Hu Chuanzhi

Hu Chuanzhi was born in December 1929 in Wuchang, Hubei, China. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in March 1954.^[1]

He spent most of his career in the shipbuilding industry, first as an engineer at Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai, where he helped design China's first generation of guided-missile destroyers.^[1] He then became deputy head and then head of Jiangnan Shipyard, where he oversaw the construction of the Yuan Wang 1 and Yuan Wang 2 tracking ships. He was later promoted to CEO of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.^[1]

Hu was a member of the 7th National People's Congress, and a delegate to the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He had two terms as Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (minister-level).^[2]

On 29 September 2018, Hu died at Huadong Hospital in Shanghai, aged 88.^[2]