Ren Jianxin (; born August 1925) is a Chinese retired lawyer, judge, and politician. He served as President of the

Supreme People's Court The Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (SPC; ) is the highest court of the People's Republic of China. It hears appeals of cases from the high people's courts and is the trial court for cases about matters of national ...

from 1988 to 1998.

Early life

Ren Jianxin was born in

Xiangfen County Xiangfen County () is a county in the southwest of Shanxi Province, China. It was established in February 1954 from the merger of the former Xiangling County () and Fencheng County (). The county falls under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level ...

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

Province in 1925. From 1946 to 1948 he studied at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

. From 1949 to 1959 he was a clerk in 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 ...

's key decision-making bodies: the Central Committee's Political Science and Law Committee, the State Council Bureau of Legislative Affairs and the Office of the State Council.Profile of Ren Jianxin
China Vitae, undated, retrieved 3 February 2016

Career

In 1959 Ren Jianxin became Secretary-General of the Foreign Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, where he stayed until 1966. From 1971 to 1981 he was the Director of Legal Affairs in the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, and Secretary-General in its Maritime Arbitration Commission, before becoming the council's vice-president in 1983. In 1983 he entered the Supreme People's Court of China; first started as vice-president for 5 years until 1988, and then President for the next 10 years from 1988 to 1998. It was during this time that he also advanced in the Communist Party of China, and was chosen to become a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee (1983-1992) and later also its Central Political and Legislative Committee respectively, from 1992 to 1997. In 1995, he signed the Beijing Statement of Principles of the Independence of the Judiciary. At the age of 72, he moved up to become a Delegate of the National Congress during the

's 15th governing period (1997—2002). From 1998 to 2003 he was the vice-chairman of the National Committee's 9th

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC, zh, 中国人民政治协商会议), also known as the People's PCC (, ) or simply the PCC (), is a political advisory body in the People's Republic of China and a central part of ...

Honors and awards

*1997—present President of the

National Judges College National Judges College () is an educational institute in Beijing under the Supreme People's Court. It is responsible for training the judges of the People's Republic of China. It was established in 1997 and has 12 branches in the high people's ...

*1997—2003 President of

China Law Society The China Law Society () is the official people's organization of Chinese legal academic professionals. It was established in 1982 and has sub-institutions of different fields of law, such as jurisprudence, constitutional law, civil law, crimina ...

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Early life

Career

Honors and awards

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