Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Pao Ping-ch'en

Colonel P. C. Pao

鮑丙辰

(Pao Ping-ch'en)

Colonel P. C. Pao was born at Wan-Hsien, Chihli Province, in 1889. He received his preliminary military education at the Yaocheng Military Academy, where he began his training in 1905. In April 1907, Major Pao was sent by the Ministry of War to take up a course in military training in France where he stayed for six years, receiving the pilot's certificate of the International Aero Union in 1913. In April 1914, Major Pao was asked to return to China and served as adjutant on the General Staff as well as instructor in aviation at the Government Aviation School. In August of the same year, he was promoted to be Captain. In 1913, the Fifthe Class Wen Ho was awarded him. For his services during the restoration of the Republic 1916, Major Pao became a Major. In October 1917, Major Pao was sent to Yochow with his aviation corps, returning to Peking in March 1918. In April 1919, the Ministry of War appointed Major Pao, dean of the Government Aviation School at Nanyuan and in December 1919 he was created head of the Bureau of Aeronautical Education of the Department of Aeronautics. In February 1921 Colonel Pao was appointed Director of the Government Air-service Training School and also a Councillor at large of Government Aeronautic Department. In 1922 he was made a Colonel.