Yuan Baohua

Yuan was born on 13 January 1916 in Nanzhao County, Henan, Republic of China. When Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China in 1937, Yuan returned to his hometown to organize anti-Japanese resistance. In 1940, he moved to the CCP headquarters at Yan'an to study at the CCP Central Party School. The next year, he was assigned to the Organization Department of the CCP Central Committee. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Yuan was transferred to the formerly Japanese-occupied Northeast China, where he served as party secretary of Tao'an County and later youth secretary of Nenjiang Province. == People's Republic of China ==

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Yuan served as Secretary of the Ministry of Industry of Northeast China and Director of the ministry's Planning Department. Yuan was later transferred to the central government in Beijing to serve as a bureau chief in the Ministry of Heavy Industry. He was promoted to Vice Minister of the Ministry of Metallurgy Industry, Minister of the Ministry of Materials, Executive Vice Director of the State Planning Commission, and Director of the State Economic Commission. Yuan wrote many books and articles in a career spanning five decades. In May 2015, his writings were published in the 10-volume Collected Works of Yuan Baohua (袁宝华文集). Zhu Rongji wrote the preface for the collection and came out of his retirement to promote its publication. == References ==