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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Founder of China Times News Group Dies
Mr Yu Chi-chung, founder of Taiwan's China Times news group and a strong advocate of cross-strait reunification, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 92.
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Mr Yu Chi-chung, founder of
Taiwan
's China Times news group and a strong advocate of cross-strait reunification, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 92.
Mr Yu died at his home in Taipei after battling liver and colon cancer for nearly a decade.
He was born in 1910 in Wujin county,
Jiangsu
province in eastern China
Mr Yu had since advocated reunification with China and wrote many editorials denouncing efforts to push for Taiwan's formal independence.
'He died a frustrated patriot without seeing the light of day for a united China,' China Times said in an obituary.
Mr Yu established Cheng Hsin News, a business tabloid, in Taiwan in 1950.
The paper was later renamed the China Times and the company has grown into one of Taiwan's top three news organisations that also includes the Commercial Times business daily, the evening China Times Express and a weekly magazine.
In 1999, he travelled to
Beijing
to explore the possibility of unification.
He is survived by his wife, Ms Yu-hui, two sons and two daughters.
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Mr Yu Chi-chung, founder of Taiwan's China Times news group and a strong advocate of cross-strait reunification, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 92.