Ji Jianye
| Ji Jianye 季建业 |
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| Mayor of Nanjing | |
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In office 19 August 2009 – 16 October 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Jiang Hongkun |
| Succeeded by | Miao Ruilin |
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| Born | January 1957 Shazhou County, Jiangsu, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China (1974–2014, expelled) |
Ji Jianye (Chinese: 季建业; pinyin: Jì Jiànyè; born January 1957) is a former Chinese politician. He was mayor of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, from 2010 to 2013. Prior to that Ji held office as mayor, then party secretary of the city of Yangzhou between 2003 and 2010. In October 2013, Ji Jianye was abruptly dismissed from office, and detained for investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. In January 2014, Ji was expelled from Communist Party. He was tried on charges of bribery and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Ji was born in Shazhou County (present-day Zhangjiagang), Jiangsu province, in January 1957. In September 1974, he joined the Communist Party of China. He worked first as an ordinary editor and propaganda functionary in the local party organization in Suzhou. He then became deputy editor for Suzhou Daily, and a government official in Wu County. He later took on a series of increasingly senior leadership roles in the county-level city of Kunshan. He also headed the administration of the Suzhou Lake Tai tourist area.
In July 2001, he was elevated to the post of Deputy Secretary and acting mayor of Yangzhou, and was confirmed as the city's mayor a year later. In 2004 he was named Party Secretary of Yangzhou. Yangzhou is the hometown of former Chinese president Jiang Zemin.
In 2010, Ji was promoted to mayor of Nanjing, a city with some eight million residents in its areas of jurisdiction. He worked under Party Secretary Yang Weize, with whom he was known to have a difficult relationship. As mayor of the provincial capital, Ji undertook a large number of massive development projects. In the process, many areas of the city were demolished to make way for new construction. Ji was said to have liked "doing big things", and would put extreme pressure on his subordinates to execute his plans. He once remarked that while Nanjing's construction boom could not be compared to pre-Olympics Beijing, the number of ongoing projects was "comparable to what was going on in Shanghai prior to Expo 2010."
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