He Zhenliang (; 29 December 1929 – 4 January 2015) was a Chinese politician and diplomat. He served as vice-president of the

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, the chairman of the

's Culture and Olympic Education Commission, the president of the

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and an executive of the Organizing Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was born in

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

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Province, but his father's family came from

Shangyu Shangyu District () is a district of the prefecture-level city of Shaoxing in the northeast of Zhejiang province, China. At the 2010 census, its population in the built-up (''or metro'') area was 779,412, up from 722,523 in the 2000 census. Shan ...

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Province. In 1938 he and his families moved into the

Shanghai French Concession The Shanghai French Concession; ; Shanghainese pronunciation: ''Zånhae Fah Tsuka'', group=lower-alpha was a foreign concession in Shanghai, China from 1849 until 1943, which progressively expanded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. T ...

where he attended a school run by French Jesuits. In 1946–1950 he studied electric mechanics at the

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. Upon graduation in 1950, he worked for the Foreign Liaison Department of the central committee of the Communist Youth League of China. In 1952, he attended the

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in Helsinki, Finland as a member of the Chinese sports delegation. In 1955, he was reassigned to the National Sports Commission of the PRC (now the State General Administration of Sports of the PRC). In 1964, he became the deputy secretary general of the

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, later served as the secretary general of the

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and the head of the secretariat of the

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. In 1979, he was promoted to the deputy secretary general of the All-China Sports Federation and the

(COC). He served as the secretary general of COC between 1982 and 1986, vice president between 1986 and 1989, and the president of COC between 1989 and 1994. He was elected to the

(IOC) in 1981. In 1985, he was elected to the executive board of IOC, and subsequently served three 5-year terms (1985-1989, 1994–1998, 1999-2003). He was elected the vice-president of the IOC in 1989, and served one term (1989-1993) and became an honorary member in 2010. He joined the

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in 1954. In 1988, he was elected to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). In 1993, he was elected to the standing committee of CPPCC and the vice commissioner of Physical Education and Sport of CPPCC. He Zhenliang died on 4 January 2015 aged 85.

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