Gao Di (Chinese: 高狄; pinyin: Gāo Dí; November 1927 – 26 October 2019), pen name Wen Di (闻迪), was a Chinese politician, best known for his term as the chief editor of People's Daily and as Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Jilin province.
Biography
Gao was born in Linyi, Shandong Province. He graduated during the Republican era at Manchukuo University in Changchun, Jilin. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) following the Second Sino-Japanese War in April 1946. After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, Gao worked in Jilin province. He worked for the Jilin City CCP committee, then at Songhuajiang Daily, then Yongji prefecture. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution and sent to perform rural labour. In 1972, he returned to work, taking on a leading role in the provincial Office for Rural Affairs and Forestry and various leading posts in Jilin City, eventually being promoted to party chief and mayor of Jilin City. In March 1983, he was admitted to the Jilin provincial party committee; in May 1985 he was named CCP Committee Secretary of Jilin province.
In April 1988 he was transferred to the central party authorities to take on the office of Executive Vice President of the CCP Central Party School. After the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, the leadership of People's Daily was reshuffled in order to ensure "political loyalty" of the newspaper, with Gao Di taking on the post of head of the newspaper. However, he later fell out of favor due to not having sufficiently supported Deng Xiaoping's southern tour speeches, and was removed as chief officer.
In March 1993, he became a standing committee member of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; he retired and left politics in 1998.
He was a member of the 12th and 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
Gao died on 26 October 2019 in Changchun, aged 91.
References
- 《領導中國的新人物》，作者 高新，ISBN 1932138064
- 高狄简历 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "高狄同志逝世". Xinhua. 2019-11-28. Archived from the original on November 28, 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-29.
| Party political offices | ||
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| Preceded byQian Liren | Chief Officer of People's Daily 1989–1992 |
Succeeded byShao Huaze |
| Preceded byQiang Xiaochu | Communist Party Secretary of Jilin 1985–1988 |
Succeeded byHe Zhukang |
| Political leaders of Jilin since 1949 | |
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- 1927 births
- 2019 deaths
- Politicians from Linyi
- People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
- Political office-holders in Jilin
- People's Daily people
- Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party