Li Ziliu born in January, 1932 in Shunde

Shunde

Shunde District is a district of Foshan prefecture-level city in the Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, southeast China.-Administration:Shunde was a county-level city until December 8, 2002, when it became a district of Foshan prefecture-level city...

, Guangdong

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, China

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, was a former Mayor

Mayor

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 of Guangzhou

Guangzhou

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, serving from 1990 to 1997. He was born in a farm

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 family and he studied for only 2 years in a primary school.

Li joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1953. During the Cultural Revolution

Cultural Revolution

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 between 1966 and 1969, he was listed as "rightist", tortured by Red Guards

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 and sent to prison

Prison

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 for 2 years. In 1974, Li was appointed to be the chief secretary

Chief Secretary

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 of Shunde County. In 1983, he was appointed to be the chief secretary of Jiangmen

Jiangmen

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 City. During his term of service, he drove the construction of the bridge

Bridge

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 linking between Jiangmen and Zhongshan

Zhongshan

Zhongshan , also spelled Chungshan and historically known as Xiangshan or Siangshan, is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province in southern China. Zhongshan, one of the few cities in China with an eponymous name, is named after Dr. Sun Yat-sen who was...

 to improve the city's transportation network. In 1990, he was appointed to be Mayor of Guangzhou. He facilitated the constructions of highways to Baiyun Airport and the Guangzhou Metro

Guangzhou Metro

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 during his term of service.

After his retirement in 1997, Li established an agricultural enterprise called Shunde New Century Farm in his native place, Shunde. Henderson Land, New World Development

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, Sino Group

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 and Ka Wah Group in Hong Kong also participate the investment.