Jiang Chongjing (; April 1916 – 27 June 2019) was a Chinese politician and academic administrator. He served as president of the

Northwestern Polytechnical University Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU; ) is a public science and engineering university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985 ...

and Chongqing University of Technology, Party Secretary of the

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, and Vice Minister of the

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Biography

Jiang was born in

Gaoyang County Gaoyang County () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Baoding and has an area of . The county seat is in Gaoyang Town (). Administrative di ...

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, Republic of China in April 1916. After the outbreak of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

, he abandoned his university studies to join the Communist resistance in April 1938. He joined the

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in August 1938 and served as an officer in the

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. During the war he served as Director of the Political Department of the 29th Regiment and then Political Commissar of the 27th Regiment. During the

Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led Nationalist government, government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermitt ...

, he was in charge of weapons production in the

Shaanxi Shaanxi is a Provinces of China, province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to t ...

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. After the founding of the

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in 1949, Jiang served as president of the

and Chongqing University of Technology. He later served as Party Secretary of the

. In June 1978, Jiang was appointed Vice Minister of the

. He retired in December 1982. Jiang died in Beijing on 27 June 2019, at the age of 103.

References

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