Li Changchun

Li Changchun
李长春
Chairman of the Central Guidance Commission for Building Spiritual Civilization
In office 15 November 2002 – 18 January 2013
Deputy	Liu Yunshan Chen Zhili Liu Yandong Liu Qi
General Secretary	Hu Jintao
Preceded by	Ding Guangen
Succeeded by	Liu Yunshan
Communist Party Secretary of Guangdong
In office March 1998 – November 2002
Deputy	Lu Ruihua (governor)
Preceded by	Xie Fei
Succeeded by	Zhang Dejiang
Personal details
Born	(1944-02-01) February 1, 1944 (age 80) Kwantung Leased Territory, Japanese Empire (Now Dalian, China)
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (1965–present)
Alma mater	Harbin Institute of Technology

Li Changchun (born February 1, 1944) is a retired Chinese politician and a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's top leadership council, and as the top official in charge of propaganda, between 2002 and 2012.^[1] He also served as Chairman of the CCP Central Guidance Commission for Building Spiritual Civilization, de facto head of propaganda and media relations. Li had a widely varying political career spanning three provinces, first as Governor of Liaoning, then Party Secretary of Henan, and then Party Secretary of Guangdong, before being promoted to the national leadership in 2002. He retired in 2012.