Yu Zhengsheng

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name = Yu Zhengsheng
俞正声
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order = 16th CPC Shanghai Committee Secretary
term_start = October 27, 2007
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predecessor = Xi Jinping
successor =
deputy = Han Zheng
birth_date = April 1945
birth_place = Shaoxing, Zhejiang
death_date =
death_place =
party = Communist Party of China
spouse = Zhang Zhikai
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alma_mater = Harbin Military Engineering Institute|

Yu Zhengsheng (zh-ts|t=俞正聲|s=俞正声 born April 1945) is the current CPC party chief in Shanghai, China, a post which makes him first-in-charge of China's largest city. Formerly the party chief in Hubei, Yu is also concurrently a member of the Politburo, and has been since 2002.

Early life

Yu Zhengsheng, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, graduated from Harbin's Military Engineering Institute specializing in the design of automated missiles. He is the son of Yu Qiwei, better known by the name Huang Jing, a Communist politician, and Fan Jin, a frontline journalist. In December 1968 he was sent to work in Zhangjiakou, until the mid-1980s his career concentration was in electronic engineering.

Political career

Yu was mayor of Qingdao and Yantai in his early political career. He lost his election to the Central Committee in 1992, subsequently being sent to become Party chief in Qingdao. Yu served as Deputy Minister of Construction when he was recalled back to Beijing in 1997, and a year later promoted to the Minister position. He remained in that position in Zhu Rongji's cabinet from 1998 to 2001. He became a member of the powerful Politburo of the Communist Party of China in November 2002. Following the 17th Party Congress, Yu became the party chief in Shanghai, replacing Xi Jinping. Since he has faced the issue of the Shanghai maglev.

He is the son-in-law of PLA major general Zhang Zhenhuan. Zhang Zhikai (张志凯) is the daughter of Zhang and spouse of Yu.

External links

*zh [http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-02/25/content_289242.htm Biography of Yu Zhengsheng at xinhuanet.com]