Zhang Dejiang

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Zhang on June 15, 2011 at a meeting with the then Prime Minister of Greece Giorgos Papandreou .

Zhang Dejiang ( Chinese  張德江  /  张德江 , Pinyin Zhāng Déjiāng ; born November 4, 1946 in Tai'an , Liaoning Province , Republic of China ) is a Chinese communist politician, member of the Politburo since 2002, member of the State Council and Vice Prime Minister since 2008 Chongqing City Party leader since March 2012 . In March 2013, the National People's Congress elected him its chairman. He held this office until March 2018. He was succeeded by Li Zhanshu .

Studies and academic career

After studying at the Kim Il-sung University Faculty of Economics , he was sent as a young intellectual to field work in Jilin Province in northeast China in November 1968 . From 1970 to 1972, he was secretary of the Communist Youth Union and propaganda secretary in Wangqing County . In January 1971, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) .

From 1972 to 1975 he studied Korean at Yanbian University . He then worked as a lecturer and deputy secretary of the party organization at the Faculty of Korean Language at Yanbian University. At the same time he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Deputy Chairman of the University's Revolutionary Committee until 1978. From 1978 to 1980 he completed postgraduate studies at Kim Il Sung University in North Korea . During this time he was also the secretary of the University's Chinese Students' Party Organization.

He then became a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee again, as well as the Deputy Rector of Yanbian University.

Party secretary and promotion to a member of the Politburo

In 1983, he became the deputy secretary of the Party Committee in Yanji , capital of Yanbian Autonomous District . At the same time, he was a member of the Standing Committee of the Yanbian Party Committee in this capacity. Two years later, he was appointed deputy secretary of the Yanbian Autonomous District Party Committee in Jilin Province .

After serving as Vice Minister for Civil Affairs and Deputy Secretary of the Ministry's Party Organization in Beijing from 1986 to 1990, he returned to Jilin Province. There he was deputy secretary of the provincial party committee until 1995 and also secretary of the party committee of the Yanbian Autonomous District. He was elected as a candidate for the Central Committee (Central Committee) at the CCP's 14th Congress in 1992 . From 1995 to 1998, he was the secretary of the Jilin Province Party Committee. In 1998 he also briefly chaired the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress. He became a member of the CCP Central Committee in 1997 at the 15th Congress of the CCP.

In 1998 he was appointed secretary of the Zhejiang Province Party Committee in southeast China.

He finally became a member of the Central Committee Political Bureau in 2002 at the 16th Congress of the CCP. In November 2002, he became secretary of the fourth largest province, Guangdong Province Party Committee . In this role, he has faced repeated criticism, such as his crisis management of the SARS epidemic in 2003 or the treatment of supporters of Falun Gong . On November 8, 2005, he was served a subpoena from the New South Wales Supreme Court for torturing a Falun Gong practitioner from Sydney . In 2007, Wang Yang succeeded him in this position.

Zhang has been a member of the State Council as Vice Prime Minister since 2008 and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee since November 2012 .

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  1. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Power struggle decided: China's top politician Bo Xilai dismissed ; dpa report on Focus-Online from March 15, 2012. China's top politician Bo Xilai deposed ; Report in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung from March 15, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de
  2. ^ The Case of Zhang Dejiang ; in: EastSouthWestNorth
  3. Xin Yu: Australian Federal Police Accepts List of Names of Officials Involved in the Persecution of Falun Gong ; Falun Dafa Article, Nov. 15, 2005.