Tan Qilong | |
Office: | Communist Party Secretary of Sichuan |
Term Start: | March 1980 |
Term End: | February 1983 |
Successor: | Yang Rudai |
Predecessor: | Zhao Ziyang |
Office1: | Communist Party Secretary of Qinghai |
Term Start1: | 1977 |
Term End1: | 1979 |
Predecessor1: | Liu Xianquan |
Successor1: | Liang Buting |
Office2: | Communist Party Secretary of Zhejiang |
Term Start2: | May 1973 |
Term End2: | February 1977 |
Predecessor2: | Nan Ping |
Successor2: | Tie Ying |
Term Start3: | September 1952 |
Term End3: | August 1954 |
Predecessor3: | Tan Zhenlin |
Successor3: | Jiang Hua |
Office4: | Communist Party Secretary of Shandong |
Term Start4: | March 1961 |
Term End4: | February 1967 |
Predecessor4: | Zeng Xisheng |
Successor4: | Wang Xiaoyu |
Birth Date: | January 3, 1913 |
Birth Place: | Yongxin County, Jiangxi, China |
Death Place: | Jinan, Shandong, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Spouse: | Yan Yongjie (严永洁)[1] |
Tan Qilong (; 3 January 1913 – 22 January 2003) was a politician in the People's Republic of China. Over his long career, he served as the Communist Party Chief, the top government official, of four different provinces: Zhejiang (twice), Shandong, Qinghai, and Sichuan. He also served as Governor of Zhejiang, Shandong, and Qinghai.[2]
Tan was born in Yongxin County, Jiangxi province on 3 January 1913 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1933. He was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution but was rehabilitated in 1970 and served in Fujian province. He died on 22 January 2003 in Jinan, Shandong.[2]