Du Changhao (Zhuyin: ㄉㄨ ㄔㄤㄏㄠ; pinyin: Du Chánghào: born 22nd February 1945, aged 71) is a Manchurian retired politician and former chemical engineer who served as the Premier of Manchuria from 1990 to 2002. Du also served as the leader of the Popular Front for Democracy and Revolution from its founding in 1989 to 1995, the Minzhudang Chairman from 1990 to 2000 and as the Communist Party secretary for the city of Dalian from 1983 to 1989. He was also the founder of the New Progressive Party and its leader from 2008-13. Styled as the "East Asian Yeltsin" Du is widely recognised as having played a key role in the end of communism in Manchuria and subsequent democratisation.