Liu Qibao

Liu Qibao (; born January 1953) is a Chinese retired politician. He was a member of the 18th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, a Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as the head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee. Previously Liu have served as the party chief of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Sichuan province. He also served as one of the vice chairmen of 13th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference between 2018 and 2023.

Early life and education Liu Qibao was born in a village near the banks of the Yangtze River in Susong County, Anhui Province in 1953, the second of four children.

Career After graduating in 1974, Liu Qibao was a cadre at the Theoretical Research Office of the Department of Publicity, CPC Anhui Provincial Committee.

In 1980, Wan Li was transferred to work for the central authorities in Beijing. Liu was sent to work for the CYL Anhui Provincial Committee, where he gained rapid career advancement. He led propaganda and ideology work at the CYL, eventually rising to lead the provincial CYL organization. In February 1984, he became mayor of Suzhou, Anhui, He served as the chief of the Chinese Communist Party Sichuan Committee, the province's top leader from 2008 to 2012.

On the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution in 2017, Liu stated that the revolution had "opened an unprecedented new model of modernization in world history" which allowed the USSR to transform from a "state of small peasants" to a world-class industrial power. According to Liu, the historical achievements of the revolution and the Soviet socialist system "are by no means canceled out by the dissolution of the USSR." On March 14, 2018, he was named one of the vice-chairmen of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.