Yu Guangzhou
Chinese politician
Yu Guangzhou (Chinese: 于广洲; born January 1953) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China.
Career
Yu served as Minister of the General Administration of Customs from April 2011 to March 2018. Prior to that, he served as Mayor of Wuxi (1993–1997) and Xuzhou (1997–2000) in Jiangsu province, Vice Governor of Jiangsu (2000–2001), Vice Minister of Commerce (2003–2008), and Chinese Communist Party Deputy Committee Secretary of Fujian province (2009–2011).
Yu was a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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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 Q8290081. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 2011, 2018 and 1993.
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This entry incorporates text from “Yu Guangzhou” 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.