Yu Yunbo ( Chinese: 俞云波; January 1936 – 25 June 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as vice chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy procurator-general of Shanghai People's Procuratorate. ^[1] He also served as vice president of China Zhi Gong Party from 1997 to 2002. ^[1]

He was a member of the 7th and 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th and 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. ^{[1] [2]}

Biography

Yu was born in Fuqing County (now Fuqing), Fujian in January 1936 but was raised in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). ^[1] He settled down in China in 1952. ^[1]

After graduating from the Department of International Politics, Renmin University of China, in 1960, he worked in north China's Shanxi province. ^[1] He joined the faculty of Fudan University in 1974, and worked there until 1985. ^[1] Since 1985, he worked in the Shanghai Municipal Committee of China Zhi Gong Party. ^[1] He was deputy procurator-general of Shanghai People's Procuratorate in April 1991, and held that office until November 1996, when he was appointed vice president of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. ^[1] In 1997, he rose to become vice president of China Zhi Gong Party. ^[1]

On 25 June 2022, he died of an illness in Shanghai, at the age of 86. ^[3]

Autobiography

• 宇下草野烟云路 一位追梦归侨的自述 [Cloud Road in the Grass Field under the Sky: a Self Account of a Returned Overseas Chinese Pursuing a Dream] (in Chinese). Shanghai: Shanghai People's Publishing House. 2014. ISBN  9787208124011.

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