Liu Guozhong

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PremierLi Qiang
DeputyZhao Yide (Governor)
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byHu Heping
Liu Guozhong
刘国中
Liu in 2023
Vice Premier of China
Incumbent
Assumed office
12 March 2023
PremierLi Qiang
Party Secretary of Shaanxi
In office
31 July 2020 – 27 November 2022
DeputyZhao Yide (Governor)
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded byHu Heping
Succeeded byZhao Yide
Governor of Shaanxi
In office
4 January 2018 – 2 August 2020
Preceded byHu Heping
Succeeded byZhao Yide
Governor of Jilin
In office
12 December 2016 – 2 January 2018
Preceded byJiang Chaoliang
Succeeded byJing Junhai
Personal details
BornJuly 1962 (age 63)
Wangkui County, Heilongjiang
PartyChinese Communist Party
Alma materNanjing Institute of Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology
CabinetLi Qiang Government
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese劉國中
Simplified Chinese刘国中
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Guózhōng

Liu Guozhong (Chinese: 刘国中; pinyin: Liú Guózhōng; born July 1962) is a Chinese politician and a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party who has served as a vice premier of China since March 2023.

He began his career in Heilongjiang province before serving stints at the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and as deputy party secretary of Sichuan. He had served as Governor of Jilin and Shaanxi from 2016 to 2020. He served as the Party Secretary of Shaanxi from 2020 to 2022.

Liu was born in July 1926 in Wangkui County, Heilongjiang province, China. From 1978 to 1982, he studied fuze design and manufacturing at the artillery department at the East China Institute of Engineering.[1]

After graduation to 1985, Liu worked as a cadre at the Jiancheng Machinery Factory in Harbin,[1] which was part of state-owned arms manufacturer Norinco and also known under the military designation Factory 624.[2] He then pursued a master's degree in metal pressure processing at the Harbin Institute of Technology for three years. He continued his studies at the institute's faculty of management to study systems engineering and left in 1990.[1]

Heilongjiang (1990–2013)

While studying at the Harbin Institute of Technology, in November 1986, Liu joined the Chinese Communist Party.[1] His political career began in 1990 working for the economic committee at the Heilongjiang provincial government as a junior civil servant. He was promoted twice until he was transferred to the government's general office in 1993. He rose through the ranks in the first division of the general office, eventually becoming the director in 1998. Two years later, Liu left the general office for the research office to serve as its deputy director and then its director in 2003.[1]

Between 2003 and 2010, his career overlapped with that of Li Zhanshu, a Xi Jinping loyalist[3] who was deputy party secretary, deputy governor, and governor of Heilongjiang during that period. Li was later promoted to a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In 2004, he was moved out of the provincial government and was appointed the party secretary of Hegang city.[1] He returned to provincial administration in April 2007 to join the standing committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[4] He became the secretary-general of the party committee in May, and in September 2011, was named executive vice governor of Heilongjiang.[5]

In October 2013, Liu left the Heilongjiang system to become a member of the Secretariat of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions.[6]

Rising star (2016–2022)

Politburo member (2022–present)

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