Wang Daohan’s eldest son Wang Zhiyuan died of illness at the age of 85

Wang Zhiyuan, the son of Wang Daohan, the first president of the China ARATS and a retired cadre of the deputy military region of the Communist Party of China, died of illness in Beijing on October 2 at the age of 85. (Xinhua News Agency)

Wang Zhiyuan, the son of Wang Daohan, the first president of the China Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits and a retired cadre of the deputy military region of the Communist Party of China, died in Beijing on October 2 due to ineffective treatment. He was 85 years old.

Xinhua News Agency announced the above information on the 2nd. Wang Zhiyuan is the former deputy director of the Science and Technology Committee of the General Armament Department of the Communist Army.

Wang Zhiyuan's father was Wang Daohan, the first president of the China Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits. In 1993, he held a historic cross-strait meeting with the then chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation, Gu Zhenfu, in Singapore, known as the "Ku-Wang Talks." After Wang Daohan died of illness in 2005, Wang Zhiyuan was interviewed many times and recounted his father's last wish, "to build the country well, do a good job in dealing with Taiwan, and hope for the early reunification of the motherland."

According to reports, Wang Zhiyuan is a native of Jiashan County, Anhui Province (now Mingguang City, Anhui Province). He joined the Communist Party of China in 1964, joined the army in 1987, and has long worked in the national defense technology and equipment system. He once served as deputy director and director of the Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the China National Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, deputy military standing member of the Commission for National Defense Science, Technology and Industry, deputy director and director of the Comprehensive Planning Department, and director of the Electronic Information Basics Department of the General Armament Department.

Wang Zhiyuan is a representative of the 10th National People's Congress.