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Chen Liangyu appointed Shanghai CPC chief
(10/22/2002)
According to a decision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Committee, Chen Liangyu is appointed the secretary of the CPC Shanghai
Municipal Committee, replacing Huang Ju who has been transferred
to work for the central authorities.
Chen, 56, currently mayor of Shanghai, has consecutively servedas
deputy director of the Shanghai Pengpu Machinery Plant, deputy secretary
of the CPC Shanghai Metallurgy and Mining Machinery Corporation
Committee, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Electrical Appliances Corporation
Committee, deputy director and later director of the Retired Cadre
Bureau under the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, deputy secretary
and head of the CPC ShanghaiHuangpu District Committee, head of
the Huangpu District, and deputy secretary general of CPC Shanghai
Municipal Committee.
From October 1996, Chen served successively as deputy secretaryof
the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and vice Shanghai mayor. He
was appointed acting mayor of Shanghai in accordance with a decision
reached at a session of the Municipal People's Congress in December
2001 and mayor of Shanghai by the congress on Feb. 26,2002.
Born in October 1946, Chen Lianyu, a native of Ningbo city in
east
China's Zhejiang province, graduated from the PLA (the Chinese People's
Liberation Army) Institute of Rear-service Engineering in 1968.
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