Jia Qinglin

Jia Qinglin
贾庆林
7th Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
In office 14 March 2003 – 11 March 2013
Deputy	Wang Gang
Preceded by	Li Ruihuan
Succeeded by	Yu Zhengsheng
Communist Party Secretary of Beijing
In office August 1997 – October 2002
Preceded by	Wei Jianxing
Succeeded by	Liu Qi
Communist Party Secretary of Fujian
In office December 1993 – October 1996
Preceded by	Chen Guangyi
Succeeded by	Chen Mingyi
Personal details
Born	(1940-03-13) March 13, 1940 (age 84) Botou, Hebei, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Spouse	Lin Youfang
Children	1 son, 1 daughter
Relatives	Li Pak-tam (son-in-law) Jasmine Li (grandchild)
Alma mater	Hebei University of Technology
Profession	Engineer
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	賈慶林
Simplified Chinese	贾庆林
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiǎ Qìnglín Southern Min Hokkien POJ Ka Kheng-lim

Jia Qinglin (Chinese: 贾庆林; born 13 March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between 2002 and 2012, and Chairman of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference between 2003 and 2013.^[1]

Jia, an engineer by trade, began his political career in Fujian in 1985. There, he rose steadily through the ranks and led the province during the Yuanhua scandal. In 1996, Jia was transferred to become mayor, then party chief of Beijing.^[2] Largely due to his patronage relationship with then General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Jia was promoted to the Politburo in 1997, and remained a mainstay figure in China's political elite for the next fifteen years.^[3] He retired in 2013.^[4]