biography
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| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Chinese politician. He trained as an engineer, and rose to prominence as head of the Chinese Communist Party's youth league, becoming party secretary in Guizhou (1984) and Xizang (Tibet) (1988), where he pursued a hardline policy, crushing anti-Chinese demonstrations at Lhasa in 1989. A member of the Politburo standing committee in 1992, he was appointed vice-president in 1998, being seen as an eventual successor to Jiang Zemin. |
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