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26-757: On 18 March 1925--six days after Sun's death-- Tang Jiyao , leader of the Yunnan clique, claimed to be the rightful leader of the Kuomintang against acting generalissimo Hu Hanmin and party executives. He had been a revolutionary since the Qing dynasty and was one of the most prominent leaders of the National Protection War against Yuan Shikai , co-founded the Constitutional Protection Movement and assisted Sun during

52-736: A member of the Tongmenghui revolutionary society dedicated to overthrowing the monarchy. In 1907 he continued on to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy . Returning to Yunnan in 1909, he served in a number of military posts in the New Army . In 1911, under the command of Gen. Cai E , he participated in the Wuchang Uprising , which marked the start of the Xinhai Revolution that eventually toppled

78-647: A taxi is RMB 7 for the first 2.5 km (1.6 mi). Two train routes, Guizhou to Kunming and Nanning to Kunming, run through eight towns in Qujing each day. It takes one and a half hours to get from Qujing to Kunming by express. After Shanghai–Kunming high-speed railway completed in December 2016, it takes 45 minutes to reach Kunming South High-speed Train Station and an hour to reach Guiyang North High-speed Train Station from Qujing North High-speed Train Station. There

104-573: Is a plan for a speed train to run between Chengdu and Nanning by the year 2015, which will make the trip from Kunming to Qujing only 30 minutes long. The government seat is located in Qilin District. In 2016, total GDP was of 177.5 billion Yuan, and the GDP per capita of: 27044 yuans. Tobacco , automobiles , power generation and chemical engineering are the main industries in Qujing. Qujing Economic and Technological Development Zone (QETDZ)

130-507: Is a provincial development zone approved by Yunnan Provincial Government in August 1992. It is located in the east of urban Qujing, the second largest city in Yunnan in terms of economic strengths. The location of the development zone is the economic, political and cultural center of Qujing. As an agency under Qujing municipal Party committee and municipal government, the administrative commission of QETDZ functions as an economy supervising body at

156-561: Is part of the Central Yunnan Metropolitan Region plan ( 滇中城市群规划 ) in effect for 2016–49. Its administrative population is 6,047,000 according to a 2015 estimate, of whom, 1,408,500 reside in the metro area, which contains Qilin District , Zhanyi District and Malong District . During the 11th National Five-Year Plan period , the government of Qujing planned to develop the city into the "big city at

182-807: The Guangdong-Guangxi War and Chen Jiongming 's rebellion. Despite this, his relationship with Sun was not solid. He had previously negotiated with the Beiyang government and other northern warlords, resisted Sun's call for the Northern Expedition and was unwilling to provide the National Assembly long-term shelter during the Guangdong-Guangxi War. Sun had also recognized the authority of Gu Pinzhen , who had briefly overthrown Tang in 1921. Given that he

208-709: The Kuomintang ; however, the party rejected his claims. Tang then invaded Guangdong and Guangxi but was defeated by Li Zongren in the Yunnan-Guangxi War . Tang later became vice premier of Chen Jiongming 's China Public Interest Party . He died of illness in May 1927 in Kunming, one month after he was ousted by Hu Ruoyu and Long Yun in a military coup and lost all of his power in Yunnan. Long Yun then supported Chiang Kai-shek 's Nanjing government, dissolved

234-462: The New Guangxi clique to form a defense. Li Zongren successfully routed Tang's invading armies during the summer. His stature rose as a result of the war and he would later become acting president . The fortunes of the previously obscure Chiang Kai-shek also rose during the war. In August the right-wing Hu Hanmin was blamed for the assassination of fellow party executive Liao Zhongkai and

260-696: The Zhongshan Warship Incident in the spring of 1926. After the Nationalists' successful Northern Expedition, many of Tang's generals wanted to realign themselves with the Kuomintang. Long Yun forced Tang into retirement in February 1927. Tang died three months later at the age of 43. Tang Jiyao Tang Jiyao ( simplified Chinese : 唐继尧 ; traditional Chinese : 唐繼堯 ; pinyin : Táng Jìyáo ; Wade–Giles : T'ang Chi-yao ) (August 14, 1883 – May 23, 1927)

286-546: The People's Party and expelled Chen's party. Qujing Qujing ( Chinese : 曲靖 ; pinyin : Qūjìng ) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Yunnan province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the east and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to the southeast; thus, it was called "Key between Yunnan and Guizhou" ( 滇黔锁钥 ) and "Throat of Yunnan" ( 云南咽喉 ) in the past. It

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312-475: The Qing dynasty. During early 1912 Tang’s forces invaded neighboring Guizhou Province, which he conquered. He was recognized as military governor of Guizhou by the Beiyang government in May of that year. Liu Xianshi succeeded Tang as Guizhou governor when Tang returned to Yunnan to succeed Cai E as military governor. Tang Jiyao replaced Cai E as military Governor of Yunnan in 1913. Tang agreed with Cai E that

338-514: The military was the most important institution in China and should play a major role in government, leading to the Yunnan army remaining a major force. When Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor of China in December 1915, Tang announced the independence of Yunnan with the support of Cai E, Li Liejun and others. He was a prominent leader of the army against Yuan Shikai during the National Protection War , and with Yuan’s death Tang emerged as one of

