Hong Yongshi

He studied at the Department of Physics at Fujian Normal University from September 1961 to July 1965. From September 1965 to October 1966, he worked in the steelmaking workshop at Sanming Steel Plant, later transferring to the dispatch office in October 1966 as a dispatcher. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1972. Between August 1979 and September 1981, he was promoted to Director of the Dispatch Office, then served as Deputy Factory Manager from September 1981 to March 1983, and as Party Secretary from March 1983 to June 1984.^[2][3]

From June 1984 to January 1993, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Fuzhou. From December 1992 to August 1999, he held various roles in Xiamen, including Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, and concurrently served as Director of the Haicang Administrative Committee and Party Committee Secretary. In August 1999, he became a member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee, Mayor, and Director of the Municipal Government Party Leadership Group until February 2000.^[4] From February 2000 to June 2002, he served as a Standing Committee member of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Secretary of the Xiamen. From June to December 2002, he was Party Committee Secretary of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress, and subsequently served as Chair of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress from December 2002 to April 2007.^[5]

Hong was a member of the 4th and 6th Fujian Provincial Party Committees and an alternate member of the 5th. He was elected deputy to the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th National People's Congress and served as a delegate to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.^[6]