Profile photos: Yu Zhengsheng: A reformer's style (2)

（Xinhua）  08:32, December 25, 2012

OLD YU-STYLE

An official in Shanghai remembered that once when Yu, the municipality's former Party chief, made an inspection visit to Huangpu District, he told his driver to go directly to a community behind the high-rises, without telling district officials.

It was a shanty community, where Yu saw plastic bags hanging from ceilings of every home to catch leaking water when it rained, the official said.

This sudden inspection resulted in the accelerated transformation of unlivable old residential communities of the metropolis.

The style of Old Yu, as Shanghai citizens addressed their Party chief, was welcomed by local people. And Qin Ling was one of them.

In February, the teacher complained to Yu via his microblog that his cancer-afflicted father was rejected by several hospitals.