Gu Jinchi (; February 1932 – 17 March 2009) was a Chinese Communist politician who served as

party secretary of Gansu The secretary of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Gansu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the ...

from 1990 to 1993 and

party secretary of Liaoning The secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the leader of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). As the CCP is the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...

. He was a member of the

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and

14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1992 to 1997. It held seven plenary sessions. It was preceded by the 13th Central Committee. It was elected by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party ...

. He was a representative of the

15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 15th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was held in Beijing between September 12 and 18, 1997. It was preceded by the 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and was followed by the 16th National Congress of the ...

. He was a delegate to the

8th National People's Congress The 8th National People's Congress (NPC) was in session from 1993 to 1998. It succeeded the 7th National People's Congress. It held five sessions in this period. Seat distribution The first session Elected state leaders In the 1st Session in ...

and a member of the Standing Committee of the

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Biography

Gu was born in

Xiong County Xiong County or Xiongxian () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Baoding. It is part of the Xiong'an New Area designated by national government in A ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

, in February 1932. He worked at Beijing Machinery Factory in 1947. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

(CCP) in October 1949. In 1952, he was assigned to the Beijing No. 1 Machine Tool Factory, he remained at the factory until 1965, when he was transferred to

southwest China Southwestern China () is a region in the People's Republic of China. It consists of five provincial administrative regions, namely Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Xizang. Geography Southwestern China is a rugged and mountainous region, ...

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

province and appointed

party secretary In politics, a party secretary is a senior official within a political party with responsibility for the organizational and daily political work. In most parties, the party secretary is second in rank to the party leader (or party chairman). In s ...

of the newly founded Changzheng Machine Tool Plant (). In 1966, the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

broke out, he was sent to the

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to do farm works. He was removed from office but reinstated two years later. Gu got involved in politics in 1978, when he was appointed vice mayor and party secretary of

Zigong Zigong ( zh, s=自贡 , ), formed by the merger of the two former towns of Ziliujing (Tzuliuching, literally "self-flow well") and Gongjing (Kungching, literally "offering well"), is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, Southwestern China. Demo ...

. At the same time, he was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Zigong Municipal Committee, the city's top authority. In 1982, he was promoted to become vice governor of Sichuan and was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Sichuan Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. He was chosen as

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of Sichuan in 1987. In October 1990, he was promoted again to become

, succeeding Li Ziqi. In September 1993, he was despatched to

northeast China Northeast China () is a geographical region of China, consisting officially of three provinces Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang. The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain, the largest plain in China with an area of over . The regi ...

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province and appointed

, the top political position in the province. In March 1998, he took office as vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Supervisory and Judicial Affairs Committee. On 17 March 2009, he died from an illness in

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, at the age of 77.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gu, Jinchi 1932 births 2009 deaths People from Xiong County Politicians from Baoding Political office-holders in Liaoning Political office-holders in Gansu People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress Members of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress