Zeng Yangfu Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 民国时期的实干家---曾养甫. 浙江省档案馆.
  2. Web site: 曾养甫. 华夏经纬. 2017-10-15. 2015-05-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20150514014239/http://search.huaxia.com/s.jsp?iDocId=508750. dead.
  3. Book: 《中国国民党百年人物全书》. 团结出版社. 2005.