Yu Zhengsheng, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, was born in April 1945. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1964 and graduated from the Missile Engineering Department of the Harbin Military Engineering College in 1968. He once served as deputy chief engineer of the Computer Administrative Bureau and deputy director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Electronics Industry. In 1984, he was appointed vice-president of the China Disabled Persons' Council, and began working as deputy secretary of the CPC Yantai City Committee, vice-mayor and mayor of Yantai, Shandong Province, in 1985. In 1993, he became mayor of Qingdao and a standing committee member of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee. In October 1994, he took up the post of secretary of the CPC Qingdao City Committee, and in August 1997, assumed offices of vice-minister of construction and secretary of the ministry's CPC leading group. On March 18, 1998, he was appointed minister of construction. Yu took his current office and began working as the secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee in December 2001. He was an alternative member of the 14th CPC Central Committee, and is a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
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