Wang Daohan | |
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| 汪道涵 | |
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| President ofAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait | |
| In office 16 December 1991 – 24 December 2005 | |
| Premier | Li Peng Zhu Rongji Wen Jiabao |
| Succeeded by | Vacant,Chen Yunlin (2008) |
| Mayor of Shanghai | |
| In office April 1981 – July 1985 | |
| Preceded by | Peng Chong |
| Succeeded by | Jiang Zemin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1915-03-27)27 March 1915 Jiashan County,Anhui,Republic of China |
| Died | 24 December 2005(2005-12-24) (aged 90) Shanghai, China |
| Nationality | People's Republic of China |
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Wang Daohan (Chinese:汪道涵;pinyin:Wāng Dàohán; 27 March 1915 – 24 December 2005) was a Chinese politician who was president of theAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) from 1991 to 2005.
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Wang was born in Jiashan County (present dayMingguang City) in China'sAnhui province in 1915 and joined theChinese Communist Party in 1938. During his early career within the government of the People's Republic of China, he focused on trade and investment issues. In 1965 he was the deputy minister of the State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations with Foreign Countries and in 1979 he was appointed vice-chair of the State Foreign Investment Commission and vice-chair of the State Import-Export Commission. Later Wang came to greater prominence when, after a year as vice-mayor, he was appointed mayor of Shanghai in 1981. As mayor, Wang contributed to the success ofDeng Xiaoping's economic reforms by actively encouraging foreign investment and joint ventures. When he retired in 1985, Wang convinced the party authorities to name his protégéJiang Zemin as his successor.
On 16 December 1991 Wang was named the president ofAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), a semi-official organization created to correspond with theTaiwan-basedStraits Exchange Foundation (SEF). The following year Wang and SEF chairmanKoo Chen-fu held preliminary talks in Hong Kong which resulted in the so-called "1992 Consensus" and facilitated negotiations of practical matters. However, the content and the very existence of this "1992 Consensus" is still widely disputed. In April 1993, Koo and Wang met in Singapore to hold theWang-Koo summit. A second round of talks followed in 1998, in Shanghai, but no further talks have taken place since. Beijing called off talks in 1999, afterRepublic of China PresidentLee Teng-hui proposed histwo-states theory. Wang died in Shanghai on the morning of 24 December 2005.[citation needed]
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| Preceded by | Mayor of Shanghai 1981–1984 | Succeeded by |
| New title | President ofAssociation for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits 1991–2005 | Succeeded by |
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