Qi Yuanjing

Qi Yuanjing ( Chinese  戚元靖 ; born April 4, 1929 in Wuhan , Hubei ; † November 4, 1994 ) was a Chinese politician of the Communist Party of China (CCP), who was Minister of Metallurgical Industry from 1985 to 1993.

Life

Qi Yuanjing, a Han member, became a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1945 and graduated from the United University of North China and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. In 1948 he began studying at the Institute for Technology in Harbin and after the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, he was translator for the Russian language in the Ministry of Industry and for the Anshan Iron and Steel Combine . After working at Dalian University of Technology , he began studying at the Leningrad School of Architecture and Engineering in 1951where he was also secretary of the Chinese Student Union and chairman of the student council. On his return in 1956 he became an employee of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and was successively engineer, chief engineer, vice-president and dean of the Institute for Iron and Steel Research in Beijing .

In 1982, Qi Yuanjing became vice minister for the metallurgical industry and was a member of the CCP leadership group at that ministry until 1985. In August 1985, he replaced Li Dongye as Minister of Metallurgical Industry in the State Council of the People's Republic of China and held this ministerial office until March 1993, whereupon Liu Qi succeeded him. He was also the secretary of the CCP leadership group at that ministry from 1985 to 1993, and in 1985 he was first a candidate for the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the XIII. At the CCP Congress (October 25 to November 2, 1987), he was elected a member of the CCP Central Committee and served on that body until his death. He was most recently a member of the National People's Congress from 1993 to 1994 and also acted as deputy chairman of the Committee for Environmental Protection and Resource Conservation in this eighth legislative period.

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• Entry (chinavitae.com)

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