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Chinese politician, member of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) Politburo from 1956. He
fell from favour during the 1966-69 Cultural
Revolution, but was rehabilitated as finance
minister 1973, supporting cautious economic
reform. He was state president 1983-88. Li,
born into a poor peasant family in Hubei
province, joined the CCP 1927 and served as a
political commissar during the Long March of
1934-36. During the 1950s and early 1960s Li
was vice premier to the State Council and
minister for finance and was inducted into
the CCP Politburo and secretariat in 1956 and
1958 respectively. He retains a seat on the
Politburo's standing committee and chairs the
Chinese People's Political Consultative
Conference.