Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in

Xingning, Guangdong :''Xingning is also the era name for Emperor Ai of Jin, Emperor Ai of the Jin dynasty.'' Xingning (Postal romanization, postal: Hingning; , Hakka: Hinnên) is a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Meizhou, Meizhou City, Guangdong Provinc ...

) is a retired Chinese politician, and the

Governor of Guangdong The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon (''Guangdong Xianxiang''). The Guang ...

between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of

Meizhou Meizhou (, Hakka Chinese: Mòichû) is a prefecture-level city in eastern Guangdong province, China. It has an area of , and a population of 3,873,239 million as of the 2020 census. It comprises Meijiang District, Meixian District, Xingning City ...

Biography

Huang was born in Xingning County, Guangdong. Huang graduated in mathematics from

Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen University (, abbreviated SYSU and colloquially known in Chinese as Zhongda), also known as Zhongshan University, is a national key public research university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. It was founded in 1924 by and nam ...

. From 1970 to 1978, Huang worked at a machinery factory of the Guangdong Coal Mine, joined the Communist Party in 1971 and served as deputy secretary of the workshop Party Branch. He was later promoted to secretary of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) Shaoguan Municipal Committee. Huang was deputy secretary of the CYLC provincial committee from 1982 to 1985 and then secretary of CYLC provincial committee from 1985 to 1987. Prior to becoming mayor of Meixian, Huang served as deputy secretary of the CCP Meixian Prefectural Committee. He was Mayor of

(1988–1992) and subsequently the CCP party chief in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

. In January 2003, Huang was made Governor of Guangdong. The stepping down of Huang as governor in 2011 marked the end of the dominance of the provincial government by the "Hakka clique" (). In December 2011, Huang was made a deputy chair of the

National People's Congress Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee The National People's Congress Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee () is one of nine special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. The special committee was created during the fir ...

. Huang was an alternate member of the

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 ...

, and a full member of the 16th and 17th Central Committees.

References

China Vitae – Huang Huahua 黄华华

1946 births Living people Hakka people Governors of Guangdong People from Xingning Sun Yat-sen University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Guangdong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangdong Politicians from Meizhou {{China-politician-stub