Compiled from the following sources:

Special biographic research
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2002-2006

Who's Who, Current Chinese Leaders
Wen Wei Publishing Company, Ltd. 2003-2005

Zhongguo Gongchandang Lijie Zhongyang Weiyuan Dacidian, 1921-2003
Beijing: Zhonggong dangshi chubanshe 2004

Revision History:

Biography Revised: 2/25/2009
Career Data Updated: 7/14/2008

PHOTO: Chen Xitong
Chen Xitong 陈希同
Former Mayor of Beijing
Born: 1930

Biography

Chen Xitong, Han nationality, was born in 1930 in Anyue, Sichuan province. He joined the CPC in 1949, and was the focus of a major corruption scandal in Beijing in the mid-1990s.

Chen attended Beijing University's Chinese Department from 1948 to 1949. He worked in the Beijing Party Committee and Beijing Government in the 1950s and 1960s before being sent down to the countryside for labor reform from 1966 to 1971 during the Cultural Revolution. He became deputy mayor of Beijing in 1979 and mayor in 1983. He was the Party Secretary of Beijing starting in 1981. Chen became a member of the CPC Politboro in 1992.

Chen was the focus of a massive corruption scandal in the mid 1990s, accused of embezzling over US$2 billion from the Beijing municipal treasury. He lost his posts in 1995, his CPC membership in 1997, and was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment in 1998.

In July 2006, Chen was released on medical parole after serving eight years of his sentence.

Career Data

2006 (Released on medical parole after serving eight years of his sentence)
1998 (Sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for corruption)
1992—1995 Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee, Politburo
1992—1997 Member, 14th CPC, Central Committee
1987—1992 Member, 13th CPC, Central Committee
1983—1995 Mayor, People's Government Beijing Municipality
1982—1987 Member, 12th CPC, Central Committee
1981—1995 Secretary, CPC, City Committee Beijing Municipality
1979—1983 Vice-Mayor, People's Government Beijing Municipality
1973—1979 Secretary, CPC, District Committee Beijing, Changping District
1966—1971 Worker, Cultural Revolution, Sent to do manual labor
1949 Joined, CPC
1948—1949 Student, Beijing University, Chinese Department


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