The 13th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), formally the Political Bureau of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was elected at the 1st plenary session of the 13th Central Committee of the CCP on 2 November 1987 in the aftermath of the 13th National Congress. This electoral term was preceded by the 12th Politburo and succeeded by the 14th. Eighth of the 17 members served concurrently in the 13th Politburo Standing Committee.
Name | Hanzi | 12th POL | 14th POL | Birth | PM | Death | Birthplace | No. of offices | Ref. |
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Hu Qili | 胡启立 | Old | Removed | 1929 | 1948 | Alive | Shaanxi | One
| [2] |
Hu Yaobang | 胡耀邦 | Old | Died | 1915 | 1933 | 1989 | Hunan | None
| [3] |
Jiang Zemin | 江泽民 | New | Reelected | 1926 | 1946 | 2022 | Jiangsu | Four
| [4] |
Li Peng | 李鹏 | Old | Reelected | 1928 | 1945 | 2019 | Shanghai | One
| [5] |
Li Ruihuan | 李瑞环 | New | Reelected | 1934 | 1959 | Alive | Tianjin | One
| [6] |
Li Tieying | 李铁映 | New | Reelected | 1936 | 1955 | Alive | Shaanxi | Two
| [7] |
Li Ximing | 李錫銘 | New | Not | 1926 | 1948 | 2008 | Shandong | One
| [8] |
Qiao Shi | 乔石 | Old | Reelected | 1924 | 1940 | 2015 | Shanghai | Two
| [9] |
Qin Jiwei | 秦基偉 | Alternate | Not | 1914 | 1930 | 1997 | Hubei | One
| [10] |
Song Ping | 宋平 | New | Not | 1917 | 1937 | Alive | Hong Kong | One
| [11] |
Tian Jiyun | 田纪云 | Old | Reelected | 1929 | 1945 | Alive | Shandong | One
| [12] |
Wan Li | 万里 | Old | Not | 1916 | 1933 | 2015 | Shandong | One
| [13] |
Wu Xueqian | 吴学谦 | Old | Not | 1921 | 1939 | 2008 | Shanghai | [14] | |
Yang Rudai | 杨汝岱 | New | Not | 1926 | 1950 | 2018 | Sichuan | One
| [15] |
Yang Shangkun | 杨尚昆 | Old | Not | 1907 | 1926 | 1998 | Chongqing | Three
| [16] |
Yao Yilin | 姚依林 | Old | Not | 1917 | 1935 | 1994 | Shanghai | Three
| [17] |
Zhao Ziyang | 赵紫阳 | Old | Removed | 1919 | 1938 | 2005 | Henan | Four
| [18] |
Name | Hanzi | 12th POL | 14th POL | Birth | PM | Death | Birthplace | No. of offices | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ding Guangen | 丁关根 | New | Member | 1929 | 1956 | 2012 | Jiangsu | Two
| [19] |
Wu Bangguo was a Chinese politician who served as the second-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012, and as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 to 2013.
Wan Li was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretariat and its Politburo. Wan joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1936 and led revolutionary and wartime resistance activities in his native Shandong province. After the founding of the communist state in 1949, Wan served in a series of government ministries, then worked as a member of the municipal leadership in Beijing. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, but was eventually rehabilitated and returned to work as party chief of Anhui province, where he led the implementation of successful agrarian reforms centered on the household-responsibility system. In the 1980s, Wan became one of the leading moderate reformers in China's top leadership, advocating for constitutional reforms, the strengthening of legislative institutions, and the abolition of 'lifelong-terms' of top political leaders. He was named head of the national legislature in 1988. He retired in 1993.
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