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Li Xiannian Image:LiXiannan.jpg|150px|Li Xiannian Chinese language|Chinese 李先念 Hanyu Pinyin Lǐ Xiānni?n Wade-Giles Li Hsien-nien Order 1st President of the People's Republic of China|President Term of Office June 18, 1983?April 8, 1988 Predecessor ? Successor Yang Shangkun Date of Birth 1902 Date of Death June 21, 1992 Place of Birth Hong'an, Hubei, China Wife ? Political party|Political Party Communist Party of China|Communist

Lǐ Xiānni?n (1902?June 21, 1992) was President of the People's Republic of China between 1983 and 1988 and then president of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference until his death. Li joined the Communist Party of China|Chinese Communist Party in 1927, and served as an army captain and political commissar for the Chinese Red Army during the Long March. He was an influential political figure throughout the PRC, having been a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since 1956. He fell from favour after the Cultural Revolution but was made finance minister in 1973 by Zhou Enlai, and started early moves to a market-based economy. For some years he was a deputy prime minister.

He was the father-in-law of Jiang Zemin.

He is considered as one of the Eight Immortals of Communist China.

Image:LiXiannianGala.jpg|300px|thumb|Li Xiannian greets a delegation from Zambia, 1981

Preceded by: Liu Shaoqi (position vacant since 1969)

President of the People's Republic of China 1983-1988

Followed by: Yang Shangkun

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