Chu Bo (; born October 1944) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as the

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Secretary for the

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for ...

Autonomous Region, the top leader of the region, holding position from 2001 to 2009. He also served as Governor of

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi ...

Province between 1998 and 2001.

Biography

Chu is a native of

Tongcheng, Anhui Tongcheng () is a county-level city and former county in the southwest of Anhui province and is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Anqing. Its population is and its area is . Tongcheng is noted for the Tongcheng School. Admi ...

where he attended the

Anhui Province Tongcheng Secondary School Tongcheng Secondary School () is a secondary school in Tongcheng, Anhui, China. Notable alumni * Chu Bo (zh: 儲波) - Former Governor of Hunan Province * Ci Yungui (zh: 慈云桂) - Government official * Fang Chih (zh: 方治) - Chinese dipl ...

. He graduated from the department of hydraulics at

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fu ...

in 1967, then joined the Communist Party in 1969. He began work at a chemical factory in

Yueyang Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and Yangtze in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. Yueyang has an administrative area of an ...

, Hunan. He rose through the administrative ranks, eventually entering politics, first as vice mayor and deputy party chief of Yueyang, then party chief. In October 1990 he was named a member of the

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of Hunan. In January 1993 he became executive vice governor of Hunan. In 1994, he was named

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of Hunan province. In October 1998, he was named acting governor of Fujian, confirmed as governor in February 1999. Chu became the top official of Inner Mongolia in August 2001, taking office as its party secretary, and took on a unique approach to policy. During his tenure, Inner Mongolia's

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increased at a much higher rate compared to the rest of the country. At its height real GDP growth was measured at 17%. Chu's obsession with GDP growth, however, cost some essential benefits for most of the region's poor. Although his administration gave rise to the slogan, "for economic development, China leads the world, Inner Mongolia leads China", his policies were said to have created a gross wealth imbalance within the region. In November 2009, Chu, having reached the customary retirement age of 65 for provincial level officials, left his post as party secretary of Inner Mongolia. On December 26, 2009, Chu was named a deputy chair of the

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. He served out one term before retiring from politics. Chu was an alternate member of the

15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1997 to 2002. The 14th Central Committee preceded it. It was followed by the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. This was the first Central Committee ...

, and a full member of the 16th and

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Central Committees.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chu, Bo Living people 1944 births People from Tongcheng, Anhui Governors of Hunan Political office-holders in Inner Mongolia People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Tianjin University alumni Politicians from Anqing