Background
Mr. Chao was born in Wutai, Shanxi, China in 1881.
Mr. Chao was born in Wutai, Shanxi, China in 1881.
Chao Pi-lien graduated from the foreign language school of Shansi (Shanxi) University.
Mr. Chao joined the Tung Meng Hui to undertake revolutionary propaganda in Mongolia. He served as a chief secretary to the Shansi (Shanxi) Military Government during the 1911 Revolution. Chao Pi-lien held the post of a commissioner of civil affairs of Shansi (Shanxi) Provincial Government from 1912.
When the peace was carried out between the North and South, he was appointed a staff officer to the Headquarters of Tutuh of Shanghai and also delegate of the Kuomintang in managing party affairs in Shansi (Shanxi) in 1912. Mr. Chao also held many posts as head of the Shansi (Shanxi) industrial association, head of the Min Chih association and editor of the Industrial Magazine.
Chao Pi-lien held a job of a magistrate of Chantse in Shansi (Shanxi), chief of the military secretariate of Shansi (Shanxi) Headquarters, and principal of Shansi (Shanxi) Government Normal School around 1922 to 1925. He was a representative of Yen Hsi-shan to the Nationalist Government first at Hankow and later at Nanking from 1926.
Since 1927 Mr. Chao served as a commissioner of agriculture and mining of Shansi (Shanxi) Provincial Government. In the same year he became a dean of the department of politics of the Shansi (Shanxi) Military Training Institute. Chao Pi-lien was elected member of the State Council, the Central Political Council and the standing committee of the Military Council of the Nationalist Government at Nanking.
In 1928 he was appointed vice Minister of Interior of Nanking Government and party affairs director for Shansi. The same year Mr. Chao held the post of a chief of the general political training department of the National 3rd Group Army.
Chao Pi-lien resumed his office as a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang since 1929. In 1930 he became a member of the Peiping Enlarged Session of the Kuomintang. From 1931 he was known as a member of the Canton Extraordinary Session of the Kuomintang. Later he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission (1932).
During the agitation of the Mongolian people for self-government in 1933, he accompanied General Huang Shao-hsiung to Inner Mongolia to pacify the Mongolians and help in the establishment of the Mongolian Local Political Affairs Council at Pailinlgmiao.