- 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 = April1945
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 currentCPC party chief inShanghai , China, a post which makes him first-in-charge of China's largest city. Formerly the party chief inHubei , 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 automatedmissile s. He is the son of Yu Qiwei, better known by the nameHuang Jing , a Communist politician, andFan Jin , a frontline journalist. In December1968 he was sent to work inZhangjiakou , until the mid-1980s his career concentration was inelectronic engineering .Political career
Yu was mayor of
Qingdao andYantai in his early political career. He lost his election to the Central Committee in 1992, subsequently being sent to become Party chief inQingdao . Yu served as Deputy Minister of Construction when he was recalled back toBeijing in1997 , and a year later promoted to the Minister position. He remained in that position inZhu Rongji 's cabinet from 1998 to 2001. He became a member of the powerfulPolitburo of the Communist Party of China in November 2002. Following the17th Party Congress , Yu became the party chief inShanghai , replacingXi 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]
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