Key facts
- Premier
- Li Keqiang
- General secretary
- Hu Jintao
- Preceded by
- Wang Zhaoguo
- Succeeded by
- Du Qinglin
- Born
- November 1945 (age 80), Nantong County , Jiangsu
- Party
- Chinese Communist Party
- Alma mater
- Tsinghua University
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Liu
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- China
- Place of birth
- Huai'an District
- Occupation
- chemist
- Educated at
- Renmin University of China
- Political party
- Chinese Communist Party
- Languages spoken
- Chinese
- Religion
- atheism
- Academic degree
- Bachelor of Engineering
- Image
- Liu Yandong 2011.jpg
- Political ideology
- communism
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- date of birth
- 1945-11-22
- Commons category
- Liu Yandong
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- Liu Yandong
- political alignment
- far-left politics
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Encyclopedic overview
Liu Yandong with the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin, March 2016 Liu Yandong (Chinese: 刘延东; born November 1945) is a retired Chinese politician. She recently served as the Vice Premier of China, and was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party from 2007 to 2017, a State Councilor between 2007 and 2012, and was head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party between 2002 and 2007.
A graduate of Tsinghua University, Liu's career has long been associated with her fellow alumnus and Communist Youth League colleague Hu Jintao. As such Chinese-language media has sometimes labelled Liu as part of the so-called "Tuanpai", or "Youth League clique". After the retirement of Vice Premier Wu Yi, Liu was the highest-ranked female political figure in China, and one of only three women to have had a seat on the Politburo, the others being Wu and retired second Vice Premier Sun Chunlan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liu Yandong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.