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Comrade Li Peng, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a tried and tested loyal communist fighter, an outstanding proletarian revolutionary and statesman, an outstanding leader of the Party and the state, a member of the 12th Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the 13th, 14th and 15th Politburos of the CPC Central Committee, a former premier of the State Council, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress, died in Beijing at the age of 91 on July 22, 2019 at 23:11 due to ineffective medical treatment.
Comrade Li Peng, formerly known as Li Yuanpeng, a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, was born in Shanghai on October 20, 1928. Born into a revolutionary family, his father was heroic and righteous at an early age, and when he was a teenager, he was influenced by his family, took the initiative to accept revolutionary ideas, and was determined to devote himself to the revolutionary cause. From the second half of 1939 to the first half of 1940, he studied in the social science group of Chongqing Yucai School. In March 1941, he went to Yan'an to participate in revolutionary work, received education in revolutionary theory and scientific and cultural knowledge, and successively studied in the cram class of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Yan'an Middle School, and the undergraduate class of the Academy of Natural Sciences. He joined the Communist Party of China in November 1945. During the Yan'an period, he participated in the rectification movement and the large-scale production movement, accepted the teachings of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and established a Marxist world outlook and a outlook on life struggling for the victory of the revolution.
During the Liberation War, Comrade Li Peng responded to the call of the party organization and rushed to the front. From January to September 1946, he studied at Zhangjiakou Industrial College, and from September 1946 he successively served as a technician of jin-Cha-Ji Electric Company, an assistant of Harbin Oil and Fat Factory, and the secretary of the party branch. In September 1948, according to the arrangement of the party organization, he studied in the Soviet Union, studied in the Department of Hydropower of the Moscow Power Institute and served as the president of the Chinese Federation of Students Studying in the Soviet Union. After returning to China in 1955, he took the initiative to ask to work at the grass-roots level, successively serving as deputy director and chief engineer of Fengman Power Plant, deputy chief engineer and director of the Dispatching Bureau of Northeast Electric Power Administration, and director of Fuxin Power Plant. From 1966 to 1979, he successively served as the acting secretary of the party committee and the director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Beijing Power Supply Bureau, the director of the Beijing Electric Power Administration, and the secretary of the party group. During the "Cultural Revolution," he was shocked, but he adhered to the principle of party spirit, sought truth from facts, and waged a struggle.
Since April 1979, Comrade Li Peng has successively served as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Electric Power Industry, member of the Party Group, Secretary of the Party Group of the North China Electric Power Administration, Minister of the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and Secretary of the Party Group, Vice Minister of Water Conservancy and Electric Power, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group. He stressed the need to do a good job in safe production, draw up a plan for the development of electric power, speed up the pace of electric power construction, promote the reform of the electric power system, and expand the autonomy of enterprises. He advocated studying and introducing advanced foreign technologies, led delegations to inspect the situation of foreign power industries on many occasions, and promoted the construction of domestic power stations. He creatively implemented the strategy of the Party Central Committee of "electric power should go first", put forward the moderate advance development of electric power, clarified the basic principle of electric power development, summed up the operation law of the power grid, advocated the use of higher levels of transmission voltage and national networking, promoted the operation of multiple power and multi-channel power, participated in and guided the construction of large hydropower stations such as the Three Gorges and Xiaolangdi and nuclear power plants such as Qinshan and Daya Bay, and promoted China's great progress in power station construction, power production, and power grid management. Comrade Li Peng has been working in the power system for a long time, is an outstanding leader of China's electric power industry, and an important pioneer of the nuclear power industry.
In June 1983, Comrade Li Peng was appointed Vice Premier of the State Council, in charge of energy, transportation, and key construction projects. In September 1985, he was co-opted as a member of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He participated in the study of the development policy of energy and transportation in the "Seventh Five-Year Plan", promoted the development of Jungar coal power and the construction of the Shenfu Dongsheng Coalfield, and vigorously promoted the production, distribution and transportation of coal, changing the situation in which coal resources were in short supply. He stressed that the way out of the development of transportation lies in reform, promote the establishment of a comprehensive and unified transportation system, and grasp important tasks such as decentralization of ports, reform of the civil aviation management system, and large-scale railway contracting. He insisted on controlling the scale of capital construction, guiding the direction of investment, and promoting the reform of the capital construction system, which had an important impact on China's construction industry. He stressed the need to speed up the pace of research and development of major technical equipment and accelerate the localization of major equipment, proposed to arm and transform traditional industries with advanced electronic information technology, put forward the five policies of "using production to advance" and using foreign capital to run steel, and stressed that the automobile industry should take the road of joint development.
