Preceded by Zhang Wenxiong Preceded by Liu Lianyu Preceded by Chen Zhiqiang Party Communist Party of China | Succeeded by Zhou Nong Succeeded by Zhang Ziyin Succeeded by Yi Pengfei | |
Education Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | ||
Li Yilong (simplified Chinese: 李亿龙; traditional Chinese: 李億龍; pinyin: Lǐ Yìlóng; born June 1956) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in central China's Hunan province. He was investigated by the Communist Party of China's anti-graft agency in April 2016. Previously he served as the deputy director of Hunan Provincial Rural Work Leading Group.
Li Yilong is nicknamed "Mayor of Constructing Cities" (造城市长) for vigorously develop urban construction during his term in office.
Biography
Born in Wangcheng County of Changsha, Hunan in June 1956, Li Yilong graduated from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in 1988. He was a sent-down youth during the Down to the Countryside Movement.
He served in various posts in Changsha People's Government before serving as Communist Party Secretary of Liuyang, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Changsha, in 2002. He was mayor of Huaihua from January 2007 to June 2008, and Communist Party Secretary, the top political position in the city, from March 2008 to March 2013. Then he was transferred to Hengyang and appointed the Communist Party Secretary there. In March 2016, he was named deputy director of Hunan Provincial Rural Work Leading Group, but having held the position for only one month, while he was placed under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency.