his Chiangchun title. In December 1921 General Pao was appointed Minister of War which post he held until June 1922 when the Chihli-Fengtien War had just been fought. During the following two years he made several serious attempts to bring Chihli and Fengtien leaders together to a peaceful understanding which was, however, never realized. In September 1924, General Pao was appointed by the Peking government as much as by Marshal Chang Tsolin to be the director-general of the Chinese Eastern Railway. This post he is still holding.