Background
Mr. Huang was born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China, in 1889.
Mr. Huang was born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China, in 1889.
Huang Pe-tsiau graduated from the first class of the Tung Chi University, Shanghai, specializing in mechanical engineering. Mr. Huang toured in Europe in 1920 and studied at the Institute of Technology (now Technical University of Berlin), Berlin, specializing in industrial management.
Upon graduation, Mr. Huang was engaged as an instructor of the Mechanical Engineering School attached to the University. He worked in the editorial department of the Commercial Press, Shanghai, heading the sub-German department in 1917 and later in the same year served as instructor at the Ningbo Senior Technical Middle School and concurrently superintendent of the Ningbo Machine Factory. Huang Pe-tsiau taught in the Shanghai Chung Hwa Vocational School between 1918 and 1920.
Upon completion of the course in Germany, he joined the editing committee of the German Engineers' Association in Berlin (V.D.I.). He returned to China in 1922 and successively held the following posts: director of the Shanghai Chung Hwa Iron Works, principal of the Shanghai Chung Hwa Vocational School, head of the educational section of the National Association of Vocational Education of China, Shanghai, and expert member of the Jiangsu Educational and Industrial Union in 1922-1924.
Mr. Huang joined the Ministry of Communications of the former Peking Government as chief of the general affairs division of the Railway Department in 1924 and concurrently served as senior counsellor to the Ministry. Huang Pe-tsiau served as a chief of the general department of the Kaifeng-Luoyang Railway Administration at Zhengzhou, Henan, since 1925. In 1926 Mr. Huang was appointed commissioner of the Public Works Bureau of Hankou City Government.
Huang Pe-tsiau served as a supervisor of the Shanghai Telegraph Training School for a short period from 1927. He held the position of a commissioner of Public Works Bureau of Hangzhou City Government. Mr. Huang was appointed commissioner of Public Utilities Bureau of the City Government of Greater Shanghai, in June, 1927 and remained in his Shanghai post up to 1931.
For a time in 1929, he acted concurrently as chief secretary of the Shanghai City Government. Mr. Huang was appointed delegate of China to attend the World Second Power Conference held at Berlin in Germany in 1930 and made a trip around the world, investigating municipal administration of the principal cities in Europe, America and Japan.
Then he became a managing director of Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Railways. Between 1934 and 1935 Mr. Huang toured Europe and America to study railway administration and returned to China in June, 1935.