Liu Yandong

Liu Yandong (Chinese刘延东; * November 1945 in Nantong ( Jiangsu Province ) ) is a Chinese Communist politician, since 2007, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, since 2008 a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China and since 2013 second vice prime minister.

Liu is a graduate of Tsinghua University. After working in the Communist Youth League from 2002 to 2007 she was head of the United Front Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party from 2003 to 2008 and Vice -Chair of the Political Consultative Conference of the Chinese people.

2007-2012 Liu was the only female member of the Politburo. Previously this was since 2002 Wu Yi. Since 2012 belongs to Sun Chunlan, a second woman to the Politburo on.

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