Mo Menchuan | |||||||
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Born | September 1939 (age 85) [1] Anguo, Hebei, China [1] | ||||||
Political party | China National Democratic Construction Association | ||||||
Alma mater | Peking University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 墨文川 | ||||||
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Mo Menchuan is a Chinese politician and academician specialized in management science. He is known to have a close friendship with another prominent party member, Xu Wenyuan. [2]
He was born in Anguo, Hebei Province. He studied in Peking University and later joined China National Democratic Construction Association, a united front-affiliated political party. During his 2011 interview, his associates were puzzled at his decision of not joining the Chinese Communist Party and he explained that "the development of the country demands diversity". [3] During his tenure as a university professor in Shandong University in 1988, he taught with Chen Zengjing, one of the prominent Chinese scholars in the field of mathematical finance. [4] His academic career became a driving force for his political career.
With the capacity of being one of the vice-chairpersons of Shandong Provincial People's Congress in 1999, [1] he chose an elementary school in Yinan County as the starting point for running a governmental program to eradicate poverty in the region. [2] In December 2002, he attended the 8th National Congress of China National Democratic Construction Association that was held Beijing and he was elected as a member of the 8th Central Committee as well as becoming the Standing Committee member. [5] This later facilitated his political activity as a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
He is the president of the Shandong provincial branch of Peking University's alumni association. [6] [7]
His times of teaching in tertiary educational institutions outside of China include: [1]
有不少朋友都问过墨文川同样的问题 :为什么墨文川没有选择加入中国共产党?他这样说,一个国家的发展,色彩应该多一些,并不是说所有优秀的人都要被吸纳到党的组织中去。
1988年夏季自中国纺织大学硕士研究生毕业后,陈增敬到山东大学数学学院任职,担任彼时主讲概率论的墨文川的助教。