Fu Xishou (; January 1931 – 25 March 2015) was a Chinese business executive and politician who served as

governor of Anhui The governor of Anhui, officially the Governor of the Anhui Provincial People's Government, is the head of Anhui, Anhui Province and leader of the Anhui Provincial People's Government. The governor is elected by the Anhui Provincial People's Congre ...

from 1989 to 1994. He was an alternate member of the

13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1987 to 1992. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 12th Central Committee and succeeded by the 14th Central Committee. It elected the 13th Politburo ...

and a member of the

14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1992 to 1997. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 13th Central Committee. It was elected by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ...

. He was a delegate to the

8th National People's Congress The 8th National People's Congress (NPC) was in session from 1993 to 1998. It succeeded the 7th National People's Congress. It held five sessions in this period. Seat distribution The first session Elected state leaders In the 1st Session in ...

. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s United front (China), united front system. Its members adv ...

and 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Fu was born in

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

, in January 1931. After graduating from

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in 1953, he was assigned to

Anshan Anshan ( zh, s=鞍山, p=Ānshān, l=saddle mountain) is an inland prefecture-level city in central-southeast Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, about south of the provincial capital Shenyang. As of the 2020 census, it was Liaoning' ...

Iron and Steel Ferrous Metallurgy Design Company (later renamed Anshan Ferrous Metallurgy Design Institute of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry). Beginning in September 1958, he served in several posts in the

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

Ferrous Metallurgy Design Institute, including technician, engineer, deputy section chief of professional section, and chief engineer. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in August 1959. Starting in May 1966, he successively served as chief design director of chief engineer's office, production team engineer of the reform committee, chief design director of

Panzhihua Panzhihua ( zh, c=攀枝花, p=Pānzhīhuā), formerly Dukou ( zh, labels=no, c=渡口), is a prefecture-level city located in the far south of Sichuan province, China, at the confluence of the Jinsha and Yalong Rivers. It has an administrative ...

Iron and Steel Base, and deputy leader and then team leader of Panzhihua Iron and Steel Base of the Chongqing Iron & Steel Design Institute. He rose to become deputy chief engineer and vice president in May 1978. In August 1982, he was promoted to become president and

party secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

of the

Ma'anshan Ma'anshan ( zh, s=马鞍山, t=馬鞍山, p=Mǎ ān Shān), also colloquially written as Maanshan, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of Anhui province in Eastern China. Its aliases include Taiping, Steel City, and Poetry City. An i ...

Iron and Steel Design and Research Institute, and served until June 1987. He also served as

deputy party secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the depu ...

of Ma'anshan from February 1985 to June 1987. In April 1989, he became

, a post he kept until December 1994. He concurrently served as deputy party secretary from June 1987 to January 1995. He retired in March 2004. On 25 March 2015, he died from an illness in

Hefei Hefei is the Capital city, capital of Anhui, China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up (or ''metro'') area is made up of four u ...

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

, at the age of 84.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Fu, Xishou 1931 births 2015 deaths Tsinghua University alumni Governors of Anhui People's Republic of China politicians from Beijing Chinese Communist Party politicians from Beijing Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress Alternates of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Standing Committee of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the Standing Committee of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference