Tian Congming (; May 1943 – 26 December 2017) was a Chinese politician who served as director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television from 1998 to 2000, president of

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from 2000 to 2008, and chairperson of the

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from 2008 to 2013. He was a representative of the 14th, 15th, 16th, and

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. He was a member of the 14th and 15th

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. He was a member of the

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. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th

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Biography

Tian was born in Fugu County,

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 ...

, in May 1943. His father died early and he was brought up by his mother. In 1965 he was accepted to

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...

and joined the

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(CCP) in December of that same year. After graduation in 1970, he stayed at the university. In April 1972, he became an official in Bayannur League,

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, and joined the Inner Mongolia Branch of

in October 1975. He was appointed secretary for the General Office of the CCP Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee in March 1980, concurrently serving as deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the CCP Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee. He was appointed secretary-general of the CCP Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee in March 1983 and was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority. He was elevated to deputy party secretary of the region in January 1987. In December 1988, he was transferred to

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and appointed deputy party secretary. In October 1990, he became deputy director of Ministry of Radio, Film and Television (later reshuffled as State Administration of Radio, Film and Television), rising to director in March 1998. He was president of

in June 2000, and held that office until April 2008. He was also president of

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from October 2006 to November 2016. In March 2008, he took office as chairperson of the

, and served until March 2013. On 26 December 2017, he died from an illness in

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, at the age of 74.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tian, Congming 1943 births 2017 deaths People from Yulin, Shaanxi Beijing Normal University alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Shaanxi Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shaanxi Members of the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the Standing Committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Presidents of the All-China Journalists Association