Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Ji'an, Jiangxi, China
About Yu Qiuli
- Yu Qiuli (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Yú Qiuli; 15 November 1914 – 3 February 1999) was vice prime minister of China from 1975 until 1982 and was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China.
- He was also a lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army, and served as Deputy Secretary-General of China's Central Military Commission and Director of the PLA General Political Department from 1982 to 1987. Yu Qiuli was one of the last of the Long March generation of Chinese leaders who survived the epic journey by Communist forces across China in the mid-1930s to become an important figure in the administrations of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
- Yu was a soldier-bureaucrat who founded China's modern oil industry and helped Deng modernise his army. By the time of his death, Yu had ceased to be one of the central figures in Chinese policy-making for more than a decade.
- But he had continued, like other former leaders of his generation, to keep up to date with state affairs by carrying out frequent inspection tours around the country.
- He was particularly involved in efforts to promote the economies of the former base areas of the Communist guerrilla armies, many of which are still mired in poverty.
Read more at Wikipedia