Huang Ju | |
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黄菊 | |
![]() Huang Ju in 2005 | |
First-ranked Vice Premier of China | |
In office 15 March 2003 – 2 June 2007 | |
Premier | Wen Jiabao |
Preceded by | Li Lanqing |
Succeeded by | Wu Yi (Acting) |
Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai | |
In office 28 September 1994 – 22 October 2002 | |
Deputy | Xu Kuangdi (mayor) |
Preceded by | Wu Bangguo |
Succeeded by | Chen Liangyu |
Mayor of Shanghai | |
In office 29 April 1991 – 24 February 1994 | |
Leader | Wu Bangguo (party secretary) |
Preceded by | Zhu Rongji |
Succeeded by | Xu Kuangdi |
Personal details | |
Born | Shanghai French Concession, (modern-day Shanghai, China) | 28 September 1938
Died | 2 June 2007 Beijing, China | (aged 68)
Political party | Chinese Communist Party (1966–2007) |
Spouse | Yu Huiwen |
Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
Alma mater | Tsinghua University |
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Traditional Chinese | 黃菊 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 黄菊 | ||||||
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Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in 2007, and also served as the first-ranked vice premier of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as vice premier.[1]
An electrical engineer by trade, Huang was a close confidante of party leader Jiang Zemin, to whom he owed his rise to power. He served as mayor of Shanghai between 1991 and 1994, then Communist Party secretary of the metropolis between 1994 and 2002. Huang's career in Shanghai and his family's alleged involvement in several corruption cases in the city generated controversy. After 2002, Huang emerged as one of the least popular and most partisan members of China's top leadership, and was named by observers as a "core member" of the Shanghai clique.