Xu Youfang (; born December 1939) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the 15th and

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. He was a delegate to the

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Biography

Xu was born in Guangde County (now Guangde),

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 December 1939. In 1959, he entered

Anhui Agricultural University Anhui Agricultural University (AHAU; ) is a provincial public university in Hefei, Anhui, China. It is affiliated with the Anhui Provincial Government, and co-sponsored by the Anhui Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Agriculture an ...

, majoring in the Department of Forestry. After graduating in 1963, he was assigned as an official to Bajiazi Forestry Bureau in

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province, and worked there for ten years totally. He joined the

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(CCP) in April 1973. In October 1973, he was dispatched to Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, where he eventually became its deputy head in April 1983. In January 1985, he was transferred to

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and appointed director of Forestry Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Forestry. He moved up the ranks to become vice minister in March 1986 and minister in March 1993. He was appointed

party secretary of Heilongjiang The secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of Chi ...

in July 1997, concurrently serving as chairman of Heilongjiang People's Congress since January 2003. He was chosen as deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group in April 2003, and served until July 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Youfang 1939 births Living people People from Guangde Anhui Agricultural University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 9th National People's Congress CCP committee secretaries of Heilongjiang