Li Liguo

Li Liguo
李立国
Minister of Civil Affairs
In office June 2010 – November 2016
Premier	Wen Jiabao Li Keqiang
Preceded by	Li Xueju
Succeeded by	Huang Shuxian
Personal details
Born	November 1953 (age 70–71)
Political party	Communist Party of China
Alma mater	Northeastern University (China)

Li Liguo (Chinese: 李立国; born November 1953) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He has been the Minister of Civil Affairs of China since June 2010, and formerly served as Deputy Communist Party Chief of Tibet Autonomous Region.

Career

Li Liguo is a native of Yutian County in Tangshan, Hebei province. He began working in January 1970 at the Construction Equipment Factory of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, and joined the Communist Party of China in November 1974.

Li worked at a number of factories in Shenyang for 15 years, until entering the government in June 1985, when he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Liaoning province. From January 1990 to 1993 he was the Vice Mayor of Panjin, a prefecture-level city in Liaoning. He also enrolled in post-secondary education programs on a part-time basis, earning a master's degree in engineering in April 1992 from Northeastern Institute of Engineering (now known as Northeastern University).

In January 1993 Li Liguo was transferred to Tibet Autonomous Region, becoming the Deputy Communist Party Chief of Tibet in January 1999 and Vice Chairman of the Tibet CPPCC in 2003.

In December 2005 Li was transferred to the central government and appointed Executive Vice Minister of Civil Affairs. He was promoted to Minister in June 2010, replacing retiring Li Xueju. In March 2013 he was reappointed Minister of Civil Affairs of the Li Keqiang cabinet.

Li is a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.