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Li Yunhe

1921 – 2003

Chinese politician

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Lived 1921 – 2003 (aged 81–82). Li Yunhe was a Chinese politician.

Li Yunhe (; July 1921 – 10 May 2003) was a Chinese politician who served as chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference between 1985 and 1993. He was a delegate to the 4th and 5th National People's Congress. He attended Dingxiang Middle School and Shanxi Provincial Normal School. Influenced by progressive ideas at school, he actively participated in the Counter Japanese and National Salvation Activities organized by underground party organizations, and participated in the "Shanxi Revolutionary Mutual Aid Association" , a peripheral organization of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Li enlisted in the Dare-to-Die Corps of Shanxi Youths in July 1937, and joined the CCP in January 1938. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, he received assignment as secretary of the Political Department of the 4th Column and engaged in the Hundred Regiments Offensive.

During the Chinese Civil War, Li was present at the battles of Xinzhou , Lvliang , Fenxiao , Yan'an , Shajiadian , Hancheng , Yichuan , Xifu , Xiaojinzhen , Lizhen , Yongfeng , Fumei , and Lanzhou .

After founding of the Communist State, in March 1950, Li was commissioned as deputy director and then director of the Political Department of the 5th Army of the People's Liberation Army, concurrently serving as secretary-general and head of Propaganda of the CCP Ili District Committee. Since October 1952, he was transferred to ürümqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and successively served as deputy director and then director of the Office of the CCP Xinjiang Branch, deputy head of the Work and Transportation Department of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, deputy director and party branch secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Economic Commission, director of the Work and Transportation Political Department, director of the Infrastructure Commission, deputy leader of the Production Group of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Revolutionary Committee, deputy director of the War Preparedness Office of the Xinjiang Military Region, deputy party secretary of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and member of the CCP Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority.

In August 1978, Li was transferred to the neighboring Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and appointed vice chairman of the autonomous region and member of the CCP Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee, the region's top authority. He became deputy party secretary of Ningxia in April 1982. In April 1985, he was proposed as chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and served until May 1993.

Li retired in May 1995.

On 10 May 2003, li died in Beijing, at the age of 81.

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Chinese politician

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Li Yunhe was born in 1921.

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Li Yunhe died on 10 May 2003.

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· Wikipedia: Li Yunhe

· Wikidata: Q8847309

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