Background
Mr. Hwang was born in Anhui, China, in 1902.
Mr. Hwang was born in Anhui, China, in 1902.
Hwang William C. T. studied commerce and business administration at the University of Nanjing.
After leaving college, he joined the Yuan Ho Co. in Shanghai, one of his family concerns dealing in sugar, sesame seeds and other cereal products. Under the personal training of his father for three years, Mr. Hwang acquired a thorough practical knowledge of Chinese business methods. In 1928 he founded the China Trading Corporation and became its sole proprietor and general manager, the principal business of the Corporation being to import sugar and to export sesame seeds. Besides a sugar merchant, he was also interested in banking business and was a promoter and member of Board of Supervisors of the Bank of East China.