Wang Daohan

Wang Daohan

Wang Daohan ( Chinese  汪道涵 , Pinyin Wāng Dàohán ; born March 7, 1915 in Juashan District , Anhui ; † December 24, 2005 ) was a Chinese university professor and politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP), who was mayor of the from 1981 to 1985 City of Shanghai was. He later served as President of the Society for Relations between the Two Sides of the Straits from 1991 until his death in 2005, and in that capacity played a vital role in the development of relations with Taiwan .

Life

Wang Daohan, who study at Jiaotong University in Shanghai graduated, entered 1938, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a member of and acted in the final stages of the Chinese civil war from 1946 to 1949 as deputy director of river management authority for the Huai He in the border region of Anhui and Jiangsu . After the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, he dealt with trade and investment matters and in 1965 became Deputy Minister in the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations with Foreign States. In 1979 he took over the functions of Vice-Chairman of the State Commission for Foreign Investment and at the same time as Vice-Chairman of the State Commission for Imports and Exports.

After serving as vice mayor from 1980 to 1981, Wang succeeded Peng Chong as mayor of Shanghai in April 1981 . In this role, he made a lasting contribution to the success of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms by actively encouraging him to foreign investments and joint ventures. After he resigned as mayor in July 1985, he persuaded party officials to replace his colleague Jiang Zemin , who later became general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party .

After the founding of the Society for the relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait ARATS (Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits) on 16 December 1991 Wang Daohan took over the role as its president and held this December until his death on 24 2005 In this capacity, he played a key role in developing relations with Taiwan . Despite more than forty years of hostility, the dialogue with the Taiwanese Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) was initially promising. In 1992 representatives of both organizations reached an agreement on the difficult question of the " one China principle ", although it was an agreement that was interpreted very differently. In April 1993 the two organizations met again in Singapore . This is Wang's first meeting with Koo Chen-fu , chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation . The two men of about the same age, cultured and both very proud of their Chinese ancestry, quickly established a personal relationship. However, stronger forces were active, with the idea of ​​reunification with communist China being less popular, especially in Taiwan . In October 1998, Wang and Koo met for a second official meeting in Shanghai and reached a consensus on four points, which also concerned political issues on Formosa Street. Most recently, in 2005, Wang received opposition politicians Lien Chan from the Kuomintang and James Soong from the Qinmindang .

Web link

• Yuwu Song: Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China , McFarland, 2013, ISBN 0-7864-3-5828 , p. 299 f. ( Online version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shanghai: Mayors in Rulers

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wang is the family name here, Daohan is the first name.