Liu Yunshan

Liu Yunshan began his career as a schoolteacher in Inner Mongolia's Tuzuo Banner region and served as the chief of the Inner Mongolia branch of the Youth League, the young offshoot of the Communist Party, between 1982 and 1985. He became director of the Communist Party's Central Publicity Department and a member of the Politburo in 2002. He was promoted to the Politburo Standing Committee during the 18th Communist Party Congress in November 2012.

Liu Yunshan

3 Oct 2012

Member of the Politburo Standing Committee

Elevation of Liu Yunshan heightens censorship fears

17 Nov 2012

The elevation of top censor Liu Yunshan to the powerful Politburo Standing Committee this week worries some mainland journalists and activists who fear a tougher line on media and internet freedom...

China top censor’s new leadership role raises fears

16 Nov 2012

Chinese propaganda boss Liu Yunshan has risen to the country’s top leadership in what could be a perilous sign for online debate, critics said on Friday.

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Who's who: seven party heavyweights named to China's Politburo core

15 Nov 2012

China's top leadership committee was reduced from nine to seven members: Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, Zhang Gaoli.

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Liu Yunshan tipped to lead the Central Committee Secretariat

Communist Party propaganda chief Liu Yunshan is tipped to lead the Secretariat of the party's Central Committee - another victory for the conservatives in their efforts to gain control of the...

Top mainland press official Jiao Li dismissed amid corruption claims

Jiao Li , a former close aide to top Communist Party propaganda official Liu Yunshan , has been dismissed as deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publications (GAPP) in a...

Who said it?

If it is he who will oversee ideology, there will no longer be any hope

Dai Qing, an activist and friend of detained Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, on the promotion chances of propaganda chief...

HUMAN RIGHTS

Liu Xiaobo still hidden behind veil of silence two years after Nobel Prize

Two years after his Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo remains imprisoned, relatives are under house arrest or cowed into silence and, supporters say, the democratic change he sought seems further away...

Liu still China's invisible man two years after Nobel

Two years after his Nobel peace prize, Liu Xiaobo remains imprisoned, relatives are under house arrest and his supporters are cowed into silence.

Mainland propaganda chief Liu Yunshan eyes top party post

Liu Yunshan , head of the Communist Party's Publicity Department and widely tipped as a strong candidate for elevation to the Politburo Standing Committee, has spared no effort in touting...