Hu Chuanzhi (; December 1929 – 29 September 2018) was a Chinese shipbuilding executive and politician. He was CEO of the

China State Shipbuilding Corporation The China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) is a state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Background CSSC is one of the top 10 defence groups in the PRC. It consists of various shipyards, equip ...

, the state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate, and Vice Chairman of the

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

Municipal People's Congress.

Biography

Hu Chuanzhi was born in December 1929 in

Wuchang Wuchang is one of 13 urban District (China), districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southea ...

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

, China. 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 ...

in March 1954. He spent most of his career in the shipbuilding industry, first as an engineer at Zhonghua Shipyard in

, where he helped design China's first generation of guided-missile destroyers. He then became deputy head and then head of

Jiangnan Shipyard Jiangnan Shipyard ( zh, c=江南造船厂, p=Jiāngnán Zàochuán Chǎng) is a historic shipyard in Shanghai, China. The shipyard has been state-owned since its founding in 1865 and is now operated as Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd. Befo ...

, where he oversaw the construction of the Yuan Wang 1 and Yuan Wang 2 tracking ships. He was later promoted to CEO of the

. Hu was a member of the 7th National People's Congress, and a delegate to the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He had two terms as Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (minister-level). On 29 September 2018, Hu died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 88.

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