Background
Huang Ou-tung was born about 1907 in Kiangsi but has spent a major part of his life working in Manchuria.
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Huang Ou-tung
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Nothing is known about his early career.
Career
Soon after the end of the Sino-Japanese War he was serving as governor of those portions of Liaoning held by the Communists. The province went out of existence in 1946, but was then re-created over the winter of 1948-49, only to be abolished once again in 1949. (Liaoning was once more re-created in 1954-see below.) Huang again served as the provincial governor in 1949. When he lost his post a second time owing to the administration reorganizations, he became (by the fall of 1949) the ranking Party secretary and vice-mayor of Shenyang (Mukden), a city then directly subordinate to the central government. In July 1952 he replaced Chu Ch’i-wen as the Shenyang mayor, but Huang was in turn replaced by mid-1953 by Chiao Jo-yu. By the end of 1954 Chiao had also replaced him as the first secretary of Shenyang. One other Shenyang post held by Huang was as an executive member of the Municipal Trade Union, a position he held from October 1949.
Huang’s work in Shenyang, the most important city in Manchuria, was apparently viewed with favor by higher authorities. In mid-1954 he was promoted from the municipal to provincial level when he assumed the ranking secretaryship of Liaoning Province at the time Liaoning was re-created (from Liaotung and Liaohsi Provinces). On August 1, 1954, Huang was one of the principal speakers at the inaugural ceremonies in the provincial capital of Shenyang. (His position was redesignated as first secretary by September 1956.) Soon after assuming the ranking secretaryship, he was elected a deputy from Shenyang to the First NPC, which first met in September 1954 at which time the constitutional government was inaugurated. By the time of the elections to the Second NPC (1958), Shenyang had lost its status as a special municipality, having been incorporated into Liaoning Prov-ince. Huang, therefore, was elected as a Liaoning deputy to the Second NPC (1959-1964) and was again re-elected from this province for the Third NPC, which first met in December 1964-January 1965.
Already the ranking Liaoning Parly official, Huang assumed three new positions in early 1955. After presiding over the preliminary meetings leading to the establishment of the Liaoning Committee of the CPPCC in February 1955, he was named as the chairman of the First Liaoning Committee in the following month. (In November 1959 he was succeeded as chairman by Huang Huo-ch’ing.) Also in February 1955 he was elected as a member of the Provincial People’s Council at the time Manchuria-born Tu Che-heng became governor. Still another post he assumed in February 1955 was as head of the Preparatory Committee for the Liaoning chapter of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, and when the chapter was established in May 1956, he became the president. He probably still retains this position, but little has been heard of the organization since the open deterioration of Sino-Soviet relations in the early 1960’s.
Politics
Huang attended the Eighth Party Congress in Peking in September 1956. He served on the Credentials Committee for the Congress, and at the close of the sessions was elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee. Then, after having served as the ranking Party secretary in Liaoning for nearly four years, Huang Ou-tung was replaced there (June 1958) by the man who had been the principal Party secretary as well as the mayor of Tientsin, Huang Huo- ch’ing. The latter Huang is a few years older than Huang Ou-tung and presumably outranks him in the CCP, because on his arrival in Liaoning Huang Ou-tung was dropped back to the post of second secretary in the provincial Party Committee. However, the intensive pace of Huang Ou-tung’s work (as reflected in the national press) gave no indication that he had suffered politically. In fact, when the Liaoning governor, lu Che-heng, was charged with “anti-Party” activities (December 1958) and purged from his post, it was Huang Ou-tung who replaced him and who continues to hold his post.
In early 1961 the decision was made to re-establish the regional Party bureaus that had been abolished in 1954-55. By October 1962 Huang was identified as a secretary of the North-east Bureau, a position in which he ranked fifth behind Sung Jen-ch’iung, Ouyang Ch’in, Ma Ming-fang, and his colleague Huang Huo-ch’ing. Huang Ou-tung has been reported in the press with great regularity since the mid- 1950’s in the performance of his duties in Liao-ning. And because Shenyang is frequently visited by important foreign officials, as well as top CCP officials (e.g., Chou En-lai in June 1962), he has occasion to meet many of them in the normal course of his work. Huang has apparently not been a regular contributor to the Party press, although he did write an article dealing with agriculture in Liaoning for the February 1, 1960, issue of the JMJP.
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Chinese Communist Party
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1949
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1954
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February, 1955
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1956