Zhou Xuexi

{{Short description|Qing dynasty person}}

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| birth_date = 12 January 1866

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Zhou Xuexi ({{zh|s=周学熙|w=Chou Hsüeh-hsi}}, January 12, 1866 in Jinling – September 26, 1947 in Beijing) was an industrialist of northern China who served as the Minister of Finance for the Republic of China from July 1912 to May 1913, and from January 1915 to March 1916. He was closely associated with Yuan Shikai and by Yuan's death in 1916 Zhou was the most important financier and industrialist in northern China.{{cite book|last=Feuerwerker |first=Albert |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles |title=Industrial Enterprise in Twentieth-Century China |year=1967 |publisher=University of California Press |lccn=67-15640}}

He founded and/or led the following institutions/companies:

• 1901, Shandong UniversityEditorial Committee (2001) https://www.amazon.com/dp/7560723438 Shandong University: A Century: 1901-2001 (Chinese: 山东大学百年史). Shandong University Press, Ji’nan, p. 6. {{ISBN|7560723438}}
• 1903, Hebei University of TechnologyEd. Chen Dedi (Chinese: 陈德第) (2004). Looking Back a Hundred Years (Chinese: 回眸百年). Harbin: Heilongjiang Renmin Chubanshe. {{ISBN|7-207-06225-7}}/K.714
• Beiyang Bureau of Industry
• Kaiping Mines{{cite book|last=Carlson |first=Ellsworth C. |title=The Kaiping Mines |location=Cambridge MA |publisher=Harvard East Asian Monographs |year=1971 |isbn=0-674-49700-7}} - merged with Luanzhou in 1912, renamed Kailuan
• 1906, Chee Hsin (Qixin) Cement Co.
• 1907, Luanzhou Mining
• Tientsin Official Bank
• 1908 Jingshi Water Works (now Beijing Water Works)
• 1916, Hua Hsin (Wah Hsing; Hua Xing) Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co.
• 1919, National Industrial Bank of China
• 1921, Pu Yu Machinery Co.
• 1923, Hua Hsin Bank

Zhou Xuexi was the fourth son of Zhou Fu.