Li Chunting ( zh, c=李春亭, p=Lǐ Chūntíng; October 1936 – 5 August 2024) was a Chinese politician who served as

governor of Shandong The governor of Shandong, officially the Governor of the Shandong Provincial People's Government, is the head of the Shandong Provincial People's Government. The governor generally serves as the deputy secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committe ...

from 1995 to 2001. He was an alternate member of the

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and a member of the

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. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th and

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Biography

Li was born in Qixia County,

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

, in October 1936. He graduated from

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. In 1957, he became a

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in his home-county. He joined the

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(CCP) in 1958. In April 1968, during the

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, he was forced to work in the fields but soon reinstated in September 1969. In January 1974, he was promoted to become party secretary of

Yantai Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of the People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao ...

, a position he held until September 1976, when he was appointed director of the Shandong Metallurgical Bureau. He was manager and party branch secretary of Shandong Metallurgical Industry Corporation in October 1983, and held that office until February 1988. He served as deputy governor of Shandong in February 1988, and seven years later promoted to the

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position. He also served as deputy party secretary of Shandong from February 1992 to December 2001 and director of Shandong Provincial Structural Reform Commission from March 1991 to February 1995. In December 2001, he took office as vice chairperson of the

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, a post he kept until March 2008. Li died on 5 August 2024, at the age of 87.

References

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