Ding Guangen

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Ding Guangen ( Chinese  丁关根 ; * September 1929 in Wuxi , Jiangsu ; † July 22, 2012 in Beijing ) was a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP), who was railroad minister between 1985 and 1988 and who was on March 12, 1988 resigned from his post after the Qiewu railway accident . He was also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China from 1992 to 2002 .

Life

Promotion to Minister of Railways and dismissal in 1988

Ding Guangen, who belongs to the Han ethnic group , began studying at the Faculty of Communication Management at Jiaotong University in Shanghai after attending school and graduated in August 1951. He then worked in the sea transport department of the Ministry of Transport and later a technician and engineer in the freight transport department of the Ministry of Railways. He became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in July 1956 and became a general transportation engineer for the Ministry of Railways in 1958. He was then secretary in the office of the railway minister between 1960 and 1969 and was employed during the cultural revolution between 1969 and 1972 as a member of the “7. May “seconded. From 1972 to 1975 he was employed in the administrative department of North Jiaotong University and from 1975 to 1981 deputy head of the foreign affairs department of the Ministry of Railways. From 1981 to 1983 he was head of the planning department and the education department of the Ministry of Railways.

On the XII. Congress of the Communist Party of China (September 1 to 12, 1982) Ding Guangen became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP Central Committee ) for the first time and was part of this body after his re-election at the XIII. Party Congress (October 25 to November 2, 1987), the XIV. Party Congress (October 12 to 19, 1992) and the XV. Party Congress (October 12-19, 1997) to the XVI. Congress (November 8-14, 2002) for 20 years. In 1985 he replaced Chen Puru as Minister of Railways and was also on the XIII. 1987 Congress candidate of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee. After the Qiewu railway accident on January 24, 1988, killing 88 people, the National People's Congress decided on March 12, 1988 to resign as Minister of Railways and was replaced by Li Senmao . Nevertheless, twelve days later, on March 24, 1988, there was also the railway accident in Kuangxiang , a suburb of Shanghai . At least 29 people died in the accident and 99 were injured. Many Japanese students were among the victims . The railway accident led Japanese families to file damages against the Chinese State Railways .

Head of the Central Committee Propaganda Department and member of the Politburo

After his dismissal as minister, Ding became director of the Taiwan Affairs Bureau in the State Council of the People's Republic of China in 1988, as well as vice minister of the State Commission for Development and Reform, and held these two functions until 1990. He was a key supporter of Deng Xiaoping in the suppression of student protests at the Tian'anmen massacre on June 3 and 4, 1989. On June 24, 1989, he was co-opted as a member of the CCP Central Committee's Secretariat at the 4th Plenum of the Central Committee. In 1990 he replaced Yan Mingfu as head of the United Labor Front Central Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China until he was succeeded by Wang Zhaoguo in December 1992. He himself took over from Wang Renzhi as head of the propaganda department of the CCP Central Committee in September 1992 and held the position this for ten years until October 2002, whereupon Liu Yunshan succeeded him.

At the XIV. Party Congress (October 12-19, 1992), Ding Guangen was finally elected a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and belonged to this top leadership body of the party after his re-election at the XV. Party Congress (October 12-19, 1997) to the XVI. Congress (November 8-14, 2002) for ten years. At the same time he became a member of the secretariat of the Central Committee at the 1st plenum of the XIV. Central Committee on October 21, 1992 and belonged to this body until the XVI. Party congress 2002. Furthermore, in April 1997 he also became director of the newly created Central Advisory Commission for the Building of a Spiritual Civilization of the CPC Central Committee, which, alongside the leadership group for propaganda and ideological work, is one of the most important ideological steering bodies of the CPC and the People's Republic of China, which promotes nationwide propaganda and ideological spread controlled. In this position, he was replaced by Li Changchun in November 2002 . He was considered a conservative in the leadership of the Communist Party and restricted Chinese art through his strict control of propaganda , which is why he was heavily criticized by liberal intellectuals .

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