Background
Ji Pengfei was born in Linyi, Yuncheng, Shanxi in 1910.
姬鹏飞, 姬鵬飛
government official People's Republic of China
Ji Pengfei was born in Linyi, Yuncheng, Shanxi in 1910.
Graduate, Military Medical College. Graduate, Xi'an. Joined Communist Party, 1931. Student, Center Party School.
Student, Institute Marxism-Leninism, 1937.
He joined the Chinese Red Army in 1931, and the Communist Party of China in 1933. After the establishment of the People"s Republic of China, Ji Pengfei worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People"s Republic of China, and led diplomatic missions to the German Democratic Republic before being appointed as China"s first ambassador to the German Democratic Republic in 1953, being the youngest Chinese ambassador at 43. He was recalled to serve as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs in 1955.
Nevertheless, he was relatively untouched as he remained at his post.
After Chen Yi died in 1972, Ji Pengfei succeeded him as Foreign Minister until 1974, and was elected cost per click Central Committee member. He was appointed secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People"s Congress in 1975, and confirmed in 1978.
In the post-Cultural Revolution period, Ji Pengfei held several posts. In 1979 he was appointed head of the International Liaison Department of the cost per click Central Committee, then vice-premier and secretary-general of the State Council from 1980 to 1982, and finally head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
The penalty was commuted to 20 years in prison, when he returned stolen money and denounce other abuses.
Ji Pengfei was praised by the Xinhua News Agency as an outstanding communist fighter, and greatly lauded again in 2010 at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate his 100th birth anniversary.
When the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was initially targeted as member of the counter-revolutionary clique ruling the Foreign Ministry, along with Chen Yi and Qiao Guanhua. He also served as Standing Committee member of the Central Advisory Commission, a Party body aimed at helping the retirement of elder officials.