Background
Mr. Yang was born in Changsha, Hunan, China in 1893.
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Mr. Yang was born in Changsha, Hunan, China in 1893.
Cheng-hsung Yang studied at Tsinghua College at Peiping, China. Then he went to the United States in 1917 and entered Tufts College, Massachusetts and later was transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in chemical engineering.
After graduation Cheng-hsung Yang joined the staff of the New York State Waterworks and later was appointed assistant chemist with the Libby-Owens Glass Company of Charleston, West Virginia and finally became chief engineer of one of their plants. Upon his return to China in 1922, he organised the Tsinan Machinery Brick and Tile Works in Tsinan, Shantung.
Also he was engineer of the Kiaochow-Tsinan Railway and later manager of the Tien Yuan Coal Company, owned by the Railway. Later he came to Shanghai and was appointed professor of natural sciences of the Great China University. Following the occupation of Hankow by the Nationalist troops, he was appointed Chairman of the Bpard of the Peiping-Hankow Railway and later made Managing Director of the same. He was transferred to Nanking by the Ministry of Communications in 1928 and appointed Managing Director of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, which post he held until 1930. Also he was senior technical expert of the National Economic Council since 1932.