Liu Qi (politician, born 1942)
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-suffix = Olympic Order
| image = Liu Qi Beijing.jpg
| caption = Liu Qi
| office1 = Party Secretary of Beijing
| term_start1 = 22 October 2002
| term_end1 = 3 July 2012
| predecessor1 = Jia Qinglin
| successor1 = Guo Jinlong
| office2 = President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
| term_start2 = 29 August 2004
| term_end2 = 24 August 2008
| predecessor2 = Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
| successor2 = Sebastian Coe
| 1blankname2 = IOC President
| 1namedata2 = Jacques Rogge
| office3 = Chair of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
| term_start3 = December 13, 2001
| term_end3 = August 22, 2009
| predecessor3 = Committee established
| successor3 = Position dissolved
| office4 = Mayor of Beijing
| term_start4 = 10 February 1999
| term_end4 = 19 January 2003
| predecessor4 = Jia Qinglin
| successor4 = Meng Xuenong
| office5 = Minister of Metallurgical Industry
| term_start5 = March 1993
| term_end5 = March 1998
| predecessor5 = Qi Yuanqing
| successor5 = Position revoked
| name = Liu Qi
| native_name = {{nobold|刘淇}}
| native_name_lang = zh
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|11|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
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| party = Chinese Communist Party
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| alma_mater = Beijing 101 Middle School
University of Science and Technology Beijing
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Liu Qi ({{lang-zh|s=刘淇|t=劉淇|p=Liú Qí}}; born November 3, 1942, in Wujin, Changzhou, Jiangsu) is a retired Chinese politician. He formerly served as the Party Secretary of Beijing, and also a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. He was also the President of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Organizing Committee.{{cite web|url=http://en.beijing2008.cn/bocog/bocognews/headlines/n214469580.shtml |title=Liu Qi: Ensure supply of essentials for Games - the Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games |accessdate=2013-08-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021140349/http://en.beijing2008.cn/bocog/bocognews/headlines/n214469580.shtml |archivedate=2012-10-21 }}
Biography
= Steel Industry =
Liu Qi graduated from Beijing 101 Middle School in 1959 and subsequently enrolled in the Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering, and majored in iron smelting, graduating in 1964. Concurrently, he was accepted into the postgraduate program of the same department, specializing in Ferrous metallurgy, and obtained his postgraduate qualification in 1968. In June of the same year, he was appointed to the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company's Iron and Steel Plant, where he held positions as gas worker, furnace foreman, and foreman of the second blast furnace.{{cite book | title=中国人物年鉴 | publisher=Huayi Publishing House | date=2006 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4pIEAQAAIAAJ&q=1990%25E5%25B9%25B4%25E8%2587%25B31993%25E5%25B9%25B4%25EF%25BC%258C%25E4%25BB%25BB%25E6%25AD%25A6%25E6%25B1%2589%25E9%2592%25A2%25E9%2593%2581%25E5%2585%25AC%25E5%258F%25B8%25E7%25BB%258F%25E7%2590%2586+%25E5%2588%2598%25E6%25B7%2587 | language=zh | access-date=2025-04-09 | page=25}} He joined the Chinese Communist Party in September 1975. From 1978 to 1983, he served as a technician and deputy furnace manager of the third blast furnace at the same plant. From 1983 to 1985, he was the deputy director of the plant and the director of the production department. From 1985 to 1990, he served as the first director of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Company's Iron and Steel Plant. From 1985 until 1990, he served as the inaugural deputy manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company and was a member of the Company's Party Committee Standing Committee. From 1990 to 1993, he served as the manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.{{cite book | last=中央组织部 | first=中国共产党 | author2=中共中央党史硏究室 | title=中国共产党历届中央委员大辞典, 1921-2003 | publisher=中共党史出版社 | date=2004 | isbn=978-7-80136-952-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUoQAQAAMAAJ| language=zh | access-date=2025-04-09 | page=450}}
He held the position of Minister of the {{ill|Ministry of Metallurgical Industry|zh|中华人民共和国冶金工业部}} from 1993 until 1998.{{cite book | last=国务院 | first=China | title=中华人民共和国国务院令, 1949.10-2001.4 | publisher=吉林人民出版社 | date=2001 | isbn=978-7-206-03703-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCvlAAAAMAAJ&dq=%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E5%258D%258E%25E4%25BA%25BA%25E6%25B0%2591%25E5%2585%25B1%25E5%2592%258C%25E5%259B%25BD%25E5%2586%25B6%25E9%2587%2591%25E5%25B7%25A5%25E4%25B8%259A%25E9%2583%25A8+%25E5%2588%2598%25E7%2590%25AA&pg=PA438 | language=zh | access-date=2025-04-09 | page=438}}
= Beijing =
In 1998, Zhu Rongji, the newly appointed Premier of the State Council, oversaw the institutional reform of the State Council, resulting in the dissolution of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry. Liu Qi was subsequently appointed as the Deputy Secretary of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee and Deputy Mayor of Beijing. From 1999 to 2002, he held the position of Deputy Secretary of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee and served as the Mayor of Beijing. From 2002 to 2003, he held the positions of member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, Secretary of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee, and Mayor. He was a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the CCP Beijing Municipal Committee from 2003 till June 2012. In December 2001, he held the position of chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games.{{cite web | title=2008 Beijing Summer Olympics can boost development and peace, UN envoy says | website=UN News | date=2007-04-24 | url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2007/04/216582-2008-beijing-summer-olympics-can-boost-development-and-peace-un-envoy-says | access-date=2025-04-09}}{{cite web | title=Liu Qi: Beijing Games, 'grand celebration of sport, peace and friendship' -- china.org.cn | website=China.org.cn | date=2008-08-24 | url=http://www.china.org.cn/olympics/news/2008-08/24/content_16322479.htm | access-date=2025-04-09}} During his tenure, Beijing effectively hosted the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and on August 25, 2008, Liu Qi received the Olympic Order from International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge.{{cite book | title=世界知识年鑑 | publisher=World Affairs Press | date=2008 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYsQAQAAMAAJ&q=%25E5%25A5%25A5%25E6%259E%2597%25E5%258C%25B9%25E5%2585%258B%25E9%2587%2591%25E8%25B4%25A8%25E5%258B%258B%25E7%25AB%25A0%25E3%2580%2581+%25E5%2588%2598%25E6%25B7%2587 | language=zh | access-date=2025-04-09 | page=1174}}
Liu Qi chaired 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in 2009 as the master of ceremonies,{{cite web | title=Grand performance staged for National Day CCTV-International | website=CCTV.com English | date=2009-10-01 | url=http://english.cctv.com/20091001/104345_1.shtml | access-date=2025-04-09}}{{cite web | title=Sixty-gun salutes, flag raising ceremony kick off grand celebration | website=China Daily Website | date=2009-10-01 | url=https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/60th/2009-10/01/content_8759039.htm | access-date=2025-04-09}} and has served as the deputy head of the Central Guidance Commission on Building Spiritual Civilization since July 2012. In November 2012, he resigned from his position as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.{{cite web | title=北京原市委书记刘淇任中央文明委副主任 | website=第一财经_专业创造价值 | date=2012-07-13 | url=https://m.yicai.com/news/1896719.html | access-date=2025-04-09}}{{cite web | title=两任北京市委书记卸任后 都去了这个大单位——人民政协网 | website=人民政协网 | date=2017-05-29 | url=http://www.rmzxw.com.cn/c/2017-05-29/1563178.shtml?n2m=1 | language=zh | access-date=2025-04-09}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=31 China Vitae biography]
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