Huang Shun-hsing, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Huang Shun-hsing

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1923

Date of Death: 05-Mar-2002

Profession: politician

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Huang Shun-hsing

  • Huang Shun-hsing (traditional Chinese: ???; simplified Chinese: ???; pinyin: Huáng Shùnxìng; 12 March 1923 – 5 March 2002) was a Taiwan-born politician. Huang was raised in present-day Changhua County.
  • He attended an agricultural school in Japan, then worked in Shanghai for two years before returning to Taiwan, settling in Taitung.
  • Huang served on the Taitung County Council for three terms, and as Taitung County Magistrate for one term prior to contesting his first legislative election in 1972.
  • Huang was reelected to the Legislative Yuan in 1975.
  • He was active in the tangwai movement, and contributed to Formosa Magazine.
  • Huang favored unification with China.
  • After he lost the Changhua County magistracy to George Huang in 1981, Huang Shun-hsing was imprisoned for a time because his daughter had left for China.
  • Huang himself moved to Beijing in 1985.
  • He was elected to the 7th National People's Congress in 1988, as an independent.
  • Huang became known for voting against the confirmation of Zhou Gucheng, who won reelection as chair of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee.
  • This was the first act of opposition at a meeting of the NPC since the body first met in 1954.
  • Huang resigned from the NPC in 1992, over a disagreement regarding the Three Gorges Dam project, and died in 2002 of a heart attack.

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