Yu Zhengsheng

Yu Zhengsheng

Yu Zhengsheng ( Chinese  俞正聲  /  俞正声 , Pinyin Yú Zhèngshēng ; born April 1945 in Shaoxing , Zhejiang Province ) is a Chinese communist politician, member of the Politburo since 2002 and of its Standing Committee since November 2012 .

Studies and professional career

After studying engineering at the Missile Construction Faculty of Harbin Military Engineering Institute from 1963 to 1968, the son of the former mayor of Tianjin , Huang Jing黄敬 (born Yu Qiwei 俞启威), worked for several years as a technician in radio factories in Zhangjiakou , Province Hebei . He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in November 1964 .

In 1975 he became a technician and engineer at the Electrotechnical Research Institute of the 4th Ministry of the Mechanical Engineering Industry . There he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer in 1981 and, after the Ministry was renamed Ministry of Electrical Industry, to Deputy Director in 1981.

From 1982 to 1984 he was deputy chief engineer of a department of the office for computer industry management and at the same time director of the department for microcomputer management in the Ministry of Electrical Industry, in which he was also deputy general director of the planning department for a short time in 1984. 1984 to 1985 he was finally Vice President of the Welfare Association for the Disabled, which received the rank of government agency in December 1984.

Party secretary, mayor and promotion to a member of the Politburo

From 1985, Yu became the deputy secretary of the Yantai City Party Committee in Shandong Province . From 1987 to 1989 he was also mayor of Yantai.

In 1989 he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Port of Qingdao in Shandong Province. After a short stint as the deputy mayor, he also became mayor of Qingdao in 1989. From 1992 to 1997, he was also secretary of the party committee and a member of the Qingdao CCP Standing Committee. He was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee (Central Committee) at the CCP's 14th Congress in 1992 . From March to May 1996, he graduated from the Central Party College of the CCP.

Yu became Deputy Minister of Construction and Secretary of the Party Organization in 1997 . From March 18, 1998 to 2001, he was Minister for Construction.

In December 2001, he was appointed Secretary of the Party Committee of the eighth largest Hubei Province to succeed Jiang Zhuping . Since 2002 he has also been chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hubei People's Congress. At the 16th Congress of the CCP in 2002, he was also elected a member of the CCP Central Committee and the Central Committee's Politburo. Yu thus belonged to the extended leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

As a result of the 17th Party Congress, he was elected to succeed Xi Jinping as the party's secretary for Shanghai and gave up the post of party chairman Hubei. In this role he was succeeded by the previous governor Hubei Luo Qingquan .

In November 2012, Yu rose to the Politburo Standing Committee . His successor as party secretary was the political bureau member Han Zheng , who has also been the city's mayor since 2003.

On March 11, 2013, he was elected chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to succeed Jia Qinglin .

Web links

• Biography in German (August 2002)
• China Vitae: Yu Zhengsheng (English)
• People's Daily article about Hubei's nomination as party leader

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two municipalities get new leaders ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. China Daily, November 20, 2012 (accessed November 20, 2012) 
2. ↑ Yu Zhengsheng elected chairman of China's top political advisory body ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Xinhua, March 11, 2013 (accessed March 11, 2013)  

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