"Socialism means 98 out of 100 people are happy, " Mr. Wu told Chinese media in 2006.
Mr. Wu's business savvy helped him capitalize on the attention, making him a go-to designer.
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Mr. Wang said on Friday that he worked with Sun Media's Mr. Wu to reach Mr. Buffett.
Founders like Zopim's Mr. Wu who are on the street trying to get press attention miss a lot.
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One of Mr. Wu's rules to sustain Huaxi's riches: Anyone who leaves town loses all title to the money.
But if you know who Mr. Wu is, it is probably because Mrs.
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Mr. Wu, the former city planner, says he expects the renovation trend to expand to other historic buildings in Shanghai.
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Mr. Wu says he still expects the online version of the gala will play Mr. Buffett's Chinese New Year greeting.
Mr. Wu pivoted Huaxi's economy from farming toward manufacturing and trade, with ventures in steelmaking, then liquor, banking and tourism.
While Mr. Wu kept his party bosses happy by swearing allegiance to socialism, he turned rice and pig farmers into millionaires.
Mr. Wu said he acceded to Mr. Buffett's request and pulled it.
Mr. Wu had a knack for selling hard-nosed business decisions as generosity.
Mr. Wu will be assisting FTC Chairman Liebowitz on legal and policy matters related consumer protection and competition in the Internet and mobile markets.
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Mr. Wu's death also got attention in national media on Tuesday, as broadcasters used the village's transformation as a reminder of strides China has made.
"This year, I decided to do something crazy, " Mr. Wu says.
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Though Mr. Wu remained active in party affairs, he retired as the village's party chief in 2003 and relinquished his key positions to a son, Wu Xie'en.
Mr. Wu then planned to mix in a video Mr. Buffett recorded a year earlier for a charity the Chinese executive is involved with, the Sun Culture Foundation.
You go, Mr. Wu -- stick it to the man.
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Chih-Jou Jay Chen, a researcher at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, said senior Chinese leaders in the 1990s also saw Mr. Wu's careful approach as a potential alternative should market economics fail.
In an interview, Mr. Wu said he had indeed worked through Buffett family members to get hold of a video of Mr. Buffett wishing Chinese viewers a happy Chinese New Year.
Mr. WU(ph) SHINBUO(ph) (Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai): The relative importance of this relationship has declined in the last several years, and secondly, I think the U.S. influence over China has declined in the past several years.
Mr. Wu, who died of lung cancer at age 84 on Monday, responded to China's market overhauls in the early 1980s with a politically savvy strategy to charge up the economy of Huaxi, the village in eastern Jiangsu province that he headed as Communist Party secretary.
Mr. SHAW WU (American Technology Research): Apple is known for their conservative guidance so it's not really a surprise.
Mr. Zhang, Ms. Wu's attorney, contended that she borrowed the money from investor friends and not the general public.
Prosecutors had previously charged a fundraiser for Mr. Liu, Xing Wu Pan, with illegally funneling donations to the candidate.
Merely fulfilling the complex application procedure to open up on its own could take a bank five years, Mr Wu says.
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China Mobile and China Telecom both descend from the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, which operated all telephone services in China until the mid-1990s as, in effect, a personal fief of Mr Wu's.
David Fowler, the chief medical examiner for the U.S. state of Maryland, said in a February report that he fully concurred with the original autopsy findings by Dr. Wu, deeming the death a suicide, Mr. Tai said.
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