Background
Mr. Hu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, in 1888.
Mr. Hu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, in 1888.
Hu Hung-yu attended the Nanyang College middle school, Shanghai, from 1900 to 1905. He studied industry and commerce at the same college and graduated in 1907. Mr. Hu was awarded a scholarship by the same college to study in America, where he entered the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance of the University of Pennsylvania in 1908 and received Bachelor of Science degree from the University in 1909 and Master of Arts degree in 1910. He went to Germany in 1911 and studied at Berlin University for four months.
He returned to China in 1912 and became professor in the Nanyang Polytechnic Institute in Shanghai. Mr. Hu was a manager of the Nanjing branch of the Jiangsu Bank from 1912 to 1918. Hu Hung-yu worked as a manager of the Wusih branch of the same bank from 1914. He joined the Ministry of Communiations in December 1914.
Mr. Hu was appointed member of the standing committee on the unification of railway accounts and statistics in July, 1917 and delegate of the Ministry of Communications to the 7th China-Japan Through Traffic Conference in Tokyo, 1918. In 1920 Hu Hung-yu held the post of a delegate of the same Ministry in Paris in connection with the Peace Conference in 1920. He resumed his office as a director of the railway through traffic administration in 1923. Mr. Hu was appointed chief of traffic department of the Ministry of Railways in 1928.