| Office: | Director of the National Administration of Financial Regulation | ||||||
| Term Start: | 19 May 2023 | ||||||
| Premier: | Li Qiang | ||||||
| Predecessor: | Office established (Guo Shuqing as Chairman of CBIRC) | ||||||
| Office1: | Executive Vice Governor of Sichuan | ||||||
| Term Start1: | May 2022 | ||||||
| Term End1: | 25 May 2023 | ||||||
| Governor1: | Huang Qiang | ||||||
| Predecessor1: | Luo Wen | ||||||
| Li Yunze | |||||||
| Native Name: | 李云泽 | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Yantai, Shandong, China | ||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | Tianjin University Peking University Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | ||||||
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Li Yunze (; born September 1970) is a Chinese state banker and politician currently serving as the Director of the National Administration of Financial Regulation. He served as a vice governor of Sichuan from 2018 to 2023.
Li was born in Yantai, Shandong, in September 1970.[1] In 1989, he entered Tianjin University, where he majored in infrastructure management and Marxism.[1] He also received his MBA from Peking University in 2010 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in August 2016.[1]
After attending university in 1993, Li was assigned to the Tianjin Heping Branch of the People's Construction Bank of China (now China Construction Bank).[1] He joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 2001. He was named an assistant governor of the Tianjin Branch in September 2003.[1] He moved up the ranks to become vice governor in June 2005 — and governor in March 2015 — of the Chongqing Branch of China Construction Bank.[1] In June 2017, he was moved to the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and was appointed as a vice governor of the bank.[1]
He was appointed vice governor of Sichuan in September 2018. In May 2021, he was admitted to the Standing Committee of the CCP Sichuan Provincial Committee, the province's top authority.[1] [2] In May 2022, he was appointed executive vice governor of Sichuan.
He was a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and an is an alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[3] [4]
On 10 May 2023, Li was appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of the National Administration of Financial Regulation (NAFR), China's new top financial regulator.[5] On 19 May, he was appointed as its director.[6] He is the first ministerial-level leader born in the 1970s.[7] [8]