Li Changchun (simplified Chinese: 李长春; traditional Chinese: 李長春; pinyin: Lǐ Chángchūn; born February 1944) is the Propaganda chief of the Communist Party of China.[1] He is the 5th ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's de facto top power organ, and has been a member since 2002. Previously he had served in Liaoning and Henan.
Biography
Li Changchun was born in February 1944 at
Dalian in Liaoning. He joined the
Communist Party of China in 1965 and graduated with a degree in
electrical engineering from the
Harbin Institute of Technology in 1966.
[2] In 1983, at age 39, he became the youngest mayor and Party secretary of a major city, of
Shenyang, the capital of
Liaoning. In 1987, he became governor of the province, a post he kept until 1990. As governor,
mainland China's first
expressway was built in the province, linking the cities of
Shenyang and
Dalian.
[3] Li served briefly as the Party chief in the agricultural province of
Henan in the 1990s.
[3] Jiang Zemin sent him to serve as
Guangdong Party Secretary, where he cracked down on
corruption to 'put the house in order'.
[4] Li, again the youngest ever member, was promoted to the
Politburo of the Communist Party of Chinain 1998, and made a member of its Standing Committee after
General Secretary Jiang Zemin's retirement in 2002.
[5] He contributes heavily to China's censorship campaign of propaganda and frequently orders media to downplay or not report on certain events. He currently holds no other official position.
[edit]Controversy from leaked diplomatic cables by Wikileaks
In December 2010, one of the
leaked United States diplomatic cables quoted a contact that claimed Li Changchun and fellow Politburo Standing Committee member
Zhou Yongkang oversaw Beijing's cyber attack against Google.
[6] However, such claim has been called into question, as according to
The New York Times, the person who was cited in the cable describing Li's involvement in the campaign against Google’s Chinese operations denied knowing who had directed the hacking attack.
[7] He described a campaign coordinated by the Propaganda Department’s director, Liu Yunshan, and, in several occasions, Li and Zhou issued approvals. But he "had no direct knowledge linking them to the hacking attack aimed at securing commercial secrets or dissidents’ e-mail accounts".
According to another leaked cable, Li was taken aback to discover that he could conduct Chinese-language searches on Google’s main international Web site. When Li typed his name into the search engine at google.com, he found "results critical of him."
[6] James Fallows of The Atlantic questioned the accuracy of such claim. He noted "[e]ven the author of the State Department cable is careful to say that the U.S. government cannot confirm the report".
[7]
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