Rong Yiren

Rong Yiren
荣毅仁
Rong Yiren in 1949
Vice President of China
In office
March 12, 1993 – March 15, 1998
PresidentJiang Zemin
Preceded byWang Zhen
Succeeded byHu Jintao
Personal details
Born(1916-05-01)May 1, 1916
Wuxi, Jiangsu, Republic of China
DiedOctober 26, 2005(2005-10-26) (aged 89)
Beijing, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party China Democratic National Construction Association
Spouse
(m. 1937)
Children4
Alma materSt. John's University, Shanghai
Rong Yiren
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinRóng Yìrén
Wade–GilesJung I-jen

Rong Yiren (Chinese: 荣毅仁; Wade–Giles: Jung I-jen; May 1, 1916 – October 26, 2005)[1] was the Vice President of China from 1993 to 1998 and was heavily involved with the opening of the Chinese economy to western investment. Rong is known both in China and in the Western world as "the Red Capitalist" because his family were some of the few pre-1949 industrialists in Shanghai to have been treated well by the Chinese Communist Party in return for their co-operation with the government of the People's Republic of China.

  1. ^ "榮毅仁同志生平". www.people.com.cn (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-06-05.