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Wu Bangguo
--Vice-Premier

Wu Bangguo, native of Feidong, east China's Anhui Province, was born in
July 1941 and joined the CPC in April 1964.

He studied in the Radio Electronics Department, Tsinghua University from
1960-67; worked in the Shanghai No. 3 Electronic Tube Factory as worker,
technician and technical division chief, from 1967-76; deputy Party
secretary and deputy director and director from 1976-78; deputy manager
of the Shanghai Electronic Component Industrial Co. from 1978-79; deputy
manager of the Shanghai Electronic Vacuum Component Co. from 1979-81; and
deputy Party secretary of Shanghai Meters, Instruments and
Telecommunications Bureau from 1981-83.

In 1983, Wu entered Shanghai's decision-making organ as a Standing
Committee member of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, serving
concurrently as Party secretary in charge of the municipality's work on
science and technology.

In 1985, he was promoted to deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal
Committee, holding the post from 1985-91; served as Party secretary of
Shanghai Municipal Committee from 1991-92; elected member of the
Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee in 1992.

In 1994, Wu was transferred to Beijing to become a member of the
Political Bureau and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central
Committee; in 1995, he was nominated and confirmed as vice-premier of the
State Council while remaining in his Party posts in the CPC Central
Committee.

Wu was an alternate member of the 12th and 13th CPC Central Committees,
and also a member of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees; a member
of the Political Bureau of the 14th CPC Central Committee; he was added
to the membership of the Secretariat of

the CPC Central Committee at the 4th plenum of the 14th CPC Central
Committee, and elected a member of the Political Bureau of the 15th CPC
Central Committee.

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