Li Xueyong (; born September 1950) is a Chinese politician. He served as

Governor of Jiangsu The governor of Jiangsu, officially the Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, is the head of Jiangsu, Jiangsu Province and leader of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. The governor is elected by the Jiangsu Provincial Pe ...

Province from 2010 to 2015. An academic-turned-politician, Li served for many years in the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Career

Li was born in

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang; Mandarin: ; formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-le ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

province. In 1968, he began working for the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps as a soldier and labourer. He joined the

Chinese Communist Party The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the ...

in March 1974, in the latter stages of the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a Social movement, sociopolitical movement in the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). It was launched by Mao Zedong in 1966 and lasted until his de ...

. In 1977, he became a factory worker at a pharmaceutical plant in Beijing. After the Cultural Revolution, he attended

Beijing University of Chemical Technology The Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT, ) is a public university in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. It was founded in 1958 and is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double Firs ...

, where he studied polymers. He stayed at his alma mater after graduation to become an instructor. In 1984 he joined the National Science Commission, where he began to climb through the organization's administrative ranks. He worked at the commission until September 1995 when he was transferred to

Xi'an Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...

to serve as vice mayor. In March 1998 he became Vice Minister of Science and Technology. In April 2007 he was promoted to party branch secretary. Because the ministry at the time was not headed by a member of the Communist Party, Li's position as party branch chief made him a minister-level official. On December 7, 2010, he was named acting

governor of Jiangsu The governor of Jiangsu, officially the Governor of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, is the head of Jiangsu, Jiangsu Province and leader of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. The governor is elected by the Jiangsu Provincial Pe ...

province, confirmed on February 14, 2011. He retired in November 2015 due to mandated retirement rules, which called for the retirement of all provincial-ministerial level officials at age 65; he was succeeded by Shi Taifeng. In 2015, he joined the

National People's Congress Financial and Economic Affairs Committee The Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress () is one of ten Special committee of the National People's Congress, special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's R ...

as a deputy chair. In March 2018, he was appointed the director of the

National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee The Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee of the National People's Congress is one of nine special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic of China China, offic ...

. Li was a member of the 17th and 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Li, Xueyong People's Republic of China politicians from Heilongjiang Living people Chinese Communist Party politicians from Heilongjiang Governors of Jiangsu People from Yichun, Heilongjiang Presidents of the Organising Committees for the Olympic Games 1950 births Vice Ministers of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China