Liu Yandong, former Vice Premier and State Councilor of China, dies at 81

28 October 2026

Liu Yandong, who had served China as a Vice Premier and as a State Councilor, died of illness in Beijing at the age of 81. Xinhua carried the announcement and the central government's English portal reprinted it. Her party career took her into the Political Bureau, where she sat during the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and again during the 18th. Earlier she had been a vice chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in its 10th National Committee. Vice Premier and State Councilor are posts inside the State Council, the central people's government that the Premier heads. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is a different body, advisory in character, which gathers in Beijing each spring at the same time as the National People's Congress.