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Biography

Huang Ju, male, 63, Han nationality, is a native of Jiashan, Zhejiang Province. Huang was born in September 1938, began work in May 1963 and joined the CPC in March 1966. He graduated from the Department of Electrical Machinery Engineering of Tsinghua University. Huang is a university graduate and an engineer.

After graduation from university, Huang went to Shanghai where he remained until the late 1990s. In Shanghai he worked first in heavy industry, then petrochemicals, and by the 1980s was largely occupied with Party affairs in the city. In the 1990s he was mayor of Shanghai and later secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee.

Huang was an alternate member of the 13th CPC Central Committee and a member of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees. At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee, he was elected an additional member of the Politburo. He was a member of the Politburo of the 15th CPC Central Committee and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the 16th CPC Central Committee.