Name
Wu Bangguo 吴邦国
Current status
Retired
Born
1941
Relevance to Tibet
Former Politburo Standing Committee member and Chair of National People’s Congress.
Name
Wu Bangguo 吴邦国
Current status
Retired
Born
1941
Relevance to Tibet
Former Politburo Standing Committee member and Chair of National People’s Congress.
Pronunciation: Woo Bahng-gwoh Soundbite
Born: 1941, Anhui.
Education: Electrical engineering, Tsinghua University.
Career: Retired from 17th Politburo Standing Committee in November 2012.
Prospects: Retired as Chair of National People’s Congress in March 2013.
Relevance to Tibet: Retired Politburo Standing Committee member
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress 2003 – 2013; this position made him China’s chief legislator during this period.
Was in the Politburo from 1992 – 2012, and a member of the Standing Committee 2002 – 2012.
He was Vice Premier under Li Peng and then Zhu Rongji and his rise to power came via Shanghai where he was Party Secretary in the 1990s, and became an ally of Jiang Zemin.
Major focus has been economic development. He has supervised massive layoffs, etc. in a big push to clean up state-owned industries…. “had to walk a political tightrope, laying off millions to turn backward state firms into commercially viable concerns, but remained unflappable.” (Reuters) He also supervised the Three Gorges Dam project.