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Li Peng
Li Peng
李鹏
	Li in 1996
Premier of China
	In office; 25 March 1988 – 17 March 1998; Acting: 24 November 1987 – 25 March 1988
President	Yang Shangkun; Jiang Zemin
Vice Premier	Cabinet I (1988–93) Yao Yilin; Tian Jiyun; Wu Xueqian; Zou Jiahua; Zhu Rongji; Cabinet II (1993–98) Zhu Rongji; Zou Jiahua; Qian Qichen; Li Lanqing; Wu Bangguo; Jiang Chunyun;
Leader	Deng Xiaoping; Jiang Zemin
Preceded by	Zhao Ziyang
Succeeded by	Zhu Rongji
7th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
	In office; 16 March 1998 – 15 March 2003
Leader	Jiang Zemin; (Paramount leader)
Preceded by	Qiao Shi
Succeeded by	Wu Bangguo
Vice Premier of China
	In office; 6 June 1983 – 24 November 1987 Serving with Wan Li, Yao Yilin, Tian Jiyun
Premier	Zhao Ziyang
Personal details
Born	20 October 1928; Shanghai French Concession
Died	22 July 2019 (aged 90); Beijing, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (joined in 1945)
Spouse	Zhu Lin (m. 1958)
Children	Li Xiaopeng (son); Li Xiaolin (daughter); Li Xiaoyong (son)
Parent(s)	Li Shuoxun (father); Zhao Juntao [zh] (mother)
Relatives	Li Ye (granddaughter) Liu Shiran [grandchild of Gu Mu] (grandson-in-law) Tang Wen [great-grandchild of Tang Shaoyi] (daughter-in-law)
Alma mater	Moscow Power Engineering Institute
Profession	Politician; Hydroelectric engineer
	Li Peng's voice Recorded Oct 31, 1994
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	李鹏
Traditional Chinese	李鵬
Literal meaning	Li (surname 李); Peng (giant bird in Chinese mythology)
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lǐ Péng
Wade–Giles	Li3 P'eng2
IPA	[lì pʰə̌ŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Lei5 Paang4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	Lí Pîng

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Li Peng (Chinese: 李鹏; pinyin: Lǐ Péng; 20 October 1928 – 22 July 2019) was a Chinese politician who served as the 4th premier of China from 1987 to 1998, and as the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislative body, from 1998 to 2003. For much of the 1990s Li was ranked second in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hierarchy behind then CCP General Secretary Jiang Zemin. He retained his seat on the CCP Politburo Standing Committee until his retirement in 2002.

Li was the son of an early Communist revolutionary, Li Shuoxun, who was executed by the Kuomintang. After meeting Zhou Enlai in Sichuan, Li was raised by Zhou and his wife, Deng Yingchao. Li trained to be an engineer in the Soviet Union and worked at an important national power company after returning to China. He escaped the political turmoil of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s due to his political connections and his employment in the company. After Deng Xiaoping became China's leader in the late 1970s, Li took a number of increasingly important and powerful political positions, eventually becoming premier in 1987.

As Premier, Li was the most visible representative of China's government who backed the use of force to quell the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. During the demonstrations, Li used his authority as premier to declare martial law and, in cooperation with Deng, who was the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, declared military law and the suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen square protestors, ultimately resulting in a massacre.

Li advocated a largely conservative approach to Chinese economic reform, which placed him at odds with CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who fell out of favour in 1989. After Zhao was removed from office, Li promoted a conservative socialist economic agenda but lost influence to incoming vice premier Zhu Rongji, and was unable to prevent the increasing market liberalization of the Chinese economy. During his time in office, he helmed the controversial Three Gorges Dam project. He and his family managed a large Chinese power monopoly, which the Chinese government broke up after his term as premier expired. Li died at the age of 90 in Beijing.

