Huang Zhendong, a native of Dafeng, Jiangsu Province, was born in
1941. He joined the Party in June 1981.
Huang graduated from the Nanjing Navigation Engineering School in
1962 and went on to study navigation at the Shanghai Shipping
Institute. He began working for the Qinhuangdao Harbor
Administrative Bureau at the age of 22 and served as planner in the
financial section, deputy planning division chief, deputy director
and director of the Harbor Administrative Bureau since 1982.
In 1985 Huang was promoted to vice minister of communications.
Starting in 1988, he served as general manager of the National
Communications Investment Corporation. After 1991, he was minister
of communications, Party chief of the ministry, and president of
the China Merchants Group. From March 1993 to October 2002, he
again took the office as minister of communications before he was
appointed secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee.
Huang was a member of 14th CPC Central Committee and was re-elected
into the 15th CPC Central Committee in 1997.