Hu Qili

Hu Qili
Hu Qili
胡启立
First-ranked Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; 24 September 1985 – 24 June 1989
General Secretary	Hu Yaobang; Zhao Ziyang
Preceded by	Hu Yaobang
Succeeded by	Qiao Shi
Politburo Standing Committee member of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; November 1987 – June 1989 Serving with Zhao Ziyang, Li Peng, Qiao Shi, Yao Yilin
General Secretary	Zhao Ziyang
Director of the General Office of the Chinese Communist Party
	In office; April 1982 – June 1983
General Secretary	Hu Yaobang
Preceded by	Yao Yilin
Succeeded by	Qiao Shi
Personal details
Born	6 October 1929 (age 94); Yulin, Shaanxi, Republic of China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse(s)	Hao Keming (郝克明, d. 2023)
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	胡啟立
Simplified Chinese	胡启立
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Hú Qǐlì

Hu Qili (Chinese: 胡启立; born 6 October 1929) is a former high-ranking politician of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), known as a champion of the country's economic reform program in the 1980s. He was the first secretary of the CCP Secretariat from 1985 to 1989 and a member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee from 1987 to 1989. Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, he was purged for his sympathy toward the student protesters and his support for General Secretary Zhao Ziyang's opposition to the use of armed force.^[1] However, he returned to politics in 1991. In 2001, he became chairman of the Soong Ching-ling Foundation.^[2]

As of April 2024, Hu Qili is the only living member of 13th Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC from the first three plenary sessions.

^ "4 Removed From Their Posts As a Result of Shifts in Power". The New York Times. 1989-06-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
^ "我会主席胡启立为首届少年儿童发明奖获奖者颁奖" [Hu Qili, Chairman of our association, presented awards to the winners of the first Children’s Invention Award]. China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (in Chinese). 24 December 2001. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

[nyt-1] "4 Removed From Their Posts As a Result of Shifts in Power". The New York Times. 1989-06-25. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

[sclf-2] "我会主席胡启立为首届少年儿童发明奖获奖者颁奖" [Hu Qili, Chairman of our association, presented awards to the winners of the first Children’s Invention Award]. China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (in Chinese). 24 December 2001. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

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