Li Guoying
Li Guoying | |||||||
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Lý quốc anh | |||||||
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Minister of Water Resources | |||||||
Assumed office February 28, 2021 | |||||||
Premier | Li Keqiang Li Qiang | ||||||
Preceded by | E Jingping | ||||||
GovernorofAnhui | |||||||
In office September 1, 2016 – February 1, 2021 | |||||||
Preceded by | Li Jinbin | ||||||
Succeeded by | Wang Qingxian | ||||||
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Born | December 1963 (age 60) Yuzhou,Henan,China | ||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Alma mater | North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | LýQuốcAnh | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | LýQuốcAnh | ||||||
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Li Guoying(Chinese:Lý quốc anh;born December 1963) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as theminister of water resources.He was previously the governor ofAnhuiprovince. A hydraulic engineer by profession, Li worked in his early career as a technician and administrator in the national ministry of water works, the Yellow River Commission, and in Heilongjiang province. He was transferred to Anhui in 2015 to serve as deputy party chief before becoming acting governor in 2016.
Biography
[edit]He was born inYuzhou, Henanprovince. He studied hydroelectric power generation and engineering atNorth China University of Water Conservancy and Electric PowerinZhengzhouand graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. He also had a graduate degree in philosophy from theCentral Party School of the Chinese Communist Party,then a doctorate fromNortheast Normal Universityin environmental science.[citation needed]
After graduating university, Li worked for the Yellow River commission of the Ministry of Water Works as a survey technician for the planning and research department. He spent most of his career in the water works system, as the assistant to the chief engineer, then the deputy director of the Yellow River commission, then chief engineer of the national Ministry of Waterworks. He was then transferred in May 1999 to head the department of water works in Heilongjiang.[1]
In March 2011, he was named Vice Minister of Water Works and chairman of the Yellow River Commission; he stayed on the post until August 2015, when he was named deputy party chief ofAnhui.He was then elevated to acting governor a year later, on September 1, 2016.[citation needed]His elevation confirmed trends that the senior Communist Party leadership was again showing preference for engineering and technical backgrounds over lifelong apparatchiks. At the time of his appointment Li, 52, was the second youngest governor in China. He was confirmed as governor in a legislative session on January 21, 2017.[2]
Li was an alternate member of the18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Partyand was a full member of the19th Central Committee.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1964 births
- Living people
- Northeast Normal University alumni
- North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power alumni
- Governors of Anhui
- Chinese Communist Party politicians from Henan
- Politicians from Xuchang
- Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Delegates to the 12th National People's Congress
- Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress
- Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress
- Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Ministers of water resources of the People's Republic of China