Chen Yaobang (; born December 1935) is a retired politician and former Minister of Agriculture of the

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Biography

Chen is a native of Panyu District,

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. He received an undergraduate degree in plant conservation from Huazhong Agricultural Institute (now

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) in 1957, and a graduate degree in plant pathology and agricultural antibiotics in 1966. Chen later served as a teaching assistant at Huazhong Agricultural Institute. Chen joined the

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in March 1982. He previously worked as a technician, deputy office head in the Cash Crop Bureau, and deputy bureau chief of the Agriculture Bureau in the Ministry of Agriculture, Husbandry, and Fisheries, the predecessor to the modern Ministry of Agriculture. In 1986, he was named vice minister. In 1993, Chen became vice chairman of the State Planning Commission, and in 1997 he began serving concurrently as Minister of Forestry. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Ministry of Agriculture Party Group Secretary in 1998. Chen later became a member of the Standing Committee of the

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(CPPCC), and vice chairman of the CPPCC Economics Committee.陈耀邦简历
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Yaobang 1935 births Living people Ministers of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China People from Panyu District Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Politicians from Guangzhou