Liu Qi ( zh, s=刘淇, t=劉淇, p=Liú Qí; born November 3, 1942, in Wujin,

Changzhou Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling, and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhen ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

) is a retired Chinese politician. He formerly served as the

Party Secretary of Beijing The secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the One ...

, and also a member of the

Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party The Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, officially the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the executive committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Currently, the bureau i ...

. He was also the President of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Organizing Committee.

Biography

Steel Industry

Liu Qi graduated from

Beijing 101 Middle School Beijing 101 Middle School () is a public secondary school in Haidian, Beijing, China. It offers programs from grades 7 to 12. The early predecessor of Beijing 101 Middle School was established in Zhangjiakou in 1946. The school's name was succe ...

in 1959 and subsequently enrolled in the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering, and majored in

iron smelting Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron, copper, silver, tin, lead and zinc ...

, graduating in 1964. Concurrently, he was accepted into the postgraduate program of the same department, specializing in

Ferrous metallurgy Ferrous metallurgy is the metallurgy of iron and its alloys. The earliest surviving prehistoric iron artifacts, from the 4th millennium BC in Egypt, were made from meteoritic iron-nickel. It is not known when or where the smelting of iron from ...

, and obtained his postgraduate qualification in 1968. In June of the same year, he was appointed to the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company's Iron and Steel Plant, where he held positions as gas worker, furnace foreman, and foreman of the second blast furnace. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in September 1975. From 1978 to 1983, he served as a technician and deputy furnace manager of the third blast furnace at the same plant. From 1983 to 1985, he was the deputy director of the plant and the director of the production department. From 1985 to 1990, he served as the first director of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company's Iron and Steel Plant. From 1985 until 1990, he served as the inaugural deputy manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company and was a member of the company's CCP committee. From 1990 to 1993, he served as the manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company. He held the position of Minister of the from 1993 until 1998.

Beijing

In 1998,

Zhu Rongji Zhu Rongji ( zh, s=朱镕基; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the 5th premier of China from 1998 to 2003. He also served as member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ...

, the newly appointed Premier of the State Council, oversaw the

institutional reform of the State Council Since its establishment on September 27, 1954, the State Council of the People's Republic of China has undergone several major institutional reforms. Government Administration Council Zhou Enlai (1952) The Resolution of the Central People's ...

, resulting in the dissolution of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. Liu Qi was subsequently appointed as the Deputy Secretary of the

Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the municipal committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing. The CCP committee secretary is the highest ranking post in the city. The current secretary is Yin Li, a m ...

and Deputy

Mayor of Beijing The mayor of Beijing, officially the Mayor of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, is the head of Beijing, Beijing Municipality and leader of the Beijing Municipal People's Government. The mayor is elected by the Beijing Municipal People's Co ...

. From 1999 to 2002, he held the position of Deputy Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CCP and served as the Mayor of Beijing. From 2002 to 2003, he held the positions of member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CCP, and Mayor. He was a member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CCP from 2003 till June 2012. In December 2001, he held the position of chairman of the

Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, or BOCOG, also known as the Beijing Organizing Committee, was an informal name for the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. It was also the organizi ...

. During his tenure, Beijing effectively hosted the

2008 Summer Olympic Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fr ...

, and on August 25, 2008, Liu Qi received the

Olympic Order The Olympic Order, established in 1975, is the highest award of the Olympic Movement. It is awarded for particularly distinguished contributions to the Olympic Movement, i.e. recognition of efforts worthy of merit in the cause of sport. Tradit ...

from

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; , CIO) is the international, non-governmental, sports governing body of the modern Olympic Games. Founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas, it is based i ...

(IOC) President

Jacques Rogge Jacques Jean Marie, Count Rogge (, ; 2 May 1942 – 29 August 2021) was a Belgian sports administrator, former athlete, and physician, who served as the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. In 201 ...

. Liu Qi chaired

60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China The 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China took place on 1 October 2009. A military parade involving 10,000 troops and the display of many high-tech weapons was held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing and various celebra ...

in 2009 as the master of ceremonies, and has served as the deputy head of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization since July 2012. In November 2012, he resigned from his position as a member of the

References

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