Li Xuefeng

Li Xuefeng
李雪峰
Li on a state visit to Indonesia in 1965
2nd First Secretary of the CCP Beijing Committee
In office
May 1966 – April 1967
Preceded byPeng Zhen
Succeeded byXie Fuzhi
(As Head of the Beijing Revolutionary Committee)
Personal details
Born(1907-01-19)19 January 1907
Yongji County, Shanxi, China
Died15 March 2003(2003-03-15) (aged 96)
Beijing
Political partyChinese Communist Party

Li Xuefeng (Chinese: 李雪峰; pinyin: Lǐ Xuěfēng; Wade–Giles: Li Hsueh-feng; 19 January 1907 – 15 March 2003) was a Chinese Communist politician. He occupied several prominent regional offices prior to the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. In 1960 he became the first political commissar of the Beijing Military Region. He took over the Beijing party organization as its First Secretary after the purge of Peng Zhen in May 1966, and was sent to take the reins of Hebei's Revolutionary Committee between 1968 and 1971.[1][2] However, his support for Chen Boda during the 1971 Lushan Conference led him to be branded as a supporter of Lin Biao; he was purged and sent into internal exile in Anhui province for eight years. He was politically rehabilitated in 1982, and went on to serve in several advisory positions in the party.

  1. ^ Mackerras, Colin (2001-10-15). The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China. Cambridge University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-521-78674-4.
  2. ^ Walder, Andrew G. (2012-03-05). Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Harvard University Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-674-26818-0.