Li Ruihuan

Li Ruihuan (Chinese李瑞环/李瑞环, Pinyin lǐ Ruihuan; * September 1934 Baodi ( Tianjin province ) ) is a Chinese communist politician, former member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, and former Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people ( CPPCC ).

Origin and career

Li was born into a simple family of peasants from the circle Baodi in the province of Tianjin. After school he worked from 1951 to 1965 as a carpenter in a construction brigade in Beijing. In a night school he studied at the Institute of Civil Engineering.

As a young engineer, he introduced a simplified calculation method, which replaced the traditional and elaborate Schnürbodenverfahren. This earned him the epithet young Lu Ban, an ancient master builder who had built the legend, the An- Ji Qiao Bridge in one night.

Cultural Revolution

Li joined in September 1959, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP ). In 1965 he became deputy party secretary of the building material operation of Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 he was repeatedly accused. Only after the Cultural Revolution, he again took over leading positions in construction companies. At times, he was also Deputy Chairman of the Trade Union Confederation of the city of Beijing as well as vice chairman of the All-China Youth Federation.

Promotion to the senior executives, the CCP

Mayor of Tianjin

1982 Li became secretary of the Party Committee of the centrally-administered city of Tianjin and in this function temporarily acting mayor of Tianjin. In 1984 he was additionally his election as mayor of Tianjin. During his tenure as mayor, he carried out basic administrative reforms, extensive housing construction and changes in the public transport industry. He also organized a project to supply drinking water and a number of development measures in the environment of Tianjin. Because of its far-reaching projects and his practical style of work he was in the city's population extremely popular. He also answered questions from the public on radio and television live broadcasts.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and chairman of the CPPCC

Li was elected at the 12th Congress of the CPC in 1982 as a member of the Central Committee and at the 13th Congress of the CPC in 1987 as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee ( CC).

Two years later he became a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the 4th Plenum of the 13th Central Committee. In 2002 he resigned from this office apparently back under pressure from the previous party leader Jiang Zemin. Jiang Zemin was about to thereby secure its influence in political life, since Li Ruihuan as an ally of the new General Secretary of the Central Committee, Hu Jintao, was considered.

On the 8th National Committee in March 1993, he was also elected Chairman of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people ( CPPCC ), an advisory body in the state apparatus of the People's Republic of China, which both members of the CCP as well as members of other small, registered in China parties as also belong to the Guomindang. He was so. According to Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Deng Yingchao and Li Xiannian the sixth chairman of the CPPCC since its inception in September 1949

In November and December 1993, he was the first chairman of the CPPCC after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Nepal, India and Pakistan abstattete official state visits. In the following years, he established the Consultative foreign policy contacts with 98 institutions in 68 countries and four international organizations. At the 9th National Committee of the CPPCC, he was re-elected in March 1998 in his office. In this role, he gained a reputation as a fundamentally informed, but also listening politician. Through this work, he reached a new power and dynamics in the work of the CPPCC. In March 2003, he was ultimately his position of Chairman of the CPPCC Jia Qinglin, who is regarded as supporters of the former Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, from.

In addition, he published two books on ideas for urban development as well as ideas for achieving practical things for people.

Li Ruihuan was also over several electoral cycles deputy of the National People's Congress. In October 1998 he was elected Honorary President of the Foundation for disabled people and in June 1999 as honorary chairman of the fourth Council of the Green - China Foundation.