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{{Short description|Chinese communist revolutionary and former politician}}
{{for|the former Chinese county in modern Vietnam|Tống Bình}}
{{family name hatnote|[[Song (Chinese surname)|Song]]|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
| name                = Song Ping
| native_name         = {{nobold|宋平}}
| image               = 1949年5月，新华社秘书长徐健生（右二）夫妇与宋平（右一）、张学思（右四）在北平司法部街新华社旧址合影 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize           = 
| caption             = Song Ping in May 1949
| order1              = [[Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party]]
| term_start1         = June 1987
| term_end1           = December 1989
| 1blankname1         = {{nowrap|General Secretary}}
| 1namedata1          = [[Zhao Ziyang]]<br>[[Jiang Zemin]]
| predecessor1        = [[Wei Jianxing]]
| successor1          = [[Lu Feng (politician)|Lu Feng]]
| office2             = [[State councillor|State Councilor of China]]
| term_start2         = June 1983
| term_end2           = April 1988
| alongside2          = 
| premier2            = [[Zhao Ziyang]]
| office3             = [[Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission|Director of the State Planning Commission]]
| term_start3         = June 1983
| term_end3           = June 1987
| premier3            = Zhao Ziyang
| predecessor3        = [[Yao Yilin]]
| successor3          = Yao Yilin
| office4             = [[Party Secretary of Gansu]]
| term_start4         = June 1977
| term_end4           = January 1981
| deputy4             = [[Feng Jixin]] (Governor)
| predecessor4        = [[Xian Henghan]]
| successor4          = Feng Jixin
| office5             = [[Governor of Gansu]]
| term_start5         = June 1977
| term_end5           = December 1979
| predecessor5        = Xian Henghan
| successor5          = Feng Jixin
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1917|4|24|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Ju County]], [[Shandong]], [[Republic of China (1912-1949)|China]]
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Chinese Communist Party]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Chen Shunyao]]||2019|end=died}}
| children            = Song Yichang (son) <br> Song Yichun (son)
| module              = {{Chinese|child=yes|c=宋平|p=Sòng Píng|w=Sung P'ing}}
| native_name_lang    = zh
}}
'''Song Ping''' ({{zh|c=宋平}}; born 24 April 1917)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oX4FAQAAIAAJ&q=%22%E5%AE%8B%E5%B9%B3%22+1917|publisher=中国社会出版社|date=1995|isbn=9787800887031|last1=周树兴|last2=李晓平|title=「说道」山东人|quote=宋平，1917年4月24日出生于山东省莒县。|access-date=2016-02-06|archive-date=2020-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604183950/https://books.google.de/books?id=oX4FAQAAIAAJ&q=%22%E5%AE%8B%E5%B9%B3%22+1917&dq=%22%E5%AE%8B%E5%B9%B3%22+1917&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1r7TppOTKAhUFcQ8KHW5ACiYQ6AEIOTAE}}</ref> is a [[Chinese Communist Party|Chinese Communist]] revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of the [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party]]. Song is considered the only living member of the [[Generations of Chinese leadership#Second generation|Second Generation of Chinese Leadership]].

==Biography==
He rose through the ranks of the party to become First Party Secretary of [[Gansu]] Province, and later Minister of Organization of CCP. Song was in charge of senior cadres' recommendation, candidacy and promotion.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

During his time as Party Chief of Gansu, Song Ping became [[mentor]] of two young protégés – [[Hu Jintao]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/whos-hu-meet-this-engineerprez/26594-2.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006222214/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/whos-hu-meet-this-engineerprez/26594-2.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 6, 2012|title=Who's Hu? Meet this engineer-Prez|date=November 20, 2006|work=IBNLive|publisher=IBNLive.com|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> and [[Wen Jiabao]]{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} – who were to become the [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|General Secretary]] of the  [[Chinese Communist Party]] and the [[Premier of the People's Republic of China|Premier]] of the Chinese [[State Council of the People's Republic of China|State Council]], respectively.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jamestown.org/programs/chinabrief/single/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=28482&tx_ttnews[backPid]=191&no_cache=1 |title=Hu Jintao: The Bird that Keeps its Head Down|last=Yao|first=Jin (pen name)|date=November 21, 2001|work=China Brief (Volume: 1 Issue: 10)|publisher=The Jamestown Foundation|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref>

In 1987, Song left the [[State Planning Commission of China|Planning Commission]] to replace [[Wei Jianxing]] as head of the [[Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party|CCP Central Organization Department]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DVgVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=q-QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1308,5668044&dq=song-ping&hl=en|title=Beijing shuffle points to growing Cabinet intrigues|last=Thomson|first=Robert|date=June 24, 1987|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|pages=18|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> Song announced a decision by the Chinese Communist Party to expel members of the communist party who were sympathetic to [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989|pro-democracy demonstrations]] in the spring of 1989.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1jcRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7OcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4020,3026536&dq=song-ping&hl=en|title=Party to purge its ranks|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|pages=11|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> After the [[Tiananmen Square protests]], Song became a member of [[Politburo Standing Committee]] with [[Jiang Zemin]] and [[Li Ruihuan]].

As a member of more conservative faction within the party, Song stepped down as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee along with another conservative faction member [[Yao Yilin]] on 19 October 1992 after [[14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party|14th Party Congress]] as a result of [[Deng Xiaoping]]'s action to put more reformists into PSC.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/20/world/chinese-shake-up-top-party-group-free-market-gains.html?pagewanted=all|title=CHINESE SHAKE UP TOP PARTY GROUP; FREE MARKET GAINS|last=Kristof|first=Nicholas D.|date=October 20, 1992|work=[[New York Times]]|accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref>

Song [[centenarian|turned 100]] in 24 April 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tsinghua.org.cn/info/1014/12274.htm|title=中共元老宋平百岁诞辰：目前党内资格最老、退休最久常委|first=Chundan|last=Song|newspaper=tsinghua.org.cn|date=2017-04-24|access-date=2022-09-30}}</ref> Considered instrumental in the rise of former CCP general secretary [[Hu Jintao]], he lately attended the [[20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party|20th Party Congress]] at age 105,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/party-elders-attend-cpc-congress-opening-former-president-jiang-zemin-absent | title=Party elders attend CPC congress opening; former president Jiang Zemin absent &#124; the Straits Times | newspaper=The Straits Times | date=16 October 2022 }}</ref> He did not attend [[Death and state funeral of Jiang Zemin|the funeral of Jiang Zemin]].

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{{Succession box| before = [[Xian Henghan]] | title = [[Governor of Gansu]] | years = 1977–1979 | after = [[Feng Jixin]]}}
{{Succession box| before = [[Yao Yilin]] | title = [[Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission|Chairman of the State Planning Commission]] | years = 1983–1987 | after = [[Yao Yilin]]}}
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{{Succession box| before = [[Xian Henghan]] | title = [[Party Secretary of Gansu]]| years = 1977–1981 | after = [[Feng Jixin]]}}
{{Succession box| before = [[Wei Jianxing]] | title = [[Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party]] | years = 1987–1989 | after = [[Lu Feng (politician)|Lu Feng]]}}
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[[Category:Politicians from Rizhao]]
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