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Dong Yunhu (; born December 1962) is a former Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress in 2023 and chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 2018 to 2023. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1985, and entered the workforce in July 1986. As of July 2023 he was under investigation by China's top anti-corruption agency.
He was a representative of the 15th, 19th, and 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress.
He was director of the 7th Bureau of the Central Foreign Propaganda Office (State Council Information Office) in August 1997, in addition to serving as vice president and secretary-general of the Chinese Society for Human Rights Research since December 2000. He was made deputy director of the Central Foreign Publicity Office in November 2009, concurrently serving as deputy director of the State Council Information Office.
He was appointed head of the Publicity Department of Tibet Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in December 2011 and was admitted to member of the CCP Tibet Regional Committee, the region's top authority.
He was assigned to the similar position in Shanghai in July 2015. In January 2018, he was elevated to chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, he remained in that position until January 2023, when he was appointed chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress.
On 24 April 2024, Dong was indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes. On June 27, he stood trial at the Intermediate People's Court of Hefei on charges of taking bribes, the public prosecutors accused him of abusing his multiple positions between 2002 and 2023 to seek favor on behalf of certain organizations and individuals in financing loans, land transfers, business operations, and personnel arrangements, in return, he accepted money and gifts worth more than 148 million yuan ($20.77 million) personally or through his family members. On August 28, Dong was convicted of receiving 148 million yuan in bribes and sentenced to life in prison.
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