Vice Premier, State Council Dejiang Zhang of China
all Chinese and a solemn commitment China made to the world.
Zhang met with German chancellor Angela Merkel last Monday.
As Zhang was being handed the papers, Chinese ambassador to Australia Fu Ying who was standing close to him called out, Dont accept this, and knocked the papers out of his hands.
Ever since the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Zhang had repeatedly and publicly declared how difficult it is to carry out persecution policies against the group.
Soon after Zhang came into office, at least 33 Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of the persecution.
In addition, Zhang has been accused of being responsible for the ruthless July 2005 acts of violence during a peaceful election in Taishi Village, the ensuing arrests of villagers, representatives of the media, and certain lawyers who represented the villagers.
Zhang is also responsible for the bloody suppression of protests in Shanwei City where at least three people were killed, according to sources.
In his 2005 visit to Australia, Zhang was presented with a lawsuit accusing him of torture and murder, but he refused to accept the official court summons.
of the national economy, Zhang said during a four-day visit to Sichuan Province.
mutual benefit, and lift the bilateral relations to a new level.
Zhang said the government placed work safety as a top priority and had made great efforts to prevent accidents, however, the number of accidents remains high.
Zhang was elected to the post at the first plenary session of the 10th CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee which closed on Friday after setting major economic and social development goals for the southern economic powerhouse over the next five years.
Jilin province for "re-education" in 1968.
some Hong Kong media reports once said Zhang was an ethnic Korean.
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in early 2003.
But Zhang was apparently a quick learner.
Zhang is responsible for the persecution and actively carries out the persecution policy in Guangdong Province.
Zhang expressed thanks and gratitude to Macedonia for its adherence to the one-China policy, its opposition to âTaiwan independenceâ and its support of China's cause of peaceful reunification.
Zhang said China is ready to broaden the areas of cooperation between China and Macedonia on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and lift the bilateral relations to a new level.
Zhang discussed topics such as product safety and energy efficiency with BASF´s Chairman Jürgen Hambrecht and Hong Kong-based board member Martin Brudermüller.
As with almost all Chinese officials, Zhang was chosen not by one-man-one-vote but by a carefully selected group of provincial party officials who follow the decisions of Beijing.
But years of anything-goes economic expansion have given rise to a raft of problems from energy and labor shortages to corruption and land grabs, and since Zhang took the helm in 2002 the province has been beset by a handful of high profile crises.
Zhang received a degree in economics from North Korea's Kim Il-sung Comprehensive University.
In essence, Zhang said that the Politburo should trust that Guangdong can handle the problem but the Politburo declined to accept that assertion based upon a string of internationally known incidents in the past two years.
Born in November 1946 in Tai'an, Liaoning, Zhang was sent to work in an agricultural commune in Wangqing County, Jilin, in 1968.
Zhang joined the local Communist Youth League in 1970 and the CCP in 1971.
Zhang was an alternate member of the 14th CCP Central Committee and a member of the 15th and 16th CCP Central Committees.
I don't want to fight a battle of saliva with you people.
Zhang was an alternate member of the 14th CPC Central Committee and a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee.
Zhang is currently a member of the Politburo of the 16th CPC Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Party Committee.
internationally known incidents in the past two years.