Li Guoying

Minister of Water ResourcesAssumed office
February 28, 2021PremierLi Keqiang
Li QiangPreceded byE JingpingGovernor of AnhuiIn office
September 1, 2016 – February 1, 2021Preceded byLi JinbinSucceeded byWang Qingxian Personal detailsBornDecember 1963 (age 60)
Yuzhou, Henan, ChinaPolitical partyChinese Communist PartyAlma materNorth China University of Water Conservancy and Electric PowerChinese nameTraditional Chinese李國英Simplified Chinese李国英

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Lǐ Guóyīng

Li Guoying (Chinese: 李国英; born December 1963) is a Chinese politician, currently serving as the minister of water resources. He was previously the governor of Anhui province. A hydraulic engineer by profession, Li worked in his early career as a technician and administrator in the national ministry of water works, the Yellow River Commission, and in Heilongjiang province. He was transferred to Anhui in 2015 to serve as deputy party chief before becoming acting governor in 2016.

Biography

He was born in Yuzhou, Henan province. He studied hydroelectric power generation and engineering at North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in Zhengzhou and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1984. He also had a graduate degree in philosophy from the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, then a doctorate from Northeast Normal University in environmental science.^{[citation needed]}

After graduating university, Li worked for the Yellow River commission of the Ministry of Water Works as a survey technician for the planning and research department. He spent most of his career in the water works system, as the assistant to the chief engineer, then the deputy director of the Yellow River commission, then chief engineer of the national Ministry of Waterworks. He was then transferred in May 1999 to head the department of water works in Heilongjiang.^[1]

In March 2011, he was named Vice Minister of Water Works and chairman of the Yellow River Commission; he stayed on the post until August 2015, when he was named deputy party chief of Anhui. He was then elevated to acting governor a year later, on September 1, 2016.^{[citation needed]} His elevation confirmed trends that the senior Communist Party leadership was again showing preference for engineering and technical backgrounds over lifelong apparatchiks. At the time of his appointment Li, 52, was the second youngest governor in China. He was confirmed as governor in a legislative session on January 21, 2017.^[2]

Li was an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and was a full member of the 19th Central Committee.^{[citation needed]}

References

Government offices
Preceded by Zhu Erming	Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Water Resources 1998–1999	Succeeded by Gao Anze
Preceded by Feng Zhaoying	Head of Heilongjiang Provincial Water Resources Department 1999–2001	Succeeded by Xiao You
Preceded by E Jingping	Director of Yellow River Conservancy Commission 2001–2011	Succeeded by Chen Xiaojiang
Preceded by Li Jinbin	Governor of Anhui 2016–2021	Succeeded by Wang Qingxian
Preceded by E Jingping	Minister of Water Resources 2021–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Li Jinbin	Deputy Communist Party Secretary of Anhui 2015–2016	Succeeded by Xin Changxing