Tian Jiyun

{{Short description|Chinese politician}}

{{family name hatnote|Tian|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox Officeholder

| name = Tian Jiyun

| image = Tian Jiyun.jpg

| office = Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress

| 1blankname1 = {{nowrap|Chairman}}

| 1namedata1 = Qiao ShiLi Peng

| term_start = March 27, 1993

| term_end = March 15, 2003

| office2 = Vice Premier of China

| premier2 = Zhao ZiyangLi Peng

| term_start2 = June,1983

| term_end2 = March,1993

| office3 = Member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

| 1blankname3 = {{nowrap|General Secretary}}

| 1namedata3 = Hu YaobangZhao ZiyangJiang Zemin

| term_start3 = Sepetmeber 24,1985

| term_end3 = November 15, 2002

| office4 = Secretary-General of the State Council

| premier4 = Zhao Ziyang

| term_start4 = June 20,1983

| term_end4 = November 11,1985

| birth_date = {{birth date|1929|6|4}} (age 95)

| birth_place = Feicheng, Shandong, Republic of China

| nationality = Chinese

| party = Chinese Communist Party (joined in 1945)

| website =

| footnotes =

| caption = Tian in 1985

}}

Tian Jiyun ({{zh|s=田纪云|t=田紀雲|p=Tián Jìyún}}; born 4 June 1929 in Feicheng, Shandong) is a retired politician in the People's Republic of China, known as a supporter of Deng Xiaoping's reforms. The best-known feature of his biography is the speech of 1992, delivered in the Central Party School, in which he ridicules the "leftists" (those who did not support the new policy of openness). Tian proposed they establish their own "economic zones" preserving all the worst features of the old system.

Biography

Between 1981 and 1983, Tian served as the deputy secretary general of the State Council. He was promoted to the secretary general in 1983, and served as the vice premier of the State Council between 1983 and 1993.

Tian joined the Chinese Communist Party at the age of 16. He has been a member of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party since 1982, and joined the politburo in 1987.

Tian was elected the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1993 and 1998. Tian retired in 2003 at the age of 73.