Zhang Wenyue

Zhang Wenyue is the current Communist Party of China , succeeding his colleague Li Keqiang in October 2007.

Biography

A native of Fengcheng, Jiangxi and a graduate of the China University of Geosciences, Zhang joined the Communist Party of China in June 1965. During the Cultural Revolution Zhang was placed in an army work troupe, subsequently being sent to Sichuan in 1969. Since then his career had been largely concentrated in the geological field until 1995, when he was transferred to work in Xinjiang as the autonomous region's deputy party secretary.

From 1999 to 2001 he served as the commander-in-chief of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, before moving onto Liaoning to succeed Bo Xilai to become the province's governor in 2004.

Zhang Lin (Anhui)

Zhang Lin is a cyber-dissident from the People's Republic of China. He was born in Bengbu, Anhui province in 1963. He led student's hunger strikes in Bengbu in 1989. He was imprisoned on January 29 of 2005. He now is imprisoned in Bengbu’s No. 1 Detention Center.

Zhang Jingyao

Zhang Jingyao, Chang Ching-yao, 張敬堯, , was a Chinese General, the military governor of and later Hunan Province. He was known as one of the most notorious of China's war-lords, known for his troops' atrocities and the looting of Hunan of its wealth during his administration. He was removed from office for his abuses and eventually assassinated in 1933 for aiding the Empire of Japan by attempting to set up the monarchy of Puyi in northern China with Japanese money.

Zhang Jingyao was born in 1881 and became a General in the Beiyang Army and then was part of the Anhui clique. He was Military Governor of Chahar Province from October 18 1917 to March 29 1918. He was then given the post of Military Governor of Hunan province from March 1918. While he was governor his troops committed many atrocities, killing civilians, robbing the wealthy, and raping women throughout the time they garrisoned the province. He is also said to have reduced the province to a state of beggary.

In August 1919, Zhang Jingyao censored Mao Zedong's "Xiang-jiang River Commentary" magazine because of Mao's efforts to organize the movement for expelling him from the governorship. Mao led a Hunan students' delegation to Peking where he appealed nationwide for support and revealed Zhang Jingyao's atrocities in Hunan Province.

At Yochow on June 16 1920, Zhang's troops murdered an American missionary, William A. Reimert. This provoked the intervention of an American gunboat , which sent ashore a landing party of one officer and 40 men on 25 June to protect the American mission. Two days later—when local tensions had eased—they were reembarked. On the 29th, Zhang Jingyao, was removed from office, and the Chinese foreign office investigated the incident and expressed its profound regrets to the Americans. Zhang was later pardoned, in obcure circumstances.

In 1933, Zhang became involved in the scheme of the Empire of Japan to set up the monarchy of Puyi in northern China with Japanese money. An assassin shot and fatally wounded him in Peiping's Grand Hotel.

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Zhang Jindong

Zhang Jindong , is a entrepreneur and billionaire. He's one of the two founders and the current president of the Suning Group , whose headquarters are located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

Biography

Zhang was born in Anhui Province in 1963. He graduated from the Nanjing Normal University and studied Chinese literature. After graduation, Zhang first worked in a cloth factory named Haowei Group between 1985~1989.

1990, Zhang together with his old brother Zhang Guiping opened a shop on Ninghai Road in Nanjing, selling air conditioning and related products. Later Zhang Guiping quitted from this business but shifted into real estate.

Zhang further developed his small shop into a giant business group - the Suning Group, with only 15 years. In 2007's Forbes Mainland China Rich List , Zhang was ranked No.5 with 33.61 billion .

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Yu Ying-shih

Yu Ying-shih is a Chinese American historian. He is an Emeritus Professor of and History at Princeton University.

In 1949, he was enrolled in the department of History in Yenching University. But he later in 1950 came to Hong Kong for reunion with his family. He then studied in the newly founded New Asia College, later incorporated into Chinese University of Hong Kong. He studied with Ch'ien Mu, a scholar rooted in traditional Chinese philosophy, and became the first graduate of the college. On Ch'ien's recommendation, he came to Harvard University in the United States in 1955, and earned his PhD in 1962. He then lectured in various universities including University of Michigan, Harvard, Yale University and Princeton University. He is one of the few people to have been tenured at three Ivy League universities. In 1973, he came back to his alma mater, New Asia College. He became the Head of the College and also the Pro Vice-Chancellor of University, before returning to Harvard, then moving to Yale in 1977, and then to Princeton in 1987. He retired from Princeton in 2001.

On November 15, 2006, it was announced that Yu Ying-shih was the third recipient of the for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity. He shares the prize with John Hope Franklin.

He is the older brother of Paul Yu.

Xiao Zuoxin

Xiao Zuoxin is the former mayor of Fuyang county, Anhui province, China. He was convicted of corruption and is serving a life imprisonment.

In 2007, Xiao's property was auctioned in a very public event.

Wu Bangguo

Wu Bangguo is a People's Republic of China. He is currently chairman of the of the National People's Congress, a position which the media often refers to as "China's top legislator" and second in official rankings in the party.

Early life and political career

Wu was born in Feidong County, Anhui . He entered Tsinghua University in 1960, majoring in electron tube engineering at the Department of Radio Electronics, where he graduated in 1967. He subsequently was employed as a worker and technician at Shanghai's No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory, and then deputy chief and chief of the technical section.

Since 2003, he has served as the Chairman of the of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, ranking second in the of the Communist Party of China hierarchy. At the 11th National People's Congress, he was re-elected as Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee on 15 March 2008.

Wu was formerly vice premier under former Zhu Rongji, but his rocky relationship with Zhu reportedly ruled out his chance of becoming premier himself after the latter's departure from office.

Wu has seen his share of controversy when he visited Hong Kong and infamously said "Hong Kong will have as much power as Beijing wants it to and nothing more."

Health

In September 2007, Wu disappeared from national media for over twenty days, a sign that he has probably undergone medical treatment to what was speculated as cancer.

Career timeline

*1976-1978: Deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai No. 3; deputy director of the revolutionary committee, deputy factory director, deputy secretary of the Party committee of the factory, and director of the factory.

*1978-1979: Deputy manager of Shanghai Electronic Elements Company.

*1979-1981: Deputy manager of Shanghai Electron Tube Company.

*1981-1983: Deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Meters, Instruments and Telecommunications Bureau.

*1983-1985: Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and secretary of the CPC Municipal Committee in Charge of Science and Technology.

*1985-1991: Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.

*1991-1992: Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.

*1992-1994: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.

*1994-1995: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.

*1995-1997: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and vice-premier of the State Council.

*1997-1998: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice-premier of the State Council.

*1998-1999: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council and secretary of the Work Committee of Large Enterprises of CPC Central Committee.

*1999-2002: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Member Group and secretary of the Central Work Committee of Large Enterprises.

*2002-: Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice-premier of the State Council, member of its Leading Party Member Group and secretary of the Work Committee of Large Enterprises of CPC Central Committee.