Childhood

Li was born as Li Yuanpeng (李遠芃; Lǐ Yuǎnpéng) at his family house in Shanghai French Concession, now in 545 Yanan Road, Huangpu District in Shanghai. His family has ancestral roots in Chengdu, Sichuan.^[2] He was the son of Li Shuoxun, one of the earliest CCP revolutionaries,^[3] who was the political commissar of the Twentieth Division during the Nanchang uprising, and Zhao Juntao, also an early Communist operative.^[4] In 1931, Li's father, then working undercover in Hainan, was captured and executed by the Kuomintang.^[5] Li was believed to have met Deng Yingchao, wife of senior Communist leader Zhou Enlai, in Chengdu in 1939, who then took him to Chongqing to meet Zhou, though Zhou was in the Communist base of Yan'an, and they did not meet until late 1940.^[6] In 1941, when Li was twelve, Zhou sent Li to Yan'an, where Li studied until 1945.^[4] As a seventeen-year-old, in 1945, Li joined the Chinese Communist Party.^[7]

Early career

In 1941, Li Peng began studying at the Yan'an Institute of Natural Science (a predecessor of the Beijing Institute of Technology).^[8] In July 1946, Li was sent to work in Zhangjiakou. According to his own recollection, in 1947, he journeyed through Shandong and North Korea, eventually ending up in Harbin where he began managing some work for a lard processing plant. In 1948, Li Peng was sent to study at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, majoring in hydroelectric engineering. A year later, in 1949, Zhou Enlai became Premier of the newly declared People's Republic of China.^[4] Li graduated in 1954. During his time in the Soviet Union, Li was the head of the Chinese Students Association in the Soviet Union.^[7]

When Li returned to China in 1955, the country was firmly under the control of the Communist Party. Li took part in technical, then management work in the power industry, beginning his career in Northeast China. At the outset of the Cultural Revolution, Li was sent to Beijing to head up the municipal power bureau.^[7] He played a leading role in the construction of the Tuhe Powerplant in Tangshan and the Gaojing Powerplant in Beijing.^[9] During his time at Gaojing, he worked three days and three nights supervising the construction of the site. On 4 October 1974, he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle home from work.^[9] In 1976, Li was dispatched to affected regions of the Tangshan earthquake as head of the power restoration efforts.^[9]

Li advanced politically after the ascent of Deng Xiaoping, and served as the Vice Minister and later Minister of Power, the Communist Party secretary of the North China Electric Power Administration Bureau between 1979 and 1983, as well as the vice minister of Water Conservancy and Power between 1982 and 1983.^[2] Much of Li's rapid political promotion was due to the support of Party elder Chen Yun.^[2]

Li joined the Central Committee at the 12th Party National Congress in 1982. In 1984, he was put in charge of the newly established State Council Leading Small Group on the Electronics Industry.^[10] In 1985 he was named minister of the State Education Commission, and was elected to the Politburo and the Party Secretariat. In 1987, after the 13th Party Congress, Li became a member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee.^[11]

Premiership

Defender of state control

In November 1987, after Premier Zhao Ziyang was promoted to CCP General Secretary, Li became acting Premier. He was formally elected Premier in March 1988. At the time of his promotion, Li seemed like an unusual choice for Premier because he did not seem to share Deng's enthusiasm for introducing market reforms.^[3] Li was raised to the position of Premier thanks partially to the departure of Hu Yaobang, who was forced to resign as General Secretary after the Party blamed him for a series of student-led protests in 1987.

Throughout the 1980s, political dissent and social problems, including inflation, urban migration, and school overcrowding, became great problems in China. Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing intra-party debate on the pace of market reforms. Politically, Li opposed the modern economic reforms pioneered by Zhao Ziyang throughout Zhao's years of public service. In 1988, he downgraded the role of the System Reform Commission, a State Council body created by Zhao Ziyang.^[12] While students and intellectuals urged greater reforms, some party elders increasingly feared that the instability opened up by any significant reforms would threaten to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, which Li had spent his career attempting to strengthen.

After Zhao became General Secretary, his proposals in May 1988 to expand free enterprise led to popular complaints (which some suggest were politically inspired) about inflation fears. Public fears about the negative effects of market reforms gave conservatives (including Li Peng) the opening to call for greater centralization of economic controls and stricter prohibitions against Western influences, especially opposing further expansion of Zhao's more free enterprise-oriented approach. This precipitated a political debate, which grew more heated through the winter of 1988–1989.

