Cheng Lihua (; born April 1965) is a Chinese politician who is the

deputy party secretary In modern Chinese politics, a Deputy Party Committee Secretary (; also translated as Deputy Party Secretary, deputy party chief, vice party chief) serves as the lieutenant to the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, and thus the deputy ...

Anhui Anhui , (; formerly romanized as Anhwei) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the East China region. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze River ...

, in office since April 2021. She was a representative of the

19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party The 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (commonly referred to as ''Shíjiǔ Dà''; ) was held at the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, between 18 and 24 October 2017. 2,280 delegates represented the party's estimated 89 mill ...

and an alternate member of the

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. He is an alternate member of the

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Biography

Cheng was born in

Gushi County Gushi () is a county of 1,023,857 people directly governed by Henan, People's Republic of China. It is administered by the prefecture-level city of Xinyang. With a total area of 2942.97 square kilometers and a registered population of 1781500 ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

, in April 1965. In 1980, she was accepted to Liaoning Finance And Trade College, where she majored in industrial accounting. After graduating in 1984, Cheng was assigned to Qinghai Provincial Department of Finance, where she was promoted to deputy head in December 2008 and to head in January 2009. She joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

(CCP) in September 1987. She concurrently served as vice governor of

Qinghai Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...

since January 2013. In March 2017, Cheng was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

Municipal Committee, the city's top authority. She became secretary of the Education Working Committee in the following month. Cheng was transferred to Beijing and appointed vice minister of Finance in March 2018. In April 2021, Cheng was

, in addition to serving as president of the Party School.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheng, Lihua 1965 births Living people People from Gushi County Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party alumni People's Republic of China politicians from Henan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan Alternate members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party