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Place of Birth: Botou, Hebei, China
About Jia Qinglin
- Jia Qinglin (Chinese: ???; born March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of its ruling Communist Party.
- He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between 2002 and 2012, and Chairman of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference between 2003 and 2013.
- Jia's functions as the head of China's consultative legislative body were largely ceremonial in nature. Jia, an engineer by trade, began his political career in Fujian in 1985.
- There, he rose steadily through the ranks and led the province during the Yuanhua scandal.
- In 1996, Jia was transferred to become mayor, then party chief of Beijing.
- Largely due to his patronage relationship with then General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Jia was promoted to the Politburo in 1997, and remained a mainstay figure in China's political elite for the next fifteen years.
- He retired in 2013.
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