Lao An (; born August 16, 1929) is a retired Chinese business executive who once served as vice chairwoman of the China International Engineering Consulting Corporation. She is the wife of former Chinese Premier

Zhu Rongji Zhu Rongji ( zh, s=朱镕基; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ...

Biography

Lao was born in

Changsha Changsha is the capital of Hunan, China. It is the 15th most populous city in China with a population of 10,513,100, the Central China#Cities with urban area over one million in population, third-most populous city in Central China, and the ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

, on August 16, 1929, to Lao Shaoji (), president of Changsha Branch of Fuxing Bank, and Hu Womei (). Her uncle Hu Yanling () was an entrepreneur. She has a brother named Lao Tefu (). During the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, she studied at Dongkou National No.8 Middle School, where she met her future husband

. Lao graduated 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 ...

Personal life

Lao was married to

in 1956 in

. They have a son, Zhu Yunlai, and a daughter, Zhu Yanlai ().

References

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