Liang Baohua (; born November 1945) was CPC

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Committee Secretary and the province's governor.

Biography

A native of Yichun,

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, Liang joined the

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in November 1965. Prior to 1968 he worked in the communes around

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. Since then his entire career has been in Jiangsu. He became the province's governor in December 2002, and succeeded

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as the party chief of the province in 2007, becoming the first-in-charge of one of the most prominent areas of economic development in China. He retired from active politics in 2010 after having reached the retirement age of 65, and then sat on the National People's Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee as a deputy chair. He was also named head of the Organizing Committee of the

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in Nanjing.

References

Living people 1945 births Politicians from Yichun, Jiangxi Governors of Jiangsu People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangxi Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangxi Fudan University alumni {{china-politician-stub