Jiang Chongjing (; April 1916 – 27 June 2019) was a Chinese politician and academic administrator. He served as president of the

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and

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, Party Secretary of the

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China The University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) is a national public research university in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. It was founded in 1956 instructed by the Premier Zhou Enlai. UESTC was established on the basis of the incorp ...

, and Vice Minister of the

Fourth Ministry of Machine Building The Fourth Ministry of Machine Building (中华人民共和国第四机械工业部), one of the central offices in the People's Republic of China, who oversaw the electronics industry. It was established in 1963. In March 1993, became part of the ...

Biography

Jiang was born in

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, Republic of China in April 1916. After the outbreak of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific Th ...

, he abandoned his university studies to join the Communist resistance in April 1938. He joined the

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in August 1938 and served as an officer in the

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

. During the war he served as Director of the Political Department of the 29th Regiment and then Political Commissar of the 27th Regiment. During the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on m ...

, he was in charge of weapons production in the

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. After the founding of the

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in 1949, Jiang served as president of the

and

. He later served as Party Secretary of the

. In June 1978, Jiang was appointed Vice Minister of the

. He retired in December 1982. Jiang died in Beijing on 27 June 2019, at the age of 103.

References

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