Huang Ju

- Politburo Standing Committee Member of the CPC Central Committee

Huang Ju, of the Han ethnic group and a native of Jiashan, Zhejiang Province, was born in September 1938. He began working in May 1963 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in March 1966. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, where he majoredin electrical machinery manufacturing. A university graduate, he holds the title of engineer.

He is now member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

1956-63 Majored in electrical machinery manufacturing at the Electrical Engineering Department of Tsinghua University

1963-67 Technician at the Power Workshop and Cast Steel Workshop of the Shanghai Artificial-Board Machinery Plant, and secretary of the plant director

1967-77 Technician at the Power Workshop of the Zhonghua Metallurgical Plant in Shanghai, and deputy secretary of the workshop's Party branch

1977-80 Deputy Director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Shanghai Zhonghua Metallurgical Plant and the plant's deputy director and engineer

1980-82 Deputy managerof the Shanghai Petrochemical General Machine-Building Co.

1982-83 Deputy director of the Shanghai No.1 Bureau of Mechanical and Electrical Industry

1983-84 Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Industrial Work Party Committee

1984-85 Standing Committee member and secretary general of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1985-86 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

1986-91 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and vice mayor of Shanghai

1991-94 Deputy secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai

1994-95 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and mayor of Shanghai

1995-2002 Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee

2002- Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee

He was alternate member of the 13th CPC Central Committee and member of the 14th and 15th CPC Central Committees. He was elected member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee. He was member of the Political Bureau of the 15th CPC Central Committee. He is member of the 16th CPC Central Committee and member and Standing Committee member of its Political Bureau.