| Office1: | Chairman of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. | ||||||
| Term Start1: | 22 July 2022 | ||||||
| Term End1: | 22 October 2024 | ||||||
| Successor1: | Guo Zhuxue | ||||||
| Office2: | Director of the National Railway Administration | ||||||
| Term Start2: | November 2019 | ||||||
| Term End2: | July 2022 | ||||||
| Successor2: | Fei Dongbin | ||||||
| Liu Zhenfang | |||||||
| Native Name: | 刘振芳 | ||||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||||
| Birth Place: | Zhengding County, Hebei, China | ||||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
| Alma Mater: | Beijing Jiaotong University Tsinghua University | ||||||
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Liu Zhenfang (; born September 1961) is a Chinese senior executive and politician who served as chairman of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. from 2022 to 2024.
Liu is a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress..
Liu was born in Zhengding County, Hebei, in September 1961.[1] After resuming the college entrance examination, in 1979, he enrolled at Northern Jiaotong University (now Beijing Jiaotong University), where he majored in locomotive electric drive.[1] He obtained his master of engineering degree from Tsinghua University in July 2006.[1]
After university in 1983, Liu was assigned to Datong Branch of Beijing Railway Bureau, Ministry of Railways, where he had serve at every level and ultimately being appointed deputy director in April 2000.[1] Liu joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in March 1994.[1]
In December 2004, Liu became deputy director of Kunming Railway Bureau (now China Railway Kunming Group), rising to director in August 2011.[1] Liu was director of Nanchang Railway Bureau (now China Railway Nanchang Group) in January 2013 and subsequently director of Beijing Railway Bureau （now China Railway Beijing Group） in August 2014.[1]
Liu served as deputy general manager of China Railway Corporation (later was reshuffled as China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.) in December 2018, and eleven months later promoted to director of the National Railway Administration.[2] [1] [3] On 22 July 2022, he became chairman of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., a post he kept until October 2024, when he was replaced by Guo Zhuxue.[4]