In November 1987, Comrade Li Peng was elected as a member of the Politburo and a member of the Standing Committee at the First Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in the same month he was appointed Acting Premier of the State Council at the 23rd Session of the Standing Committee of the Sixth National People's Congress. In April 1988, he was appointed Premier of the State Council at the First Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. From 1988 to 1990, he was also the director of the National Economic System Reform Commission. In the face of the complicated international and domestic situation, he resolutely implemented the principle of rectifying and deepening reform, presided over the formulation of the ten-year plan for national economic and social development and the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" under the leadership of the party Central Committee, actively promoted construction in all aspects, explored new means and new methods for macroeconomic regulation and control of the national economy, better fulfilled the task of rectification and rectification, and promoted China's economy to get rid of its predicament and enter a new period of development, thus creating conditions for the sustained, stable, and coordinated development of the economy in the 1990s.
During the political turmoil at the turn of the spring and summer of 1989, with the resolute support of the proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation represented by Comrade Deng Xiaoping, Comrade Li Peng took a clear-cut stand and, together with most comrades in the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, took decisive measures to stop the turmoil, quell counter-revolutionary riots, stabilize the domestic situation, and play an important role in this major struggle that has a bearing on the future and destiny of the party and the country.
After the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in June 1989, as an important member of the central leading collective with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core, Comrade Li Peng held high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thinking of "three represents," thoroughly implemented the line, principles, and policies since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, took economic construction as the center, adhered to the four cardinal principles, persisted in reform and opening up, emancipated the mind, sought truth from facts, advanced with the times, and devoted himself to the development of the cause of the party and the country.
In October 1992, Comrade Li Peng was re-elected as a member of the Politburo and a member of the Standing Committee at the First Plenary Session of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In March 1993, at the first session of the Eighth National People's Congress, he was again appointed Premier of the State Council. After Comrade Deng Xiaoping delivered his speech in the south, he actively supported, publicized, and implemented Comrade Deng Xiaoping's ideological propositions on reform and opening up, resolutely implemented the spirit of the Fourteenth National Congress of the Party, accelerated the pace of reform of the socialist market economic system, expanded opening up to the outside world, strengthened and improved macroeconomic regulation and control, presided over the formulation of the Ninth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the long-term goals for 2010 under the leadership of the Party Central Committee, laid out and built a number of major national projects, and promoted the sustained, rapid, and healthy development of the national economy.
In September 1997, Comrade Li Peng was once again elected as a member of the Politburo and a member of the Standing Committee at the First Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In March 1998, at the first session of the Ninth National People's Congress, he was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and became the secretary of the party leading group of the Ninth National People's Congress Standing Committee from the same month. He unswervingly adhered to and improved the system of people's congresses, and made important contributions to strengthening the building of socialist democracy and the legal system, advancing the process of governing the country according to law and building a socialist country ruled by law, and ensuring and promoting the smooth progress of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
After working in the central authorities, Comrade Li Peng concurrently served as director of the State Education Commission, director of the State Council Environmental Protection Commission, director of the Central Special Commission, and head of the State Leading Group for Science and Technology in accordance with the requirements of the central authorities. He stressed that to achieve the four modernizations, science and technology are the key and education is the foundation. He resolutely implemented the idea that "science and technology is the primary productive force", vigorously promoted the reform of the scientific and technological system, conscientiously implemented the policy of intellectuals, promoted the promulgation and implementation of the "National Medium- and Long-term Science and Technology Development Program", organized the implementation of the "863" plan and the "973" plan, established and improved the patent system and technology market, supported the establishment of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the antarctic scientific expedition work, fully mobilized the enthusiasm and creativity of the vast number of scientific and technological workers, and promoted the emergence of a number of major scientific and technological achievements in basic research and frontier research. The country's overall scientific and technological strength has been further enhanced. He proposed that it is necessary to strengthen the leadership of the party and the government over education work, persistently implement the strategy of giving priority to the development of education, actively promote the reform of the education system, promote the formulation and implementation of the compulsory education law, reform and develop vocational and technical education and adult education, expand the management authority of colleges and universities, promote the implementation of the "211 Project" and "985 Project" of higher education, strengthen ideological and political work in colleges and universities, improve the work of dispatching students, and send a large number of talents to all fronts of reform and opening up. He is an important decision-maker of manned spaceflight projects, leading the preliminary research of the project and the demonstration of technical and economic feasibility, and promoting the implementation of manned space projects. He stressed the need to pay attention to correctly handling the relationship between economic construction and environmental protection, strengthen environmental management, promote the promulgation of China's Agenda for the Twenty-first Century, lead the implementation of the "Three Rivers, Three Lakes, Two Control Zones, One Sea, One City" project, improve the basic national policy of environmental protection and the strategic principles of "three synchronizations" and "three unifications" in practice, and make important contributions to the initial development of a road of environmental protection with Chinese characteristics.
