Xu Kuangdi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province. He was born in 1937, graduated from Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering in 1959 and joined the CPC in 1983.
Xu spent nearly thirty years in education, planning, and municipal government positions in Shanghai. He became Mayor of Shanghai in 1995 and President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2002.
Xu was an alternate member of the 14th and member 15th and the 16th CPC Central Committees.