Tian Jiyun Explained

Tian Jiyun
Office:First Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
1Namedata1:Qiao ShiLi Peng
Term Start:March 27, 1993
Term End:March 15, 2003
Office2:Vice Premier of China
Premier2:Zhao ZiyangLi Peng
Term Start2:June,1983
Term End2:March,1993
Office3:Member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
1Namedata3:Hu YaobangZhao ZiyangJiang Zemin
Term Start3:Sepetmeber 24,1985
Term End3:November 15, 2002
Office4:Secretary-General of the State Council
Premier4:Zhao Ziyang
Term Start4:June 20,1983
Term End4:November 11,1985
Birth Date:4 June 1929 (age 93)
Birth Place:Feicheng, Shandong, Republic of China
Nationality:Chinese
Party:Chinese Communist Party (joined in 1945)

Tian Jiyun (; born June 1929 in Feicheng, Shandong) is a retired politician in the People's Republic of China, known as a supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The best-known feature of his biography is the speech of 1992, delivered in the Central Party School, in which he ridicules the "leftists" (those who did not support the new policy of openness). Tian proposed they establish their own "economic zones" preserving all the worst features of the old system.

Biography

Between 1981 and 1983, Tian served as the deputy secretary general of the State Council. He was promoted to the secretary general in 1983, and served as the vice premier of the State Council between 1983 and 1993.

Tian joined the Chinese Communist Party at the age of 16. He has been a member of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party since 1982, and joined the politburo in 1987.

Tian was elected the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1993 and 1998. Tian retired in 2003 at the age of 73.

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