The following is the biographical sketch of Hu Chunhua: Hu Chunhua, male, Han ethnicity, was born in April 1963 and is from Wufeng, Hubei Province. He began his first job in August 1983 and joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1983. He graduated from Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University where he completed an undergraduate program. Hu is currently a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee. 2012- Member, CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Secretary, CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee 2010-2012 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee Chairman, Standing Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional People's Congress 2009-2010 Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee 2008-2009 Deputy Secretary, CPC Hebei Provincial Committee Acting Governor and Governor, Hebei Province 2006-2008 First Secretary, CYL Central Committee Secretariat 2005-2006 Executive Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee 2005 Executive Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee Executive Vice Chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region Government 2003-2005 Deputy Secretary, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee Executive Vice Chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region Government 2001-2003 Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary-General, CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee 1997-2001 Member, CYL Central Committee Secretariat Vice Chairman, All-China Youth Federation Took a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at the Central Party School (Sep-Nov 2000) Attended an in-service graduate program in world economy at Graduate School, Central Party School (1996-1999) 1995-1997 Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Commissioner, Lhoka Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region Took a one-year training course for young and middle-aged officials, Central Party School (1996-1997) 1992-1995 Secretary, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee 1992 Deputy Commissioner, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region 1987-1992 Deputy Secretary, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee (deputy director general level from Feb 1990) 1985-1987 Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Head of the Human Resources Department, Tibet Hotel Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Manager of the Human Resources Department, Tibet Hotel 1984-1985 Worked at Tibet Youth Daily office 1983-1984 Staff member, Organization Department, CYL Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee 1979-1983 Studied at Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University Member, 17th through 19th CPC Central Committees Member, Political Bureau, 18th and 19th CPC Central Committees rubber silicone braceletstrio spinnerssupport braceletsglow wristbandsblack rubber wristbands
File photo shows Kuomintang Honorary Chairman Lien Chan leaves Peking University with his wife Lien Fang-yu during their visit in Beijing in 2014. [Photo/China Daily] The upcoming visit of Lien Chan, former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang in Taiwan, to Beijing next week shows a gesture to ease tensions across the Taiwan Straits, a scholar said on Friday. Lien will lead a delegation to visit the mainland from July 12 to 14, An Fengshan, spokesman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, announced on Friday. Following the stop in Beijing, the delegation will visit Liaoning, Jilin and Zhejiang provinces, he said. Lien is also chairman of a foundation on cross-Straits peaceful development. According to Taiwan media, the delegation has about 50 powerful figures from the island, including Terry Guo, founder and chairman of Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and major suppler for Apple. Lien's visit comes amid rising tension between the mainland and Taiwan, as Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen has failed to recognize the 1992 Consensus, which embodies the one-China principle, and her right-hand man, the island's executive head Lai Ching-te, publicly called himself a Taiwan independence worker. Scholars have noted that Tsai's recent behavior, such as calling on the international community to constrain the Chinese mainland, courting foreign support and creating hostility among people from the mainland and Taiwan, will enhance confrontation in cross-Straits relations. Wang Hailiang, a Taiwan studies researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said Lien's coming visit is more likely a symbolic gesture that shows Lien's stance to help ease the tension between the mainland and Taiwan. But Lien is no longer the leader of the KMT and the impact of his visit may be limited, Wang said. Lien, who retired as KMT chairman in August 2005, has been an important figure in the history of the relationship between the Communist Party of China and KMT, and in the history of cross-Straits relations. In April 2005, as then KMT leader, he visited the Chinese mainland and met Hu Jintao, then general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, breaking the ice that had existed for half a century. It was the first meeting for leaders of the two parties since 1949. After that, Lien visited the mainland a dozen times, and met general secretary of the CPC Central Committee Xi Jinping in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
