Hu Chuanzhi (; December 1929 – 29 September 2018) was a Chinese shipbuilding executive and politician. He served as CEO of the

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, the state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate, and as Vice Chairman of the

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Municipal People's Congress.

Biography

Hu Chuanzhi was born in December 1929 in

Wuchang Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the ri ...

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The ...

, China. He joined the

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in March 1954. He spent most of his career in the shipbuilding industry, first as an engineer at Zhonghua Shipyard in

, where he helped design China's first generation of guided-missile destroyers. He then became deputy head and then head of

Jiangnan Shipyard Jiangnan Shipyard () is a historic shipyard in Shanghai, China. The shipyard has been state-owned since its founding in 1865 and is now operated as Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co. Ltd. Before 2009, the company was south of central Shanghai at ...

, where he oversaw the construction of the Yuan Wang 1 and Yuan Wang 2 tracking ships. He was later promoted to CEO of the

. Hu was a member of the

7th National People's Congress The 7th National People's Congress () was in session from 1988 to 1993. It held five sessions in this period. Election results Elected state leaders In the 1st Session in 1988, the Congress elected the state leaders: *President of the People's ...

, and a delegate to the

13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China The 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing from 25 October to 1 November 1987. It was preceded by the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It was succeeded by ...

. He served two terms as Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (minister-level). On 29 September 2018, Hu died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 88.

References

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