Zhang Xi (PRC politician)
| Zhang Xi | |
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| 张玺 | |
| 1st Communist Party Chief of Henan | |
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In office 1949–1952 |
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| Succeeded by | Pan Fusheng |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1 February 1912 Pingxiang, Hebei, China |
| Died | 8 January 1959 (aged 46) Beijing |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
Zhang Xi (Chinese: ; 1 February 1912 – 8 January 1959) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was the first CPC Party Chief of Henan province of the People's Republic of China, and one of the founding members of the State Planning Commission. He died of nasopharynx cancer in 1959, at the age of 46. During the Cultural Revolution, he was posthumously denounced as a traitor, and his ashes were exhumed and discarded.
Zhang Xi was born 1 February 1912 in Dongtian Village, Pingxiang County, Hebei province. his original name was Wang Changzhen (Chinese: 王常珍). In 1931, while a student at the Provincial No. 4 Normal School in Xingtai, he joined the Communist Youth League of China, and later became its leader. After the 1931 Mukden Incident, which led to the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, he organized student protests in Xingtai against the Japanese aggression.
In the autumn of 1932, Zhang was arrested in Xingtai by the Kuomintang (KMT) government, and imprisoned at the Caolanzi Prison in Beiping (now Beijing) for more than four years. Also held in the prison were other important Communist leaders including Bo Yibo, An Ziwen, and Liu Lantao. In 1934, Zhang joined the Communist Party of China while in prison. In 1935, the KMT government signed the He–Umezu Agreement with Japan, agreeing to cease all KMT activities in Hebei, including Beiping, and released the Communist prisoners in Beiping the following year.
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