Sun Jian | |
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孙健 | |
Vice Premier of China | |
In office January 1975 – Spring 1978 | |
Premier | Zhou Enlai→Hua Guofeng |
Personal details | |
Born | 1936 Dingxing County, Hebei, China |
Died | November 1997 (aged 61) Tianjin, China |
Political party | Chinese Communist Party |
Spouse | Pang Xiuting |
Sun Jian (Chinese: 孙健; Wade–Giles: Sun Chien; 1936 – November 1997) was a Chinese factory worker who was elevated to the position of Vice Premier in 1975, during the Cultural Revolution. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, he was declared a follower of the Gang of Four and was dismissed from the government in 1978. He returned to his former life as a factory worker in Tianjin and later became a company manager.