Wang Daohan, 19 15, was born in Jiashan County, Anhui Province, and graduated from Shanghai Jiaotong University in his early years. Long-term employment in the economic sector, War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, he was the district finance minister. After the founding of New China, he successively served as Minister of Finance and Economics in Hangzhou, Minister of Finance in Zhejiang, Minister of Commerce and Minister of Industry in East China. Later, he successively served as Deputy Minister of the First Ministry of Machinery Industry, First Deputy Director of the Foreign Economic Liaison Committee, Deputy Director of the State Import and Export Administration Committee and Deputy Director of the Foreign Investment Administration Committee. 1981April, Wang Daohan was elected as the mayor of Shanghai. 1985, take a back seat. 19911216 the association for relations across the Taiwan straits was established in Beijing, and Gao dezhao was elected as the president of the association. On February 28th of the same year, 65438+ Taiwan Province Research Association was born, and he was unanimously recommended as honorary president.

Scholar's demeanor, pragmatic character and approachability are the unanimous comments of domestic and foreign media on Wang Daohan. I remember a few years ago, when Wang Daohan just stepped down as the mayor of Shanghai, a senior American journalist said about his impression of Wang Daohan: "After leaving office, Wang Daohan was hired as a professor of economics at Fudan University and a lecturer at Tufts University in the United States. This is a new generation. He is an expert himself and has been the mayor for more than five years. He has chess in his chest, knows it in his hands, and is very organized. "

Wang Daohan's biggest personal hobby is "going to the bookstore". This approachable mayor can often be seen in bookstores of all sizes in Shanghai. He likes to buy books, literary criticism, historical monographs, biographies of celebrities, music and fine arts, scientific and technological monographs, economic theories, and everything. He has a famous saying: "Reading is life."

His office and home are full of books. Every time he works late into the night, he will take a book from the "Book Mountain" at the bedside when he comes home, and sometimes he will not put it down until the early morning.

Wang Daohan is an elegant person. Whenever he wears a straight suit and tie, his silver hair is bright and neat, and he has a wise demeanor of a scholar. Although he is over seventy years old, he is full of energy, with a red face and a big smile.

At present, he is a visiting professor at Peking University, Fudan University and Tongji University.

Wang Daohan died in Shanghai in 2006. 9 1 year.