Li Honglin

Li Honglin (Chinese: 李洪林; September 10, 1925 – June 1, 2016) was a Chinese scholar and a senior official who served as the deputy director of the Theory Bureau of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the President of Fujian Academy of Social Sciences. As an influential liberal official, Li played an instrumental role in the thought-liberation movement in the late 1970s and in the 1980s, and was called the "Thought Liberation Vanguard" and the "Flag Bearer for China's New Enlightenment movement".

Biography Li Honglin was born in Gaizhou, Liaoning in 1925. He graduated from Northwestern Agriculture College, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1946 while in college.

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, Li played an important role in China's New Enlightenment movement.