Song Baorui
{{Short description|Chinese politician (1937–2022)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}}
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| office1 = Governor of Sichuan
| term_start1 = February 1996
| term_end1 = June 1999
| predecessor1 = Xiao Yang
| successor1 = Zhang Zhongwei
| name = Song Baorui
| native_name = 宋宝瑞
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| birth_date = December 1937
| birth_place = Shunyi County, Beijing, China
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2022|9|20|1937|12|1}}
| death_place = Chengdu, Sichuan, China
| party = Chinese Communist Party
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| alma_mater = Tsinghua University
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| p = Sòng Bǎoruì
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Song Baorui ({{zh|s=宋宝瑞}}; December 1937 – 20 September 2022){{cite web|script-title=zh:四川省原省长宋宝瑞逝世，清华毕业后扎根西南近30年，享年85岁|url=http://www.ctdsb.net/c1476_202209/1513692.html|publisher=Jimu News|language=Chinese|date=20 September 2022|accessdate=21 September 2022}} was a politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Sichuan from 1996 to 1999.{{cite news |url=http://news.sohu.com/20060216/n241867498.shtml |script-title=zh:简历：全国政协委员宋宝瑞(中国共产党) |language=Chinese |newspaper=Sohu |date=16 February 2006 |accessdate=16 August 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Song_Baorui |title=Song Baorui |publisher=China Vitae |accessdate=16 August 2013}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CT9O9uZq_U4C&pg=PA381 |title=Provincial Strategies of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China: Leadership, Politics, and Implementation |editor1=Peter T. Y. Cheung |editor2=Jae Ho Chung |editor3=Chae-ho Chŏng |display-editors = 3 |editor4=Zhimin Lin |publisher=M. E. Sharpe |year=1998 |isbn= 9780765621498 |pages=381–2}}
Biography
Song Baorui was a native of Shunyi County (now Shunyi District), Beijing. He was born in December 1937 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1958. From 1957 to 1963 he studied metallurgy at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and completed a graduate program at the metallurgy department of Tsinghua in 1966.
From 1968 to 1975 Song worked as a technician at the Dongfang Boiler Factory and China Welding Material Company in Zigong, Sichuan province, rising through the ranks to become Chief Engineer in 1975 and General Manager in 1982.
From 1983 to 1986 Song Baorui was the Deputy Communist Party Chief and then Communist Party Chief of Zigong City. He was transferred to the Sichuan provincial government in 1986 and became Deputy Party Chief of Sichuan in 1989, concurrently serving as Party Chief of provincial capital Chengdu from 1992 to 1993. In 1996 he was promoted to Governor of Sichuan province. As governor he actively promoted Sichuan's opening up.
Song was an alternate member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and a full member of the 15th Central Committee.
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Category:Chinese Communist Party politicians from Beijing
Category:People's Republic of China politicians from Beijing
Category:Alternates of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Category:Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Category:Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress