Chen Liangyu

The following is the biographical sketch of Chen Liangyu:

Chen Liangyu, male, 55, Han Nationality, a native of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, was born in October 1946. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1980 and began to work in August 1963. He graduated from the Architecture Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Institute of Logistics Engineering where he had majored in architectural structure.

He is a university graduate and an engineer. He is now a member of the Political Bureau of the Sixteenth CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai.

1963-1968 Student at Architecture Department of the PLA Institute of Logistics Engineering majoring in architectural structure

1968-1970 Soldier in the PLA army unit No. 6716

1970-1983 Worker, designer and deputy section chief of infrastructure in Shanghai Pengpu Machinery Factory (Studied at the Engineering Structure Department of Tongji University from Feb. 1979 to Jan. 1980)

1983-1984 Deputy director of Shanghai Pengpu Machinery Factory and deputy secretary of the CPC Committee of Shanghai Metallurgical and Mining Machinery Corporation (Studied in a cadres' training program at the Party School of the First Bureau of Electrical Machinery from Sept. 1982 to Apr. 1983)

1984-1985 Secretary of the CPC Committee of Shanghai Electrical Appliances Corporation

1985-1987 Deputy director, director of Retired Cadre Bureau of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1987-1992 Deputy Party secretary and head of Huangpu District, Shanghai (Studied in the College of Public Policies, Birmingham University, U.K. between Jan. 1992 and Sept. 1992)

1992-1992 Deputy secretary general of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1992-1996 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1996-2001 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and vice-mayor of Shanghai

2001-2002 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and acting mayor of Shanghai

2002- Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai Secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai

He was an alternate member of the 15th CPC Central Committee and is a member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and of its Political Bureau.