Wan Li

Wan Li
万里
5th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
In office 13 April 1988 – 27 March 1993
Preceded by	Peng Zhen
Succeeded by	Qiao Shi
4th First Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
In office 6 June 1983 – 25 March 1988
Premier	Zhao Ziyang Li Peng
Preceded by	Deng Xiaoping
Succeeded by	Yao Yilin
3rd Minister of Railways
In office January 1975 – December 1976
Preceded by	Lü Zhengcao
Succeeded by	Duan Junyi
Personal details
Born	(1916-12-01)1 December 1916 Dongping County, Shandong, China
Died	15 July 2015(2015-07-15) (aged 98) Beijing, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party (joined in 1936)
Spouse	Bian Tao (邊濤)
Children	5, including Wan Jifei
Relatives	Wan Bao Bao (grandchild)[1]

Wan Li^[a] (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician.^[2] During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretariat and its Politburo. Wan joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1936 and led revolutionary and wartime resistance activities in his native Shandong province. After the founding of the communist state in 1949, Wan served in a series of government ministries, then worked as a member of the municipal leadership in Beijing. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, but was eventually rehabilitated and returned to work as party chief of Anhui province, where he led the implementation of successful agrarian reforms centered on the household-responsibility system. In the 1980s, Wan became one of the leading moderate reformers in China's top leadership, advocating for constitutional reforms, the strengthening of legislative institutions, and the abolition of 'lifelong-terms' of top political leaders. He was named head of the national legislature (i.e., the NPC) in 1988. He retired in 1993.

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