Hu Fuguo (; born October 1937) is a Chinese politician currently serving as president of China Association of Poverty Alleviation & Development. He was

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, Governor and

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chairman of his home province

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

. He was a delegate to the 13th and

19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly referred to as ''Shíjiǔ Dà''; ) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017. 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 mill ...

. He was a member of the

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and

15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1997 to 2002. The 14th Central Committee preceded it. It was followed by the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. This was the first Central Committee ...

. Hu was a powerful provincial official in home-province

in the 1990s. During his tenure, he focused on energy alternatives, water development and conservation, the environment, education, economic development, and supervised the construction of Taiyuan-Jiuguan Expressway,

Taiyuan Wusu International Airport Taiyuan Wusu International Airport is an airport serving Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province, China. It is the largest airport in Shanxi and is located about southeast of downtown Taiyuan. Built in 1939, it has evolved into one of the ...

, and

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. At the same time, with his name and political influence, his sons Hu Zhiqiang and Hu Wenqiang experienced a meteoric rise in local politics and local state-owned enterprises. But Hu Zhiqiang was sacked for purchasing offices and selling offices and collusion between officials and businessmen.

Early life and education

Hu was born into poverty in Xiahuo Village () of Zhangzi County,

, in October 1937, after the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

broke out. Both his parents were poor farmers. He had eleven siblings, but only him and two younger sisters survived. His mother died young and the three of them were raised by his father. After middle school in 1957, Hu entered the workforce as accountant in local people's commune. In 1958 he was accepted to the newly established Vestibule School of Coal, which was attached to Lu'an Bureau of Mines (), and he joined the

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in the next year. In October 1960 he enrolled at the Fuxin College of Mines (now

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), where he majored in mining.

Career

After graduating in 1964, Hu was assigned to Datong Bureau of Mines () in

Datong Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 cens ...

, a city rich in coal resources in his home-province. He spent almost 20 years working at the province's institutes about coal resources before serving as vice-minister of Coal Industry in

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. In 1988 he was appointed vice-minister of Energy, he concurrently served as general manager and party branch secretary of China Unified distribution Coal Mine Corporation, a state-owned company. In the Spring of 1990, ''

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'' published an article titled "The Vice Minister's Wife Burns the Boilers" and subsequently published another article "Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee's Black Lammy", praising Hu was a clear official and good official. In July 1992, Hu was transferred back to

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, capital of Shanxi province, where he was appointed deputy party chief and acting governor of Shanxi. In early 1993 he was installed as governor of Shanxi, replacing

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. In September of that year, he was promoted to party chief of Shanxi, the top political position in the province, where he served until June 1999. He concurrently served as CPPCC Committee chairman of Shanxi between March 1994 and February 1995. During his term in office, he focused on energy alternatives, water development and conservation, the environment, education, economic development, he also undertook major improvements to the province's infrastructure, and supervised the construction of Taiyuan-Jiuguan Expressway,

, and

. In June 1999, Hu was transferred to Beijing again and was appointed as deputy director of the Department for Poverty Alleviation of the

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, a position at ministerial level. He served in the post until he retirement in May 2005. Now he is the president of China Association of Poverty Alleviation & Development.

Personal life

Hu married Chang Genxiu (). The couple has two sons: Hu Zhiqiang and Hu Wenqiang (). Hu and his family are

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believers, they built a

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named "Anle Temple" () in their hometown. In the temple there is a jade statue of

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worthing 200 million yuan. Every year during the

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, businessmen drive to their home to pay New Year's greetings. Hu Zhiqiang was Mayor of Yulin,

of Yulin, and Party Branch Secretary of Shaanxi Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission before he was placed under investigation by the

's anti-corruption agency in June 2018. Hu Wenqiang is now the deputy general manager of Shanxi Coking Coal Group Co., Ltd. (), a state owned company headquartered in

, capital of Shanxi province. He is also the party chief and chairman of the board of Nanfeng Chemical Industry Share Holding Co., Ltd (), which headquartered in

Yuncheng Yuncheng is the southernmost prefecture-level city in Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. It borders Linfen and Jincheng municipalities to the north and east, and Henan (Luoyang and Jiyuan to the east, Sanmenxia to the south) and Shaan ...

, Shanxi province.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hu, Fuguo 1937 births Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shanxi People's Republic of China politicians from Shanxi Governors of Shanxi Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Standing Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Living people Politicians from Changzhi