Liu Huiyan

Liu Huiyan
刘慧晏
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning People's Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2024
Minister of the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party Liaoning Provincial Committee
In office November 2020 – September 2024
Vice Governor of Yunnan
In office August 2012 – December 2016
Personal details
Born	June 1964 (age 61–62) Zhaoyuan, Shandong, China
Party	Chinese Communist Party

Liu Huiyan (born June 1964, Chinese: 刘慧晏), from Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, is a Chinese political figure. He graduated from the Department of Plant Protection at Shandong Agricultural College, possesses a master's degree in Natural Dialectics from the Institute of Natural Science History at East China Normal University, and holds a doctoral degree in Ancient Chinese Literature from the College of Letters at Shandong University.

Biography

Shandong

In September 1980, he enrolled in the Department of Plant Protection at Shandong Agricultural College. In July 1984, he attended the Institute of Natural Dialectics and History of Natural Science at East China Normal University, where he earned a master's degree in philosophy. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1987 and commenced his teaching career in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Letters at Qingdao University in July 1987. In June 1992, he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the College of Letters, Qingdao University. In October 1994, he advanced to associate professor in the same department. Subsequently, in December 1994, he assumed the role of deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee at Qingdao University, followed by his appointment as secretary of the Youth League Committee in June 1996. In April 1998, he became the secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League. In January 2001, he assumed the role of Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League.

In June 2002, he was appointed deputy secretary of the Zibo Municipal Committee of the CCP and mayor of Zibo, during which he attended a one-year training course for young and middle-aged cadres at the Party School of the Central Committee from March 2006 to January 2007. In February 2007, he assumed the role of secretary of the CCP Zibo Municipal Committee and president of the Municipal Party School of the CCP.

Yunnan

In August 2012, he assumed the role of vice governor and joined the party group of the Yunnan Provincial People's Government. In December 2016, he was appointed to the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. In March 2017, he was simultaneously appointed as secretary-general of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Provincial Working Committee of the Provincial Organs. In November 2020, he was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and as the head of its Publicity Department.

Liaoning

In January 2024, he was appointed as the deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress. As of September 2, 2024, no longer concurrently serves as the minister of the Publicity Department of the Liaoning Provincial Committee.