Background
Mr. Yin was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu, China, in 1878.
Mr. Yin was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu, China, in 1878.
After receiving his chinese education he went to Japan where he studied at the Commercial School in Tokyo until 1906. In March 1906 Mr. Yin went to America as a government student. Mr. Yin entered the University of Illinois and took the Railway Administration course, and was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1911.
Yin C. P. returned to China in December 1911. In 1912 he was appointed adviser on foreign affairs to the late Gen. Lan Tien-wei, a Kuomintang military leader. Mr. Yin became a member of the commission on the unification of railway accounts and statistics of the Ministry of Communications in 1913. From 1914 he held the post of a technical expert to the same Ministry. The following year he served as an acting secretary to the same Ministry (1915).
From 1916 till 1917 Mr. Yin worked as a managing-director of the Peking-Suiyuan Railway. He was a managing-director of the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railways between 1917 and 1920. In 1920 he was appointed counsellor to the Ministry of Communications. In 1921-1925 Yin C. P. was reappointed managing-director of the Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railways. He was living in retirement since 1926.
