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14th Politburo Of The Chinese Communist Party
The 14th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on October 19, 1992. It was preceded by the 13th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. It served until 1997. It was succeeded by the 15th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Standing Committee Members :''Ordered in political position ranking'' #Jiang Zemin #Li Peng #Qiao Shi #Li Ruihuan #Zhu Rongji #Liu Huaqing #Hu Jintao Members :''In stroke order of surnames:'' #Ding Guangen (), Secretary of the Secretariat, Head of the Propaganda Department #Tian Jiyun (), Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress #Zhu Rongji (), Vice Premier, Governor of the People's Bank of China (1992–1995) #Qiao Shi (), Chairman of the National People's Congress #Liu Huaqing (), Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission #Jiang Zemin (), General Secretary of the Communist Party, President of the People's Republic of China, Chairman of the Central Milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Tieying
Li Tieying (; born 1936) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China. He held many positions since 1955, including Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is an author of several books. For more than 20 years he served as Minister in charge of the State Commission for Economic Restructuring, and participated in major decision making and the implementation of China’s economic reforms during that time. Early life Li was born September 1936 in Changsha, Hunan province. When studying at No. 2 Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University and Beijing Russian Language Training School (now Beijing Foreign Studies University) from 1950 to 1955, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1955. He started working in September 1961 as a senior engineer, after graduating from Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Czechoslovakia. Career * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Hanbin
Wang Hanbin (born 1925) is a retired Chinese Communist Party politician. Wang was born in Hui'an, Fujian Province in 1925. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1941. He graduated from the Southwest Union University in 1946. After the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949, he served as secretary of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee until 1958 when he became the deputy secretary general of the Municipal Committee. He became the director of the Policy Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1977 to 1979. He was a member of the 12th, 13th, and 14th CCP Central Committees from 1982 to 1997 and an alternate member of 14th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party of the CPC between 1992 and 1997. He was also the Secretary-General of the 6th National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and became the vice-chairman of the 7th and 8th NPCSC. During the draftings of the Hong Kong Basic Law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, he was sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Jiabao
Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the Premier of the State Council from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic policy. From 2002 to 2012, he held membership in the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the country's ''de facto'' top power organ, where he was ranked third out of nine members and second only to President Hu Jintao and Chairman Wu Bangguo of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. He worked as the chief of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party between 1986 and 1993, and accompanied Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang as Zhao's personal secretary to Tiananmen Square during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, where Zhao called on protesting students to leave the square and after which Zhao was removed from his position within the Party. In 1998, Wen was promoted to the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huang Ju
Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in 2007, and also served as the first-ranked Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as Vice-Premier. An electrical engineer by trade, Huang was a close confidante of party leader Jiang Zemin, to whom he owed his rise to power. He served as Mayor of Shanghai between 1991 and 1994, then Communist Party Secretary of the metropolis between 1994 and 2002. Huang's career in Shanghai and his family's alleged involvement in several corruption cases in the city generated controversy. After 2002, Huang emerged as one of the least popular and most partisan members of China's top leadership, and was named by observers as a "core member" of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tan Shaowen
Tan Shaowen (; July 4, 1929 – February 3, 1993) was a Chinese politician. He served as the Communist Party Chief and top leader of the direct-controlled municipality of Tianjin, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, one of the most powerful political bodies in the People's Republic of China. However, he died in 1993 before completing the full term of his office. Early life and career Tan Shaowen was born on July 4, 1929 in Xinjin County, Sichuan province. Both his parents worked as post and telecommunications employees. He attended primary and secondary school in Xinjin. From 1948 to 1952 Tan attended several institutes of higher learning, including the Ming Yin College in Chengdu Textile Engineering and the Northwest Institute of Textile Engineering. He was assigned to a state-owned cotton mill in Tianjin as a technician from 1953 to 1958. He became a teacher, and eventually the deputy director of the Woven Textile Industry School in Tianjin. Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Fei (politician)
