After graduation from college, he joined the Salt Revenue Service of the Chinese Government as an Assistant English Secretary. At the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War for which the Service deliberately assigned important duties to the more competent young officers to meet the challenge of the time,

he was promoted to the post of Department Chief of the District Directorate of Salt Administration in Shansi and then to the post of Chief Collector of the Salt Revenue Collectorate in West Honan. In 1944, he became the Salt Magistrate of the Central Yunnan Salt Works and from there he was transferred, upon the termination of the war, to Tsingtao as the Sub-District Director. In 1949, he was the District Director of the Shantung District Directorate, in which position the political situation necessitated his evacuation of Shantung to Taiwan with his staff and the entire Salt Revenue Guards Force of the Shantung District. Subsequent appointment of him as the Associate District Director of Liang Kwang (Kwang-tung& Kwangsi) District Directorate was made by the Government in virtue of his loyalty as well as his meritorious service. Afterwards, he returned to Taiwan. He is now the Deputy Director of the Food and Salt Administration Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Chinese Government and concurrently the Director of the China Salt Corporation.

M.W. Bro. Tsao took the Government Salt Service as his career and has contributed a great deal to the Chinese Salt Administration especially during and after the Sino-Japanese War. In addition to the Government service, he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of the Cheng Kung University and is still teaching part-time in the Chung Cheng College of Science and Engineering.

He has been married to the former Miss Ching-ling Chang from a reputable family in Anhui Province. They have four children. Their eldest daughter is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree of Master of Science in Mycology. Their first son has been graduated from the University of Missouri at Columbia and conferred the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Their second daughter has been studying Chemistry at the Graduate School of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and

Their youngest son is studying Chemical Engineering at the Graduate School of New Mexico State University. M.W. Bro. Tsao has, indeed, a very happy family.

He was initiated in 1956 in the Pearl River Lodge No.3,F. & A. M. immediately after its reactivation in Tainan and raised in 1957 soon after his return from the States. He served twice as the Master of the Pearl River Lodge. He is a 32° Mason of the Scottish Rite and a Shriner of the Nile Temple. Being a very devoted Mason, M. W. Bro. Tsao is willing to do everything in his power for the good of Masonry.