Liu Geping | |||||||||
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| Chairman of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region | |||||||||
| In office October 1958 – September 1960 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Xing Zhaotang | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Yang Jingren | ||||||||
| Chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of Shanxi | |||||||||
| In office March 1967 – April 1971 | |||||||||
| Preceded by | Wei Heng (as CCP First Secretary) | ||||||||
| Succeeded by | Xie Zhenhua | ||||||||
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| Born | 8 August 1904 Mengcun, Hebei, China | ||||||||
| Died | 11 March 1992 (aged 87) Beijing, China | ||||||||
| Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 劉格平 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 刘格平 | ||||||||
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Liu Geping (Chinese: 刘格平; 8 August 1904 – 11 March 1992) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and politician of Hui Muslim heritage. He is best known as the founding Chairman of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and later for seizing power in Shanxi during the Cultural Revolution, where he made himself the top leader of the province.
Liu spent his early days as a communist agitator, leading peasant uprisings and building the party organization in rural areas. A political survivor, he was arrested several times during the Warlord Era and served two prison terms. After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he held important roles in the party and government but was branded a traitor in 1960. He later returned to work, only to be purged again several years later during the Cultural Revolution. He was rehabilitated after the Cultural Revolution and spent the rest of his life in ceremonial positions.