Han Peixin (; October 1921—15 January 2017) was a

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politician. He was born in

Xiangshui County Xiangshui County () is a coastal county under the administration of Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China. The northernmost county-level division of Yancheng, it borders the prefecture-level cities of Lianyungang to the northwest and Huai'an to the so ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

Province. In the 1980s he served as

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Committee Secretary and Governor of his home province. He was a member of the

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and 13th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a delegate to the 5th (1978–1983), 6th (1983–1988) and

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(1988–1993). Han died in

Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...

on 15 January 2017.江苏省委原书记韩培信在南京逝世，享年97岁
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