Xie Fei (; November 4, 1932 – October 27, 1999) was a Chinese politician. He was best known for his term as the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong between 1991 and 1998, as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, and as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Biography Xie, a Hakka, was born in Hekou Town, Lufeng County, Guangdong Province to Li Chun (1896-2009) . He secretly participated in the Communist Party's activities in 1947, and joined Chinese Communist Party in July 1949. In 1955, he was appointed as a member of CPC's Lufeng County Standing Committee, and the director of its propaganda department.谢非 cpc.people.com.cn He was later promoted to party secretary of Lufeng. He was transferred to journal ''Shangyou'' as an editor in 1960. His following appointmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Jianxing
Wei Jianxing (; January 2, 1931 – August 7, 2015) was a senior leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), most active during the 1980s and 1990s. He successively held a number of important offices, including member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing and the chairman of All-China Federation of Trade Unions. Biography Wei Jianxing was born in Xinchang County, Zhejiang Province. He moved to Shanghai and entered Guanghua University High School in 1947, where he became close to fellow Zhejiang native and Guanghua alumnus Qiao Shi, who was a leader of the student movement of the underground CCP. Wei joined the CCP in March 1949. Wei later enrolled in Dalian University of Technology and graduated in 1952, majoring in mechanics. From 1952 to 1953, he studied Russian language in Fushun. Wei was then sent to the Soviet Union to study industrial management until 1955. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qian Qichen
Qian Qichen (; 5 January 1928 – 9 May 2017) was a Chinese diplomat and politician. He served as Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo member from 1992 to 2002, China's Foreign Minister from April 1988 to March 1998, and as Vice Premier from March 1993 to March 2003. Since then, no other diplomat-turned-politician has attained such a lofty status in China's political hierarchy. Qian played a critical role in shaping China's foreign policy during CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin's administration, and was a key player handling the return to Chinese sovereignty of Hong Kong and Macau. He was in charge of border negotiations with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, resulting in a successful settlement of the border dispute and the thawing of the relations between China and Russia. He was also instrumental in handling China's normalization of relations with the West in the difficult period after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Life and career Qian Qichen hailed from a promin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiang Chunyun
Jiang Chunyun (; April 1930 – 28 August 2021) was a Chinese politician most active in the 1980s and 1990s, who served as Vice-Premier, Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. Biography Jiang was born in Laixi County, Shandong Province, in April 1930, and started work in 1946; he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in February 1947. Since then, Jiang had served as secretary-general of the Chinese Communist Party Shandong Provincial Committee, secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Jinan Municipal Committee, governor of Shandong province, secretary of the CCP Shandong Provincial Committee, and vice-premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. When Jiang was elected Vice-Premier of the State Council by the National People's Congress in March 1995, 36 percent of delegates in the Congress either abstained or voted against confirming hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Xitong
Chen Xitong (; June 10, 1930 – June 2, 2013) was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995. Early life Chen was born on June 10, 1930, in Anyue, Sichuan Province. He attended Peking University at the age of 18 and majored in Chinese Language. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1949. Political career By November 1979 when he had been elected as the vice-mayor of Beijing Municipality, he had served as the leader of a neighborhood committee, deputy head of a police substation, head of a factory workshop, secretary to Liu Ren (Beijing Municipality Communist Party 2nd Secretary), deputy head of a rural commune and Party Secretary of Changping County of Beijing. He was demoted during the Cultural Revolution and forced to clean toilets for some time. His early support for Deng Xiaoping led to his return to the Beijing Party office in 1979. By 1982, he was the Secretary o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zou Jiahua
Zou Jiahua (born October 1926) is a retired high-ranking politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as China's Vice Premier from 1991 to 1998, Vice-Chairman of the 9th National People's Congress from 1998 to 2003, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 1992 to 1997. Early life and career In 1944, Zou Jiahua joined the New Fourth Army at the age of 18, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1945. From 1948 to 1955 Zou Jiahua studied first at the Harbin Institute of Technology, then later attended the Bauman Moscow State Technical University School of Mechanical Manufacturing, becoming proficient in Russian. His career, like many others in his generation centred on industry. Upon his return to China in 1955, Zou worked as an engineer in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, where he worked as the chief engineer then director of the Second Machine Tool Plant. Eventually in 1973, Zou became the Director of the First Ministry of Machine-Building ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
