Liu Qibao (; born January 1953) is a Chinese politician. He was a member of the
18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, a Secretary of the
Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party
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, as well as the head of the
Propaganda Department of the Central Committee. Previously Liu have served as the party chief of the
Guangxi
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Zhuang Autonomous Region and
Sichuan
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province. He currently serves as one of the vice chairman of 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Early life and education
Liu Qibao was born in a village near the banks of the
Yangtze River
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in
Susong County
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,
Anhui Province
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in 1953, the second of four children.
[ After graduating from high school Liu worked on a farm. Liu joined the Communist Party in December 1971 and next year joined its ]Communist Youth League
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(CYL). He attended Anhui Normal University
Anhui Normal University () is an institution of higher learning in Wuhu, Anhui Province, China.
Approved by the State Council in 1972, it was officially renamed Anhui Normal University, and the name was written by Guo Moruo.
Anhui Normal Unive ...
as a "Worker-Peasant-Soldier student
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" where he was a student of history at the Department of History.
Career
After graduating in 1974, Liu Qibao was a cadre at the Theoretical Research Office of the Department of Publicity, CPC Anhui Provincial Committee.[ Following it, he eventually became secretary to ]Wan Li
Wan Li (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of ...
, then provincial Party Secretary of Anhui.
In 1980, Wan Li was transferred to work for the central authorities in Beijing. Liu was sent to work for the CYL Anhui Provincial Committee, where he gained rapid career advancement. He led propaganda and ideology work at the CYL, eventually rising to lead the provincial CYL organization. In February 1984, he became mayor of Suzhou, Anhui,[ a city with jurisdiction over some four million people, at only 31 years old. In November 1985, he was transferred to the CYL national organization, where he worked alongside future leaders ]Liu Yandong
Liu Yandong (; is a retired Chinese politician. She recently served as the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2007 to 2017, a State Councilor between 2007 and ...
, Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese politician who is the outgoing premier of China. An economist by profession, Li is head of China's executive branch as well as one of the leading figures behind China's Financial and Economic Affai ...
, and Li Yuanchao
Li Yuanchao (born 20 November 1950) is a retired Chinese politician. He was the Vice President of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2018 and the Honorary President of the Red Cross Society of China. He was a member of the Secretaria ...
. Since then he has been identified by some observers as part of the "''tuanpai
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''", or "Youth League faction".
Liu left the Youth League in 1993 to serve as the deputy chief editor of ''People's Daily
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'',[ then he worked under ]Luo Gan
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and Wang Zhongyu as deputy Secretary-General of the State Council. Additionally he took on leading roles in the offices
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for the State Council task force on information technology, and the Central Commission for Spiritual Civilization.
Liu served as the Communist Party
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chief of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
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beginning in 2006 and remained in that office for roughly a year.[ He was appointed Sichuan's Communist Party Secretary in December 2007.][ He was selected to be the ]chairman
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of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial People's Congress on January 27, 2008. He served as the chief of the Chinese Communist Party
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Sichuan Committee, the province's top leader from 2008 to 2012.[
At the 18th Party Congress held in November 2012, Liu was promoted to the 18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, and named head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee, succeeding ]Liu Yunshan
Liu Yunshan (; ; born July 1947) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the top decision-making body of the CCP, between 2012 and 2017; he was broadly tasked with the wo ...
(no relation), who became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee
The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), officially the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, is a committee consisting of the top leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Histori ...
.
In 2017 Qibao met with Prime Minister
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Alexis Tsipras in Athens
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, Greece.
At the 19th Party Congress held in October 2017, Liu was unable to secure a Politburo seat even though he had not yet reached the conventional retirement at the age of 68. He held onto a seat on the Central Committee, however. On March 14, 2018, he was named one of the Vice-Chairmen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
References
External links
Biography
Xinhua
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(November 2012)
Who's Who in China's Leadership
China.org.cn
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Anhui Normal University alumni
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People's Republic of China politicians from Anhui
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Political office-holders in Guangxi
Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party
Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Vice Chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference