Xu Jiatun
Xu Jiatun 许家屯 | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China | |
| In office 1977–1987 | |
| Secretary of the Jiangsu Committee of the Communist Party of China | |
| In office 1977–1983 | |
| Preceded by | Peng Chong |
| Succeeded by | Han Peixin |
| Governor of Jiangsu | |
| In office 1977–1979 | |
| Preceded by | Peng Chong |
| Succeeded by | Hui Yuyu |
| Director of the Hong Kong Branch of the New China News Agency | |
| In office 1983–1990 | |
| Preceded by | Wang Kuang |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Nan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1916 (age 107–108) |
| Political party | Communist Party of China (until 1991) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Xu Jiatun (born 1916) 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.[1] 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 New China News Agency from 1983 to 1989,[2][3] the then China's de facto official political presence in the territory.[2] 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 bloody suppression in June, he fled to the United States and lived there in exile.[2] 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.[4]
References
- ^ "Xu Jiatun 许家屯". China Vitae.
- ^ a b c Zhao, Ziyang (2009). Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Simon and Schuster.
- ^ Zhao, Suisheng (2004). Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior. M.E. Sharpe. p. 106.
- ^ "Exile in U.S. Joins Tiananmen Appeal". Los Angeles Times. 18 September 1997.