| Liu Yandong 刘延东 |
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| State Councilor of the People's Republic of China | |
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| Assumed office March 17, 2008 |
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| Premier | Wen Jiabao |
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| Born | November 1945 Nantong, Jiangsu |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Political party | Communist Party of China |
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University |
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| Traditional Chinese | 劉延東 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘延东 | ||||||
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Liu Yandong (born November 1945) is an official of the Communist Party of China currently serving on the Politburo. She also holds the post of State Councilor. Since the retirement of Wu Yi, she has been the highest-ranked female politician in the Party, and the only woman with a seat on the Politburo.
A native of Nantong, Jiangsu, Liu graduated from Tsinghua University in 1970 with a degree in chemistry. Between 2002 and 2007, she served as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China, an organization that keeps non-Communist Chinese political parties in line with the general ideology of the Communist Party. Having long been an ally of President Hu Jintao and ascended from the ranks of the Communist Youth League, she entered the 17th Politburo of the Communist Party of China in 2007. At the 2008 National People's Congress she was elected State Councilor, and was not elected as a Vice-Premier. On April 13, 2009, Stony Brook University conferred Madame Liu Yandong with an Honorary Doctor of Laws.
| Preceded by Wang Zhaoguo |
Head of CPC United Front Work Department 2002 – 2007 |
Succeeded by Du Qinglin |
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