Qian Xingwen

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Qián Xìngwén
钱兴文
File:State Chairman 1990's.png
Qian Xingwen in 1989
First Minister of Auspicious Republic of Xiaodong
In office
17th January 1984 – 9th June 1990
PresidentLiu Zhaozheng
Li Jingyao
DeputyHan Guanzheng
Preceded bySun Yuting
Succeeded byYang Zhengming
ConstituencyBaiqiao East
Chairman of the Xiaodong Regeneration Society
In office
17th January 1984 – 9th June 1990
DeputyYang Zhengming
Preceded bySun Yuting
Succeeded byYang Zhengming
Majority
Cabinet
Second Minister
In office
31st March 1972 – 17th January 1984
Prime MinisterSun Yuting
Preceded bySun Yuting
Succeeded byLi Jingyao
Minister of International Relations
In office
31st March 1972 – 17th January 1984
Prime MinisterSun Yuting
Preceded byKang Rongguo
Succeeded byLi Jilai
Minister of Social Welfare and Employment
In office
15th June 1962 – 31st March 1972
Prime MinisterLi Zhaozheng
Preceded byJiang Yaobang
Succeeded byCai Weyuan
Personal details
Born(1910-05-14)May 14, 1910
File:Flag of Xiaodong (1876-1951).png Baiqiao, Huayuan Prefecture, Xiaodong
DiedSeptember 6, 1990(1990-09-06) (aged 80)
Flag of Xiaodong.png Rongzhuo, Xiaodong
NationalityFlag of Xiaodong.png Xiaodongese
Political partyXiaodong Regeneration Society
SpousePeng Meiwei
Children4
Alma materUniversity of Rongshui
OccupationPolitician
Military service
AllegianceFile:Flag of Xiaodong (1876-1951).png Heavenly State of Xiaodong (1930-1933)
Branch/serviceFile:Flag of Xiaodong (1876-1951).png Xiaodongese Navy (1930-1933)
RankSub-lieutenant
Battles/warsSenrian-Xiaodongese War, Corrective Revolution
This is a Xiaodongese name; the family name is Qian (钱).

Qian Xingwen (Xiaodongese: 钱兴文, Qián Xìngwén; born 14th May 1910-9th June 1990, aged 82) was a Xiaodongese politician who served as First Minister of Xiaodong from 1984 to his death in 1992. He also served as Chairman of the Xiaodong Regeneration Society from 1984-90, Second Minister from 1972-84, Minister of International Relations from 1972-84, and Minister of Social Welfare and Employment from 1962-72. He was the last First Minister to die in office and the last to have served in the Senrian-Xiaodongese War.

Born in a upper class family in 1910, Qian initially served in the Xiaodongese navy during the Senrian-Xiaodongese War enrolling at the age of 20 in 1930. Following the Corrective Revolution in 1934 Qian became a state bureaucrat and rose through the government during the 1960's and 1970's serving as Minister of Social Welfare and Employment and Minister of International Relations. In 1972 he was handpicked as Sun Yuting's successor, ascending to the position of party chairman and First Minister in 1984 following Sun's assassination by a Senrian spy, quickly consolidating his position.

Announcing upon coming to power that "National Principlism is dead" and aided by his finance minister Mao Zhongchen and deputy Li Jingyao Qian subsequently launched bold economic and political reforms, implementing shock therapy economics either corpratising or privatising public assets creating industrial conglomerates known as Caihongs, deregulating several industries and liberalising foreign trade. The shock therapy policies were controversial as they resulted in economic modernisation but also massive unemployment and a rise in poverty. Qian also established relations with Tinzhan and had Xiaodong enter into the Tengkong system. In 1985 he launched Operation Calm Waters, sinking Senrian ships with limpet mines, which led to the Senrian bombing of the mausoleum of Lu Keqian by Senria.

In 1987 the Yuxiang nuclear disaster led to a series of protests against the one-party state known as the Orchid Revolution which forced the government to allow multi-party elections. In 1990, Qian died of cardiac arrest with his handpicked successor Yang Zhengming becoming First Minister.

Identifying himself as a social democrat, Qian's legacy as First Minister remains controversial in modern Xiaodong. Although his economic reforms are largely seen as positive as well as his ending of single-party rule, critics say his political reforms were not ambitious enough with the ruling party continuing to lack inter-party democracy and state institutions failing to reform to multi-party rule. Critics also say Qian's foreign policy escalated tensions with Senria and led to an worsening of Xiaodongese-Senrian relations, although his supporters state that it Senrian prime minister Haruka Kiyosi who escalated such tensions. Nevertheless, most historians credit Qian for his policies and ending Xiaodong's worst repressive tendencies and opening up the Xiaodongese economy.

Early life and education

Career

First Minister

Economic policy

Social policy

Democratisation

Orchid Revolution

1988 election

Foreign policy

Senrian-Xiaodongese relations=

Death

Corruption allegations

Assessment

Family

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