Background
Mr. Hsiung was born in Jiangxi, China, in 1893.
Mr. Hsiung was born in Jiangxi, China, in 1893.
Hsiung Chung-tao graduated from the College of Military Supply in Peking in 1913.
Mr. Hsiung served successively in the supply departments of various regiments, brigades and divisions of the National Army. He was a Chief A.-D.-C. to the Commissary-General of the People's Revolutionary Army, and concurrently member of the Executive Committee of the Eleventh Branch office of the Kuomintang party and member of the Codification Committee of the National Government from 1926.
In 1927 Hsiung Chung-tao was appointed sectional head in the Supply department of the Forty-fourth Army. He held the post of a sub-sectional head in the Commissariat Department of the Headquarters of the C.-I.-C. the National Army, Navy and Air forces since 1928. Later he acted as a director of the Supply department of the Commissary-General's office of the Eastern Route Army and director of the Supply department of the Commissary-General's office of the National Army, Navy and Air forces (1929). Then Hsiung Chung-tao became a second-class sectional head in the Auditing Bureau of the Supply Department of the Ministry of War.
In 1931 he served as a director of the Supply department of the Commissary-General's Office of the Bandit-Suppression Force. Mr. Hsiung resumed his office as Superintendent of the Commissariat Department in the Provisional Headquarters of the President of the Military Affairs Commission in Nanchang in 1933. Hsiung Chung-tao was a chief accountant of the Ministry of War, concurrently superintendent of the Commissariat department of the Provisional Headquarters of the Generalissimo in Wuchang in 1935.
He joined the Kuomintang Party in 1912.