Who's Who in China's Leadership

			Huang Zhendong

Huang Zhendong, a native of Dafeng, Jiangsu Province, was born in 1941. He joined the Party in June 1981.

Huang graduated from the Nanjing Navigation Engineering School in 1962 and went on to study navigation at the Shanghai Shipping Institute. He began working for the Qinhuangdao Harbor Administrative Bureau at the age of 22 and served as planner in the financial section, deputy planning division chief, deputy director and director of the Harbor Administrative Bureau since 1982.

In 1985 Huang was promoted to vice minister of communications. Starting in 1988, he served as general manager of the National Communications Investment Corporation. After 1991, he was minister of communications, Party chief of the ministry, and president of the China Merchants Group. From March 1993 to October 2002, he again took the office as minister of communications before he was appointed secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee.

Huang was a member of 14th CPC Central Committee and was re-elected into the 15th CPC Central Committee in 1997.