Li Zhanshu | |
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栗战书 | |
Director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China | |
Assumed office 31 August 2012 |
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Deputy |
Ding Xuexiang Chen Shiju Meng Xiangfeng |
General secretary | Xi Jinping |
Preceded by | Ling Jihua |
Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou province | |
In office August 2010 – July 2012 |
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Governor | Zhao Kezhi |
Preceded by | Shi Zongyuan |
Succeeded by | Zhao Kezhi |
Governor of Heilongjiang province | |
In office December 2007 – August 2010 |
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Preceded by | Zhang Zuoji |
Succeeded by | Wang Xiankui |
Personal details | |
Born |
Pingshan, Hebei, China |
30 August 1950
Political party | Communist Party of China |
Alma mater | Hebei Normal University |
Li Zhanshu (Chinese: 栗战书; pinyin: Lì Zhànshū; born August 30, 1950) is a Chinese politician and the current Director of the General Office of the Communist Party of China and the chief of the General Office of the National Security Commission. He is also a member of the 18th Politburo of the Communist Party of China. Previously, Li served as the Governor of Heilongjiang province, the Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou province, and Party Secretary of Xi'an.
Li was born in Pingshan County, Hebei province in 1950. He became a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 1975. He started his career as an ordinary functionary in the capital of his home province, Shijiazhuang, working as an office worker for the Shijiazhuang commercial bureau and the Shijiazhuang party committee. In 1980, Li studied night school at the Hebei Normal University. After graduating, he was promoted to Party Secretary of Wuji County (at around the same time, the party chief of neighbouring Zhengding County was Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China).
For the next decade, Li took on progressively senior roles in Hebei province, including deputy party chief and Commissioner of Shijiazhuang prefecture (equivalent to mayor), head of the provincial Communist Youth League organization, Commissioner of Chengde prefecture, member of the Party Standing Committee of Hebei and Secretary-General of the provincial party committee.