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

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and the director of

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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,

Shaanxi Province Shaanxi is a province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi ...

, Liu started working in April 1968. He joined

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(CCP) in August 1971. He graduated from Institute of Foreign Studies at

Beijing Normal University Beijing Normal University (BNU) () is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the B ...

, majoring western economics, and from department of philosophy in

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

Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capital city is Cheng ...

people's government. In October 1999, he was appointed as a standing committee member of Sichuan Provincial Committee of the CCP, secretary general of the provincial government and the head of provincial propaganda department. In April 2002, he was promoted to vice president and CCP committee 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

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in General Administration of Press and Publication in November 2006, He was promoted to

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and president of General Administration of Press and Publication, and president of National Copyright Administration in April 2007. Liu was a member of

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

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

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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'' to Liu Binjie at the

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References

External links

Liu Binjie's profile at gapp.gov.cn

Liu Binjie's profile at ncac.gov.cn
{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Binjie Living people 1948 births People's Republic of China politicians from Shaanxi Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shaanxi Political office-holders in Sichuan Politicians from Xianyang Members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party