Wan Li
| Wan Li 万里 |
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| Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |
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In office 13 April 1988 – 27 March 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Peng Zhen |
| Succeeded by | Qiao Shi |
| First-ranking Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China | |
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In office 1983 - 1988 |
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| Premier |
Zhao Ziyang Li Peng |
| Preceded by | Deng Xiaoping |
| Succeeded by | Yao Yilin |
| Minister of Railways | |
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In office 1975 - 1976 |
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| Preceded by | Lü Zhengcao |
| Succeeded by | Duan Junyi |
| Personal details | |
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1 December 1916 Dongping County, Shandong, China |
| Died | 15 July 2015 (aged 98) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Spouse(s) | Bian Tao (邊濤) |
| Children | Wan Jifei |
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| Traditional Chinese | 萬里 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 万里 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wàn Lǐ |
Wan Li (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Secretariat and its Politburo.
Wan joined the Communist Party of China in 1936 and led revolutionary and wartime resistance activities in his native Shandong province. After the founding of the communist state in 1949, Wan served in a series of government ministries, then worked as a member of the municipal leadership in Beijing. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, but was eventually rehabilitated and returned to work as party chief of Anhui province, where he led the implementation of successful agrarian reforms centered on the household-responsibility system.
In the 1980s, Wan became one of the leading moderate reformers in China's top leadership, advocating for constitutional reforms, the strengthening of legislative institutions, and the abolition of 'lifelong-terms' of top political leaders. He was named head of the national legislature (i.e., the NPC) in 1988. He retired in 1993.
Wan was born to an impoverished family in Dongping County, Shandong province. Wan aspired to become educated from a young age, and was admitted to a provincial-run teacher's college located in Qufu in 1939. After joining the school Wan founded a book club to study Marxist–Leninist works. After the student-led December 9th Movement, revolutionary and anti-Japanese fervour spread across campuses all over China, motivating youth to take up the cause for the country's future. Wan returned to his native Dongping County and became a part-time teacher while devoting most of his time to the revolution and agitating for resistance against Japanese invaders.
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