Sun Weiben (; 19 November 1928 – 18 December 2020) was a Chinese politician who served as Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang from 1985 to 1994 and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang People's Congress from 1988 to 1998. He spent most of his career in northeast China's

Liaoning Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...

province before becoming top leader of neighboring Heilongjiang province. He was a member of the 12th,

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and

14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1992 to 1997. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 13th Central Committee. It was elected by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ...

. He was a delegate to the

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7th 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...

, 8th,

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and

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. He was a deputy to the 18th and

19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly referred to as ''Shíjiǔ Dà''; ) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017. 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 mill ...

Biography

Sun was born in Gaizhou,

, on November 19, 1928. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in October 1947. Before entering politics in March 1951, he was an accountant. He spent ten years in the Organization Department of CCP

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Municipal Committee. He was Communist Party Secretary of Xifeng County in January 1961, and held that office until July 1965. Then he was appointed Communist Party Secretary of

Kaiyuan County Kaiyuan () is a county-level city within the jurisdiction of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southeast of Yunnan province, China. Geography The maximum sea level of Kaiyuan is 2,775.6 meters and the minimum is 950 meters. The annu ...

, but having held the position for only twenty months. In March 1967, at the dawn of the Cultural Revolution, he suffered political persecution and was sent to the May Seventh Cadre School to do farm works. In May 1970, he was appointed Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Faku County, a position he held until April 1974. Then he became Communist Party Secretary of Xifeng County again. He became Communist Party Secretary of Tieling in February 1976, and served until March 1982. He became a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Liaoning Provincial Committee and rose to become Communist Party Secretary of Liaoning (deputy leader) in March 1982. In the autumn of 1985, he was transferred from his job in Liaoning province to neighboring Heilongjiang province. He was promoted to be Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang in October 1985, concurrently holding the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang People's Congress position since January 1988. On December 18, 2020, he died of illness in

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, Heilongjiang, aged 92.

References

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