Li Dazhang

Li Dazhang () ( December 1900 – May 3, 1976) was a

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politician. He was born in

Hejiang County Hejiang () is a county in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China, bordering Guizhou province to the south and Chongqing Municipality to the north and northeast. It is under the administration of Luzhou city. History Hejiang County has a histo ...

Luzhou Luzhou (; Sichuanese Pinyin: Nu2zou1; Luzhou dialect: ), formerly transliterated as Lu-chou or Luchow, is a prefecture-level city located in the southeast of Sichuan Province, China. The city, named Jiangyang until the Southern and Northern Dyna ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

Province. In 1920 Li went to France on the same work-study leave scheme attended by numerous high level Communist leaders. Subsequently, from 1924 to 1927 he studied at the

Communist University of the Toilers of the East The Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) (russian: link=no, Коммунистический университет трудящихся Востока; also known as the Far East University) was a revolutionary training scho ...

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. From 1955 to 1965 Li was governor of his home province and then briefly

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Committee First Secretary of neighbouring

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Province. Li's career was not significantly damaged by the ravages of the Cultural Revolution and in April 1969 he was elected to the 9th Central Committee of the CPC and re-elected to the 10th in August 1973. During this time he maintained leadership roles in Sichuan although not at the highest levels. His big break occurred in November 1975 when he was moved to Beijing to head up the powerful United Front Work Department of the CPC. This all proved short-lived as he died only six months later. He died in

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. 1900 births 1976 deaths People's Republic of China politicians from Sichuan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Sichuan Governors of Sichuan Political office-holders in Guizhou Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni Politicians from Luzhou {{China-politician-stub