Hu Qili

Hu Qili ( Chinese 胡启立 , Pinyin Hú Qǐlì ); * 1929 in Yulin, Shaanxi Province is a Chinese communist politician and former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China . Today he is chairman of the Chinese Welfare Institute of the Song Qingling Foundation.

Studies and professional career

Hu Qili graduated from 1946 to 1951 to study physics at Peking University . While still a student, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949 . From 1951 to 1956 he was chairman of the All-Chinese Student Union, chairman of the Student Union of Peking University and a member of the Beijing University Party Committee. From 1956 to 1972 he was President of the International Student Union. However, he was released from this office in December 1966 during the Cultural Revolution .

Between 1972 and 1977 he was the head of the main department of the Party Committee of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and a candidate for the Central Committee and the Secretariat of the Communist Youth Association. At the same time, he was Deputy Secretary of the Xiji and Guyuan Counties' Party Committees in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

In 1977 he became vice president of Tsinghua University in Beijing . In this function he was also the deputy secretary of the university party committee and a member of the Central Committee and the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth Union. A year later he became president of the All-Chinese Youth Association and secretary of the National Student Association.

In 1980 he was elected mayor of Tianjin, a city under the government . At the same time he was secretary of the city's party committee until 1982.

Promotion to the Standing Committee and loss of power

In 1982, at the 12th Congress of the CCP, he was elected head of the Central Committee. At the same time he became a member of the Central Committee and in 1985 of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CCP.

At the 13th CCP Congress in 1987, he was also elected a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party . He rose to the closest leadership circle of the state and party leadership. After the death of former reformist general secretary of the CPC Hu Yaobang on April 15, 1989 and the overthrow of the existing also as a reformer successor Zhao Ziyang lost Hu Qili but these influential positions because of its equally open attitude towards the student movement of the Tiananmen massacre of June 1989.

After the 14th CCP Congress in 1992, Hu Qili was no longer even a member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Instead, he became Vice Minister for the Electrical Industry in 1991 . In 1993 he was appointed Minister of the Electrical Industry and Secretary of the Ministry's Party Committee. Between 1996 and 1998 he was also Deputy Head of the State Leadership Group for Information.

In 1998, he became vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) . In this office he was one of Li Ruihuan's representatives until 2003 .

Since 1998 he has been chairman of the Song Qingling Foundation, the Chinese charitable foundation.

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SURNAME	Hu Qili
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese politician (People's Republic of China)
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Yulin ( Shaanxi Province )