Chou Jung-hsin

1911

China

Chou’s rise to prominence occurred in 1951-52 when he received several important positions in rapid succession. From August 1951 to September 1954 he was a member of the Government Administration Council’s Nationalities Affairs Commission, although there is little evidence that he was active in this organization. In December 1951 he was named as a deputy secretary-general of the national government’s Central Austerity Examination (or Inspection) Committee chaired by Po 1-po. The establishment of this committee was an outgrowth of decisions taken at the important third session of the CPPCC’s First National Committee held a few weeks earlier and attended by Chou. At this session considerable stress was placed upon the necessity (growing out of the pressures of the Korean War) to economize on a nationwide basis. For similar reasons a committee to facilitate the productivity of government organizations was also set up in February 1952, Chou was named to membership on this committee, retaining it until the body was dissolved in 1954. Not long after, in May 1952, the PRC formed the China Committee for the Promotion of International Trade. Ostensibly a non-governmental “people’s” organization, the Committee has played a major role in stimulating trade with nations not having formal diplomatic relations with the PRC (see under Nan Han-ch’en, the chairman). Chou received his first ministerial-level post in August 1952 when he was appointed to the newly established Ministry of Building (sometimes translated as “engineering construction”) as a vice-minister, a post he was to hold for nearly six years under ministers Ch’en Cheng-jen and Liu Hsiu-feng. He received a closely related appointment a year later when the China Architectural Society, a professional organization, was established at a national congress held in October 1953. Chou was named as the chairman and continued in this position until about 1961 or 1962 when he was replaced by Yang Ch’un-mao, another vice-minister of Building. In this capacity Chou spoke before the Society’s second national conference (February 1957) that centered on the problems concerned with the construction of industrial cities and city planning. Chou made his only known trip abroad in November 1957 when he joined a delegation led by Kuo Mo-jo to the USSR. The delegation, composed of a large group of scientists, was one of several groups (the most important headed by Mao Tse-tung) that visited the Soviet Union to attend celebrations in connection with the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The scien¬tific group remained in Moscow for several weeks and was known to have carried on extensive negotiations with their Soviet counterparts. Not long after returning from Moscow, Chou was removed from the Ministry of Building (March 1957) and posted to Chekiang Province where he was to remain for the next three years. His initial appointment there was as president of Chekiang University, by mid-1958 he also served as a member of the provincial CCP Committee’s Standing Committee, and in Novemher 1958 he was also appointed as a member of the Chekiang Provincial People’s Government Council. In July 1961 Chou was transferred back to Peking to become a vice-minister of Education, serving under Minister Yang FIsiu-feng. Relatively little was heard of Chou’s activities in the Ministry, although on occasion he appeared with senior Party leaders in connection with foreign visitors as in November 1961 when he accompanied Chou En-lai to receive a delegation from Ghana.

Chou Jung-hsin

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He was born approximately in 1911, China.

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Chou’s rise to prominence occurred in 1951-52 when he received several important positions in rapid succession. From August 1951 to September 1954 he was a member of the Government Administration Council’s Nationalities Affairs Commission, although there is little evidence that he was active in this organization. In December 1951 he was named as a deputy secretary-general of the national government’s Central Austerity Examination (or Inspection) Committee chaired by Po 1-po. The establishment of this committee was an outgrowth of decisions taken at the important third session of the CPPCC’s First National Committee held a few weeks earlier and attended by Chou. At this session considerable stress was placed upon the necessity (growing out of the pressures of the Korean War) to economize on a nationwide basis. For similar reasons a committee to facilitate the productivity of government organizations was also set up in February 1952, Chou was named to membership on this committee, retaining it until the body was dissolved in 1954. Not long after, in May 1952, the PRC formed the China Committee for the Promotion of International Trade. Ostensibly a non-governmental “people’s” organization, the Committee has played a major role in stimulating trade with nations not having formal diplomatic relations with the PRC (see under Nan Han-ch’en, the chairman).

Chou received his first ministerial-level post in August 1952 when he was appointed to the newly established Ministry of Building (sometimes translated as “engineering construction”) as a vice-minister, a post he was to hold for nearly six years under ministers Ch’en Cheng-jen and Liu Hsiu-feng. He received a closely related appointment a year later when the China Architectural Society, a professional organization, was established at a national congress held in October 1953. Chou was named as the chairman and continued in this position until about 1961 or 1962 when he was replaced by Yang Ch’un-mao, another vice-minister of Building. In this capacity Chou spoke before the Society’s second national conference (February 1957) that centered on the problems concerned with the construction of industrial cities and city planning.

Chou made his only known trip abroad in November 1957 when he joined a delegation led by Kuo Mo-jo to the USSR. The delegation, composed of a large group of scientists, was one of several groups (the most important headed by Mao Tse-tung) that visited the Soviet Union to attend celebrations in connection with the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The scien¬tific group remained in Moscow for several weeks and was known to have carried on extensive negotiations with their Soviet counterparts. Not long after returning from Moscow, Chou was removed from the Ministry of Building (March 1957) and posted to Chekiang Province where he was to remain for the next three years. His initial appointment there was as president of Chekiang University, by mid-1958 he also served as a member of the provincial CCP Committee’s Standing Committee, and in Novemher 1958 he was also appointed as a member of the Chekiang Provincial People’s Government Council.

In July 1961 Chou was transferred back to Peking to become a vice-minister of Education, serving under Minister Yang FIsiu-feng. Relatively little was heard of Chou’s activities in the Ministry, although on occasion he appeared with senior Party leaders in connection with foreign visitors as in November 1961 when he accompanied Chou En-lai to receive a delegation from Ghana.

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