Liu Tianfu

Liu Tianfu
刘田夫
Governor of Guangdong
In office
March 1981 – April 1983
Preceded byXi Zhongxun
Succeeded byLiang Lingguang
Personal details
BornOctober 1908
Guang'an, Sichuan, Qing dynasty
Died21 April 2002(2002-04-21) (aged 93)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese劉田夫
Simplified Chinese刘田夫
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Tiánfū
Wade–GilesLiu T'ien-fu

Liu Tianfu (Chinese: 刘田夫; October 1908 – 21 April 2002) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician. He was a leader of the East River Column, an anti-Japanese guerrilla force in Guangdong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. From 1981 to 1983 he served as Governor of Guangdong, where he was a strong supporter of economic reform and worked to exonerate Guangdong cadres who had been unjustly punished during the "anti-localism movement" in the 1950s.