Zhang Jingfu or Zhang Jinfu (; 6 June 1914 – 31 July 2015) was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor and

Communist Party Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

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 Riv ...

province,

Minister of Finance A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation. A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", ...

, and

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of the 5th and 6th State Councils. Zhang was an alternate member of the 8th

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, a member of the 11th and 12th Central Committees, a member of the 3rd and 4th Standing Committee of the

CPPCC National Committee 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 ...

, and a Standing Committee of the

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Biography

Zhang was born Zhang Shide () into a family of farming background in

Feidong County Feidong 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. The county has a surface of and a population of 861,960 inhabitants. It contains 18 towns and ...

, on June 6, 1914. In 1930, he attended Nanjing Xiaozhuang School (), which was founded by

Tao Xingzhi Tao Xingzhi (; October 18, 1891 – July 25, 1946), was a renowned Chinese educator and reformer in the Republic of China mainland era. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University and returned to China to champion progressive education. ...

, a noted Chinese educator. He became an editor in ''Life Education'' () in 1931. In the winter of 1932, he was a teacher, and then president of Dachangshan Haigong School (). 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 Ci ...

in December 1935 and worked in

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. In 1937, after the outbreak of

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...

, Shanghai was occupied by the Japanese army, he retreated to

Wuhan Wuhan (, ; ; ) is the capital of Hubei Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the largest city in Hubei and the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over eleven million, the ninth-most populous Chinese city a ...

, capital of

Hubei Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The p ...

province. Zhang was appointed as the head of the Propaganda Department of Anhui provincial government in April 1938. One year later, he became the deputy director of Political Department of Jiangbei headquarters of the

New Fourth Army The New Fourth Army () was a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China established in 1937. In contrast to most of the National Revolutionary Army, it was controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and not by the ruling Ku ...

. In January 1940, he was

of Jinpuludong province, and concurrently served as director of Political Department of Fifth detachment of the New Fourth Army. A year later, he became the deputy director of Political Department of Second division of the New Fourth Army. In February 1942, he served as a political commissar of Fourth Brigade of Second division of the New Fourth Army, and concurrently served as head of the Propaganda Department of Huainan. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he was appointed as Vice-Mayor and Deputy Communist Party Secretary of

Hangzhou Hangzhou ( or , ; , , Standard Chinese, Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), also Chinese postal romanization, romanized as Hangchow, is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northwestern part of the prov ...

, capital of

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Ji ...

province. In 1956, he became the Vice-President of the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

, serving as an assistant of President Guo Moruo. In January 1975 he was promoted to become the Finance Minister of China, a position he held until August 1979. In 1980, he served as Governor and Communist Party Secretary of

province, replacing

Wan Li Wan Li (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of ...

. In 1982, he was promoted to director of the State Economic Commission and

of China. Zhang was elected a Standing Committee of the

at the

13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing from 25 October to 1 November 1987. It was preceded by the 12th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. It was succeeded by ...

. Zhang died in

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on July 31, 2015. Zhang's body was cremated on August 6, 2015. China's seven senior leaders attended the funeral at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in west Beijing.

Personal life

Zhang married Hu Xiaofeng (), they had two sons, Zhang Bohai () and Zhang Mao (). Zhang Mao, who is married to the daughter of the former Vice Premier Gu Mu, serves as Minister of the

State Administration for Industry and Commerce Prior to March 2018, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC; ) was the authority in the People's Republic of China responsible for advancing legislation concerning the administration of industry and commerce in the People's Repub ...

References

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