Jia Qinglin

Jia Qinglin
贾庆林
7th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office
13 March 2003 – 11 March 2013
DeputyWang Gang
Preceded byLi Ruihuan
Succeeded byYu Zhengsheng
Communist Party Secretary of Beijing
In office
25 August 1997 – 22 October 2002
Preceded byWei Jianxing
Succeeded byLiu Qi
Communist Party Secretary of Fujian
In office
30 December 1993 – 28 October 1996
Preceded byChen Guangyi
Succeeded byChen Mingyi
Personal details
Born (1940-03-13) March 13, 1940 (age 84)
Botou, Hebei, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
SpouseLin Youfang
Children1 son, 1 daughter
RelativesLi Pak-tam (son-in-law)
Jasmine Li (grandchild)
Alma materHebei University of Technology
ProfessionEngineer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese賈慶林
Simplified Chinese贾庆林
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJiǎ Qìnglín
Southern Min
Hokkien POJKa Kheng-lim

Jia Qinglin (Chinese: 贾庆林; born 13 March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between 2002 and 2012, and Chairman of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference between 2003 and 2013.[1]

Jia, an engineer by trade, began his political career in Fujian in 1985. There, he rose steadily through the ranks and led the province during the Yuanhua scandal. In 1996, Jia was transferred to become mayor, then party chief of Beijing.[2] Largely due to his patronage relationship with then General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Jia was promoted to the Politburo in 1997, and remained a mainstay figure in China's political elite for the next fifteen years.[3] He retired in 2013.[4]

  1. ^ Michael Sainsbury (10 March 2011). "JULIA Gillard will meet the implications of China's military rise head-on in her first visit to Beijing as Prime Minister next month". The Australian.
  2. ^ "People's Daily Online". People's Daily. Retrieved 22 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Tainted by scandal, China's Jia faces test". Reuters. 15 October 2007.
  4. ^ "Who's Who in China's Leadership". China.org.cn. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 22 March 2012.

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