Template:Did you know nominations/Wang Zhongyu (politician)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:31, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Wang Zhongyu (politician)

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• ... that Wang Zhongyu was part of a 1990s taskforce that decided against allowing general elections in China above the local level?
  • ALT1:... that Wang Zhongyu worked most of his life at a paper mill before becoming governor of Jilin and a major player in the modernization of China's economy?
  • ALT2:... that Wang Zhongyu became one of Zhu Rongji's protégés despite the lackluster pace of reforms in Jilin while he was governor?
  • ALT3:... that Wang Zhongyu, one of the architects of China's economic modernization, was born in Jilin while it was still a Japanese puppet state?
  • ALT4:... that Wang Zhongyu’s authority over reforming state-owned enterprises made him one of the most powerful figures of China in the 1990s?
  • ALT5:... that Wang Zhongyu, a former governor of Jilin, used his influence as one of the leaders of China's economic modernization to push for getting the landlocked province access to the sea through North Korea?
  • ALT6:... that former paper-mill engineer Wang Zhongyu oversaw reform of China's SOEs and One Child Policy, nixed democratic reforms, headed the 2000 census, and was involved in Macanese, Ghanian, and APEC diplomacy?
  • ALT7:... that Wang Zhongyu oversaw the 2001 APEC summit that saw Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush in those hilarious silk shirts?

• Reviewed: Will do
• Comment: Note to potential reviewers: Don't worry. You only need to review the hook(s) most interesting to you; yes, ALT8 is not serious (or appropriate for a BLP) but is intended as lagniappe for the editors who stop by here.

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 15:31, 4 January 2018 (UTC).

* Interesting influential life, on good sources, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I approve ALT4. ALT7 is cute but not in the article ;) - Please fix the harv error (ref 11). How do you feel abot an infobox? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:23, 4 January 2018 (UTC)