Huimin Company

The initial proposal to send Chinese labourers came from government minister Liang Shiyi in early June 1915.^[2] The recruitment process was initiated in 1916 in London, to create the Chinese Labour Corps, a group of Chinese labourers to assist in France.^[3] The Huimin contract with the French government was signed on 14 May 1916, in Beijing.^[4] It was agreed to send 50,000 labourers.^[3] 1,698 labourers first departed from Tianjin for Dagu and Marseilles on 12 July 1916.^[2][3] Under the control of Shiyi, it was largely state-run.^[5]

• Xu, Guoqi (2011). Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04999-4.

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