Jia Qinglin

Jia (right) at a meeting with Medvedev in China

Jia Qinglin ( Chinese  贾庆林 , Pinyin Jiǎ Qìnglín ) (* 1940 in Botou , China ) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China from 2002 to 2012 and chaired the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese People from 2003 to 2013 .

Jia Qinglin was considered a controversial cast on the Politburo Standing Committee. Presumably, at Jiang Zemin's instigation, he had entered the Standing Committee. Jia Qinglin's reputation was hurt by the smuggling scandal in Xiamen that occurred during his tenure as party secretary in that province, particularly as his wife was allegedly involved in the scandal.

biography

Jia Qinglin was born in 1940 in Botou , Hebei Province, China . Between 1956 and 1958 he studied industrial management in Shijiazhuang , also in his native Hebei province. As a young adult, he joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1959 .

In 1962, he graduated from Hebei High School of Engineering in the field of electricity as an engineer and then went straight to the engineering position at the 1st Department of Engineering

In 1969, he completed physical labor at the May 7th Cadre School in Fengxin County , Jiangxi Province .

His career took off in the following decades. In 1973 he was promoted to his engineering ministry and from then on acted as head of the product management office of the 1st engineering ministry . In 1978 he was promoted again to chairman of the National Society for the Import and Export of Machinery and Equipment . In 1983, he was appointed director of Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Factory .

He received his first important tasks on the political stage from 1985. In 1985 he was appointed a member of the provincial party committee of Fujian and deputy party secretary . In 1991 the career leap to governor of Fujian followed. In 1993 he changed posts and immediately became the party secretary of Fujian.

In 1994, Jia Qinglin became chairman of the Standing Committee of the Fujian People's Congress . Just two years later, in 1996, he was promoted to deputy party secretary and deputy mayor of Beijing . In the same year, also in 1996, he also helped found the state-owned Beiqi Foton Motor . From 1997 to 1999 he was the mayor of Beijing. Also in 1997, he was assigned the office of party secretary of Beijing, which he held until 2002.