Chen Yaobang
Chen Yaobang (Chinese: 陈耀邦; pinyin: Chén Yàobāng; born December 1935) is a retired politician and former Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China.[1]
Biography
[edit]Chen is a native of Panyu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong. He received an undergraduate degree in plant conservation from Huazhong Agricultural Institute (now Huazhong Agricultural University) in 1957, and a graduate degree in plant pathology and agricultural antibiotics in 1966. Chen later served as a teaching assistant at Huazhong Agricultural Institute.[1]
Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1982. He previously worked as a technician, deputy office head in the Cash Crop Bureau, and deputy bureau chief of the Agriculture Bureau in the Ministry of Agriculture, Husbandry, and Fisheries, the predecessor to the modern Ministry of Agriculture. In 1986, he was named vice minister. In 1993, Chen became vice chairman of the State Planning Commission, and in 1997 he began serving concurrently as Minister of Forestry. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Ministry of Agriculture Party Group Secretary in 1998. Chen later became a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and vice chairman of the CPPCC Economics Committee.[2][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "简历：全国政协委员陈耀邦(农业界)" (in Chinese). Sohu. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
- ^ 陈耀邦简历
- 1935 births
- Living people
- Ministers of agriculture of the People's Republic of China
- People from Panyu District
- Politicians from Guangzhou
- Delegates to the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
- Delegates to the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
- Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party