Lu Dadong (; 1915 – 28 August 1998) was a communist revolutionary and politician of the

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. He served as Communist Party Chief of

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

city and

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Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

province.

Biography

Lu Dadong was a native of

Guantao County Guantao County () is a county of southern Hebei province, China, bordering Shandong's Guan County and Linqing to the east across the Wei Canal (). It is under the administration of Handan City, and has a population of 320,000 residing in an area ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

province. He joined the communist revolution in 1937 and the

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(CCP) in 1938. In 1943 Lu studied at the

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of the CCP in

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. He was a commander of the

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during the

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and participated in numerous battles, including the Battle of Chengdu in Sichuan. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Lu Dadong was appointed Communist Party Chief of

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prefecture in Sichuan. He was later transferred to

(then under the administration of Sichuan), rising to the position of First Party Secretary (party chief) of Chongqing (April 1974 – November 1981)Lamb, Malcolm, ''Directory of Officials and Organizations in China,"" M.E. Sharpe, London, 1994, p. 1117 and deputy party chief of Sichuan. From December 1979 to April 1983 he served as Governor of Sichuan. Lu disappeared from public life in September 1989. He died on 28 August 1998 in Chengdu. Lu was an alternate member of the

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and 10th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 11th and

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Central Committees.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Dadong 1915 births 1998 deaths Governors of Sichuan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Political office-holders in Chongqing Mayors of Chongqing Politicians from Handan