Li Dexin

Li Dexin (; January 1924 – April 17, 2012) was a Chinese politician who served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Hangzhou, and Vice Chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was also Deputy Secretary of the Leading Party Members Group of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Throughout his career, he held a number of senior leadership positions in Zhejiang Province, particularly in the fields of publicity, broadcasting, and local party administration.

Biography

Li was born in January 1924 in Huaiyin County, Jiangsu. He joined the revolutionary movement in July 1942 and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1943.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War and the later stages of the Chinese Civil War, Li served in a variety of military and local administrative posts in Jiangsu and Shandong. He was successively a militia company commander, deputy commander of border defense units, township head, political instructor of a Huaihai military unit, a student at Huazhong Construction University, political instructor of an officer training company under the East China Field Army Liaison Department, and a cadre engaged in united front and enemy affairs work for the CCP organizations in Binhai and Donghai County. He later served as Director of the Office of the CCP Donghai County Committee.

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Li moved to Zhejiang Province, where he spent the remainder of his political career. Beginning in June 1949, he successively served as head of an investigation group and work team under the Taizhou Prefectural Committee, chief of the secretariat section, deputy director and director of the committee office, deputy director of the Secretariat of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, director of the Provincial Rural Affairs Office, and deputy director of the General Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee.

During the early years of the Cultural Revolution, Li was subjected to political persecution. He later returned to public office and served as deputy head of the leadership group and deputy Party secretary of the Zhejiang Daily. Beginning in July 1977, he held a succession of senior provincial positions, including Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Director and Party Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Broadcasting Bureau, Deputy Secretary-General of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee, Secretary of the Jinhua Prefectural Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee, and Secretary of the CCP Hangzhou Municipal Committee.

In May 1987, Li was elected Vice Chairman of the Fifth Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). He was re-elected to the same office at the first session of the Sixth Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the CPPCC in January 1988. He also served as Deputy Secretary of the committee's Leading Party Members Group. He retired from public office in January 1994.

Li was also a writer and published several essay collections, including Guxi Ji, Early Spring in Jinhua and Quzhou: A Collection at the Age of Fifty, and Years in Qiantang: A Collection at the Age of Sixty.

Li died in Hangzhou on April 17, 2012, at the age of 88 according to international age reckoning (89 by traditional Chinese age reckoning). His funeral was held in Hangzhou on April 23, 2012. Following his death, condolences were extended by senior Chinese leaders including Xi Jinping, Li Yuanchao, Zhu Rongji, and Wang Gang.