364-461: The most powerful military leaders in southern China and extended his power base into Guangxi and Sichuan provinces. After Cai E died in 1916, Tang helped Sun Yat-Sen set up the Constitutional Protection Movement in 1917 and started his own party, the People's Party (民治党), while remaining a member of Sun's Kuomintang . Tang Jiyao had a cousin, Tang Jiyu, who was also a general. Tang Jiyao sought to use propaganda to gain publicity for himself on

390-601: The national stage in China. He smuggled confiscated opium to Shanghai, but the local Green Gang informed the British authorities and much of the opium ended up on the black market. Tang Jiyu avoided Shanghai during the trial against officials involved in the opium deal in 1916. Tang Jiyao set up an opium trafficking scheme in Yunnan, with monopolies, taxes and licenses, and succeeded in producing large amounts of opium from poppy plants, which were suited to Yunnan's climate. He transported opium via Indochina to Haiphong , which

416-484: The origin of the Pearl River " ( 珠江源大城市 ) in the following decades, including increasing the built-up urban area to past 100 km (39 sq mi) and the urban population to surpass 1 million by 2020, the second in Yunnan, after Kunming. Qujing is located in the east of Yunnan province, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of Kunming , the provincial capital. Like much of the central and eastern parts of

442-478: The prefecture level and an administration body at the county level. It has 106 km (41 sq mi) under its jurisdiction. It shoulders the task of building a new 40-square-kilometer city area and providing service for a population of 400,000 in the upcoming 10 years. Among the resident population, the Han population is 5,442,131, accounting for 92.95% of the total population; the ethnic minorities population

468-545: The province, it is part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau . Tempered by the low latitude and moderate elevation, Qujing has a mild subtropical highland climate ( Köppen Cwb ), with short, mild, dry winters, and warm, rainy summers. Frost may occur in winter but the days still generally warm up to around 15 °C (59 °F). During summer, a majority of the days features some rainfall, and daytime temperatures rise to 25 °C (77 °F). A great majority of

494-658: The second most powerful person in the KMT after Wang Jingwei. In September Chen Jiongming launched his final rebellion in Guangdong, which was crushed by Chiang. Chen and Tang became allies and were elected premier and vice premier, respectively, of the new China Public Interest Party in San Francisco on October. The party advocated federalism and multi-party democracy; it moved its headquarters to Hong Kong in 1926. Chiang Kai-shek eventually ousted Wang Jingwei following

520-668: The year's rainfall occurs from June to October. Qujing is linked to Kunming by the National Highway 320. Drive time is about three hours. The transportation system in Qujing is well developed. You can access almost every corner of the city by way of the Kun Qu Freeway . Buses to Kunming depart from Qujing Bus Station every half hour, the trip takes about three hours. The bus station also provides transportation to Dali, Honghezhou and other destinations around Qujing. Taxi and buses are available in Qujing. The base rate of

546-718: Was a Chinese general and warlord of Yunnan during the Warlord Era of early Republican China . He was military governor of Yunnan from 1913–1927. Tang was born in Huize county in 1883 in what is Qujing , Yunnan province. He passed the Imperial examination in 1903 and was selected by the Qing government to study military theory at Tokyo Shimbu Gakko in Japan the following year. While in Japan he met Sun Yat-sen and became

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572-517: Was a child with his father, Albert Bodard, who was Consul of France, successively in Chengdu and in Yunnanfu (later called Kunming ). In these two books there are chapters with extensive descriptions of Tang Jiyao's dealings with colonial French authorities in China and Hanoi , French Indochina , as part of his efforts to develop his drug trade to finance weapons purchases for his army while France

598-611: Was a port, from where it was sent to China via the coast. Along with the prospects of exporting homegrown Yunnanese opium and morphia to other provinces, Tang Jiyao maintained his fleet of dozens of combat and transport aircraft based at Kunming Wujiaba airbase which he and Cai E established in 1911, and officially opening Yunnan Aviation School in 1922. Tang Jiyao was described in colorful ways in two books by French journalist and novelist Lucien Bodard , i.e. "Monsieur le consul" ("The French Consul", 1973) and "Le fils du consul" ("The Consul's Son", 1975), based on his recollections when he

624-480: Was arrested and exiled by Chiang and Wang Jingwei . Chiang took over Gen. Xu Chongzhi's role as commander of the KMT's military, since Xu was suspected of either taking part in the assassination, knowing about it or was simply incompetent in providing security (Xu was a replacement for his mutinous superior, Chen Jiongming). Many KMT right-wing leaders were demoted, like Lin Sen and Dai Jitao . This effectively made Chiang

650-560: Was the most accomplished and famous general in the Kuomintang, Tang believed he was the natural leader of the national revolution. He justified his claim by noting that Sun had named him his "deputy generalissimo" in 1924. In actuality, Tang had declined this position when he learned it was inferior to Hu Hanmin's "vice generalissimo" rank. The party leaders denounced Tang as a usurper. Frustrated, he rallied his allies in Yunnan and Guizhou to lead an expedition to Guangzhou . Hu Hanmin requested

676-712: Was trying to build a railroad from Hanoi to Kunming and further to Chengdu to expand their economic and political interests in southern China from French Indochina. When Sun Yat-sen was appointed Grand Marshal of the military government in Guangzhou , Tang Jiyao was promoted to the rank of Marshal . He assisted Sun in defeating the Old Guangxi Clique , when it tried to seize the Yunnan Army and remove Tang as its leader in 1920. Six days after Sun's death in 1925, Tang claimed to be Sun's successor and head of

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