Li Xuefeng

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Li Xuefeng
李雪峰
Li on a state visit to Indonesia in 1965
2nd First Secretary of the CCP Beijing Committee
In office
May 1966 – April 1967
Preceded byPeng Zhen
Succeeded byXie Fuzhi
(As Head of the Beijing Revolutionary Committee)
Personal details
Born(1907-01-19)19 January 1907
Yongji County, Shanxi, China
Died15 March 2003(2003-03-15) (aged 96)
Beijing
Political partyChinese Communist Party

Li Xuefeng (

Revolutionary Committee between 1968 and 1971.[1][2] However, his support for Chen Boda during the 1971 Lushan Conference led him to be branded as a supporter of Lin Biao; he was purged and sent into internal exile in Anhui
province for eight years. He was politically rehabilitated in 1982, and went on to serve in several advisory positions in the party.

Biography

Li Xuefeng joined the

Zhili Province before being split by the Republic of China
in 1928.

In 1947, he was appointed deputy secretary of the "Central Plains Bureau" of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, an office responsible for coordinating military efforts around the Yellow River, and concurrently deputy director of the Central Organization Department. In addition, in 1949 he was secretary of the CCP Henan Committee and political commissar of the Henan Military Region.

After the establishment of the

People's Republic of China in 1949, Li was appointed head of the Organization Department of the Central-South China Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, as well as deputy secretary of the Bureau, and concurrently vice-chairman of the Central-South Administrative Council. In 1954 he was elevated to Deputy General Secretary of the Central Committee directly under Deng Xiaoping, and head of the Transports and Communications Department in 1956. He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
from 1954 to 1963.

He was elected a full member of the CCP Central Committee at the Eight National Congress held in 1956. In 1960 he was transferred to the posts of first secretary of the North China Bureau of the Central Committee and first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region.

With the outburst of the

University of Beijing
, provisionally replacing it with a "work team" charged with providing political education to the students and pushing them to join the Cultural Revolution movement.

His perceived low support for the

Hebei Province
; in April 1968, he was confirmed as an alternate member of the Politburo at the Ninth Congress of the CCP.

In 1971, Li's support for

Lushan in 1970 led him to be identified as a member of Lin Biao's conspiracy against Mao, who called him one of Lin's "big generals". Thus, he was sent to confinement in Anhui
for eight years. The accusation of being part of Chen Boda's "anti-party clique" was confirmed in 1973 at the Party's Tenth Congress.

Li Xuefeng was never expelled from the Party, and, despite his ambivalent attitude during the Cultural Revolution, he was rehabilitated in 1982. In June 1983, he was elected member of the

Central Advisory Committee
.

After having retired from political roles between the late 1980s and early 1990s, Li Xuefeng died in Beijing in 2003, aged 96.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-521-78674-4
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  2. ISBN 978-0-674-26818-0
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Political offices
Preceded by
Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Hebei

1968–1971 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Secretary of the CCP Beijing Committee
1966–1967 		Succeeded by
Xie Fuzhi
Vacant until 1971
Military offices
Preceded by
 Political commissar of the Beijing Military Region
1960–1967 		Succeeded by
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