Zeng Qinghong

Zeng Qinghong (曾庆红), became a vice-president of the Chinese Communist party (PCC) in 2003. He became member of the Politburo and member of the secretariat of the central committee of the PCC during the l6e congress of the party in 2002. He is the number five of the Chinese Communist party. He is engineer since 1963, when he passed his studies to the Institute of the Technology of Beijing.

Its beginnings

He was born has Ji' year, province of the Jiangxi in July 1939. He is graduate “college” 101 of Beijing and automatic department of check of the Institute of the Technology of Beijing, in 1963. Like the eight other members of the Standing Committee of the 16th central committee of the PCC, Zeng is an engineer, an automatic specialist in the control systems. He adhered to the PCC in April 1960.

Zeng began its career as technician in industry from defense in Beijing. During the Cultural revolution, it was sent on bases of the APL in Hunan and Guandong to make manual duties there. Zeng joined in 1979 the commission of state for the development and the reform where it had positions of responsibility in the oil sector of state.

Ascencion

In 1984, Zeng joined the municipal government of Shanghai, where it became a major ally of the mayor of then, Jiang Zemin. When Jiang reached national management with Beijing following the Manifestations of the place Tian' anmen in 1989, it preserved Zeng Qinghong at its sides like advising.

As director of the general office of the central committee of the PCC of 1989 to 1993, Zeng guided the first Pekinese step of Jiang, newcomer to the national policy, through the meanders of the structures of the party, the soldiers and the bureaucrats in Beijing. It widens the network of Jiang and became its right-hand man. Through the years 1990, Zeng consolidated its influences on the bodies of the party responsible for the nominations of the executives to important political positions. As a person in charge of the department “organization” of the central committee of the PCC of 1999 - with 2002, it reinforced the position of Jiang by ensuring promotion of what was called the “Clique of Shanghai” at central or regional stations. It helped also Jiang to build the political philosophy of the Three representations.

It asset reputation to be “the executor” of the rivals of Jiang. In 1992 it helped to return the old ones and powerful generals Yang Shangkun and Yang Baibing, which threatened the authority of Jiang within the soldiers. Then it used a campaign anti-corruption to orchestrate the fall of Chen Xitong, secretary of the party in Beijing and opponent with Jiang.

July 20th, 1999, the mode of Jiang Zemin began a repression against the sect of the Falun Gong. In January 2001, Zeng Qinghong explained during a meeting of the department of the organization of the PCC why the Communist party and all its departments on all the levels were to take part in the combat against the “Shelly sand Gong”.

National policy

After the 16th congress of the party in 2002, he was member of the Central committee of the Chinese Communist party, member of the Politburo, the decision-making center of the party and also a member of the secretariat of the central committee of the PCC.

June 6th 2003, Zeng published the order of " not to play or sing International the during the meetings of the members of the party at the provincial or local level. This was regarded as a step on side with respect to the communist doctrines for China.

Although Jiang withdrew powerful Standing Committee of the political office of the Chinese Communist party to leave the place to a generation younger control by Hu Jintao, Jiang continued certainly to exert a major influence through Zeng. Through the efforts of Zeng', six among the nine novel members of the Standing Committee belonged to clicks of Shanghai (Zeng, Wu Bangguo, Jia Qinglin, Huang Ju, Wu Guanzheng and Li Changchun).

As Jiang Zemin reached the end of its mandate, much speculated that Jiang preferred Zeng Qinghong rather than Hu Jintao like successor. Maist Hu became the successor of Jiang, and Zeng became the Vice-president in March 2003. During the epidemic of the SARS, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao took a assured position while Zeng and the other faithful ones of Jiang were done more discrete. Zeng was also supposed to replace Hu as vice-president of the central military Commission (RPC) at the time of the resignation of Jiang of the position of president in favor of Hu. However when Jiang resigned on September 19th, 2004, Xu Caihou replaced Hu instead of Zeng.

In August 2007, Zeng leads a delegation of official to the ceremonies of the celebration of the sixtieth birthday of the creation of the Mongolia-Interior autonomous region of .

October 21st, 2007, the vice-president Zeng Qinghong did not appear among the few 200 members of the new Central committee at the conclusion of the 17th Congress of the Chinese Communist party. This exclusion reinforces the capacity of Hu Jintao, Zeng being faithful of Jiang Zemin.

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