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Associate Professor Guo Quan published an open letter to Chinese leaders Hu Jintao and Wu Bangguo on 14 November 2007, calling for a democratic government based on multi-party elections that better serves the interests of the people, the Epoch Times has said. Professor Guo’s letter is the third open letter in the past three weeks requesting democracy and political reform. Authors of the first two letters are Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Zhaojun and entrepreneur Zheng Cunzhu, according to the Epoch Times.
Guo Quan, born in 1968, is a member of the China Democratic League. He received his doctor’s degree in Philosophy from Nanjing University in 1999 and after finishing his post-doctoral program in 2001, he joined the university faculty, where he was an associate professor of literature. He worked as a postgraduate class teacher in the School of Humanities, became the director of the adult education office and was the managing editor of an academic journal produced by the College of Letters at Nanjing Normal University. URGENT
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