Lu Dadong (; 1915 – 28 August 1998) was a communist revolutionary and politician of the

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. He served as Communist Party Chief of

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 ...

city and

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Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

province.

Biography

Lu Dadong was a native of Guantao County,

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province. He joined the communist revolution in 1937 and the

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(CCP) in 1938. In 1943 Lu studied at the Central Party School of the CCP in

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. He was a commander of the

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during the

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and participated in numerous battles, including the Battle of Chengdu in Sichuan. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Lu Dadong was appointed Communist Party Chief of

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prefecture in Sichuan. He was later transferred to

(then under the administration of Sichuan). As mayor of Chongqing during the Third Front campaign to develop basic industry and national defense industry in China's rugged interior, Lu was also appointed to direct the administrative body overseeing conventional weapons production industry around Chongqing. Lu rose to the position of First Party Secretary (party chief) of Chongqing (April 1974 – November 1981)Lamb, Malcolm, ''Directory of Officials and Organizations in China,"" M.E. Sharpe, London, 1994, p. 1117'' and deputy party chief of Sichuan. From December 1979 to April 1983 he served as Governor of Sichuan. Lu disappeared from public life in September 1989. He died on 28 August 1998 in Chengdu. Lu was an alternate member of the 9th and 10th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 11th and 12th Central Committees.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Dadong 1915 births 1998 deaths 20th-century mayors of places in China Governors of Sichuan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Political office-holders in Chongqing Mayors of Chongqing Politicians from Handan Members of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party