Friday, October 17, 2008

Yu Kuo-hwa

Yu Kuo-hwa was the Premier of Taiwan from 1984 to 1989.

Biography


He was born on 10 January 1914 in Fenghua city in Zhejiang Province in mainland China. He studied for degrees at Harvard University and the London School of Economics.

He was appointed as on 29 November 1967 and became Governor of the in 1969.

As Premier, Yu was responsible for ending Taiwan's 38 years of martial law in 1987. He died from complications from leukemia at 4pm on 4 October 2000 at the Veterans' General Hospital in Taipei.

Yu was preceded by Sun Yun-suan and succeeded by Lee Huan.

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