Yu Yuanhui | |
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余远辉 | |
Communist Party Secretary of Nanning | |
In office May 2013 – May 2015 |
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Preceded by | Chen Wu |
Succeeded by | Wang Xiaodong |
Communist Party Secretary of Wuzhou | |
In office 2006–2008 |
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Preceded by | Ren Xiekang (任燮康) |
Succeeded by | Liu Zhiyong (刘志勇) |
Personal details | |
Born | January 1964 (age 53) Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi |
Nationality | Chinese |
Political party | Communist Party of China (expelled) |
Residence | Nanning, Guangxi |
Alma mater | Guangxi Agricultural College Dalian University of Technology |
Occupation | Politician |
Yu Yuanhui | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 余遠輝 | ||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 余远辉 | ||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Yú Yuănhuī |
Yu Yuanhui (Chinese: 余远辉; born January 1964) is a Chinese politician of ethnic Yao heritage who spent most of his career in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Until 2015, he served as the Communist Party Secretary of Nanning, capital of Guangxi, and was a Standing Committee member of the regional party organization. In May 2015, he was put under investigation by the Communist Party of China's anti-corruption agency. An alternate member of the Central Committee from 2007 until his downfall, Yu was duly expelled from the party and lost his Central Committee seat in 2015.
Yu was born in Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Guangxi, in January 1964. He joined the Communist Party of China while attending university in December 1984. In 1986 he graduated from Guangxi Agricultural College (later merged into Guangxi University, majoring in agriculture. After graduating, he stayed at the school and become involved in the Communist Youth League organization there. In 1989, he began studying social sciences and political theory at Dalian University of Technology. By 1992, he had become the head of the Youth League organization at his alma mater, with a promising political future.
In 1995, he had joined the party organization in Qinzhou, and ascended through the ranks there. By 1998, he had assumed the post of deputy head of the provincial department of personnel. During his political career, Yu continued further education at the provincial party school, the Minzu University of China, and Guangxi University, eventually earning a master's degree in law. He was sent on a brief stint to study English in the United States.