Hui Liangyu
Hui Liangyu is vice premier in charge of China's rural and agricultural policies and serves as a member of the 17th CCP Central Committee Politburo. As a former leader of both wealthy Jiangsu and poor Anhui, Hui is experienced with China's wide income disparities. Hui is trained in agricultural economics.
Born in 1944 in Yushu County, Jilin, Hui is of the Hui minority. After graduating from the Business Administration Section of the Jilin Agricultural School in 1964 with a junior college degree, Hui joined the CCP in 1966. Hui began his career as a clerk at the Yushu Agricultural Bureau and the Personnel Supervision Bureau from 1964 to 1968, when he was assigned to two years of manual labor at the Yushu May 7th Cadre School.
From 1969 to 1972, Hui worked as clerk and deputy office head of the Yushu Revolutionary Committee Political Department. He then served on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) County Committee in his hometown as deputy head of the Organization Department and deputy secretary, as well as secretary of the Yujia People's Commune from 1972 to 1974, when he began a three-year position as Yushu deputy party secretary. He was deputy director general of the Jilin Provincial Agricultural Department and deputy director of Jilin's Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Department from 1977 to 1984.
Hui moved on to the position of deputy secretary of the CCP Committee in Baicheng prefecture during 1984-85, followed by membership on the Standing Committee of the Jilin CCP, and the directorships of Jilin's Rural Policy Research Center and the Jilin CCP's Rural Work Department from 1985 to 1987. At the same time, Hui took correspondence courses at the Jilin Provincial Party School where he majored in party and government studies.
In 1987, Hui was named a vice governor of Jilin, and in 1992, deputy director of the CCP Central Committee's Policy Research Center. Hui then served as deputy secretary of the Hubei CCP from 1992 to 1994 and was chair of Hubei's 7th CPPCC in 1993. In 1994, he was appointed governor and deputy party secretary of Anhui, serving in both positions until 1998, when he was named Anhui party secretary. He served as Jiangsu party secretary from 1999-2002.
Hui was an alternate member and member of the 14th and 15th CCP Central Committees, respectively, and was named to the 16th CCP Central Committee Politburo in November 2002. He was named vice premier in March 2003.