Song Baorui (; December 1937 – 20 September 2022) was a politician of the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. He served as

Governor of Sichuan The governor of Sichuan, officially the Governor of the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, is the head of Sichuan, Sichuan Province and leader of the Sichuan Provincial People's Government. The governor is elected by the Sichuan Provincial P ...

from 1996 to 1999.

Biography

Song Baorui was a native of Shunyi County (now Shunyi District),

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

. He was born in December 1937 and joined the

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in December 1958. From 1957 to 1963 he studied

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the ...

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

in Beijing, and completed a graduate program at the metallurgy department of Tsinghua in 1966. From 1968 to 1975 Song worked as a technician at the Dongfang Boiler Factory and China Welding Material Company in

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 ...

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, rising through the ranks to become Chief Engineer in 1975 and General Manager in 1982. From 1983 to 1986 Song Baorui was the Deputy Communist Party Chief and then

Communist Party Chief A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

of Zigong City. He was transferred to the Sichuan provincial government in 1986 and became Deputy Party Chief of Sichuan in 1989, concurrently serving as Party Chief of provincial capital

Chengdu Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...

from 1992 to 1993. In 1996 he was promoted to Governor of Sichuan province. As governor he actively promoted Sichuan's opening up. Song was an alternate member of the

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 ...

, and a full member of the 15th Central Committee.

References

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