Huang Ju

Huang Ju
黄菊
Huang Ju in 2005
First-ranked Vice Premier of China
In office 17 March 2003 – 2 June 2007
Premier	Wen Jiabao
Preceded by	Li Lanqing
Succeeded by	Wu Yi (Acting)
Communist Party Secretary of Shanghai
In office 28 September 1994 – 22 October 2002
Deputy	Xu Kuangdi (mayor)
Preceded by	Wu Bangguo
Succeeded by	Chen Liangyu
Mayor of Shanghai
In office 29 April 1991 – 24 February 1994
Leader	Wu Bangguo (party secretary)
Preceded by	Zhu Rongji
Succeeded by	Xu Kuangdi
Personal details
Born	(1938-09-28)28 September 1938 Shanghai French Concession, (modern-day Shanghai, China)
Died	2 June 2007(2007-06-02) (aged 68) Beijing, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1966–2007)
Spouse	Yu Huiwen
Children	1 son, 1 daughter
Alma mater	Tsinghua University
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Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was one of the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in 2007, and also served as the first-ranked vice premier of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as vice premier.^[1]

An electrical engineer by trade, Huang was a close confidante of party leader Jiang Zemin, to whom he owed his rise to power. He served as mayor of Shanghai between 1991 and 1994, then Communist Party secretary of the metropolis between 1994 and 2002. Huang's career in Shanghai and his family's alleged involvement in several corruption cases in the city generated controversy. After 2002, Huang emerged as one of the least popular and most partisan members of China's top leadership, and was named by observers as a "core member" of the Shanghai clique.