Background
Zhang Lichang was born on July 1939 in Nanpi, Hebei, China.
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Zhang Lichang was born on July 1939 in Nanpi, Hebei, China.
Graduate, Beijing Economic Correspondence University, 1968.
Zhang Lichang joined the Communist Youth League of China in April 1955, and began working in May 1958. He rose through a number of positions in Tianjin city government, before becoming mayor and Vice-Party Chief in June 1993. He was elevated to the position of Tianjin Communist Party Secretary in August 1997, and to the Politburo of the Communist Party of China in November 2002.
Zhang Lichang died following an illness on 10 January 2008.