1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre began with the mass mourning over the death of former General secretary Hu Yaobang, widely perceived to have been purged for his support of political liberalization.^[13] On the eve of Hu's funeral, 100,000 people gathered at Tiananmen Square. Beijing students began the demonstrations to encourage continued economic reform and liberalization, and these demonstrations soon evolved into a mass movement for political reform.^[14] From Tiananmen Square, the protesters later expanded into the surrounding streets. Non-violent protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai and Wuhan. Rioting occurred in Xi'an and Changsha.^[15]

The Tiananmen protests were partially protests against the affluence of the children of high-ranking Communist Party officials, and the perception that second-generation officials had received their fortunes through exploiting their parents' influence. Li, whose family has often been at the center of corruption allegations within the Chinese power industry, was vulnerable to these charges.^[16]

An editorial published in the People's Daily on 26 April and bearing the name of Deng Xiaoping, denounced the demonstrations as "premeditated and organized turmoil with anti-Party and anti-socialist motives". The article had the effect of worsening the demonstrations by angering its leaders, who then made their demands more extreme. Zhao Ziyang later wrote in his autobiography that although Deng had stated many of those sentiments in a private conversation with Li Peng shortly before the editorial was written, Li had the comments disseminated to Party members and published as the editorial without Deng's knowledge or consent.^[17]

Li strictly refused to negotiate with the Tiananmen protesters out of principle, and became one of the officials most objected to by protesters.^[2] One of the protest's key leaders, Wu'erkaixi, during a hunger strike, publicly scolded Li on National Television, saying he was ignoring the needs of the people. Some observers say that Wang's statements insulted Li personally, hardening his resolve to end the protest by violent means.^[18]^{[citation needed]}

Among the other senior members of the central government, Li became the one who most strongly favored violence and known as the "Butcher of Beijing" for his role in the crackdown.^[19]^[20] After winning the support of most of his colleagues, apparently including Deng Xiaoping, Li officially declared martial law in Beijing on 20 May 1989 and promised "resolute and decisive measures to put an end to the turmoil".^[21] The protests were crushed by the military on 3–4 June. Most estimates of the dead range from several hundred to several thousand people. Li later described the crackdown as a historic victory for communism,^[3] and wrote that he feared the protests would be as potentially damaging to China as the Cultural Revolution had been.^[18] The martial law was lifted by Li on 10 January 1990.^[22]

Political longevity

Although the Tiananmen crackdown was an "international public relations disaster for China," it ensured that Li would have a long and productive career. He remained powerful even though he had been one of the main targets of protesters, partly because the leadership believed that limiting Li's career would be the same as admitting that they had made mistakes by suppressing the 1989 protests. By keeping Li at the upper levels of the Party, China's leaders communicated to the world that the country remained stable and united.^[3] Because of Li's role in the crackdown, he was viewed as politically repellent in most Western capitals and Western delegations traveling to China often had to debate whether they could be seen meeting with Li.^[23]

In the immediate aftermath of the Tiananmen protests, Li took a leading role in a national austerity program, intended to slow economic growth and inflation and re-centralize the economy. Li worked to increase taxes on agriculture and export-industries and increased salaries to less efficient industries owned by the government. Li directed a tight monetary policy, implementing price controls on many commodities, supporting higher interest rates, and cutting off state loans to private and cooperative sectors in attempts to reduce inflation.^[24] After the fifth plenum of the 13th Central Committee in November 1989, Li established a State Council Production Commission to better coordinate the implementation of the plans.^[25]

On 18 April 1990, Li spoke at a celebration for the fifth anniversary of the Shanghai Volkswagen Corporation.^[26]^: 23 During his speech, Li stated that "some policies of the economic and technological zones and Special Economic Zones can be implemented in the Pudong area".^[26]^: 23 Li stated that future investors from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan were welcomed and that China would provide preferential conditions for cooperation and improve the investment environment.^[26]^: 23 The occasion is often described as Pudong's "birthday".^[26]^: 23

