Ji Pengfei
Ji Pengfei | |
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姬鹏飞 | |
2nd Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office | |
In office 1983–1990 | |
Premier | Zhao Ziyang Li Peng |
Preceded by | Liao Chengzhi |
Succeeded by | Lu Ping |
4th Secretary General of the State Council | |
In office 1979–1981 | |
Premier | Hua Guofeng Zhao Ziyang |
Preceded by | Jin Ming |
Succeeded by | Du Xinyuan |
3rd Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China | |
In office 1972–1974 | |
President | vacant |
Premier | Zhou Enlai |
Preceded by | Chen Yi |
Succeeded by | Qiao Guanhua |
Personal details | |
Born | Linyi County, Shanxi, Qing dynasty, China | February 2, 1910
Died | February 10, 2000 Beijing, People's Republic of China | (aged 90)
Political party | Communist Party of China |
Spouse(s) | Xu Hanbing (born 1920) |
Children | Ji Shengde |
Ji Pengfei (simplified Chinese: 姬鹏飞; traditional Chinese: 姬鵬飛; pinyin: Jī Péngfēi; February 2, 1910 - February 10, 2000) was a politician of China.
Biography[]
Ji Pengfei was born in Linyi, Yuncheng, Shanxi in 1910. He joined the Chinese Red Army in 1931, and the Communist Party of China in 1933.
After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Ji Pengfei worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and led diplomatic missions to the German Democratic Republic before being appointed as China's first ambassador to the GDR in 1953, being the youngest Chinese ambassador at 43. He was recalled to serve as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs in 1955.
When the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was initially targeted as member of the counter-revolutionary clique ruling the Foreign Ministry, along with Chen Yi and Qiao Guanhua. Nevertheless, he was relatively untouched as he remained at his post. After Chen Yi died in 1972, Ji Pengfei succeeded him as Foreign Minister until 1974, and was elected CPC Central Committee member. He was appointed secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1975, and confirmed in 1978. In 1972, he signed Japan-China Joint Communiqué with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira of Japan.
In the post-Cultural Revolution period, Ji Pengfei held several posts. In 1979 he was appointed head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, then vice-premier and secretary-general of the State Council from 1980 to 1982, and finally head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. He also served as Standing Committee member of the Central Advisory Commission, a Party body aimed at helping the retirement of elder officials.
In 1999, his son, Ji Shengde, a senior member of the People's Liberation Army intelligence, was arrested and tried for corruption, selling classified information and diverting public funds, and was sentenced to death penalty. The penalty was commuted to 20 years in prison, when he returned stolen money and denounce other abuses.[citation needed]
Ji Pengfei was praised by the Xinhua News Agency as an outstanding communist fighter, and greatly lauded again in 2010 at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate his 100th birth anniversary.
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- Foreign Ministers of the People's Republic of China
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shanxi
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- New Fourth Army generals
- 1910 births
- 2000 deaths
- Ambassadors of China to East Germany
- Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee members
- Hong Kong politicians
- Generals from Shanxi
- Politicians from Yuncheng
- 20th-century Chinese politicians
- State councillors of China
- Vice Chairpersons of the National People's Congress