Lü Dong

Lü Dong (; July 1915 – 8 May 2002) was a Chinese politician who served as Minister of Metallurgical Industry from 1964 to 1967, Minister of the Third Ministry of Machine Building from 1977 to 1981, and director of the State Economic Commission from 1984 to 1988. In 1935, he was accepted to the Department of History and Geography, Northeastern University, but switched to the Department of History, Peking University a year later.

After the founding of the Communist State, in August 1952, he was appointed as deputy minister of the heavy industry, responsible for daily work. In 1980, he was appointed first deputy director of the Machinery Industry Commission of the State Council, responsible for daily work. In January 1982, he was chosen as executive deputy director the newly founded State Economic Commission, and two years later promoted to the director position. In April 1988, he became an advisor to the Central Financial and Economic Leadership Group and president of the China Industrial Economic Association.

Lü died on 8 May 2002 in Beijing, at the age of 86.