Song Ping | |||||||||
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宋平 | |||||||||
.jpg) Song Ping in May 1949 | |||||||||
| Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party | |||||||||
| In office June 1987 – December 1989 | |||||||||
| General Secretary | Zhao Ziyang Jiang Zemin | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Wei Jianxing | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Lu Feng | ||||||||
| State Councilor of China | |||||||||
| In office June 1983 – April 1988 | |||||||||
| Premier | Zhao Ziyang | ||||||||
| Chairman of the State Planning Commission | |||||||||
| In office June 1983 – June 1987 | |||||||||
| Premier | Zhao Ziyang | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Yao Yilin | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yao Yilin | ||||||||
| Party Secretary of Gansu | |||||||||
| In office June 1977 – January 1981 | |||||||||
| Deputy | Feng Jixin (Governor) | ||||||||
| Preceded by | Xian Henghan | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Feng Jixin | ||||||||
| Governor of Gansu | |||||||||
| In office June 1977 – December 1979 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Xian Henghan | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Feng Jixin | ||||||||
| Personal details | |||||||||
| Born | (1917-04-24)24 April 1917 (age 108) | ||||||||
| Party | Chinese Communist Party (1937–present) | ||||||||
| Spouse | |||||||||
| Children | Song Yichang (son) Song Yichun (son) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Chinese | 宋平 | ||||||||
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Song Ping (Chinese:宋平; born 24 April 1917) is aChinese Communist revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of thePolitburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Song is considered the only living member of theSecond Generation of Chinese Leadership.
Song was born on 24 April 1917.[1] He rose through the ranks of the party to become First Party Secretary ofGansu Province, and later Minister of Organization of CCP. Song was in charge of senior cadres' recommendation, candidacy and promotion.[citation needed]
During his time as Party Chief of Gansu, Song Ping became amentor of two young protégés –Hu Jintao[2] andWen Jiabao[citation needed] – who were to become theGeneral Secretary of theChinese Communist Party and thePremier of the ChineseState Council, respectively.[3]
In 1987, Song left thePlanning Commission to replaceWei Jianxing as head of theCCP Central Organization Department.[4] Song announced a decision by the Chinese Communist Party to expel members of the communist party who were sympathetic topro-democracy demonstrations in the spring of 1989.[5] After the protests, Song became a member ofPolitburo Standing Committee withJiang Zemin andLi Ruihuan.
As a member of more conservative faction within the party, Song stepped down as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee along with another conservative faction memberYao Yilin on 19 October 1992 after14th Party Congress as a result ofDeng Xiaoping's action to put more reformists into PSC.[6]
Songturned 100 in 24 April 2017.[7] Considered instrumental in the rise of former CCP general secretaryHu Jintao, he lately attended the20th Party Congress at age 105.[8] He did not attendthe funeral of Jiang Zemin.[citation needed]
宋平，1917年4月24日出生于山东省莒县。
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| Preceded by | Governor of Gansu 1977–1979 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chairman of the State Planning Commission 1983–1987 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Party Secretary of Gansu 1977–1981 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party 1987–1989 | Succeeded by |
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