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TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSOR OF MECHANICS IN 1954.

CRITICISED AS A RIGHTIST IN 1957 AND BEGAN TO RE-APPEAR ONLY IN

1971. VISITED BRITAIN IN 1972 AS PART OF A CHINESE SCIENTISTS'

DELEGATION.

GUO DIHUO: HE WAS BORN IN SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. HE STUDIED AT THE

NEW BEDFORD TEXTILE SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES, GRADUATING IN

1926. IN THE LATE 1930S HE WAS A SENIOR OFFICIAL AT THE WING ON

TEXTILE MILL IN SHANGHAI. AFTER 1949, HE WAS PROMINENT IN LOCAL

GOVERNMENT IN SHANGHAI AND CONTINUED TO BE INVOLVED WITH THE

TEX?ILE INDUSTRY. LATER HE APPEARED IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT CIRCLES

IN GUANGDONG AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE CPPCC. HE WAS CRITICISED

DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION BUT REAPPEARED IN GUANGDONG IN THE

70S. FROM 1979 TO 1983 HE WAS VICE-GOVERNOR OF GUANGDONG

PROVINCE. IN 1984 HE BECAME VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERATION OF

RETURNED OVERSEAS CHINESE. WE HAVE NO RECORD OF HIS RESIDENCE IN

HONG KONG (HONG KONG TELNO 1180, PARA 9(B)).

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YONG LONGGUI: HE IS AN ECONOMIST INVOLVED IN STATE PLANNING.

GRADUATE OF NANJING UNIVERSITY. HE DISAPPEARED DURING THE

CULTURAL REVOLUTION, RE-APPEARING IN 1979 AS DIRECTOR OF THE

PLANNING BUREAU UNDER THE STATE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL

COMMISSION. IN 1983 HE WAS NOTED IN HIS PRESENT JOB. IN MAY

1983 HE WAS QUOTED BY THE COMMENCE UNDERLINING SOUTH CHINA

MORNING POST END UNDERLINING ON THE LONG TERM FUTURE OF HONG KONG

CURRENCY.

WU DAKUN: NOTED IN THE 1950S AS A MEMBER OF VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS

INCLUDING THE CPPCC AND THE CHINA DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL

CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION. DISAPPEARED UNTIL 1982 WHEN HE WAS

NOTED AS HEAD OF THE TEACHING AND RESEARCH SECTION OF WORLD

ECONOMICS, AT THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY. IN MAY 1984, HE

WAS NOTED AS PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF THE SAME

UNIVERSITY. IN 1984 HE WAS APPOINTED DEPUTY HEAD OF THE NEWLY

INAUGURATED GROUP FOR THE COLLECTION OF CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL

DATA OF HONG KONG, MACAU, TAIWAN AND OVERSEAS CHINESE OF THE

CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL DATA RESEARCH COMMITTEE UNDER THE CPPCC

NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

MO YINGGUI: STUDIED LAW IN LONDON AND THEN IN PRACTICE IN HONG

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