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]

Yu Yunbo
俞云波
Vice President of China Zhi Gong Party
In office
1997–2002
PresidentLuo Haocai
Personal details
BornJanuary 1936
Fuqing County, Fujian, China
Died25 June 2022(2022-06-25) (aged 86)
Shanghai, China
Political partyChina Zhi Gong Party
Alma materRenmin University of China
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

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 edit

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 edit

  • 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.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Zhang Huanya (张奂雅) (19 September 2019). 我与政协 俞云波:出身华侨世家,提案发言素来“一针见血”. Sohu (in Chinese). Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  2. ^ Li Yan (李燕) (8 March 2002). 图:政协委员俞云波声讨“造假”现象. chinanews.com.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  3. ^ 上海市政协原副主席俞云波逝世,享年86岁. 163.com (in Chinese). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.