Nie Bichu (; 2 January 1928 – 20 April 2018) was a Chinese politician. He served as the mayor and acting

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

Biography

Nie was born in

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

in 1928, with his ancestral home in

Taoyuan County Taoyuan County () is under the administration of Changde, Hunan, Hunan Province, China. The Yuan River, a tributary of the Yangtze, flows through Taoyuan. It covers an area of 4441 square kilometers, of which is arable land. It is from Zhangji ...

Hunan Hunan is an inland Provinces of China, province in Central China. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the Administrative divisions of China, province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Gu ...

. He studied at Yaohua School in Tianjin from 1935 to 1946, and graduated from Beiyang University (now

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU; zh, t=, , s=天津大学, p=, labels=no), previously Peiyang University (), is a National university, national Public university, public research university in Tianjin, China. Established in 1895 by a royal charter from ...

) in 1950. He had four siblings, two of whom died early. 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 ...

in 1948 and was a member of its 13th Central Committee. Nie served as

mayor of Tianjin The mayor of Tianjin, officially the Mayor of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, is the head of Tianjin Municipality and leader of the Tianjin Municipal People's Government. The mayor is elected by the Tianjin Municipal People's Congress, ...

from October 1989 to June 1993 and chairman of Tianjin Municipal People's Congress from June 1993 to May 1998. When Tan Shaowen,

, died in February 1993, Nie served as acting CCP Committee Secretary for a month before Gao Dezhan was appointed as Tan's replacement. In the early 1990s, he successfully lobbied the central government to allow Tianjin to implement housing reform after the example of Shanghai. Nie died on 20 April 2018 at the age of 90.

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Biography

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