Lu Rongjing (; born August 1933) is a Chinese politician who served as

governor of Anhui The Politics of Anhui Province in the People's Republic of China is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in mainland China. The Governor of Anhui (安徽省省长) is the highest-ranking official in the ...

from 1988 to 1989, party secretary of Anhui from 1988 to 1996, and chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1996 to 2000. He was a delegate to the

7th National People's Congress The 7th National People's Congress () was in session from 1988 to 1993. It held five sessions in this period. Election results Elected state leaders In the 1st Session in 1988, the Congress elected the state leaders: *President of the People's ...

. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th and 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a member of the

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, 14th and 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Lu was born in

Lujiang County Lujiang County () is a county of Anhui Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui. It is the southernmost county-level division under the jurisdiction of the provincial capita ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

, in August 1933. He worked in Tongguanshan Copper Mine from 1953 until 1966, when he suffered

political persecution Political repression is the act of a state entity controlling a citizenry by force for political reasons, particularly for the purpose of restricting or preventing the citizenry's ability to take part in the political life of a society, thereby ...

at the dawn of the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil ...

(CCP) in December 1954. He was soon reinstated in April 1968 as head of the Revolutionary Committee of Tongguanshan Copper Mine. He was deputy party secretary of

Tongling Tongling (; former names: Tunglinghsien, Tungkwanshan) is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. As of the 20 ...

in January 1973 before being assigned to the similar position in

Ma'anshan Ma'anshan (), also colloquially written as Maanshan, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of Anhui province in Eastern China. An industrial city stretching across the Yangtze River, Ma'anshan borders Hefei to the west, Wuhu to the sout ...

in November 1976. He was appointed first director of Anhui Provincial Industrial Transportation Office in September 1978, concurrently serving as deputy director of Anhui Provincial Economic Commission. He was chosen as deputy head of Organization Department in January 1980 and three years later was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Anhui Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. In December 1984, he was made deputy party secretary of Anhui. In June 1987, he was named acting governor, confirmed in February 1988. Two months later, in April, he was promoted to party chief of Anhui. It would be his first job as "first-in-charge" of a province. In February 1996, he was proposed as chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the province's top political advisory body.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lu, Rongjing 1933 births Living people People from Lujiang County Governors of Anhui People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Anhui Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress Members of the Standing Committee of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the Standing Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party