Liu Qi
刘奇
Secretary-General of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Assumed office
10 March 2023
ChairmanZhao Leji
Preceded byYang Zhenwu
Chairman of Jiangxi People's Congress
In office
October 2018 – January 2022
Preceded byLu Xinshe
Succeeded byYi Lianhong
Communist Party Secretary of Jiangxi
In office
21 March 2018 – 18 October 2021
DeputyYi Lianhong (Governor)
Preceded byLu Xinshe
Succeeded byYi Lianhong
Governor of Jiangxi
In office
8 July 2016 – 6 August 2018
Preceded byLu Xinshe
Succeeded byYi Lianhong
Personal details
BornSeptember 1957 (age 66)
Yishui County, Shandong
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materZhejiang University
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese刘奇
Traditional Chinese劉奇

Liu Qi (Chinese: 刘奇; born September 1957) is a Chinese politician who is currently the secretary-general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Liu previously served as the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Jiangxi from 2018 to 2021, and as the Governor of Jiangxi from 2016 to 2018. Liu spent most of his career in Zhejiang province.

Career

Liu Qi was born in Yishui County, Shandong. During the Cultural Revolution, Liu became a rusticated youth performing manual labour in Wuyi County. He graduated from Zhejiang University with a degree in chemical engineering, and also has a graduate degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and a doctorate in economics.

After graduating university, Liu was given a job at a state-owned chemical engineering company in Quzhou, where he rose from a dispatcher to the chief executive. He then took on jobs in the provincial department of petroleum, the provincial planning agency, then at Quzhou-based Juhua Corporation, before entering politics as mayor of Wenzhou, then head of the Zhejiang provincial Development and Reform Commission. During this period he worked directly under then Zhejiang party chief Xi Jinping.

In 2008, Liu was named head of the provincial federation of trade unions, and in January 2011, the mayor of Ningbo.[1] He succeeded Wang Huizhong to become party chief of Ningbo in April 2013, and was transferred to Jiangxi in 2016. He had only been the deputy party chief of Jiangxi for several months when he was promoted one step further to become acting Governor of Jiangxi in July 2016, confirmed on September 28, 2016.[2]

On March 21, 2018, Liu was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Jiangxi.[3]

On 23 October 2021, he was appointed vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee.[4]

References

  1. ^ 刘奇任中共宁波市委书记. People's Daily. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
  2. ^ 刘奇履新中共江西省委副书记. People's Daily. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  3. ^ "四川等3省区党委主要负责同志职务调整-新华网". Xinhua. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
  4. ^ 刘家义任第十三届全国人大财经委员会副主任委员. The Paper (in Chinese). 23 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
Government offices Preceded byQian Xingzhong Mayor of Wenzhou 2003–2006 Succeeded byShao Zhanwei Preceded byShi Jiuwu [zh] Director of Zhejiang Development and Reform Commission 2006–2008 Succeeded byLi Zhihai Preceded byMao Guanglie Mayor of Ningbo 2011–2013 Succeeded byLu Ziyue Preceded byLu Xinshe Governor of Jiangxi 2016–2018 Succeeded byYi Lianhong Party political offices Preceded byWang Huizhong Communist Party Secretary of Ningbo 2013–2016 Succeeded byTang Yijun Preceded byMo Jiancheng Deputy Party Secretary of Jiangxi 2016 Succeeded byYao Zengke Preceded byLu Xinshe Party Secretary of Jiangxi 2018–2021 Succeeded byYi Lianhong Assembly seats Preceded byLu Xinshe Chairman of Jiangxi People's Congress 2018–2022 Succeeded byYi Lianhong
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