In January 1992, at the same time as Deng Xiaoping's southern tour, Li attended the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. At the summit, Li told the audience, "We must further accelerate the pace of reform and opening", and encouraged them to invest in China.^[27]

In 1992, Li attended the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.^[28]^: 51–52 The meeting was the beginning of China's shift to a more active role in international environmental policy.^[29]^: 8 At the conference, Li stated that the pursuit of environmental protection should not cause neglect of economic development and that international environmental cooperation should not infringe on national sovereignty.^[28]^: 52

Li suffered a heart attack in 1993 and began to lose influence within the Party to first-ranking vice premier Zhu Rongji, a strong advocate for economic liberalization. In that year, when Li made his annual work report to the Politburo, he was forced to make over seventy changes to make the plans acceptable to Deng.^[2] Perhaps realizing that opposition to the market reforms would be poorly received by Deng and other Party elders, Li publicly supported Deng's economic reforms. Li was reappointed Premier in 1993, despite a large protest vote for Zhu. Zhu Rongji eventually succeeded Li after the latter's second term expired in 1998.^[3]

Li began two megaprojects when he was the Premier. He initiated the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on 14 December 1994, and later began preparations for the Shenzhou Manned Space Program. Both programs were subject to much controversy within China and abroad. The Shenzhou program was especially criticized for its extraordinary cost (tens of billions of dollars). Many economists and humanitarians suggested that those billions in capital might be better invested in helping the Chinese population deal with economic hardships and improvement in China's education, health services, and legal system.^[30]

Chairmanship of the National People's Congress

Li remained premier until 1998, when he was constitutionally limited to two terms. After his second term expired, he became the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.^[31] Support for Li for the largely-ceremonial position was low, as he received less than 90% of the vote at the first session of the 9th National People's Congress, where he was the only candidate.^[31] He spent much of his time monitoring what he considered his life's work to have been, the Three Gorges Dam. Li's interest in the Dam reflected his earlier career as a hydraulic engineer, and he spent much of his career in office in presiding over a vast and growing power industry. At this time Li Peng considered himself to be a builder and a modernizer.

On August 22, 2000, Li was in New York for a UN meeting.^[23] At the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a licensed private investigator served him with a legal summons in connection with human rights litigation involving the Tiananmen square crackdown.^[23] A New York Times reporter and photographer accompanied the process server and documented the event.^[23] Li was outraged, having viewed the U.S. government as complicit because the summons had been transmitted through his U.S. security detail.^[23]

Legacy and death

After retiring in 2003, Li retained some influence in the Politburo Standing Committee. Luo Gan, who presided over law enforcement and national security between 2002 and 2007, was considered Li's protégé.^[32] After the retirement of Luo Gan during 17th Party Congress, Li's influence waned considerably. He was subject to frequent speculation over corruption issues that plague him and his family. In addition, perhaps more than any other leader, Li's public image had become inextricably associated with memory of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, and as a result he continued to be a widely despised figure among a substantial segment of the Chinese population well into the 21st century.^[16] He was generally unpopular in China, where he (had) "has long been a figure of scorn and suspicion".^[3]

Li spent much of the 1990s expanding and managing an energy monopoly, State Power Corporation of China. Because the company was staffed by Li's relatives, Li was accused of turning China's energy industry into a "family fiefdom".^[33]^[34] At its height, Li's power company controlled 72% of all energy-producing assets in China, and was ranked as the sixtieth-largest company in the world by Fortune magazine. After Li's departure from government, Li's energy monopoly was split into five smaller companies by the Chinese government.^[35]

In 2010, Li's autobiographical work, The Critical Moment – Li Peng Diaries, was published by New Century Press. The Critical Moment covered Li's activities during the period of the Tiananmen Square protests, and was published on the protests' twenty-first anniversary.^[36] The Critical Moment was characterized by reviewers as largely an attempt to minimize Li's culpability during the most egregious stages of the crackdown; some also say he attempted to shift blame to Deng.^[18] He reappeared at the 19th Party Congress on 18 October 2017, marking his last public appearance prior to his death.^[37]

Li died on 22 July 2019 at the age of 90. He had been receiving medical treatment in a hospital in Beijing at the time of his death.^[38]^[39]^[40] His funeral was held on 29 July 2019. Attendees of the funeral included CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, and former General Secretary Jiang Zemin.