Comrade Li Peng has long served as the head of the Central Leading Group for Foreign Affairs work and has done a great deal of work under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee. In the face of the joint "sanctions" of Western countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the drastic changes in Eastern Europe, he resolutely implemented an independent foreign policy of peace, held high the banner of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, unswervingly safeguarded national sovereignty, security and dignity, adhered to principles, resisted pressure, and organized and participated in a large number of fruitful bilateral and multilateral diplomatic activities. During this period, China has gradually broken through the "sanctions" against China, thwarted the Western anti-China plot, continuously consolidated and developed pragmatic and friendly cooperative relations with all countries and regions in the world, and increasingly enhanced its international status and influence, creating a new pattern of all-round diplomacy and winning a good external environment for reform, opening up, and modernization. He resolutely implemented the principles and policies of the CPC Central Committee on the united front and the CPPCC, implemented the principle of "one country, two systems," and participated in leading all aspects of the work of the return of Hong Kong and Macao under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee.
Comrade Li Peng has long served as the head of the State Council's leading group for the preparation of the Three Gorges Project and the director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee. He organized forces from all walks of life to repeatedly organize and demonstrate major issues such as resettlement, ecological environmental protection, and sediment accumulation involved in the project, so as to provide a scientific basis for the decision-making of the Party Central Committee. He proposed to build the Three Gorges Project into a world-class project and explicitly organized the construction of the project according to the laws of the market economy. He resolutely implemented the policy of development-oriented resettlement, actively promoted the establishment of Chongqing municipalities directly under the Central Government, and promoted the resettlement of migrants from the Three Gorges Reservoir Area to move out, stay stable, and gradually become rich.
Comrade Li Peng is an important pioneer, loyal practitioner, and active promoter of China's socialist market economic system. He always insisted on proceeding from China's national conditions, correctly handled the relationship between reform, development, and stability, smoothly promoted the transformation of the planned economic system into a socialist market economic system, and played an important role in the initial establishment of a socialist market economic system in China at the end of the 20th century. He actively promoted the reform of the fiscal and taxation system, proposed the establishment of a new fiscal system with the tax-sharing system as the core and a new tax system with value-added tax as the main body, further straightened out the fiscal distribution relationship, and enhanced the central government's ability to regulate and control. He vigorously promoted the reform of the financial system, promoted the establishment of the Securities Commission of the State Council and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and vigorously advocated the separation of policy-oriented finance from commercial finance, so as to achieve a smooth integration of the exchange rate, so that China's economy withstood the test of the Asian financial crisis. He advocated further liberalizing prices, deepening the reform of the price system, and giving full play to the basic role of the market in resource allocation. He actively promoted the reform of the foreign trade system, lowered tariffs, and further raised the level of opening up to the outside world. He insisted on deepening the reform of the social security system, improving unemployment insurance and work injury insurance, increasing the degree of socialization of endowment insurance and medical insurance, and promoting the establishment of a social security system that meets the level of china's productive forces. He stressed that the fundamental way out of enhancing the vitality of large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises lies in deepening reform, and it is necessary to guide enterprises to become economic entities that operate independently according to law, bear their own profits and losses, develop themselves, exercise self-restraint, and are full of vitality. He attached great importance to agriculture, rural areas, and peasant issues, stressed that the strengthening of agriculture should be placed in the first place in economic work, supported the improvement of the two-tier management system based on household contract management and combined with the combination of unified and decentralized management, promoted the inclusion of the household contract responsibility system in the Constitution, actively promoted the reform of the grain circulation system and the reform of the agricultural and sideline products procurement system, established a special state grain reserve system and a "rice bag" governor responsibility system and a "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, strengthened the construction of agricultural infrastructure, readjusted the agricultural production structure, and supported the development of township and town enterprises. Vigorously promote the transformation of traditional agriculture into modern agriculture. He resolutely implemented the policy of opening up to the outside world, supported the development of special economic zones, supported the construction of Shanghai Pudong New Area, encouraged the development of an export-oriented economy, formulated industrial policies to guide foreign investment, and promoted the formation of an all-round, multi-level and wide-ranging pattern of opening up.
