- Li Changchun
Li Changchun (李長春;
pinyin : Lǐ Chángchūn) (born February 1944) is considered to be thepropaganda chief of theCommunist Party of China . He is a 5th ranked member of thePolitburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China , China's "de facto" top power organ, and has been a member since 2002. Previously he had served inLiaoning andHenan .Biography
He was born in
Dalian , in the northeastern province ofLiaoning and graduated with a degree inelectrical engineering from theHarbin Institute of Technology in 1966.In 1983, at age 39, he became the youngest mayor and Party secretary of a major city, of
Shenyang , the capital of Liaoning. In 1987, he became governor of the province, a post he kept until 1990.As governor,
mainland China 's first expressway was built in the province, linking the cities of Shenyang and Dalian.Li served briefly as the Party chief in the agricultural province of
Henan in the 1990s. He later moved to serve asGuangdong Party Secretary, where he led economic reform.Li, again the youngest ever member, was promoted to the
Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 1998, and made a member of its Standing Committee after PresidentJiang Zemin 's retirement in 2002. He currently holds no other official position, but is believed to be spearheading the propaganda work.Fact|date=July 2008External links
* [http://www.chinavitae.com/biography_display.php?id=26 Li Changchun biography @ China Vitae, the web's largest online database of China VIPs]
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