雷宇 (Léi Yǔ) · Lei Yu (former Governor of Hainan…

Meanings

1 Lei Yu (former Governor of Hainan Administrative District, involved in the 1985 Hainan car import scandal)
2 a common Chinese personal name (雷 surname + 宇 'universe')

About Lei Yu

1934–2024 · 政治家 politician

Party official who ran Hainan in the early 1980s, when the island approved some 89,000 duty-free car imports for resale to the mainland. Removed over the car affair in 1985, he later rose to vice chairman of Guangxi.

Characters

雷

Léi

thunder / Lei (surname)

宇

yǔ

universe / eaves

Examples

HSK 6

我儿子的同学叫雷宇。

Wǒ érzi de tóngxué jiào Léi Yǔ.

My son's classmate is called Lei Yu.

HSK 7-9

雷宇在1980年代担任海南行政区主要领导。

Léi Yǔ zài 1980 niándài dānrèn Hǎinán xíngzhèngqū zhǔyào lǐngdǎo.

Lei Yu served as a top leader of Hainan Administrative District in the 1980s.

Tips

history

Looking back on the car affair, he summed it up in one line: 错就错在批得太滥了, 'the mistake was that we approved far too freely'. Removed in 1985, he started over as deputy party secretary of 花县, a county in Guangdong.