Ji Dengkui

Ji Dengkui ( Chinese  纪登奎 ; born March 17, 1923 in Wuxiang , Changzhi , Shanxi ; † July 13, 1988 ) was a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP) who, among other things, was Vice Prime Minister in the State Council of the People's Republic between 1975 and 1980 China was.

Life

Ji Dengkui became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1938 and was secretary of the party committees of Xuchang County and Luoyang City after the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949 in the 1950s . He then served as a member of the Secretariat of the Henan Provincial CCP Party Committee during the Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1971, and also became vice-chairman of the Henan Provincial Revolutionary Committee in 1968. On the IX. At the CCP Congress (April 1-24, 1969), he was elected a candidate for the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCP Central Committee ), of which he was a member until February 29, 1980. Due to the impression he made when Mao Zedong visited Henan, he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee at the 10th Congress of the CCP (August 24-28, 1973), to which he was re-elected on the XI. Member of the CCP Congress (August 12-18, 1977) until February 29, 1980.

In 1975, Ji Dengkui became Vice Prime Minister of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and held this government function until 1980. In 1975, he was sent to Zhejiang with Wang Hongwen and Guo Yufeng to oversee the restructuring of the local Revolutionary Committee. In October 1976, he supported party chairman Hua Guofeng in disempowering the so-called " Gang of Four " around Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's wife), Zhang Chunqiao , Yao Wenyuan and Wang Hongwen. He played an important role in the takeover of the newspaper Guangming Daily , standing in front of Mao Zedong's death on September 9, 1976, the intellectual influence of the Gang of Four. Along with Wang Dongxing , Wu De and Chen Xilian, he was one of Hua Guofeng's supporters within the party leadership who, after saying, 'We will resolutely adhere to the political decisions made by Chairman Mao, and we will unwaveringly follow Chairman Mao's instructions.' also known as the so-called “Whatever” faction or, in allusion to the gang of four, also called the “little gang of four”.

However, on February 29, 1980, at the 5th Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, Ji Dengkui, along with Wang Dongxing, Wu De, and Chen Xilian, was removed from all party and state leadership roles. Most recently, he worked as a research scientist at the Research Center for Rural Development in Beijing from 1982 until his death in 1988.

Web links

• Entry (chinavitae.com)
• Yuwu Song: Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China , p. 148, McFarland, 2013, ISBN 0-7864-3582-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ Party Congresses of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ruling party of People's Republic of China

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Ji is the family name here, Dengkui is the first name.