Jia Qinglin
| Jia Qinglin | |
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| 贾庆林 | |
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| 7th Chairman of the National Committee of the CPPCC | |
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In office March 2003 – March 2013 |
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| Deputy | Wang Gang |
| Preceded by | Li Ruihuan |
| Succeeded by | Yu Zhengsheng |
| Member of the 16,17th CPC Politburo Standing Committee | |
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In office 15 November 2002 – 15 November 2012 |
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| General Secretary | Hu Jintao |
| Member of the National People's Congress |
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Assumed office 15 March 1993 |
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| Constituency |
Fujian At-large (93–98) Beijing At-large (98-) |
| CPC Beijing Committee Secretary | |
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In office 1997–2002 |
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| Deputy | Liu Qi |
| Preceded by | Wei Jianxing |
| Succeeded by | Liu Qi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 1940 (age 76) Botou, Hebei |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Lin Youfang |
| Alma mater | Hebei University of Technology |
| Profession | Engineer |
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| Traditional Chinese | 賈慶林 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 贾庆林 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiǎ Qìnglín |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Ka Kheng-lim |
Jia Qinglin (born March 1940 in Botou, Hebei) was a senior leader of the People's Republic of China. He was the fourth ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Chairman and Party secretary of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference. Jia's functions as the head of China's consultative legislative body are largely ceremonial in nature.
Earlier he had served as the CPC Party Chief in Fujian and Beijing.
An engineer by profession, and one of former General Secretary Jiang Zemin's trusted allies and protégés, Jia Qinglin's rise in the politburo is attributed to his relationship with Jiang. Jia served as the Party chief in Fujian in the early 1990s. He was later transferred to Beijing in 1996 to replace then Beijing Party-chief Chen Xitong who was arrested on corruption charges. Jia served as the acting mayor, Mayor and Party Chief in Beijing, coming onto the national and international spotlight during the 50th Anniversary of PRC celebrations as the event's host.
Because of his high local position and his ties with then-General Secretary Jiang Zemin, in November 2002 Jia became the fourth-ranking member of the 16th Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) of the Communist Party of China. Although his ceremonial role as the Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a quasi-consultative upper house in China's political system, makes him fourth in the order of precedence, it is widely accepted that the position has very little power, perhaps the least amount of power in the nine PSC members. Jia Qinglin was the most senior Chinese official to attend the funeral of Zhao Ziyang. With the transition of authority to Hu Jintao in 2005, Jia appears to have been given the job of coordinating policy on Taiwan.
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