Xie Fei (; November 4, 1932 – October 27, 1999) was a Chinese politician. He was best known for his term as the Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong between 1991 and 1998, as a member of the

Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, formally known as the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and known as the Central Bureau before 1927, is the decision-making body of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). ...

, and as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Biography

Xie, a

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, was born in Hekou Town,

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, Guangdong Province to Li Chun (1896-2009) . He secretly participated in the Communist Party's activities in 1947, and joined Chinese Communist Party in July 1949. In 1955, he was appointed as a member of CPC's Lufeng County Standing Committee, and the director of its propaganda department.谢非
cpc.people.com.cn He was later promoted to party secretary of Lufeng. He was transferred to journal ''Shangyou'' as an editor in 1960. His following appointments included fellow in office of policy research in CPC's central south bureau, vice director of political office in Guangdong Revolutionary Committee, vice director in department of politics in scientific and educational province Guangdong, and vice director of office of culture and education province Guangdong. In 1976, he became one of the three leaders of the journal '' Red Flag''. He was appointed as vice secretary general as well as director of the general office of the CPC Guangdong committee in 1979. He was promoted to secretary-general and president of party school in Guangdong in 1983. Xie became party chief of Guangzhou in 1986, and then promoted to Guangdong provincial party chief in 1991. He was a member of the

from 1992 to 1998. From March 1998, he became vice chairman of standing committee of National People's Congress as well as a politburo member. He was an alternate member of

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, and a full member of 13th-15th Central Committees, and a member of the 14th and 15th Politburo. He died while still in office as a Politburo member. He was the only member of the 15th Politburo to have died while still holding his seat. The next Politburo member to die before the end of his term was

Huang Ju Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in ...

in 2007. Xie is also, as of 2016, the most recent Guangdong party chief to have been born in Guangdong province. He died on October 27, 1999, in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

, at the age of 66.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Xie, Fei 1932 births 1999 deaths Chinese politicians of Hakka descent People's Republic of China politicians from Guangdong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Guangdong People from Lufeng Political office-holders in Guangdong Members of the 15th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress Politicians from Shanwei