Li Guoying

Li Guoying
李国英
Governor of Anhui
(Acting)
Assumed office
September 1, 2016
Preceded by Li Jinbin
Personal details
Born December 1963 (age 5253)
Yuzhou, Henan, China
Political party Communist Party of China
Alma mater North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power

Li Guoying (Chinese: 李国英; born December 1963) is a Chinese hydraulic engineer-turned-politician, currently serving as acting governor of Anhui province. 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

He was born in Yuzhou, Henan province. He studied hydroelectric power generation and engineering at North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Zhengzhou and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. He also had a graduate degree in philosophy from the Central Party School, then a doctorate from Northeast Normal University in environmental science.

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 of Anhui. He was then elevated to acting governor a year later, on September 1, 2016. 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.[2]

Li was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

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Government offices
Preceded by
Li Jinbin
Governor of Anhui
2016 – present
Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by
Li Jinbin
Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Anhui
2015 – present
Succeeded by
Xin Changxing
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