Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in
Xingning, Guangdong :''Xingning is also the era name for Emperor Ai of the Jin dynasty.''
Xingning ( postal: Hingning; , Hakka: Hinnên) is a county-level city, under the jurisdiction of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. The second largest city in east Gua ...
) is a retired Chinese politician, and the
Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of
Meizhou.
Biography
Huang was born in
Xingning County, Guangdong. Huang graduated in mathematics from
Sun Yat-sen University.
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
Meizhou (1988–1992) and subsequently the
CCP party chief in
Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, sou ...
. 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 f ...
.
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
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