Li Yi (politician)

Li was born in Qu County, Sichuan, in February 1960. He was a sent-down youth at the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in September 1977 and an electrician of Shengli II Hydropower Station in Aksu Area in April 1978. After resuming the college entrance examination, in September 1979, he was accepted to Xinjiang University, majoring in history. After graduating in 1983, he worked at the university for a year.

He joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 1983. In June 1984, he was assigned to the General Office of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, where he was promoted to deputy director in September 1995 and to director in January 2000. He also served as deputy secretary-general of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee from February 1999 to December 2004. He was appointed head of the Propaganda Department of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee in December 2004 and was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority.

In December 2010, he was made party branch secretary and vice president of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, concurrently serving as secretary of its Secretariat.^[2]