| Office1: | Standing Committee Member of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference | ||||||||
| Term Start1: | March 1993 | ||||||||
| Term End1: | March 1998 | ||||||||
| 1Blankname1: | Chairman | ||||||||
| 1Namedata1: | Li Ruihuan | ||||||||
| Office2: | Standing Committee Member of the 7th National People's Congress | ||||||||
| Term Start2: | 1988 | ||||||||
| Term End2: | 1993 | ||||||||
| 1Blankname2: | Chairman | ||||||||
| 1Namedata2: | Wan Li | ||||||||
| Office3: | Member of the 12th and 13th CCP Central Committee | ||||||||
| Term Start3: | September 1982 | ||||||||
| Term End3: | 1987 | ||||||||
| 1Blankname3: | General_secretary | ||||||||
| 1Namedata3: | Hu Yaobang | ||||||||
| Office4: | Minister of Culture of the People'e Republic of China | ||||||||
| Term Start4: | 1992 | ||||||||
| Term End4: | 1992 | ||||||||
| Predecessor4: | Wang Meng | ||||||||
| Successor4: | Liu Zhongde | ||||||||
| Premier4: | Li Peng | ||||||||
| Office5: | Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Term Start5: | 1980 | ||||||||
| Term End5: | 1987 | ||||||||
| Office6: | Minister of Culture of the People'e Republic of China | ||||||||
| Term Start6: | 1977 | ||||||||
| Term End6: | August 1980 | ||||||||
| Premier6: | Hua Guofeng | ||||||||
| 1Blankname6: | Minister | ||||||||
| 1Namedata6: | Huang Zhen | ||||||||
| He Jingzhi | |||||||||
| Native Name: | 贺敬之 | ||||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh-hans | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 5 November 1924 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Yi County, Shandong, China | ||||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Politician, poet | ||||||||
| Profession: | Chinese Literature | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Department of Literature of Luxun Art Academy of Yan'an | ||||||||
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He Jingzhi (born 5 November 1924), also known by his pen names Aimo (Chinese: 艾漠) and Jingzhi (Chinese: 荆直), is a politician and poet of People's Republic of China. He was a standing committee member of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a standing committee member of the 7th National People's Congress, and a member of the 12th and 13th CCP Central Committee. He served as Minister of Culture of the People'e Republic of China and deputy head of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.[1]
He was born in Yi County, Shandong Province, Republic of China on November 5, 1924. He went to Yan'an in 1940,[2] he graduated from Department of Literature of Luxun Art Academy of Yan'an in 1942, where he majored in Chinese Literature. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1941, at the age of 17. He continued writing from the 1940s, such as Collection of Fangge (Chinese: 放歌集), Selected of He Jingzhi Poetry (Chinese: 贺敬之诗选), Return to Yan'an (Chinese: 回延安), Song of Leifeng (Chinese: 雷锋之歌) and China's October (Chinese: 中国的十月). Return to Yan'an is often considered his masterpiece and was included in many editions of school text books. He wrote The White Haired Girl (Chinese: 白毛女) with Ding Yi in 1945.[3]
He married Ke Yan (; 1924-2011) in October 1953, who was also a poet.[4] [5] [6]