Nie Bichu (; 2 January 1928 – 20 April 2018) was a Chinese politician. He served as Mayor and acting Party Secretary of

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

Biography

Nie was born in Tianjin in 1928, with his ancestral home in

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

Province. He studied at Yaohua School in Tianjin from 1935 to 1946, and graduated from

Beiyang University National Peiyang University (北洋大学堂), originally Imperial Tientsin University, was established in Tianjin in October 1895 by Sheng Xuanhuai, the official of the Tianjin Customs, with the approval of the Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty. I ...

(now Tianjin University) in 1950. He had four siblings, two of whom died early. He joined the

Communist Party of China 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 ...

in 1948 and was a member of its 13th Central Committee. Nie served as mayor of

from October 1989 to June 1993 and Chairman of Tianjin People's Congress from June 1993 to May 1998. When

Tan Shaowen Tan Shaowen (; July 4, 1929 – February 3, 1993) was a Chinese politician. He served as the Communist Party Chief and top leader of the direct-controlled municipality of Tianjin, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Part ...

, Party Secretary of Tianjin, died in February 1993, Nie served as acting Party Secretary for a month before

Gao Dezhan Gao Dezhan () (born 1932) is a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Qixia, Shandong. He was a graduate of Dalian University of Technology. He was governor of Jilin and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Tianjin. He was ...

was appointed as Tan's replacement. In the early 1990s, he successfully lobbied the central government to allow Tianjin to implement housing reform after the example of Shanghai. Nie died on 20 April 2018 at the age of 90.

References

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