Xu Chongde (15 January 1929 – 3 March 2014) was a well-known legal expert and professor, political scientist, and member of the

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Biography

Xu was born on 15 January 1929 in

Qingpu Qingpu District, is a suburban district of Shanghai Municipality. Lake Dianshan is located in Qingpu. The population of Qingpu was counted at 1,081,000 people in the 2010 Census. It has an area of . Qingpu District is the westernmost distr ...

, Shanghai. He studied law at the Fudan University and graduated in 1951. He continued his academic career by teaching at the Renmin University of China after finished his graduate study there. Between 1971 and 1978, Xu taught the history of the Chinese Communist Party at the

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU, ), colloquially known as Beishida (), is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China ...

. He later returned to the Renmin University and headed the constitutional teaching and research and the graduate study. He became professor and the mentor of the doctoral study in 1986. He retired in February 2000 and became the honorary professor at the Renmin University. Xu also participated in the drafting of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China in 1954 and also the amendments of the Constitution. He was the member of the Constitution Amendments Committee from 1980 to 1982. Xu was appointed by the

National People's Congress Standing Committee The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPCSC) is the permanent body of the National People's Congress (NPC) of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which is the highest organ of state po ...

to the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee in 1985 and the Macau Basic Law Drafting Committee in 1988, responsible for the draftings of the

Hong Kong Basic Law The Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China is a national law of China that serves as the organic law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Comprising nine chapters, 160 ...

and

Macau Basic Law The Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( zh, 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區基本法, pt, Lei Básica da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau da República Popular da China) is ...

. Xu was also appointed member of the

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in 1995 and the Preparatory Committee for the Macau SAR in 1998, witnessing the establishment of the two SARs. In June 1998 he gave a lecture on legal study to the National People's Congress Standing Committee. In December 2002, he gave the first lecture on constitution to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. He died at 11:59 p.m. on 3 March 2014 in Beijing, aged 85.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Chongde 1929 births 2014 deaths Fudan University alumni Academic staff of Renmin University of China Chinese political scientists Chinese legal scholars People's Republic of China politicians from Shanghai Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shanghai Educators from Shanghai Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee members Members of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region