Background
Gen. Chu Shao-liang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China in 1890.
official Chairman of Gansu Government
Gen. Chu Shao-liang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China in 1890.
He graduated from the Japanese Military Officers' College, Tokyo.
Chu Shao-liang successively served as battalion commander, regimental commander and brigadier commander. He was a chief of staff to the Headquarters, of Kweichow Army and was a high counsellor to the Headquarters of the Generalissimo (Dr. Sun Yat-sen) at Canton. Later he held the posts of a chief of staff to the Field Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army and department director of the National Military Affairs Commission.
He was a Commander of the 8th Nationalist Division and Commander of the 2nd Nationalist Army. Also, Mr. Chu was Commander-in- Chief of the 6th Route Army of the Anti-Rebel Forces. Gen. Chu Shao-liang was specially-appointed Pacification Commissioner of Jiangxi (Kiangsi) chief military counsellor to the Headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Bandit-Suppression Forces in Henan (Honan), Hubei (Hupeh) and Anhui (Anhwei). He was a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang and Chairman of Gansu (Kansu) Provincial Government in 1933-1935 .
Later Chu Shao-liang was appointed Pacification Commissioner of Gansu (Kansu) and Commander-in-Chief of the Third Route Bandit-Suppression Forces with Headquarters at Lanzhou (Lanchow). He served in the army for more than twenty years and participated in practically all the major revolutionary campaigns since the First Revolution of 1911.
