Ji Dengkui

Ji Dengkui (March 17, 1923 - July 13, 1988), a native of Wuxiang, Shanxi Province, was a political figure of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, and a former deputy national leader. Active in the middle and late stages of the "Cultural Revolution" and the "post-Mao Zedong era". He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1938. He was an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the 9th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a member of the Political Bureau of the 10th and 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He was a cadre appreciated and trained by Mao Zedong in his later years. He served as deputy leader of the Business Group of the State Council, vice premier of the State Council, leader of the Central Political and Legal Group, and a leading member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he has been politically marginalized and marginalized; at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in February 1980, he officially resigned from all positions. After 1983, he was appointed as a ministerial-level researcher at the Rural Development Research Center of the State Council. On July 13, 1988, he died of a sudden heart attack in Beijing at the age of 65.