Chiang Wei-ch’ing

1909

China

In 1946 Chiang moved toward the southwest into Anhwei Province where he was an official under the jurisdiction of the Party’s Central China Bureau. He remained in this general vicinity during the late forties as a political officer in the Communist armies, and when Nanking fell in April 1949 he became a member of the Nanking Military Control Commission under Liu Po-ch’eng and a deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee. He went to Peking in the fall of 1949 to attend the inaugural session of the CPPCC, the organization which brought the new central government into existence on October 1. Chiang attended these meetings as a representative of Ch'en I’s Third Field Army, which had occupied most of the coastal provinces earlier in the year. Returning to Nanking, the Kiangsu capital, Chiang soon assumed new responsibilities. His principal new posts were: chairman of the Nanking Federation of Trade Unions, 1950-1953, commander of the Nanking Garrison Headquarters, 1950-1952, chairman of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Nanking Government, 1951-1953, and member of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Nanking Government, 1951-1953. In addition, from February 1950 to September 1954 he was a member of the People’s Supervision Committee of the regional administration known until 1952 as the East China Military and Administrative Committee and from 1952 to 1954 as the East China Administrative Committee. Finally, in November 1952 he was appointed a member of the Kiangsu Provincial People’s Government, a position to which he was re-elected as late as September 1964. By March 1953 Chiang had been promoted to higher Party responsibilities when he became second secretary under K’o Ch’ing-shih of the CCP Kiangsu Committee. Before long Chiang had relinquished all his posts in Nanking, the provincial capital. In January 1955, when K’o was transferred to Shanghai, Chiang succeeded him as the ranking secretary in Kiangsu. The position was redesignated first secretary by July 1956, and it continues to be Chiang’s principal post. From April 1955 he also chaired the Kiangsu Committee of the CPPCC, a position he still holds. When the Party met for its Eighth National Congress in September 1956 Chiang submitted a report on the need to follow the “mass line” in the management of agricultural producers cooperatives. At the close of the Congress he was elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee. For a long period afterward there was no mention of Chiang’s activities and Liu Shun-yuan served as the acting first secretary for Kiangsu. Ill health may have been the reason for his absence. However, in June 1958 he reappeared as the first secretary, and since then he has been regularly reported in a variety of activities commensurate with his Party status. For example, he has been frequently mentioned in the company of visitors to Nanking, both Chinese leaders from Peking and foreign guests. In February 1960 he was identified as first political commissar of the Kiangsu Military District, and since then he has made a number of talks before military groups in the province. Chiang’s writings include an article entitled “Promote the Mass Line and the Down-to-Earth Working Style” for the JMJP of January 5, 1959, and another on studying the thought of Mao-Tse-tung for Hung-ch’.

Chiang Wei-ch’ing

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Information is lacking on his early career, but toward the end of the Sino-Japanese War or immediately thereafter he was director of the Communists’ South Kiangsu Administrative District. At approximately this same time (until 1946) he served as political commissar of both the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army and the South Kiangsu Military District, a district probably covering the same area as the Administrative District. (The wartime history of the Sixth Division and the Military District is discussed in the biography of T’an Chen-lin.)

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In 1946 Chiang moved toward the southwest into Anhwei Province where he was an official under the jurisdiction of the Party’s Central China Bureau. He remained in this general vicinity during the late forties as a political officer in the Communist armies, and when Nanking fell in April 1949 he became a member of the Nanking Military Control Commission under Liu Po-ch’eng and a deputy secretary of the city’s Party Committee. He went to Peking in the fall of 1949 to attend the inaugural session of the CPPCC, the organization which brought the new central government into existence on October 1. Chiang attended these meetings as a representative of Ch'en I’s Third Field Army, which had occupied most of the coastal provinces earlier in the year.

Returning to Nanking, the Kiangsu capital, Chiang soon assumed new responsibilities. His principal new posts were: chairman of the Nanking Federation of Trade Unions, 1950-1953, commander of the Nanking Garrison Headquarters, 1950-1952, chairman of the Finance and Economics Committee of the Nanking Government, 1951-1953, and member of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Nanking Government, 1951-1953. In addition, from February 1950 to September 1954 he was a member of the People’s Supervision Committee of the regional administration known until 1952 as the East China Military and Administrative Committee and from 1952 to 1954 as the East China Administrative Committee. Finally, in November 1952 he was appointed a member of the Kiangsu Provincial People’s Government, a position to which he was re-elected as late as September 1964.

By March 1953 Chiang had been promoted to higher Party responsibilities when he became second secretary under K’o Ch’ing-shih of the CCP Kiangsu Committee. Before long Chiang had relinquished all his posts in Nanking, the provincial capital. In January 1955, when K’o was transferred to Shanghai, Chiang succeeded him as the ranking secretary in Kiangsu. The position was redesignated first secretary by July 1956, and it continues to be Chiang’s principal post. From April 1955 he also chaired the Kiangsu Committee of the CPPCC, a position he still holds. When the Party met for its Eighth National Congress in September 1956 Chiang submitted a report on the need to follow the “mass line” in the management of agricultural producers cooperatives. At the close of the Congress he was elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee. For a long period afterward there was no mention of Chiang’s activities and Liu Shun-yuan served as the acting first secretary for Kiangsu. Ill health may have been the reason for his absence. However, in June 1958 he reappeared as the first secretary, and since then he has been regularly reported in a variety of activities commensurate with his Party status. For example, he has been frequently mentioned in the company of visitors to Nanking, both Chinese leaders from Peking and foreign guests. In February 1960 he was identified as first political commissar of the Kiangsu Military District, and since then he has made a number of talks before military groups in the province. Chiang’s writings include an article entitled “Promote the Mass Line and the Down-to-Earth Working Style” for the JMJP of January 5, 1959, and another on studying the thought of Mao-Tse-tung for Hung-ch’.

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