Liu Weiping

Liu Weiping (Chinese: 刘伟平; born May 1953) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He is the Governor of Gansu province and a former Vice-Governor of Qinghai province.^[1][2][3]

Career

Aeronautical industry

Liu Weiping is a native of Fujin, Heilongjiang province. He entered the work force in 1968 as a rusticated youth in Nanchang County, Jiangxi province, and in 1970 started working at the Hongdu Machinery Building Factory (now called Hongdu Aviation Industry Group) under the then Ministry of Aerospace Industry.^[2][3]

In 1972 Liu Weiping enrolled at the Nanjing Institute of Aeronautics (now Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) in Nanjing, studying aircraft design. He joined the Communist Party of China in January 1974. After college he returned to the Hongdu Machinery Building Factory in 1976, working for its design institute.^[2][3]

Government

In 1986 Liu was transferred to the provincial government of Jiangxi, rising through the ranks to become Mayor of Nanchang, the provincial capital, in 1995.^[2][3] From 1998 to 2001 he was trained in the part-time postgraduate program of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, where he obtained a master's degree in Economics.^[1][2][3]

In July 2001 Liu Weiping was transferred to distant Qinghai province to become its Vice-Governor, rising to Deputy Communist Party Chief in August 2004. In December 2006 he was transferred again to the same position in neighbouring Gansu province. In July 2010 Liu was appointed Acting Governor of Gansu, and on 18 January 2011 he was elected Governor by the Gansu Provincial Congress. In January 2013 Liu was reelected Governor of Gansu.^[1][2][3]

Liu was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee, and is a full member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.^[1][2][3]

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