Song Qingwei (; born March 1929 - 27 December 2022) was a

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in the

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of China who served as political commissar of the

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from 1987 to 1994. He was a delegate to the

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and

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and a member of the Standing Committee of the

9th National People's Congress The 9th National People's Congress () was in session from 1998 to 2003. It held five plenary sessions in this period. It followed the final session of the 8th National People's Congress. There were 2,979 deputies to this Congress. Election resul ...

. He was a representative of the 13th, 14th and

15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (Simplified Chinese: 中国共产党第十五次全国代表大会) was held in Beijing between September 12 and 18, 1997. It was preceded by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Commu ...

. He was a member of the

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Biography

Song was born Song Qinghu () in

Ling County Lingcheng District, formerly Ling County or Lingxian, is a district of the city of Dezhou, Shandong province, China. On 29 October 2014, the State Council State Council may refer to: Government * State Council of the Republic of Korea, the ...

(now Lincheng District of

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), Shandong, in March 1929. He enlisted in the

Eighth Route Army The Eighth Route Army (), officially known as the 18th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, was a group army under the command of the Chinese Communist Party, nominally within the structure of the Chinese ...

in June 1945, and joined the

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(CCP) in October of that same year. He served in Bohai Military Area before being assigned to the in 1948. After establishment of the Communist State, he served in the Fuzhou Military District for a long time. In June 1985, he was made deputy political commissar of the

, rising to political commissar in November 1987. He retired in July 2003. He was promoted to the rank of

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('' zhongjiang'') in September 1988 and

('' shangjiang'') in May 1994. From 1998 to 2003 he served as the Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee. In 2022 Son died from

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at the age of 93.https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2022/12/31/a103612609.html

Work

References

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