Background
Pai Ju-ping, who once used the alias of Pai Shu-hsun, is a native of Shensi.
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Pai Ju-ping
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He was educated locally.
Career
By 1942, Pai was working in Shansi in the area under the military control of the 120th Division commanded by Ho Lung. The important Shansi-Suiyuan Border Region was divided into two major parts, the Ta-ch’ing Mountain District, which was mainly north of the Great Wall in Suiyuan and the Northwest Shansi District, most of which was south of the Wall. In October 1942, the provisional assembly of the Northwest Shansi District convened with 145 members in attendance. A 19-member Administrative Committee was elected as the executive organ of the District; Pai was elected a member, as was Commander Ho Lung. The talents Pai brought to this body were apparently financial, for Japanese sources assert that he served as head of the Finance Office of the Northwest Shansi District. Some 20 years later Pai was extolled in the Communist press for the simple and industrious life he had led in Shansi. It was noted that he spent some of his time spinning cotton yarn and also engaged in farming.
It seems almost certain that Pai remained in the northwest throughout the war with the Japanese, as well as the civil war with the Nationalists in the late 1940's, because when the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia and the Shansi-Suiyuan Border Regions were merged to form a Northwest Liberated Region in February 1949, he received two important posts with the new government. He was named to head the Finance Office and was appointed as a member of the Finance and Economics Committee under the direction of Ho Lung, an associate from at least 1942. By the end of 1949, the Northwest Liberated Region Government was dissolved in favor of the Northwest Military and Administrative Committee (NWMAC known as the Northwest Administrative Committee, NWAC, from 1953 to 1954). Pai's positions with the new government were very similar to those he held earlier. He was named as a member of the NWMAC, as well as director of its Finance Department and a vice-chairman of the Finance and Economics Committee, he held the Finance Department position until March 1953 and the others until the NWAC was abolished in 1954. Another important position Pai held in the Northwest (from September 1950 to July 1951) was that of director of the Northwest Railway Trunkline Construction Bureau, although this bureau was directly subordinated to the Ministry of Railways in Peking rather than to the NWMAC.
Pai was transferred to the national capital and remained there for the next four years. His first nationwide post was as a member on the national 1954 committee of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, one of the largest and most important of the “mass” organizations. He was named to the organization in July 1954. A few months later, during the governmental reorganizations in the fall of 1954, a Central Handicrafts Administrative Bureau was established as an organ directly subordinate to the State Council. Pai was named as director in November 1954, holding the post until March 1958 when the bureau was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Light Industry. At a December 1954-January 1955 conference, just one month after the creation of the Handicrafts Bureau organization was created to parallel the governmental bureau a fairly common practice of the Chinese Communists. At this inaugural conference a preparatory committee for the All-China Federation of Handicraft Cooperatives was established, with Pai as the committee chairman. Three years later, in December 1957, he was named as chairman (and member) of the board of directors of the Federation when it was established as a permanent organization at the first national congress of handicraft cooperatives in Peking.
In November of 1958, at a session of the Shantung Provincial Congress, Pai was elected as a vice-governor under Governor (and Party Central Committee alternate member) Tan Ch'i-lung. Five years later, at a December 1963 session of the congress, Pai succeeded T’an as Shantung governor. In January 1961, Pai had been named as a Shantung deputy to the Second NPC to replace a deceased delegate. In 1964 he was re-elected from Shantung to the Third NPC, which held its first session in December 1964-January 1965.
Politics
As might be expected for a provincial leader of his stature, Pai is regularly mentioned in the press, he has attended numerous Party and government meetings in Shantung (such as the sessions of the Shantung Provincial People’s Council) and taken part in rallies commemorating Communist holidays. He has also been reported in the company of top Party leaders on inspections in Shantung; for example, he was with Mao Tse-tung in September 1959 and May 1960, and with Chu Te in May 1960. Among the articles written by Pai about Shantung are two which appeared in the JMJP (October 19, 1959, and February 3, 1960).
As already noted, Pai was cited for his frugal living habits when he was an official in Shansi in the early 1940’s. This was mentioned in a New China News Agency dispatch of September 15, 1963, from the Shantung capital, which stated that Pai’s son, Pai Ch’ing-sheng, was then a student at the Wu-ying-shan Primary School in Tsinan, Shantung, and had been inspired by his father’s “simple living.” This same dispatch also mentioned that Pai had a daughter, older than his son.
Membership
One of the several categories of membership on the CPPCC is reserved for persons working with cooperatives. Given Pai’s intensive involvement with cooperatives by 1954, it was appropriate that he should be a member of the Second National Committee as a representative of cooperatives from December 1954 when the committee was established until the third committee was inaugurated in April 1959.
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
Career
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1942
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1949
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February 1, 1949
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1953 - 1954
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1957