Xu Youfang (; born December 1939) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the

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and

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. He was a delegate to the

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Biography

Xu was born in

Guangde County Guangde is a county-level city in the southeast of Anhui Province, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Jiangsu to the north and Zhejiang to the east. It is the easternmost county-level division of Anhui and is under the jurisdic ...

(now Guangde),

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, in December 1939. In 1959, he entered

Anhui Agricultural University Anhui Agricultural University (AAU) () is in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui, China. AAU is a key university, with a long history specializing in agriculture and forestry. It is jointly funded by Anhui Provincial Government and the Ministry of ...

, majoring in the Department of Forestry. After graduating in 1963, he was assigned as an official to Bajiazi Forestry Bureau in

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province, and worked there for ten years totally. He joined the

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(CCP) in April 1973. In October 1973, he was despatched to Jilin Provincial Forestry Department, where he eventually became its deputy head in April 1983. In January 1985, he was transferred to

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and appointed director of Forestry Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Forestry. He moved up the ranks to become vice minister in March 1986 and minister in March 1993. He was appointed party secretary of Heilongjiang in July 1997, concurrently serving as chairman of Heilongjiang People's Congress since January 2003. He was chosen as deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group in April 2003, and served until July 2007.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xu, Youfang 1939 births Living people People from Guangde Anhui Agricultural University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 9th National People's Congress CCP committee secretaries of Heilongjiang