Family

Li Peng was married to Zhu Lin (朱琳), a deputy manager in "a large firm in the south of China".^[2] Li and Zhu had 3 children:^[41] Li's elder son, Li Xiaopeng; Li's daughter, Li Xiaolin; and, Li's younger son, Li Xiaoyong. Li Xiaoyong is married to Ye Xiaoyan, the daughter of Communist veteran Ye Ting's second son, Ye Zhengming.

Li's family benefited from Li's high position during the 1980s and 1990s. Two of Li's children, Li Xiaopeng and Li Xiaolin, inherited and ran two of China's electrical monopolies. State-run Chinese media have publicly questioned whether it is in China's long-term interest to preserve the "new class of monopoly state capitalists" that Li's family represents.^[42] Li Xiaopeng entered politics in Shanxi^[43] and became its governor in 2012^[44] and then in 2016, he became Minister of Transport. Li Xiaolin served as chief executive of China Power International Development, before being transferred out in 2016 to a minor executive post at a different power company.

Honours

	Country	Date	Ref.
Order of the Republic	Tunisia	21 May 1984	^[45]
Order of Ouissam Alaouite	Morocco	4 October 1995	^[46]
Order of the Sun of Peru	Peru	9 October 1995	^[47]
Order of the Liberator	Venezuela	13 November 1996	^[48]
Order of Merit	Cameroon	10 May 1997	^[49]
Nishan-e-Pakistan	Pakistan	10 April 1999	^[50]
Order of the Yugoslav Star	Yugoslavia	12 June 2000	^[51]^[52]
Medal of Pushkin	Russia	31 October 2007	^[53]

References

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Zhao, Ziyang (2009). Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-4938-6.

External links

Li Peng human rights lawsuit
Li Peng biography @ China Vitae, the web's largest online database of China VIPs Archived 28 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
Corpus of Political Speeches Free access to political speeches by Li Peng and other Chinese politicians, developed by Hong Kong Baptist University Library

Government offices
Preceded by Liu Lanbo	Minister of Electric Power 1981–1982	Succeeded by Qian Zhengying as Minister of Water Resources and Power
Preceded by He Dongchang as Minister of Education	Chairman of the State Education Commission 1985–1988	Succeeded by Li Tieying
Preceded by Zhao Ziyang	Premier of China 1987–1998	Succeeded by Zhu Rongji
Assembly seats
Preceded by Qiao Shi	Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the NPC 1998–2003	Succeeded by Wu Bangguo

[news.sina.cn-1] "李鹏同志逝世他曾这样记录自己这一生". 23 July 2019.

[:0-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "李鹏简历" [Resume of Li Peng]. Xinhua News Agency. 15 January 2002. Retrieved 21 December 2010.

[:3-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "The Man Who Took on the Dissidents: Li Peng (1928–)". CNN. 1999. Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2008.

[FOOTNOTEBarnouinYu2006126-4] Barnouin & Yu 2006, p. 126.

[FOOTNOTEFangFang198666-5] Fang & Fang 1986, p. 66.

[6] Li, Jing (30 June 2014). "Li Peng finally denies old rumours he is ex-premier Zhou Enlai's adopted son". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 18 July 2014.

[FOOTNOTEMackerrasMcMillenWatson1998136-7] Mackerras, McMillen & Watson 1998, p. 136.

