Hu Chuanzhi
Hu Chuanzhi (Chinese: 胡传治; December 1929 – 29 September 2018) was a Chinese shipbuilding executive and politician. He served as CEO of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, the state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate, and as Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.
Biography[edit]
Hu Chuanzhi was born in December 1929 in Wuchang, Hubei, China. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1954.[1]
He spent most of his career in the shipbuilding industry, first as an engineer at Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, where he helped design China's first generation of guided-missile destroyers.[1] He then became deputy head and then head of Jiangnan Shipyard, where he oversaw the construction of the Yuan Wang 1 and Yuan Wang 2 tracking ships. He was later promoted to CEO of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.[1]
Hu was a member of the 7th National People's Congress, and a delegate to the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He served two terms as Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (minister-level).[2]
On 29 September 2018, Hu died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 88.[2]