Liu Zhengwei (; February 1930 – July 9, 2012) was a Chinese politician, best known for his term as

Communist Party Secretary A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...

province. Liu was born in Xinzheng County, Henan. He attended Kaifeng High School. He worked for Second Mechanic Works (). In 1980, he became the party chief of

Nanyang, Henan Nanyang is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Henan province, China. The city with the largest administrative area in Henan, Nanyang borders Xinyang to the southeast, Zhumadian to the east, Pingdingshan to the northeast, Luoyang to the n ...

. Then he was promoted to deputy provincial party chief of Henan. In 1987, he was named deputy party chief of Guizhou; the next year, he became party chief of Guizhou, succeeding

Hu Jintao Hu Jintao (born 21 December 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as the 16–17th general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 2002 to 2012, the 6th president of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 2003 to 2013, an ...

. He was also Chairman of the Guizhou People's Congress. In 1993, he became the deputy secretary of the Working Committee of State Organs. Liu was a member of the 12th, 13th, and 14th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party. He died on July 9, 2012, at the age of 82. Liu's wife, Yan Jianhong (), also a government official, was executed on January 16, 1995, after being convicted of bribery and embezzlement.

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Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan 1930 births 2012 deaths Members of the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party {{China-politician-stub