Comrade Li Peng is an important leader in the building of socialist democracy and the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. In December 1998, he served as the head of the Constitutional Amendment Group, where he presided over the drafting of the draft constitutional amendments. With the consent of the PARTY Central Committee, the amendment to the Constitution was adopted by the Second Session of the Ninth National People's Congress, which established the guiding ideological status of Deng Xiaoping Theory in the form of the fundamental law of the state, clarified the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, the basic economic system and distribution system in the primary stage of socialism, and the important role of the non-public economy, which is of great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance for promoting China's economic and social development and promoting the party and the state to advance along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. He attached great importance to legislative work, regarded strengthening legislative work and improving the quality of legislation as the primary task of the NPC Standing Committee, and stressed that legislative work should persist in taking the Constitution as the basis, proceed from the basic national conditions in the initial stage of socialism in our country, and obey and serve the overall situation of state work. Under his presidency, the Ninth NPC and its Standing Committee deliberated 124 draft decisions on laws, legal interpretations, and related legal issues during their term of office, and passed 113, including a series of laws that have a major impact on China's economic and social development, such as the Legislation Law, the Contract Law, the Rural Land Contracting Law, the Securities Law, and the Higher Education Law, thus promoting the initial formation of a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core. He attached great importance to the supervision work of the people's congresses, intensified supervision, improved the methods of supervision, and enhanced the effectiveness of supervision. During their term of office, the Ninth National People's Congress and its Standing Committee successively inspected the implementation of 22 decisions on laws and legal issues, heard and deliberated 40 special work reports of the State Council, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and promoted the implementation of the Constitution and laws. He attached great importance to strengthening and improving the work of deputies to the people's congresses, worked hard to create conditions for deputies to better perform their duties, conscientiously handled the motions of deputies, and raised the work of deputies to a new level. He stressed the need to strengthen the building of the people's congresses and their standing committees themselves, improve the work system of the standing committees, strengthen the building of the working organs and offices of the standing committees, conduct in-depth investigations and studies on the implementation of legislation and laws, strengthen propaganda and education on the legal system, news propaganda work of the people's congresses, and the work of petitioning and visiting, and contact and guide local people's congresses in carrying out their work. He actively promoted exchanges and cooperation between the NPC and foreign parliaments and international parliamentary organizations, and promoted the further healthy and stable development of China's relations with relevant countries.
Comrade Li Peng is full of affection for the masses of the people, especially the masses in difficulty, and often goes deep into the old revolutionary areas and poverty-stricken areas to visit and comfort the poor masses. He attached great importance to poverty alleviation work, stressed that it is the historical responsibility of the party and the government to help poor areas change their backward appearance, adhered to the principle of development-oriented poverty alleviation, actively organized the implementation of the "National Eighty-Seven Poverty Alleviation Plan", and did a lot of work to achieve the strategic goal of basically solving the problem of food and clothing for the rural poor at the end of the 20th century. He was very concerned about the warmth and well-being of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises and demanded that every effort be made to ensure the basic livelihood of laid-off workers.
In March 2003, Comrade Li Peng ceased to serve as chairman of the Npc Standing Committee. After retiring from his leading post, he resolutely supported and supported the Party Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as general secretary, resolutely supported and supported the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, cared about the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and firmly supported the building of party style and clean government and the anti-corruption struggle.
Comrade Li Peng is a member of the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China; he was co-elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee; and a member of the Politburo and Standing Committee of the 13th, 14th, and 15th CPC Central Committees.
In his revolutionary career of more than 70 years, Comrade Li Peng has been unswerving in his loyalty to the communist ideal, infinitely loyal to the party and the people, and has contributed his life's energy to the cause of China's revolution, construction, and reform. He conscientiously studied Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "three represents", the scientific concept of development, and Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and always maintained a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in ideological and political actions. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he has firmly established political awareness, awareness of the overall situation, core awareness, and awareness of alignment, resolutely safeguarded the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole Party, and resolutely safeguarded the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership. He has a strong principle of party spirit, stresses politics, takes the overall situation into consideration, puts the interests of the party and the people in the first place, earnestly fulfills his loyalty to the party, shares worries for the party, performs his duties for the party, and benefits the people, and resolutely struggles against words and deeds that violate, distort, and negate the party's political line, negate the party's leadership, and the socialist system. He insisted on proceeding from reality in everything, integrating theory with practice, and creatively applied Marxist positions and viewpoints to analyze problems, solve problems, guide practice, and promote work. He adhered to the principle of democratic centralism, adhered to the party's collective leadership, maintained close ties with the masses, was good at listening to different opinions, and aroused and brought into play the enthusiasm of all quarters. He was bright and honest, diligent and earnest, and worked hard and complained. He was strict with himself, honest and honest, lived frugally, set strict demands on his family members and the staff around him, and always maintained the political nature of a communist, and was deeply loved by the whole party and the people of all nationalities throughout the country.
Comrade Li Peng's life was a life of revolution, a life of fighting, a brilliant life, and a life of wholeheartedly serving the people and fighting for the cause of communism. His passing away is a great loss to the party and the country. We must learn from his revolutionary spirit, lofty moral character and fine work style, unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, never forget the original intention, keep in mind the mission, and strive to win the decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, winning the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Comrade Li Peng is immortal!
This issue is edited by Xing Tan