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v t e 6th State Council of the People's Republic of China
Zhao Ziyang Cabinet (1983–1988)
Premier	Zhao Ziyang → Li Peng
5 Vice Premiers	Wan Li Yao Yilin Li Peng Tian Jiyun Qiao Shi (added)
State Councilors	Fang Yi Gu Mu Kang Shi'en Chen Muhua♀ Ji Pengfei Zhang Jingfu Zhang Aiping Wu Xueqian Wang Bingqian Song Ping Song Jian (added)
Secretary-General	Tian Jiyun → Chen Junsheng
Ministers	01 Foreign Affairs Wu Xueqian 02 National Defense Zhang Aiping 03 State Planning Commission Song Ping → Yao Yilin 04 State Economic Commission Zhang Jingfu → Lü Dong 05 State Commission for Restructuring Economy Zhao Ziyang → Li Tieying 06 State Science and Technology Commission Fang Yi → Song Jian 07 Commission for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense Chen Bin [zh] → Ding Henggao 08 Ethnic Affairs Commission Yang Jingren → Ismail Amat 09 Public Security Liu Fuzhi → Ruan Chongwu → Wang Fang 010 State Security Ling Yun → Jia Chunwang 011 Civil Affairs Cui Naifu 012 Justice Zou Yu 013 Finance Wang Bingqian 014 Commerce Liu Yi [zh] 015 Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade Chen Muhua → Zheng Tuobin 016 Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries He Kang 017 Ministry of Forestry Yang Zhong [zh] → Gao Dezhan 018 Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power Qian Zhengying 019 Ministry of Urban and Rural Construction and Environmental Protection Li Ximing → Rui Xingwen → Ye Rutang [zh] 020 Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources Sun Daguang → Zhu Xun [zh] 021 Ministry of Metallurgical Industry Li Dongye → Qi Yuanjing 022 Ministry of Machine-building Industry Zhou Jiannan 023 Ministry of Nuclear Industry Jiang Xinxiong 024 Ministry of Aeronautics Industry Mo Wenxiang 025 Ministry of Electronics Industry Jiang Zemin → Li Tieying 026 Ministry of Ordnance Industry Yu Yi [zh] → Zou Jiahua 027 Ministry of Aerospace Industry Zhang Jun [zh] → Li Xu'e [zh] 028 Ministry of Coal Industry Gao Yangwen [zh] → Yu Hong'en [zh] 029 Ministry of Petroleum Industry Tang Ke [zh] → Wang Tao 030 Ministry of Chemical Industry Qin Zhongda 031 Ministry of Textile Industry Wu Wenying 032 Ministry of Light Industry Yang Bo [zh] → Zeng Xianlin [zh] 033 Ministry of Railways Chen Puru → Ding Guangen 034 Transport Li Qing [zh] → Qian Yongchang 035 Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Wen Minsheng → Yang Taifang 036 Ministry of Labor and Personnel Zhao Shouyi → Zhao Dongwan 037 Ministry of Culture Zhu Muzhi → Wang Meng 038 Xinhua News Agency Mu Qing 039 Ministry of Radio, Film and Television Wu Lengxi [zh] → Ai Zhisheng 040 Education He Dongchang → Li Peng 041 Ministry of Health Cui Yueli [zh] → Chen Minzhang 042 State Physical Culture and Sports Commission Li Menghua 043 State Family Planning Commission Qian Xinzhong → Wang Wei [zh] → Peng Peiyun♀ 044 Central Bank Governor Lü Peijian → Chen Muhua 045 Auditor-General Yu Mingtao → Lü Peijian 046 Chinese Academy of Sciences Lu Jiaxi → Zhou Guangzhao 047 Ministry of Supervision Wei Jianxing

