Liu Yuan

Liu Yuan (; born 22 February 1951) is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and a former politician. He served as the last political commissar of the PLA General Logistics Department and prior to that, political commissar of the PLA Academy of Military Science. Before his military career, he served as vice mayor of Zhengzhou and vice governor of Henan. He is the son of Liu Shaoqi, former president of China.

Life and career Liu Yuan was born in 1951 in Beijing, the son of Liu Shaoqi, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) revolutionary and former president of China, and Wang Guangmei, a multilingual interpreter who also worked for the CCP.

In 2010, Liu wrote the preface to a friend's book titled Changing Our View of Culture and History, which has aroused notice for criticizing recent Party leadership and calls for the rejection of foreign models and a return to a supposed upright military heritage.

Wall Street Journalists believe Liu is politically close to other "princelings", especially Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Despite media speculation that he would take on the post of the Central Military Commission's new Discipline Inspection Commission, Liu Yuan retired in December 2015. Regarding his retirement, Liu said, "I will be the last political commissar of the Logistics Department... I will absolutely obey the military reforms [of Xi Jinping]."

Liu was a member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party.