Background
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Chung Fu-hsiang
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He was educated locally.
Career
When the Telecommunications Bureau of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council was formed in May 1949, he was appointed as a deputy director under telecommunications specialist Wang Cheng; at the same time he was named to head the Tientsin Telecommunications Bureau. By 1950 he had given up these posts and was transferred to Canton where he became director of the Telecommunications Control Department under the Canton Military Control Commission. Concurrently, he served from September 1950 to sometime in 1953 as head of the Central-South Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau, an organ subordinate to the national Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. In the interim, Chung had been elected a national committee member of the National Postal and Telegraph Workers’ Trade Union at the first congress of the union in March 1950. It is not known how long he remained affiliated with this union.
Information on Chung’s work in central-south China is not available, but obviously he was engaged there in communications work. It was therefore not unexpected in September 1953 that he was transferred to Peking to become a vice-minister of Posts and Telecommunications under the non-Communist minister Chu Hsueh-fan. Subsequently, Chung has served in several ministries, each calling for rather specialized technical knowledge. In his capacity as a vice-minister, he led a delegation to Bulgaria in August-September 1955 to take part in the 16th International Fair at Plovdiv, Bulgaria. On September 14, prior to leaving Sofia, he signed an agreement to improve posts and telecommunications service between China and Bulgaria. Then Chung led his five- member group to Prague where he attended an international stamp exhibition in late September. Not long after his return to China he was named (November 1955) as president of the Peking Posts and Telecommunications College, a posi¬tion held until September 1957.
Chung was removed from the Posts and Tele-communications Ministry in January 1957, but four months later (May 1957) he was appointed a vice-minister of the Second Ministry of Machine Building under Minister Chao Erh-lu. The ministry was known to have at least partial responsibility for the manufacture of munitions. In February 1958 it was merged with two other ministries and renamed the First Ministry of Machine Building, still under Chao Erh-lu. Some notion of Chung’s work during this period can be gained from the fact that in September 1958 he attended the opening of the Wuhan Heavy Machine Tools Plant and in December 1958 he spoke at the test flight ceremony of an aircraft produced by the Peking Aeronautical Engineering School. In 1959 and 1960 Chung spoke at conferences which stressed the importance of the link between education and machine building; one was in Nanchang, Kiangsi, in April 1959 and the other in Taiyuan, Shansi, in May 1960.
In September 1960, Chung was once again transferred, this time to become a vice-minister of the newly formed Third Ministry of Machine Building. Finally, after holding this post for just over two years, he was transferred back (October 1962) to the position of vice-minister of Posts and Telecommunications, a post he continues to hold. In the fall of 1964 he was elected as a deputy from the Kwangsi-Chuang Autonomous Region (his native area) to the Third NPC, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965.
Politics
Unlike most of his colleagues, Chung is seldom called upon to engage in the heavy protocol activities (e.g., receiving foreign guests) that occupy so much of their time. Nor does he belong to the many organizations devoted to Communist-sponsored causes such as peace or international relations. In brief, he appears to be a technocrat, concerned almost entirely with technical problems
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
Career
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May, 1949
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1957
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1960