Hong Hu (; born June 1940) is a Chinese politician who served as governor of Jilin from 1999 to 2004. He was a delegate to the 9th, 10th, and

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. He was a member of the 14th CCP

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. He was a member of the 15th and

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Biography

Hong was born in

Jinzhai County Jinzhai County (), previously Lihuang County (, named after Wei Lihuang), is a county in the west of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Henan to the northwest and Hubei to the southwest. It is under the jurisd ...

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 ...

, in January 1940, to Hong Xuezhi (1913–2006), a general in the

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, and Zhang Wen (). In 1958, he entered

Beijing Institute of Technology The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) is a Public university, public, Comprehensive school, comprehensive, Research university, research university located in Haidian District, Haidian District, Beijing City, China. The university is part o ...

, majoring in the Department of Chemical Engineering. After graduating in 1963, he was assigned to

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Chemical Industrial Company, and then the

Qinghai Qinghai is an inland Provinces of China, province in Northwestern China. It is the largest provinces of China, province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xin ...

Liming Chemical Plant in October 1965. He worked there for 12 years. Hong joined the

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(CCP) in June 1965, and got involved in politics in December 1977, when he was appointed director of the Comprehensive Planning Division of the Second Bureau of the Ministry of Chemical Industry. He became a director in the newly founded National Machinery Industry Committee in March 1980, and a director in the newly founded State Commission for Restructuring Economy in May 1982. In November 1984, he became deputy secretary-general of the State Commission for Restructuring Economy, rising to secretary-general in February 1991. He also served as a deputy director from February 1991 to December 1994. In March 1988, he was chosen as deputy director of the Economic Restructuring Office of the State Council, but having held the position for only five months. In August 1999, he was transferred to

northeast China Northeast China () is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of three provinces Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China with an area of over . The regi ...

's Jilin province and appointed

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. In September, he was named

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, confirmed in February 1999. In February 2005, he took office as vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Constitution and Law Committee, a post he kept until March 2013.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hong, Hu 1940 births Living people People from Jinzhai County Beijing Institute of Technology alumni Governors of Jilin People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Delegates to the 9th National People's Congress Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party