Liu Lantao (Chinese:刘澜涛; 17 November 1910 – 31 December 1997) male, born inMizhi,Shaanxi Province, was a senior leader of theChinese Communist Party (CCP) and thePeople's Republic of China. He was a member of the Standing Committee of theCentral Advisory Committee, vice-chairman of the fourth, fifth and sixthChinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, alternate secretary of the eighth Secretariat of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and deputy secretary of the Central Supervision Commission.
Liu was born inShaanxi Province in 1910.[1] After participating in theMay Thirtieth Movement of 1925 at the age of 14, Liu joined theCommunist Youth League of China in 1926 and theChinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1928 at the age of 17. Liu and fellow communistLiu Zhidan organized a resistance movement to theKuomintang in northern Shaanxi. In August 1930, Liu was captured and imprisoned. After his release, he went toHebei Province, where he was betrayed, captured a second time and imprisoned inBeiping alongsideAn Ziwen andBo Yibo. In September 1936, he was rescued from prison by the underground organization of the CCP and dispatched to the Suidong area to carry out work against theEmpire of Japan. Due to being wanted by thegovernment of the Republic of China, he was transferred to the position of Deputy Secretary of theTianjin Municipal Committee of the CCP.[2][better source needed]
At the start of theSecond Sino-Japanese War, Liu Lantao returned to theShaan Gan Ning Border Region and successively served as the Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Shaan Gan Ning Special Zone Party Committee, Secretary of the Suide Special Committee of the CCP, and Minister of United Front Work;In 1938, he was transferred to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, and successively served as the secretary of the Party Committee ofBeiyue District of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei, deputy secretary of the Central Committee of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Branch, and deputy political commissar of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, assistedPeng Zhen andNie Rongzhen, and participated in leading the construction of anti-Japanese base areas in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and the anti-" mopping up "struggle.[2][better source needed]
In May 1948, the Central Bureau of Shanxi-Hebei was merged with the Central Bureau ofShanxi,Hebei,Shandong andHenan, and was reorganized into the North China Bureau of the CCP Central Committee. Liu Lantao served as the Standing Committee member of the North China Bureau, the director of theOrganization Department and the president of theParty School, and was promoted to thedeputy secretary of the North China Bureau, the third secretary of the North China Bureau, the deputy political commissar of the North China Military Region, and the president of the newly established North China People's Revolutionary University.[2][better source needed]
After the establishment ofthe People's Republic of China, Liu Lantao also served as the Minister of North China Affairs of theCentral People's Government, Chairman of the North ChinaAdministrative Committee of the Central People's Government, and member of the National Planning Commission of the Central People's Government; In November 1951, Liu Lantao submitted a report on the serious criminal facts of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan to the central government.[2][better source needed]
In 1954, after the revocation of the Great Administrative Region, Liu Lantao was appointed as the DeputyGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, assistingDeng Xiaoping, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, in his work. In September of that year, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the FirstNational People's Congress and chairman of the Budget Committee.[2][better source needed]
In June 1983, he was re-elected Vice chairman of the sixth CPPCC National Committee. He died inBeijing on December 31, 1997, at the age of 88.[1][2]