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Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006
Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005
Biography Revised: 10/28/2004
Career Data Updated: 6/28/2006
Biography
Yu Yongbo, male, Manchu nationality, was born in 1931 and is a native of Wafangdian City in Liaoning Province. He joined the PLA in 1947 and the Party in 1948. He participated in some of the major campaigns of the Chinese civil war and served in the Korean War at the regimental level.
After returning to China, he served principally as a political commissar specializing in propaganda, and had tours of duty in the Guangzhou and Nanjing military regions. He became a member of the 13th CPC Central Committee in 1987 and was subsequently appointed to both the CPC and PRC military commissions and to the general political department of the PLA, of which he was promoted director in 1992. Yu was ranked lieutenant general in 1988 and general in 1993.
Yu was also a member of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees and a member of the 8th NPC and 9th NPC.
Career Data
| 1998—2003 | Member, 9th NPC | |
| 1997—2002 | Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee, Central Military Commission | |
| 1997—???? | Vice-Chairman, PLA, Election Committee | |
| 1997—2002 | Member, 15th CPC, Central Committee | |
| 1993—???? | Deputy Head, National Leading Group for Suppressing Smuggling | |
| 1993—???? | Deputy Head, Leading Group for Settling Ex-Servicemen and Retired Officers | |
| 1993— | Member, Central Military Commission of the PRC | |
| 1993—1998 | Member, 8th NPC | |
| 1992—1997 | Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Central Military Commission | |
| 1992—???? | Director, PLA, General Political Department | |
| 1992—1997 | Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee | |
| 1989—1992 | Deputy Director, PLA, General Political Department | |
| 1988—1993 | Lieutenant General, PLA | |
| 1987—1992 | Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee | |
| 1985—???? | Director, PLA, Regions, Nanjing Military Region, Political Department | |
| 1983—???? | Political Commissar, PLA, Regions, Guangzhou Military Region | |
| 1972—???? | Division Political Commissar, (Unnamed PLA Unit) | |
| 1969—???? | Deputy Division Political Commissar, (Unnamed PLA Unit) | |
| 1967—???? | Regimental Political Commissar, (Unnamed PLA Unit) | |
| 1963—???? | Chief, (Propaganda Section, Unnamed PLA Unit) | |
| 1950—???? | Secretary-in-Charge, PLA, Regimental Office, Propaganda Department Republic of Korea (South Korea) | |
| 1949—???? | Deputy Head, PLA, Services and Arms, Field Army, Division Propaganda Team | |
| 1948 | Joined, CPC | |
| 1947—???? | Soldier, Liaoxi-Shenyang Campaign, Northeast China Winter Offensive | |
| 1947—???? | Soldier, Southwest China Campaign | |
| 1947—???? | Soldier, Beijing-Tianjin Campaign |
