Guo Dongpo (; born August 1937) is a Chinese politician who served as president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade from 1995 to 1997 and director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office from 1997 to 2003. He was an alternate member of the

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and a member of the

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. He was a member of the 7th National Committee of the

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and a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th and 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Biography

Guo was born into a family of farming background in the town of , Jiangdu County (now Jiangdu District of Yangzhou), Jiangsu, in August 1937. He secondary studied at the

Yangzhou High School of Jiangsu Province Yangzhou High School of Jiangsu Province () is a high school in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. It grew out of Yidong School, which was established in 1902. Overview Yangzhou High school, one of the key and model schools in Jiangsu Province, is among ...

. In 1958, he entered Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (now University of International Business and Economics), majoring in international trade. He stayed and worked at the university after graduation. Guo joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in May 1960. Starting in 1972, he served in several posts in the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, where he was eventually promoted to president in June 1995. He was appointed president of the Xinhua News Agency Macao Branch in 1990, concurrently serving as deputy director of the Macao Basic Law Drafting Committee. He became director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office in August 1997, serving in the post until his retirement in December 2002. In March 2003, he was chosen as chairperson of the

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