Li Guoying (; born December 1963) is a Chinese hydraulic engineer-turned-politician, currently serving as governor of

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 ...

province. Li worked in his early career as a technician and administrator in the national ministry of water works, the Yellow River Commission, and in Heilongjiang province. He was transferred to Anhui in 2015 to serve as deputy party chief before becoming acting governor in 2016.

Biography

He was born in

Yuzhou, Henan Yuzhou () is a county-level city in the central part of Henan, China, People's Republic of China. It occupies the northwest corner of the prefecture-level city of Xuchang. The city is named for Yu the Great, the founder of the Xia dynasty, Xia Dy ...

province. He studied hydroelectric power generation and engineering at

North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power The North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU; ) is a public university in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. The university is founded in 1951 and now co-funded by the Ministry of Water Resources and the Henan Provincial Peopl ...

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and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. He also had a graduate degree in philosophy from the

Central Party School The Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party (), commonly known as the Central Party School (), located in Beijing, is the higher education institution which trains Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres. As of 2012, it has around 1,60 ...

, then a doctorate from

Northeast Normal University Northeast Normal University (; often abbreviated NENU or ) is one of the six national normal universities in the People's Republic of China, located in Changchun, Jilin province. The university was ranked number 37 in the comprehensive ranki ...

in environmental science. After graduating university, Li worked for the Yellow River commission of the Ministry of Water Works as a survey technician for the planning and research department. He spent most of his career in the water works system, as the assistant to the chief engineer, then the deputy director of the Yellow River commission, then chief engineer of the national Ministry of Waterworks. He was then transferred in May 1999 to head the department of water works in Heilongjiang. In March 2011, he was named Vice Minister of Water Works and chairman of the Yellow River Commission; he stayed on the post until August 2015, when he was named deputy party chief of

. He was then elevated to acting governor a year later, on September 1, 2016. His elevation confirmed trends that the senior Communist Party leadership was again showing preference for engineering and technical backgrounds over lifelong

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s. At the time of his appointment Li, 52, was the second youngest governor in China. He was confirmed as governor in a legislative session on January 21, 2017.水利部副部长李国英任安徽省委副书记
/ref> Li was an alternate member of the

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and is a full member of the 19th Central Committee.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Guoying 1964 births Living people Northeast Normal University alumni North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power alumni Governors of Anhui Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan Politicians from Xuchang Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress