Zeng Qinghong
| Zeng Qinghong | |
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| 曾庆红 | |
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| First Secretary of Central Secretariat of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office 15 November 2002 – 22 October 2007 |
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| General Secretary | Hu Jintao |
| Preceded by | Hu Jintao |
| Succeeded by | Xi Jinping |
| 7th Vice President of the People's Republic of China | |
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In office 15 March 2003 – 15 March 2008 |
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| President | Hu Jintao |
| Preceded by | Hu Jintao |
| Succeeded by | Xi Jinping |
| President of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office December 2002 – December 2007 |
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| Deputy |
Yu Yunyao Su Rong |
| Preceded by | Hu Jintao |
| Succeeded by | Xi Jinping |
| Head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office March 1999 – November 2002 |
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| general secretary | Jiang Zemin |
| Preceded by | Zhang Quanjing |
| Succeeded by | He Guoqiang |
| Head of the General Office of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office March 1993 – March 1999 |
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| general secretary | Jiang Zemin |
| Preceded by | Wen Jiabao |
| Succeeded by | Wang Gang |
| Personal details | |
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30 July 1939 Ji'an, Jiangxi, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Wang Fengqing |
| Children | Zeng Wei |
| Alma mater | Beijing Institute of Technology |
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| Traditional Chinese | 曾慶紅 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 曾庆红 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zēng Qìnghóng |
| Wade–Giles | Tseng Ch'ing-hung |
Zeng Qinghong (born 30 July 1939) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's highest leadership council, and top-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee between 2002 and 2007. He also served as the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008.
During the 1990s, Zeng was a close ally of then-Party general secretary Jiang Zemin, and was instrumental in consolidating Jiang's power. For years, Zeng was the primary force behind the party's organization and personnel.
Zeng was born to a family of Hakka background in Ji'an, Jiangxi province, in July 1939. He was the son of Zeng Shan, a communist revolutionary and later Minister of the Interior, and Deng Liujin (邓六金), a notable female participant of the Long March. Zeng was the eldest of five children. He graduated from Beijing 101 Middle School and the Automatic Control Department at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Zeng was an engineer, a specialist in automatic control systems. He joined the Communist Party of China (CPC) in April 1960. Due to the revolutionary heritage of his father, Zeng was seen as a member of the so-called "Crown Prince Party", the descendants of veteran revolutionaries.
Zeng spent the early part of his career as a technician in the military defense industry in Beijing. He was sent down to do manual labor on People's Liberation Army bases in Hunan and Guangdong during the Cultural Revolution. With the opening of the reform era, Zeng joined the State Development and Reform Commission in 1979 and then held a series of management positions in the state petroleum sector, including a series of foreign liaison positions with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.
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