Liu Binjie (; born September 1948) is a Chinese politician. He currently serves as the Chair of the Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the National People's Congress. He was most well-known for serving as the director of the

General Administration of Press and Publication General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP; ) is the administrative agency responsible for regulating and distributing news, print and Internet publications in China. This includes granting publication licenses for periodicals and book ...

and the director of National Copyright Administration between 2007 and 2013. He also served as the deputy head and director of executive office of the national working group of "Eliminating pornography and illegal publications".

Biography

Born in

Changwu Changwu County () is a county in the central part of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Gansu province to the north, west, and southwest. It is under the administration and occupies the northwest corner of Xianyang City. Administrative divisions ...

Shaanxi Province Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ningx ...

, Liu started working in April 1968. He joined Communist Party of China in August 1971. He graduated from Institute of Foreign Studies at

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU, ), colloquially known as Beishida (), is a public research university located in Beijing, China, with a strong emphasis on humanities and sciences. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in China ...

, majoring western economics, and from department of philosophy in

Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences For the succeeding university, please see University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences The Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences ( GSCASS, ) is a public graduate school in Beijing, and one of the first two graduate schools (wit ...

with a master's degree in Marxist epistemology. In 1995, he became a member of CPC party group, governor assistant and secretary general in

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 ...

people's government. In October 1999, he was appointed as a standing committee member of CPC Sichuan committee, secretary general of the provincial government and the head of provincial propaganda department. In April 2002, he was promoted to vice president and CPC party group member of General Administration of Press and Publication of PRC. In November 2004, he was additionally appointed as vice head and director of executive office of national working group of Eliminating pornography and illegal publications. He became vice secretary of CPC party group in General Administration of Press and Publication in November 2006, He was promoted to secretary of CPC party group and president of General Administration of Press and Publication, and president of National Copyright Administration in April 2007. Liu was a member of

17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China The 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was elected by the 17th Congress on 21 October 2007, and sat until the 18th National Congress in 2012. The 17th CC is composed of full members and alternate members. It was followed by the ...

. When he left office as chief of the General Administration for Press and Publication, the department he once headed was merged into the

State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) is a ministry-level executive agency controlled by the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its main task is the administration and supervision of state-owned enterpr ...

(SARFT). Liu then joined the Science, Education, and Technology Committee of the

National People's Congress The National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (NPC; ), or simply the National People's Congress, is constitutionally the supreme state authority and the national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2, ...

Controversy

In April 2012, exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian, with a cross made of red paint over his face, called Chinese publishers a "mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party" after being "manhandled" while attempting to present a copy of his banned book ''

Beijing Coma ''Beijing Coma'' is a 2008 novel by Ma Jian. It was translated from Chinese by Flora Drew. The Chinese government has since banned the book. Ma has stated that he wrote the book "to reclaim history from a totalitarian government whose role is ...

'' to Liu Binjie at the

London Book Fair The London Book Fair (LBF) is a large book-publishing trade fair held annually, usually in April, in London, England. LBF is a global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and di ...

References

External links

Liu Binjie's profile at gapp.gov.cn

Liu Binjie's profile at ncac.gov.cn
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