| Office1: | Communist Party Secretary of Hengyang | ||||
| Term Start1: | March 2013 | ||||
| Term End1: | March 2016 | ||||
| Predecessor1: | Zhang Wenxiong | ||||
| Successor1: | Zhou Nong | ||||
| Office2: | Communist Party Secretary of Huaihua | ||||
| Term Start2: | March 2008 | ||||
| Term End2: | March 2013 | ||||
| Predecessor2: | Liu Lianyu | ||||
| Successor2: | Zhang Ziyin | ||||
| Office3: | Mayor of Huaihua | ||||
| Term Start3: | January 2007 | ||||
| Term End3: | June 2008 | ||||
| Predecessor3: | Chen Zhiqiang | ||||
| Successor3: | Yi Pengfei | ||||
| Office4: | Communist Party Secretary of Liuyang | ||||
| Term Start4: | September 2002 | ||||
| Term End4: | April 2006 | ||||
| Predecessor4: | Yuan Guanqing | ||||
| Successor4: | Yi Jialiang | ||||
| Li Yilong | |||||
| Native Name: | 李亿龙 | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||
| Birth Place: | Wangcheng County, Hunan, China | ||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party (1986–2016; expelled) | ||||
| Alma Mater: | Zhongnan University of Economics and Law | ||||
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Li Yilong (; born June 1956) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in central China's Hunan province.[1] He was investigated by the Chinese Communist Party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection 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" for vigorously develop urban construction during his term in office.[2]
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 Chinese Communist Party Committee 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.[3] [4] 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 Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
On September 23, 2016, he was detained by the Hunan Provincial People's Procuratorate. On November 23, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party and dismissed from public office.[5]
On August 11, 2017, he was indicted on suspicion of accepting bribes, corruption, abusing his powers, and holding a huge amount of property with unidentified sources.
On January 15, 2018, he was sentenced to 18 years for accepting bribes, holding a huge amount of property from an unidentified source and abusing his power by the Loudi Intermediate People's Court.[6] His wife Yang Lan was sentenced to 3 years for accepting bribes.[6] [7]
Li married Yang Lan (; born 12 April 1968), who served as a section member in Changsha Municipal Government before detaining by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).[6]