Background
Colonel P. C. Pao was born at Wan-Hsien, Zhihli (Chihli) Province in 1889.
Colonel P. C. Pao was born at Wan-Hsien, Zhihli (Chihli) Province in 1889.
Colonel P. C. Pao received his preliminary military education at the Yaocheng Military Academy where he began his training in 1905. In April 1907 Major Pao was sent by the Ministry of War to take up a course in military training in France where he stayed for six years receiving the pilot’s certificate of the International Aero Union in 1913.
In April 1914 Major Pao was asked to return to China and served as adjutant on the General Staff as well as instructor in aviation at the Government Aviation School. In August of the same year he was promoted to be Captain.
In 1915 the Fifth Class Wen Ho was awarded to him. For his services during the restoration of the Republic 1916 Major Pao became a Major. In October 1917 Major Pao was sent to Yochow with his aviation corps returning to Peking in March 1918. In April 1919 the Ministry of War appointed Major Pao dean of the Government Aviation School at Nanyuan and in December 1919 he was created head of the Bureau of Aeronautical Education of the Department of Aeronautics.
In February 1921 Colonel Pao was appointed Director of the Government Air-service Training School and also a Councillor at large of Government Aeronautic Department. In 1922 he was made a Colonel.