Chai Songyue is a politician of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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Born in Putuo

Putuo District, Zhoushan

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, Zhejiang Province, Chai joined the Communist Party of China

Communist Party of China

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 in September 1961. He was appointed acting governor of Zhejiang

Zhejiang

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in April 1997, and was confirmed as governor in January 1998. He served this post till October 2002.

Chai was an alternate member of 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and a full member of 15th and 16th Central Committees of CPC.