Zhang Xi (PRC politician)

Zhang Xi
张玺
Communist Party Secretary of Henan
In office
October 1949 – November 1952
Succeeded byPan Fusheng
Personal details
Born(1912-02-01)1 February 1912
Pingxiang, Hebei, China
Died8 January 1959(1959-01-08) (aged 46)
Beijing
Political partyChinese Communist Party
In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Xi (Chinese: 张玺; 1 February 1912 – 8 January 1959) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was the first Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Henan province of the People's Republic of China, and one of the founding members of the State Planning Commission. He died of nasopharynx cancer in 1959, at the age of 46.[1][2][3] During the Cultural Revolution, he was posthumously denounced as a traitor, and his ashes were exhumed and discarded.[1]

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  2. ^ 张玺 [Zhang Xi] (in Chinese). Henan Provincial Government. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
  3. ^ 张玺：37岁成为河南省委书记 (in Chinese). Netease. 20 November 2013. Retrieved 11 October 2014.