Profile photos: Yu Zhengsheng: A reformer's style (9)

（Xinhua）  08:32, December 25, 2012

His brainchild of building Qingdao into an international metropolis brought in an influx of foreign investment to the city, one of the 14 coastal frontiers that the central government decided to open to the world in 1984.

As the Party chief in Hubei Province, Yu greatly boosted the development of provincial capital Wuhan and its adjacent cities. He also extended the province's development focus to counties as a way of seeking new growth momentum.

Yu was born in 1945 in Yan'an, the cradle of the CPC, into a revolutionary's family. His parents became ministerial-level officials after New China was founded in 1949.