Ji Pengfei

Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs OfficeIn office
1983–1990PremierZhao Ziyang
Li PengPreceded byLiao ChengzhiSucceeded byLu PingHead of the International Department of the Chinese Communist PartyIn office
February 1980 – May 1982Preceded byZhou RongxinSucceeded byJin MingVice Premier of the People's Republic of ChinaIn office
13 September 1982 – 4 May 1982PremierZhao Ziyang4th Secretary-General of the State CouncilIn office
1979–1981PremierHua Guofeng
Zhao ZiyangPreceded byJin MingSucceeded byDu Xinyuan3rd Minister of Foreign AffairsIn office
6 January 1972 – 18 November 1973PremierZhou EnlaiPreceded byChen YiSucceeded byQiao GuanhuaChinese Ambassador to East GermanyIn office
September 1950 – January 1955Preceded byLiao ChengzhiSucceeded byLu Ping Personal detailsBorn(1910-02-02)February 2, 1910
Linyi County, Shanxi, Qing EmpireDiedFebruary 10, 2000(2000-02-10) (aged 90)
Beijing, People's Republic of ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartySpouseXu Hanbing (1919-2015)ChildrenJi Shengde

Ji Pengfei (simplified Chinese: 姬鹏飞; traditional Chinese: 姬鵬飛; pinyin: Jī Péngfēi; February 2, 1910 – February 10, 2000) was a Chinese politician.

Biography

Ji Pengfei was born in Linyi, Yuncheng, Shanxi in 1910. He joined the Chinese Red Army in 1931, and the Chinese Communist Party in 1933.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, Ji Pengfei worked with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and led diplomatic missions to East Germany before being appointed as China's first ambassador to the GDR in 1953, being the youngest Chinese ambassador at 43. He was recalled to serve as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs in 1955.

When the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was initially targeted as member of the counter-revolutionary clique ruling the Foreign Ministry, along with Chen Yi and Qiao Guanhua. Nevertheless, he was relatively untouched as he remained at his post. After Chen Yi died in 1972, Ji Pengfei succeeded him as Foreign Minister until 1974, and was elected CCP Central Committee member. He was appointed secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in 1975, and confirmed in 1978. In 1972, he signed Japan-China Joint Communiqué with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira of Japan.

In the post-Cultural Revolution period, Ji Pengfei held several posts. In 1979 he was appointed head of the International Liaison Department of the CCP Central Committee, then vice premier and secretary-general of the State Council from 1980 to 1982, and finally head of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office. He also served as Standing Committee member of the Central Advisory Commission, a Party body aimed at helping the retirement of elder officials.

In 1999, his son, Ji Shengde, a senior member of the People's Liberation Army intelligence, was arrested and tried for corruption, selling classified information and diverting public funds, and was sentenced to death penalty. The penalty was commuted to 20 years in prison, when he returned stolen money and denounce other abuses.^{[citation needed]}

Ji Pengfei was praised by the Xinhua News Agency as an outstanding communist fighter, and greatly lauded again in 2010 at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People to celebrate his 100th birth anniversary.

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