Li Jiebo

Li Jiebo
李颉伯
Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions
In office
August 1958 – December 1962
Personal details
BornFebruary 1911
Fengrun County, Zhili, Qing China
Died17 October 1987(1987-10-17) (aged 76)
Beijing, China
PartyChinese Communist Party
OccupationPolitician, trade union leader

Li Jiebo (Chinese: 李颉伯; February 1911 – October 17, 1987), also known as Li Zhongzhang (Chinese: 李仲章), was a Chinese politician and veteran trade union leader. He was an alternate delegate to the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, an alternate member of the 8th Central Committee, and later served as a member of the Central Advisory Commission.[1]

Biography

Li was born in February 1911 in Fengrun County, Hebei Province. In his youth he was influenced by communist ideas and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1932, the same year he became secretary of the CCP Fengrun County Committee and secretary-general of the Tangshan Federation of Trade Unions. In 1934 he served as Party secretary of the Tangshan Federation of Trade Unions, and the following year became a preparatory member of the North China Railway General Union. In 1936 he was appointed to the CCP Northern Bureau’s Railway Work Committee and participated in the December 9th Movement.[2]

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, Li held various Party posts in Shanxi Province, including secretary of the CCP Jixian County Committee and head of the armed forces department of the Shanxi Sacrifice League.[3] In 1938 he arrived in Yan’an to study at the Marxism-Leninism Institute, and by 1939 was working for the CCP Central Committee’s Labor Movement Committee (Zhigongwei), where he served successively as member, secretary-general, and acting secretary. In 1945 he was elected as a delegate to the All-China Federation of Liberated Area Workers’ Unions and attended the 7th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He later became deputy director of the Military Industry Bureau of the Central Military Commission, and in 1947 was appointed Minister of the Jin-Sui Military Region’s Industrial Department.[4]

After the war, Li attended the Sixth National Labor Congress in Harbin in 1948, where he was elected a member of the presidium. From 1948 to 1949, he served as executive committee member and secretary-general of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU). In early 1949 he took part in preparations for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.[5]

Following the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Li continued to hold senior posts in the labor movement. In 1950 he became chairman of the National Committee of the Railway Workers’ Union.[6] He was elected secretary-general of the ACFTU in 1953 and later served as vice chairman from 1958 to 1962, concurrently holding leading positions in the CCP Secretariat’s Fourth Office and the General Office of the CCP Central Committee.[7] In 1963 he was appointed Party secretary of the Tangshan Prefectural Committee and political commissar of the Tangshan Military Subdistrict, and in 1964 became a member of the Hebei Provincial Party Standing Committee.[8]

During the Cultural Revolution, Li was persecuted but was later rehabilitated. From 1978 to 1982 he served as Vice Minister of Railways and deputy Party secretary of the Ministry.[9] He was also a delegate to the 1st Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a deputy to the 1st and 2nd National People’s Congresses, and a member of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th National Committees of the CPPCC. At the 2nd Session of the 8th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 1958, he was elected an alternate member of the Central Committee, and in 1982 he was elected to the Central Advisory Commission.[10][11]

Li Jiebo died in Beijing on October 17, 1987, at the age of 76. His body was cremated and, in accordance with his wishes, his ashes were scattered at sea.[12]

References

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  2. ^ 陝甘宁边区 (in Chinese). 兵器工業出版社. 1990. p. 216. ISBN 978-7-80038-261-1. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  3. ^ 李姓宝典 (in Chinese). 吉林摄影出版社. 2002. p. 1458. ISBN 978-7-80606-432-0. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  4. ^ 盛平 (1991). 中国共产党历史大辞典 (in Chinese). 中国国际广播出版社. p. 709. ISBN 978-7-80035-874-6. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  5. ^ 中国共产党人名大辞典 (in Chinese). 中国国际广播出版社. 1991. p. 322. ISBN 978-7-80035-873-9. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  6. ^ 郭化若 (1993). 中国人民解放军军史大辞典 (in Chinese). 吉林人民出版社出版发行. p. 909. ISBN 978-7-206-01814-5. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  7. ^ 中央组织部, 中国共产党; 中共中央党史硏究室 (2004). 中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典, 1921-2003 (in Chinese). Chinese Communist Party History Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-7-80136-952-9. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  8. ^ 中国抗日战争大辞典 (in Chinese). 北京燕山出版社. 1997. p. 177. ISBN 978-7-5402-0937-7. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  9. ^ 马洪武; 王德宝; 孙其明 (1993). 中国近现代史名人辞典 (in Chinese). 档案出版社. p. 272. ISBN 978-7-80019-381-1. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  10. ^ 郑建英 (2001). 中共第一届至十五届中央委员 (in Chinese). Central Literature Publishing House. p. 343. ISBN 978-7-5073-1034-4. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  11. ^ 历届全国政协委員人名辞典 (in Chinese). 中国国际广播出版社. 1996. p. 268. ISBN 978-7-5078-1374-6. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
  12. ^ 毛泽东百科全书 (in Chinese). Guangming Daily Press. 2003. p. 7. ISBN 978-7-80091-484-3. Retrieved 2025-09-22.
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