Liu Jianfeng (; born June 1936) is a retired Chinese engineer and politician. From 1989 to 1993 he was Governor of

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

Province, where he had a highly antagonistic relationship with the

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Deng Hongxun Deng Hongxun (; January 1931 – 21 December 2019) was a Chinese politician and engineer. He served as the Party Secretary of Hainan Province from June 1990 to January 1993, and prior to that, as CCP Committee Secretary of his native city Wuxi a ...

. He also served as Director of the

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and Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Electronics Industry.

Early life and career

Liu was born in June 1936 in

Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

. In 1956, he joined the

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. In 1961 he graduated from the

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department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute in

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. After returning to China he began working for the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building. From 1981 to 1984 he was director of the No. 1425 Research Institute of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building. In 1984, he was appointed vice-minister of the Ministry of Electronics Industry and became associated with

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, then a vice-premier whose portfolio included the electronics industry.

Governor of Hainan

In the aftermath of the

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, the top leaders of

Province, Xu Shijie and Liang Xiang, were dismissed because Liang was an ally of the reformist national leader

Zhao Ziyang Zhao Ziyang; pronounced (17 October 1919 – 17 January 2005) was a Chinese politician. He served as the 3rd premier of China from 1980 to 1987, as vice chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1981 to 1982, and as the CCP general ...

and Xu supported Liang's policies. Liu was selected to replace Governor Liang Xiang on the recommendation of Premier Li Peng. He was formally appointed governor on 14 September 1989, but effectively took over the position before that. In a meeting of provincial party leaders on 4 September, he emphasized that provincial cadres should implement the policy of the central government "to the letter". However, Liu was unable to work together with the

of Hainan,

, who was associated with the central leaders

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and

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. From 1990 to 1992, the two top officials of Hainan clashed fiercely, hindering the young province's development. By the end of 1992, Deng and Liu were trying to drive each other out of the province. A high-ranking official, Li Shanyou, accused Liu of visiting a prostitute. Li was imprisoned after the accusation was proven false, and Liu launched a counter-investigation to find the instigator, rumoured to be Deng. Their infighting became an embarrassment to the central government, which transferred both of them to Beijing in January 1993, and replaced them with a single official,

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Later career

After leaving Hainan, Liu again served as vice-minister of the Ministry of Electronics Industry from 1993 to 1998. After a brief stint as vice-minister of the

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from March to June 1998, he was appointed Director of the

. He served in that position until May 2002, when he reached retirement age and was replaced by Yang Yuanyuan. From 2003 to 2008, he served as Subcommittee Chairman of Foreign Affairs of the

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(CPPCC). Liu was a member of the 14th and the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Jianfeng 1936 births Living people Governors of Hainan Chinese Communist Party politicians from Tianjin People's Republic of China politicians from Tianjin Directors of the Civil Aviation Administration of China Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni Engineers from Tianjin Members of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Members of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Chinese expatriates in the Soviet Union