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T’ao Lu-chja
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T’ao Lu-chia’s first known association with the revolutionary movement occurred in mid-1937 immediately after the outbreak of the Sino-Japa- nese War. At that time a number of young Communist students were fleeing Peking and Tientsin for Communist-held areas in northwest China. Traveling down the Peking-Hankow (Pinghan) Railway in open railway cars, the students had to change at Shih-chia-chuang before proceeding westward to Taiyuan.
Education
There was no further reporting about T’ao during the Sino-Japanese War nor during the civil war with the Nationalists. But then in 1949 he emerged as an important Party official in Shansi where he was to remain for the next 16 years.
Career
From 1949 to 1952 he headed the provincial Party Propaganda Department and from April 1950 to his transfer to Peking in 1965 he was a member of the Shansi Provincial Government. Under this same government he served as a vice-chairman of the Culture and Education Committee from August 1950 to June 1952. Within the provincial Party structure, he was promoted to a deputy secretaryship by mid-1951. He moved up to first deputy secretary in early 1953 and then took over from Kao K’o-lin as the first secretary by late summer 1953. In the meantime, in 1952, he had become the political commissar of the Shansi Military District. Thus, from the 1952-53 period, T'ao was the dominant figure in Shansi until his 1965 transfer.
T’ao served as a Shansi deputy to the First NPC, which brought the constitutional government into existence at its first session in September 1954. Although he was not named to the Second NPC, whch opened in April 1959, he was elected in a by-election in December 1965 (replacing a deceased colleague) to the Third NPC. In February 1955 he became the chairman of the newly established Shansi chapter of the CPPCC, the quasi-legislative body of only limited importance after the formation of the NPC. He remained as head of the CPPCC in Shansi until his departure from the province in 1965. During his 16-year tenure in Shansi, T’ao seldom left the province. One of the exceptions occurred in September 1956 when he attended the important Eighth National Party Congress, where he submitted a report on industry and agriculture in Shansi. He was again in Peking in May 1958 when the Congress held its second session. On this occasion he was elected an alternate member of the Party Central Committee.
Politics
T’ao was very active in internal political affairs in Shansi during his many years there. On a number of occasions he was reported in the company of Politburo members on inspection tours in Shansi; random examples include the visits of P'eng Chen (October 1958), Ch'en I (May-June 1959), and Tung Pi-wu (May 1960). During these years Tao also contributed several articles for top Party journals and newspapers. These include articles for Hsueh-hsi (November 1, 1951), the/M/P (May 16, 1958, and June 11, 1960) and Hung-Wi (Red flag, October 16, 1958, March 1, 1959, and May 16, 1963). Most of these articles dealt with economic problems, particularly as they pertained to the situation in Shansi.
Possibly it was this experience in economic matters that brought about his transfer in April 1965 to Peking as one of the vice-chairmen of the State Economic Commission. Headed by one of China's top economic specialists, Po I-po, this important commission is in charge of economic planning on an annual basis. T’ao, of course, relinquished his posts in Shansi, being replaced as the first secretary of the Shansi Party Committee by Wei Heng, a long-time colleague. Less than a month before his transfer to Peking (April 1965), T’ao had been identified as a secretary of the Party's North China Bureau. In view of the fact that many officials of this bureau hold concurrent posts in Peking, it is possible that T'ao will continue to serve in the bureau as well as State Economic Commission.
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
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1949 - 1952
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1952
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1955