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'''Xu Jiatun''' (born March 1916) is a former high-ranking [[Chinese Communist Party]] official and now living in exile in the [[United States]].
'''Xu Jiatun''' (10 March 1916 – 29 June 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1269521-20160629.htm | title=Xu Jiatun dies at the age of 100 |publisher=[[RTHK]] |date=29 June 2016}}</ref>) is a former high-ranking [[Chinese Communist Party]] official and now living in exile in the [[United States]].


He was the member of the 11th and 12th [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of China]] from 1977 to 1987.<ref>{{cite web|work=China Vitae|url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Xu_Jiatun/full|title=Xu Jiatun 许家屯}}</ref> He was also the Communist Party secretary of [[Jiangsu Province]] from 1977 and 1983 and the [[Governor of Jiangsu]] from 1977 to 1979.
He was the member of the 11th and 12th [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of China]] from 1977 to 1987.<ref>{{cite web|work=China Vitae|url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Xu_Jiatun/full|title=Xu Jiatun 许家屯}}</ref> He was also the Communist Party secretary of [[Jiangsu Province]] from 1977 and 1983 and the [[Governor of Jiangsu]] from 1977 to 1979.

Revision as of 10:02, 29 June 2016

Xu Jiatun
许家屯
Secretary of the Jiangsu Committee of the Communist Party of China
In office
1977–1983
Preceded byPeng Chong
Succeeded byHan Peixin
Governor of Jiangsu
In office
1977–1979
Preceded byPeng Chong
Succeeded byHui Yuyu
Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the New China News Agency
In office
1983–1990
Preceded byWang Kuang
Succeeded byZhou Nan
Personal details
Born(1916-03-10)March 10, 1916
DiedJune 29, 2016(2016-06-29) (aged 100)
Los Angeles, United States
Political partyCommunist Party of China (until 1991)
OccupationPolitician

Xu Jiatun (10 March 1916 – 29 June 2016[1]) is a former high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official and now living in exile in the United States.

He was the member of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1977 to 1987.[2] He was also the Communist Party secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 and 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979.

Xu became the director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency from 1983 to 1989,[3][4] then China's de facto political presence in the territory.[3] He participated in the preparatory works of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR and was vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee.

Xu sympathised with the Tiananman Square student protests in 1989. After the military crackdown in June, he fled to the United States and lived there in exile.[3] He was later expelled from the Communist Party. In 1994, he published memoirs.

Xu is now living in Orange County, California, United States. In 1997, he joined an appeal to the Communist Party Congress meeting in Beijing to reverse the government report condemning the 1989 Tiananmen student protests.[5] In an interview with Initium Media in 2016, after a stay in hospital, Xu, in an interview with the Hong Kong journalist Simon Kei shek Ming, predicted that Xi Jinping would arrest "higher level" tigers in the Communist Party.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Xu Jiatun dies at the age of 100". RTHK. 29 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Xu Jiatun 许家屯". China Vitae.
  3. ^ a b c Zhao, Ziyang (2009). Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Simon and Schuster.
  4. ^ Zhao, Suisheng (2004). Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior. M.E. Sharpe. p. 106.
  5. ^ "Exile in U.S. Joins Tiananmen Appeal". Los Angeles Times. 18 September 1997.
  6. ^ "百歲生死許家屯". theinitium.com. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
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