Zeng Yangfu | |
Smallimage: | Zeng Yangfu2.jpg |
Caption: | A photo of Zeng published in the fourth edition of Who's Who in China (1931) |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Yuan |
Term Start: | 18 May 1948 |
Term End: | 1949 |
Office1: | Minister of Transportation and Communication |
Term Start1: | December 1942 |
Term End1: | February 1945 |
Predecessor1: | Chang Kia-ngau |
Office3: | Mayor of Guangzhou |
Term Start3: | August 1936 |
Term End3: | 21 October 1938 |
Predecessor3: | Liu Jiwen |
Successor3: | Peng Dongyuan |
Birth Name: | Zeng Xianhao |
Birth Date: | 1898 10, df=y |
Birth Place: | Pingyuan County, Guangdong, China |
Death Place: | Hong Kong |
Nationality: | Republic of China |
Party: | Kuomintang |
Alma Mater: | Peiyang University University of Pittsburgh |
Zeng Xianhao (; 23 October 1898 – 28 August 1969) was a Chinese-born politician better known by the courtesy name Zeng Yangfu . He was a native of Pingyuan County, Guangdong. Zeng served the Nationalist government as Mayor of Guangzhou from 1936 to 1938. He later led the Ministry of Transportation and Communications from 1942 to 1945.
Upon graduation from Peiyang University in 1923, Zeng enrolled at the University of Pittsburgh. Upon his return to China in 1925, Zeng was named to the Kuomintang Central Committee and a political operative of the National Revolutionary Army. Zeng also served as deputy minister of the Agriculture and Mineral Resources. As director of the Zhejiang Provincial Infrastructure Department, Zeng oversaw several construction projects including the and the Qiantang River Bridge. In 1935, Zeng became a member of several government committees on infrastructure. He assumed the mayoralty of Guangzhou between 1936 and 1938, before taking office as transportation and communications minister in 1942. After resigning the office in 1945 for health reasons, Zeng was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948. The next year, he left China for Hong Kong, where he died in 1969.[1] [2] [3]