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Hui Yii-yii
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Nothing is known of Hui’s early career, but by the middle years of the Sino-Japanese War he was working in Kiangsu in areas under the control of the Communists’ New Fourth Army.
Career
He remained in this region in the postwar period and by 1946 he was in command of the Second Sub-district of the South Kiangsu Military District. Three years later, as the Communists were completing their conquest of east China, Hui was the director of the political department of an army unit under Ch en I's Third Field Aimy. When Soochow fell to the advancing Communist armies in late April 1949, Hui became a member of the Soochow Military Control Commission, and in September he succeeded Wei Kuo-ch’ing as Commission chairman. Hui concurrently served as mayor of Soochow (April-August 1949) and secretary of the CCP Soochow Municipal Committee (1949-50).
From 1949 to November 1952 the Communists administered Kiangsu province as two separate units, designated the North and the South Kiangsu People’s Administrative Offices. By at least the latter part of 1950 Hui was transferred from his Soochow posts to Yang-chou, the capital of the northern office, to become chairman of this body. In addition, from 1951 to 1952 he was chairman of the North Kiangsu Political and Legal Affairs Committee and a vice-chairman of its Finance and Economics Committee. Hui was concurrently a vice-chairman, under Tseng Shan, of the important Huai River Harnessing Commission, which was set up in November 1950 under the auspices of the Ministry of Water Conservancy in Peking. Then in November 1952, when Kiangsu province was restored to its traditional boundaries, Hui became a member of the Kiangsu Provincial People’s Government Council under Governor T’an Chen-lin. With this change Hui transferred from Yang-chou to Nanking, the provincial capital. Within a brief time he became the leading Party and government figure in Nanking, serving as the mayor and ranking secretary of the municipal Party Committee. He relinquished these posts by approximately February 1955 when he replaced Tan Chen-lin as the Kiangsu governor, a post Hui still holds. While he was rising in the governmental structure, Hui was also advancing in the Party apparatus. By November 1954 he had become a deputy secretary of the Kiangsu Party Committee, and since mid-1956 he has been a secretary under Kiangsu First Secretary Chiang Wei-ch’ing, a colleague of Hui’s from the 1940’s.
Politics
Hui was a Kiangsu deputy to the First (1954-1959) and Second (1959-1964) NPC’s, and he was re-elected to the Third Congress, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965. Other posts held by Hui from the mid-1950’s include the chairmanship of the Kiangsu and Nanching branches of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association and the chairmanship of the Nanking Yangtze River Bridge Construction Committee (set up in October 1958), Since becoming the Kiangsu governor in 1955 he has been reported in the press quite regularly in activities normally associated with provincial leaders of his stature, e.g., addressing provincial meetings, making inspection tours, and confer¬ring with foreign dignitaries or top leaders from Peking on visits to Kiangsu.
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Chinese Communist Party