Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Li Xiannian (1902 - 1992; Wade-Giles: Li Hsien-nien) was President of the People's Republic of China between 1983 and 1988 and then president of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference until his death. He was an influential political figure throughout the PRC, having been a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party since 1956. He fell from favour after the Cultural Revolution but was made finance minister in 1973, and started early moves to a market-based economy. For some years he was a deputy prime minister. He was the father-in-law of Jiang Zemin. He is considered as one of the Eight Immortals of Communist China. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.