Background
Mr. Ko was born in Guizhou, China, in 1902.
Mr. Ko was born in Guizhou, China, in 1902.
Ko Cheng-ting studied at Guiyang, capital of Guizhou, during the time of "May 4 Student Movement" of 1917. When the Guizhou Provincial Student Association was formed, he was elected President of the Association because of his student and revolutionary activities, he incurred the ill-will of the militarists and had to leave China in 1922 for Germany where he studied political economy at Berlin University. He organised a Chinese Students' Association in Germany.
In the fall of 1925 he graduated from Berlin University and proceeded to Soviet Russia where he entered the Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow to do research in Soviet Revolutionary theories and to study political and economic reconstruction after the Revolution. At that time, communist influence was dominating in Moscow and practically all Chinese students in the University were Communists. He got together a group of faithful Kuomintang comrades and launched a counter-campaign against the Communists. Because of his activities, he was greatly hated by the Communists and threatened with arrest in the winter of 1926, he completed his courses in the University and secretly returned to China.
In 1924, when the Kuomintang was reorganised, Ko Cheng-ting was elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Branch Party Headquarters in Germany. During the "May 30 Affair", occured in Shanghai in 1925, he made vigorous efforts in the anti-Inperialism Movement in Europe and toured various parts of Germany on an anti-Imperialism publicity campaign. When the "World's Anti-Imperialism Alliance" met in Brussels, he was appointed a Chinese delegate to the conference.
When Mr. Ko arrived back in China in December 1928, he was appointed Director of the Political Department with the rank of Lieutenant general in the Headquarters of the 26th Nationalist Army. In February 1928, he was appointed a secretary of the Publicity Department of the Central Party Headquarters and concurrently member of the Mass Training Committee of the C. E. C.
Later Ko Cheng-ting was appointed Director of the Peking Special District Party Headquarters and concurrently member of its Standing Committee. In November, 1931, he was elected a delegate to the 4th National Party Congress in Canton. In February, 1933, he was made a counsellor to the Executive Yuan. In March of the same year, was appointed a counsellor to the Ministry of Railways. In August, he was transferred to the post as Director of the Administrative Affairs Department of the same Ministry. Since September Mr. Ko was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Nanjing Special District Party Headquarters and in June, 1933, elected by the same Party Headquarters as a delegate to the 5th National Party Congress.
He was an anti-communist activist.
