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Lu Maozeng

Chinese politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ9364110 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lu Maozeng (Chinese: 陆懋曾; December 1928 – 21 July 2022) was a Chinese wheat breeding expert and politician who served as chairman of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1993 to 1998.

He was a representative of the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Early life and education

Lu was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, in December 1928. His grandfather Lu Xiaobo (陆小波) was an industrialist. He graduated from the University of Nanking in 1950.

Career

He entered the workforce in March 1950, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1953. He worked at the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Sciences Academy for a long time.

Between 1966 and 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works. He was reinstated in October 1969 and continued to work at the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Sciences Academy.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lu Maozeng” as chinese politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2022, 1993, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928. The account is most persuasive where Maozeng, Chinese and politician can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as chinese politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q9364110. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2022, 1993 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lu Maozeng” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.