- Wang Daohan
Wang Daohan (zh-cp|c=汪道涵|p=Wāng Dàohán), (March 1915 –
December 24 ,2005 ) was the former president of theAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS).Biography
Wang was born in the town
Jiashan inChina 'sAnhui Province in 1915 and joined theCommunist Party of China in 1938. During his early career within the government of thePeople's Republic of China , he focused on trade and investment issues. In 1965 he was worked as deputy minister of the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations with Foreign Countries and in 1979 he was appointed vice-chair of the State Foreign Investment Commission and vice-chair of the State Import-Export Commission. Later Wang came to greater prominence when, after a year as vice-mayor, he was made mayor ofShanghai in 1981. As mayor, Wang contributed to the success ofDeng Xiaoping 's economic reforms by actively encouraging foreign investment and joint ventures. When he retired in 1985, Wang convinced Party officials to name his protegéJiang Zemin as successor.On
16 December 1991 Wang was named president ofAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), a semi-official organization created to correspond with theTaiwan -basedStraits Exchange Foundation (SEF). The following year Wang and SEF ChairmanKoo Chen-fu held preliminary talks inHong Kong which resulted in the so-called "1992 Consensus " and facilitated negotiations of practical matters. The content and the existence of this "1992 Consensus" is still widely disputed. In April 1993, Koo and Wang met in Singapore to hold the first formal discussions between Taipei and Beijing since 1949. A second round of talks followed in 1998, in Shanghai, but no further talks have taken place since. Beijing called off talks in 1999, afterRepublic of China PresidentLee Teng-hui proposed his two-states theory. Wang died inShanghai on the morning ofDecember 24 ,2005 .References
* [http://www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20031/bn.pdf "Economic Policy after the 16th Party Congress"]
*" [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9214/9214.ch08.html Same Bed, Different Dreams] "
* [http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/99/0924/voc50people/content/wang.daohan.html AsiaWeek "Who's Who"]###@@@KEY@@@###
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