Li Ganjie | |
Native Name: | Chinese: {{nobold|李干杰 |
Office: | Head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party |
Term Start: | 26 April 2023 |
Deputy: | Jiang Xinzhi (executive) |
1Namedata: | Xi Jinping |
Predecessor: | Chen Xi |
Office1: | Communist Party Secretary of Shandong |
Term Start1: | 30 September 2021 |
Term End1: | 29 December 2022 |
Predecessor1: | Liu Jiayi |
Successor1: | Lin Wu |
Deputy1: | Zhou Naixiang (Governor) |
Office2: | Governor of Shandong |
Term Start2: | 17 April 2020 |
Term End2: | 30 September 2021 |
1Namedata2: | Liu Jiayi |
Predecessor2: | Gong Zheng |
Successor2: | Zhou Naixiang |
Office3: | Minister of Ecology and Environment |
Term Start3: | 19 March 2018 |
Term End3: | 29 April 2020 |
Predecessor3: | Himself (as Minister of Environmental Protection) |
Successor3: | Huang Runqiu |
Premier3: | Li Keqiang |
Office4: | Minister of Environmental Protection |
Term Start4: | 27 June 2017 |
Term End4: | 19 March 2018 |
Predecessor4: | Chen Jining |
Successor4: | Himself (as Minister of Ecology and Environment) |
Premier4: | Li Keqiang |
Birth Date: | 11 November 1964 |
Birth Place: | Wangcheng County, Hunan |
Party: | Chinese Communist Party |
Alma Mater: | Tsinghua University |
Li Ganjie (; born 11 November 1964) is a Chinese politician serving as the head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is a member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and a secretary of the 20th Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party. He has previously served as head of the National Nuclear Safety Administration, deputy party secretary of Hebei, the Minister of Ecology and Environment (previously as the Minister of Environmental Protection) from 2017 to 2020, and the Communist Party Secretary of Shandong from 2021 to 2022.
Li was born in Wangcheng County, Hunan province. He joined the CCP in 1984, while attending Tsinghua University, where he studied industrial physics and nuclear safety. He has a master's degree in engineering. In July 1989, after completing graduate studies, he became an engineer at the National Nuclear Safety Administration's Beijing office. Between September 1991 and January 1993, he studied in France.
Between March 1993 and July 1998, he took on a series of successively senior roles at the Nuclear Safety Administration. In 1998 he was sent as a guazhi deputy party secretary of Pingjiang County, Hunan.
In January 1999, Li began working at the office of the Chinese Ambassador to France, specializing in technology affairs. In July 2000, he was transferred to the State Administration for Environmental Protection (SEPA, later established as a ministry). He then took on a series of leading positions specializing in nuclear safety, eventually rising to head of the National Nuclear Safety Administration in December 2006. In March 2008, after reforms, Li took on the concurrent post of Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection.[1]
In October 2016, Li was transferred to become Deputy Party Secretary of Hebei province.[2]
In June 2017, Li was named Minister of Environmental Protection. At the time of his appointment he was the youngest member of the ministerial level officials of the State Council.[3]
In April 2020, Li was appointed as the acting Governor of Shandong Province. He was elected as the governor in July.[4]
In October 2022, Li was elected to the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. He is the youngest member of the Politburo. In April 2023, Li assumed the office of the head of the CCP's Organization Department, succeeding Chen Xi.[5]