Wei Jianxing ( Chinese : 尉健行 ; pinyin : Wèi Jiànxíng ; January 2, 1931 – August 7, 2015) was a senior leader in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), most active during the 1980s and 1990s. He successively held a number of important offices, including member of the Politburo Standing Committee , the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection , the Communist Party Secretary of Beijing and the chairman of All-China Federation of Trade Unions .
5-477: Jianxing (simplified Chinese: 建兴 ; traditional Chinese: 建興 ) may refer to: Wei Jianxing , Chisese statesman. Wei Jianxing Wei Jianxing was born in Xinchang County , Zhejiang Province. He moved to Shanghai and entered Guanghua University High School in 1947, where he became close to fellow Zhejiang native and Guanghua alumnus Qiao Shi , who was a leader of the student movement of
10-594: The 14th Party Congress , Wei was named to the Politburo , in addition to becoming a Secretary of Central Secretariat, and the Secretary of Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). During Wei's term as CCDI chief, some 680,000 disciplinary cases were processed. The most prominent case was that against Beijing party chief Chen Xitong , who was investigated for corruption beginning in July 1994 and expelled from
15-658: The head of the revolutionary committee of the factory he worked at. Between 1981 and 1983 he served as Mayor of Harbin . Wei was then transferred to work at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions where he served on the organization's Secretariat. He then rose to become head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party . His work gained recognition from then party General Secretary Hu Yaobang . In 1987 Hu
20-796: The underground CCP. Wei joined the CCP in March 1949. Wei later enrolled in Dalian University of Technology and graduated in 1952, majoring in mechanics. From 1952 to 1953, he studied Russian language in Fushun . Wei was then sent to the Soviet Union to study industrial management until 1955. In the early stages of the Cultural Revolution he was politically disgraced and performed manual labour, but regained favour in 1970 and became
25-441: Was oustered in a power struggle by conservative forces within the party and Wei, being branded a Hu loyalist, was transferred out of the organs of power to serve in a relatively unimportant position of Minister of Supervision. While serving at the ministry Wei played an important role in developing China's civil servant supervision programs as well as rules and regulations on the discipline of government officials. In October 1992, at
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