Liu Huaqiu
刘华秋
Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Leading Group
In office
November 1994 – April 2005
General SecretaryJiang Zemin
Hu Jintao
Foreign MinisterQian Qichen
Tang Jiaxuan
Li Zhaoxing
Preceded byQi Huaiyuan
Succeeded byDai Bingguo
Personal details
BornNovember 1939 (1939-11)
Wuchuan County, Guangdong, China
Died (aged 82)
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materChina Foreign Affairs University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese刘华秋
Traditional Chinese劉華秋

Liu Huaqiu (Chinese: 刘华秋; November 1939 – 18 November 2022)[1] was a Chinese politician. He was a representative of the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was an alternate member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2] He was a member of the 15th and 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[2] He was a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[2]

Biography

Liu was born in Wuchuan County (now Wuchuan), Guangdong, in November 1939.[2] In 1965, he graduated from China Foreign Affairs University and joined the Chinese Communist Party in that same year.[2] He joined the Foreign Service after university. In September 1989, he was elevated to vice minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for the Americas and Oceania.[2] He also served as director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee (later reshuffled as Central Foreign Affairs Office and then Office of the Central Leading Group for Foreign Affairs and Office of the Central Leading Group for National Security) between November 1994 and April 2005.[2][3] In February 2005, he took office as vice chairperson of Foreign Affairs Committee of the 10th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[4]

Liu died from COVID-19 in 2022.

References

  1. ^ 中央外事办原主任刘华秋逝世，享年83岁 (in Chinese)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g 刘华秋简历. chinanews.com.cn (in Chinese). 20 May 2002. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  3. ^ 刘华秋撰文称2004年国际形势稳中有乱、稳大于乱. sina (in Chinese). 3 January 2005. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  4. ^ 图文：全国政协外事委员会副主任刘华秋在演讲. sina (in Chinese). 28 August 2005. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
Party political offices Preceded byQi Huaiyuan Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Working Committee 1994–2005 Succeeded byDai Bingguo
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