Luo Gan
| Luo Gan | |
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| 罗干 | |
| Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission | |
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In office March 1998 – October 2007 |
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| General Secretary |
Jiang Zemin Hu Jintao |
| Preceded by | Ren Jianxin |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Yongkang |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 18, 1935 Jinan, Shandong |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Luo Gan | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 羅幹 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 罗干 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Luó Gàn |
Luo Gan (simplified Chinese: 罗干; traditional Chinese: 羅干; born July 18, 1935) is a retired Chinese politician. Between 2002 and 2007, Luo was one of China's top leaders, serving as a member of the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee, and as the Secretary of Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei), which became one of China's most powerful political offices, and well-funded bureaucracies, during Luo's term. In his Zhengfawei role, Luo held oversight for many law-enforcement institutions, including the police, public security officers, armed police, labor camps, prisons, and the judicial system. Luo retired from politics in 2007.
Luo Gan was born in Jinan, Shandong province. In 1953, he began studying engineering at the Beijing Steel and Iron Institute. A year later, he was selected as part of a Chinese contingent to go study at Karl Marx University in Leipzig, East Germany. He interned at the Leipzig steel and metalworks plant. He then continued studying machine works at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Luo joined the Communist Party of China in 1960, while still in Germany. It was said that Luo had stellar grades and won the Agricola prize for academic achievement while studying in Germany.
Upon returning to China, Luo continued to work in the steel industry, first being sent to the First Ministry of Machine-Building, a state-run department in charge of machines, telecommunications, and ship-building. There he worked as a technician and project leader in its mechanics department. As a technical specialist, Luo, like many others in his field, were displaced from their posts during much of the Cultural Revolution, and sent to perform manual labour at a May 7 Cadre School. In 1970, Luo returned to work in Henan province, working for a government machine-building project in Luohe, then transferred to Zhengzhou.
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