Background
Mr. Hu was born in Anqing, Anhui, China, in 1893.
Mr. Hu was born in Anqing, Anhui, China, in 1893.
He graduated from Nanjing University with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1915. Hu Hsueh-yuan served as an assistant principal of the Albright Preparatory School at Liling, Hunan, from 1915 to 1918. He joined the faculty of Nankai College (now Nankai University) in 1918-1920. Mr. Hu went to United States, where he entered the commerce school of the Northwestern University and graduated with Bachelor of Science degree in 1922. He got postgraduate study at Harvard University studying municipal and colonial government and received Master of Arts degree.
After graduation Mr. Hu joined the Higginson Banking House of Boston and later went to Chicago, where he worked in the Harris Trust Company, Continental and Commercial National Bunk, Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and the Chamber of Commerce of Chicago. He returned to China in 1926 and joined the faculties of Nanyang College and the University Utopia, Shanghai. Hu Hsueh-yuan entered Government service and was appointed secretary of the Ministry of Communications under Sun Fo, then Minister of Communications of the Nationalist Government in Hanko in 1927.
Hu Hsueh-yuan became a superintendent of Customs and commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Nanjing in 1927. Mr. Hu acted as an adviser to the Suppression Office of Hubei in Hankou in 1928. In 1929 Mr. Hu inspected all the National Railways with Edgar Snow of the China Weekly Review for the compilation of folders for advertising purpose abroad. He represented Minister Sun Fo, the Minister of Railways, at the celebration of the Seventh Anniversary of the Return of Kiao-Tsi Railway at Tsingtao in 1929. He was appointed to take charge of publicity work for the Railway Thru Traffic Administration of the Ministry of Railways in 1931. Mr. Hu transferred to the Ping-Han Railway 1933 as a technical expert.