Jia Zhijie (Chinese: 贾志杰; born 1935) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China.
He graduated from the Moscow Petroleum Institute in 1960, the same year he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
[1] As governor of Gansu, he defended the state's first eugenics law passed in 1989.
About 1.2 percent of Gansu's 22 million people were intellectually disabled, the highest rate in China.
Jia Zhijie stated that, "Insane, dull-witted and idiotic people must first complete sterilization operations before they can register for marriage.