Liu Diansheng

Liu Diansheng (; born May 1953) is a Chinese chemist, academic, and politician. He is a member of the Jiusan Society and previously served as a member of the Standing Committee of its Central Committee. He also served as vice chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and as president of the Shanxi Socialist Institute.

Biography Liu was born in May 1953 in Xia County, Shanxi. He began working in November 1971 as a worker at a chemical plant in Changzhi. In 1973, he was admitted to the Department of Chemistry at Shanxi University, where he studied analytical chemistry and graduated in 1976. He later worked as a technician in a biochemical pharmaceutical workshop in Yuncheng before returning to Shanxi University for postgraduate studies in physical chemistry, earning a master's degree in 1981.

Following graduation, Liu remained at Shanxi University as a faculty member, serving successively as an assistant lecturer and lecturer. In 1989, he went to the United Kingdom, where he pursued doctoral studies in organic chemistry at the University of Sussex and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research there. In 1995, he was a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

After returning to China, Liu held a number of academic leadership positions at Shanxi University, including head of the Department of Chemistry, assistant to the president, and vice president from 1998 to 2007. He was promoted to professor and doctoral supervisor during his academic career.