v t e Vice Premiers of the People's Republic of China (list)
Provisional Cabinet	Dong Biwu Chen Yun Guo Moruo Huang Yanpei Deng Xiaoping (added 1952)
1st Cabinet	Chen Yun Lin Biao Peng Dehuai Deng Xiaoping Deng Zihui He Long Chen Yi Ulanhu Li Fuchun Li Xiannian Nie Rongzhen (added 1956) Bo Yibo (added 1956)
2nd Cabinet	Chen Yun Lin Biao Peng Dehuai Deng Xiaoping Deng Zihui He Long Chen Yi Ulanhu Li Fuchun Li Xiannian Nie Rongzhen Bo Yibo Tan Zhenlin Lu Dingyi Luo Ruiqing Xi Zhongxun
3rd Cabinet	Lin Biao (died 1971) Chen Yun (dismissed 1969) Deng Xiaoping (dismissed 1968, reinstated 1973) He Long (died 1969) Chen Yi (died 1972) Ke Qingshi (died 1965) Ulanhu (dismissed 1968) Li Fuchun (died 1975) Li Xiannian Tan Zhenlin Nie Rongzhen Bo Yibo (dismissed 1967) Lu Dingyi (dismissed 1966) Luo Ruiqing (dismissed 1966) Tao Zhu (died 1969) Xie Fuzhi (died 1972)
4th Cabinet	Deng Xiaoping (dismissed 1976, reinstated 1977) Zhang Chunqiao (dismissed 1977) Li Xiannian Chen Xilian Ji Dengkui Hua Guofeng Chen Yonggui Wu Guixian ♀ (resigned 1977) Wang Zhen Yu Qiuli Gu Mu Sun Jian
5th Cabinet (1978)	Deng Xiaoping Li Xiannian Xu Xiangqian Ji Dengkui Yu Qiuli Chen Xilian Geng Biao Chen Yonggui Fang Yi Wang Zhen Gu Mu Kang Shi'en Chen Muhua ♀ Wang Renzhong (added 1979) Chen Yun (added 1979)
5th Cabinet (1980)	Yu Qiuli Geng Biao Fang Yi Gu Mu Kang Shi'en Chen Muhua ♀ Bo Yibo Yao Yilin Ji Pengfei Zhao Ziyang (promoted to premier) Wan Li Yang Jingren Zhang Aiping Huang Hua
5th Cabinet (1982)	Wan Li Yao Yilin
6th Cabinet	Wan Li Yao Yilin Li Peng Tian Jiyun Qiao Shi (added 1986)
7th Cabinet	Yao Yilin Tian Jiyun Wu Xueqian Zou Jiahua (added 1991) Zhu Rongji (added 1991)
8th Cabinet	Zhu Rongji Zou Jiahua Qian Qichen Li Lanqing Wu Bangguo (added 1995) Jiang Chunyun (added 1995)
9th Cabinet	Li Lanqing Qian Qichen Wu Bangguo Wen Jiabao
10th Cabinet	Huang Ju (died 2007) Wu Yi ♀ Zeng Peiyan Hui Liangyu
11th Cabinet	Li Keqiang Hui Liangyu Zhang Dejiang Wang Qishan
12th Cabinet	Zhang Gaoli Liu Yandong ♀ Wang Yang Ma Kai
13th Cabinet	Han Zheng Sun Chunlan ♀ Hu Chunhua Liu He
14th Cabinet	Ding Xuexiang He Lifeng Zhang Guoqing Liu Guozhong

v t e 15th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (1997–2002)
Standing Committee	Jiang Zemin (General Secretary) Li Peng Zhu Rongji Li Ruihuan Hu Jintao Wei Jianxing Li Lanqing
Other members in surname stroke order	Ding Guangen Tian Jiyun Li Changchun Li Tieying Wu Bangguo Wu Guanzheng Chi Haotian Zhang Wannian Luo Gan Jiang Chunyun Jia Qinglin Qian Qichen Huang Ju Wen Jiabao Xie Fei (died 1999)
Alternate members	Zeng Qinghong Wu Yi
7th→8th→9th→10th→11th→12th→13th→14th→15th→16th→17th→18th→19th→20th

v t e 14th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (1992–1997)
Standing Committee	Jiang Zemin (General Secretary) Li Peng Qiao Shi Li Ruihuan Zhu Rongji Liu Huaqing Hu Jintao
Other members in surname stroke order	Ding Guangen Tian Jiyun Li Lanqing Li Tieying Yang Baibing Wu Bangguo Zou Jiahua Chen Xitong (expelled 1995) Jiang Chunyun Qian Qichen Wei Jianxing Xie Fei Tan Shaowen (died 1993) → Huang Ju (added 1994)
Alternate members	Wen Jiabao Wang Hanbin
7th→8th→9th→10th→11th→12th→13th→14th→15th→16th→17th→18th→19th→20th

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