Zhang Qilong Explained

Zhang Qilong
Office:Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Term Start:1978
Term End:1982
Office1:Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang
Successor1:Zhao Dezun
Birth Date:1900
Birth Place:Liuyang, Hunan,Qing China
Death Date:1987
Party:Chinese Communist Party

Zhang Qilong (; 1900 – June 3, 1987) was a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Liuyang, Hunan Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1926 and participated in the Autumn Harvest Uprising of 1927. He was a member of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army during the Chinese Civil War, the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army. In 1933, his party membership was revoked and he divorced his then wife, Li Zhen, to avoid implicating her in his disgrace.[1] He was allowed back into the party in 1936. After the creation of the People's Republic of China, he was the first party chief for Heilongjiang Province.

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  1. Book: Wiles. Lee. Lily Xiao Hong. Stefanowska. A. D.. Ho. Clara Wing-chung. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period 1644-1911. Li Zhen. 2015. Routledge. Oxford. 978-0-7656-0798-0.