Li Changjiang ( Chinese: 李长江; October 1944 - ) was minister and

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(CCP) party chief of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ).

Biography

Born in

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, Li joined the CCP in December 1965, and started working in July 1970. He graduated from the Changchun Institute of Fine Optical Mechanics (now the

Changchun University of Science and Technology Changchun University of Science and Technology () is a key university in Changchun, Jilin, China, previously known as Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (). It was founded by Wang Daheng in 1958. After half a century's developmen ...

), majoring in the design and manufacture of optical devices. He holds the title of vice research fellow at the University.

Career

He formerly served as the governor assistant and vice governor of Zhejiang Province. In 2001, he was appointed minister and vice party chief of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, and became minister and party chief of that administration in 2008. According to the '' Daily Telegraph'', "Mr Li became a celebrity

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for his handling of the row over poisoned Chinese exports, which began with pet food tainted with

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and moved on to

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-coated toys. He said it was a "foreign plot" by Western countries to protect themselves from Chinese imports. "''The poisoning of China's babies'', Telegraph
/ref> He has been a member of the

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and 17th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

Resignation

Li was forced to resign in September 2008 after a

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investigation concluded that he and Shijiazhuang Party Secretary Wu Xianguo were responsible for the "vital food safety incident",''Xinhua''
"Shijiazhuang party chief sacked over milk scandal"
chinaview.cn (22 September 2008) namely the dairy scandal which shook China.

Coming back

He was appointed vice director of the Office of Sweeping Pornography and Striking Illegal Publications (transliteration of 全國掃黃打非工作小組, which lacks an official translation to English) in December, 2009.

References

External links

Li Changjiang's profile at AQSIQ official website
Living people 1944 births People's Republic of China politicians from Heilongjiang Politicians from Harbin Chinese Communist Party politicians from Heilongjiang Political office-holders in Zhejiang Changchun University of Science and Technology alumni {{china-politician-stub