Member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China's Politburo from 2002 to 2012, in charge of propaganda and ideology, after serving as party secretary of Henan and then of Guangdong.
Li Changchun was a Politburo Standing Committee member of the 16th and 17th Central Committees.
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His given name 长春, 'everlasting spring', is also the name of Jilin's capital, and 长 is read cháng here, not zhǎng. He trained as an electrical engineer before entering politics.