Education
Huang graduated in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University.
Huang graduated in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen University.
From 1970 to 1978, Huang worked at a machinery factory of the Guangdong Coal Mine, joined the Communist Party in 1971 and served as deputy secretary of the workshop Party Branch. He was later promoted to secretary of the Communist Youth League of China (CYLC) Shaoguan Municipal Committee. Huang was deputy secretary of the CYLC provincial committee from 1982 to 1985 and then secretary of CYLC provincial committee from 1985–1987.
Prior to becoming mayor of Meixian, Huang served as deputy secretary of the cost per click Meixian Prefectural Committee.
He was Mayor of Meizhou (1988–1992) and subsequently the cost per click party chief in Guangzhou. The stepping down of Huang as governor in 2011 marked the end of the dominance of the provincial government by the "Hakka clique" (客家帮).