Li Yuanchao
| Li Yuanchao | |
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| 李源潮 | |
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| Vice President of the People's Republic of China | |
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Assumed office 14 March 2013 |
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| President | Xi Jinping |
| Preceded by | Xi Jinping |
| Head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China | |
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In office 22 October 2007 – 19 November 2012 |
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| Deputy | Shen Yueyue, others |
| General Secretary | Hu Jintao |
| Preceded by | He Guoqiang |
| Succeeded by | Zhao Leji |
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20 November 1951 Lianshui County, Jiangsu |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
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| Chinese | 李源潮 | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Yuáncháo |
| Wade–Giles | Li Yüan-ch'ao |
Li Yuanchao (born 20 November 1951) is the Vice President of the People's Republic of China. He is also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and Honorary President of the Red Cross Society of China. He was a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China and head of its Organization Department between 2007 and 2012. From 2002 to 2007, Li served as the Communist Party of China Secretary of Jiangsu, the top leader of an area of significant economic development. He is considered a figure of China's fifth generation of leadership. He is married to Gao Jianjin and has a son named Li Haijin.
Li was born in 1950 in Lianshui County, Jiangsu province, to Li Gancheng (李干成), a Communist Party official and later vice mayor of Shanghai; his mother is Lü Jiying (吕继英), a Communist revolutionary from Shuyang County in northern Jiangsu province; he was the fourth son among their seven children. He was named Yuanchao (援朝) after the "campaign to aid North Korea;" he would change the characters of this name later in life while maintaining the pronunciation. Li attended Nanyang Model High School in Shanghai, where he graduated in 1966, shortly prior to the Cultural Revolution. During the Cultural Revolution, he worked in Dafeng County, Jiangsu, performing manual labour.
In 1972, Li was recommended to enter East China Normal University to study mathematics. He then worked as a teacher at the Nanchang Secondary School in Shanghai, then an instructor at the industry vocational college of Luwan District in Shanghai. After the resumption of the National College Entrance Examination Li was admitted to pursue a master's degree from Fudan University in mathematics. He joined the Communist Party of China in June 1978. In 1982, after graduating, he stayed at Fudan to teach as a lecturer and held a leadership position in the Communist Youth League organization of the university.
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