Jia Shi

Jia Shi was born in 1919 in Gao'an, Jiangxi Province. He joined the New Fourth Army during the early years of the Chinese revolution and later held various posts in government and finance. He served as a cadre in the General Political Department of the Central Military Commission, Deputy Manager of the Sanbian Branch of the Xifeng Native Products Company, Head of the Logistics Department of the Nenjiang Military District, and Director of the Finance Departments of Xing’an and Mudanjiang Provinces. He subsequently worked as Director of the Finance, Banking, and Trade Department of the Northeast Finance and Economics Commission, and later as Director of the Shenyang Municipal Finance Bureau.^[2]

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Jia served as Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Vice Director of the Foreign Investment Management Commission.^[3] He later became Chairman of the China Resources Group in Hong Kong and Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade. Jia died in 1988.^[4]