Li Li'an (; 19 July 1920 – 2 January 2023),

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Zibin (), was a Chinese politician who served as first party secretary of

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

from 1981 to 1983, first party secretary of Heilongjiang from 1983 to 1985, and secretary-general of the Central Advisory Commission from 1987 to 1992. He was a delegate to the

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. He was a representative of the 12th,

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, and 14th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Biography

Li was born Zhao Liangsheng () in

Wutai County Wutai County () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Xinzhou, in the northeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering Hebei province to the east. It is named after Mount Wutai, which is located within its borders. It w ...

Shanxi Shanxi; Chinese postal romanization, formerly romanised as Shansi is a Provinces of China, province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi a ...

, on 19 July 1920. Li joined the

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(CCP) in October 1935 and engaged in the underground work of the party. He was head of the

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of the CCP Wutai County Committee in October 1937 and subsequently head of the Organization Department of the CCP Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Regional Committee in 1948. After the liberation of

Ankang Ankang ( zh , c = 安康 , p = Ānkāng ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of Shaanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hubei province to the east, Chongqing municipality to the south, and Sichuan province to the s ...

in 1949, Li was appointed

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of Ankang, in addition to serving as head of the Organization Department of the CCP Ankang Municipal Committee. Li was made director of the Allocation Division of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party in 1960 and was promoted to its deputy head in August 1964. During the

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, he suffered

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and was sent to the

May Seventh Cadre Schools May Seventh Cadre Schools () were a system of rural communes throughout mainland China established during the Cultural Revolution to train Chinese Communist Party (CCP) cadres to follow the mass line, including through the use of manual labor. O ...

to do farm works. He was reinstated as

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in July 1972. He was appointed second party secretary of Heilongjiang in 1981, concurrently serving as first party secretary of

. In February 1983, he was promoted to become first party secretary of Heilongjiang, and served until October 1985. He was chosen as secretary-general of the Central Advisory Commission in October 1987, serving in the post until its dissolution in October 1992. He also served as president of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies between 1993 and 2000. On 2 January 2023, Li died in

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at the age of 102.

References

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