Office1: | Director of the China Earthquake Administration |
Term Start1: | January 2002 |
Term End1: | December 2004 |
Premier1: | Zhu Rongji |
Successor1: | Chen Jianmin |
Premier2: | Li Peng Zhu Rongji |
Term Start2: | April 1994 |
Term End2: | March 1998 |
Successor2: | Position revoked |
Office3: | Governor of Qinghai |
Term Start3: | July 1985 |
Term End3: | September 1989 |
1Blankname3: | Party Secretary |
1Namedata3: | Yin Kesheng |
Song Ruixiang | |
Native Name: | 宋瑞祥 |
Native Name Lang: | zh |
Birth Place: | Jintan County, Jiangsu, China |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Song Ruixiang (; born October 1939) is a Chinese politician who served as governor of Qinghai from 1985 to 1989, from 1994 to 1998, and director of the China Earthquake Administration from 2002 to 2004.
He was a member of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the Standing Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference..[1]
Song was born in Jintan County (now Jintan District of Changzhou), Jiangsu, in October 1939.[2]
Starting in 1957, he successively served as technician, engineer, deputy division director, and deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Geological Bureau.[2] He was deputy director and then director of the Qinghai Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources from April 1982 to June 1985.[2] In July 1985, he was promoted to become deputy party secretary and governor of Qinghai, and served until September 1989.[2] In October 1989, he became, rising to minister in April 1994.[2] [3] He was appointed director of the State Environmental Protection Administration in April 1998, concurrently holding the deputy director of the National Mineral Resources Commission position.[2] He was chosen as director of the China Earthquake Administration in January 2002, and held that office until December 2004.[2] [4] He retired in December 2009.