Liu Yunshan, ethnic Han from Xinzhou, Shanxi Province, born in July 1947. He joined the CPC in April 1971, with a university education at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of its Secretariat and head of its Publicity Department.

1964-68: Student, Jining Teachers' College, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

1968-69: Teacher, Bashi School, Tumd Left Banner; and worker, Sobugai Commune, Tumd Right Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

1969-75: Administrative secretary, Publicity Department, CPC Tumd Right Banner Committee, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

1975-82: Reporter and deputy chief, Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Section; member, Leading Party Members' Group of Inner Mongolia Bureau of Xinhua News Agency (March-August 1981: Student, Party School of the CPC Central Committee)

1982-84: Deputy Secretary of the CYL Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee and its Leading Party Members' Group

1984-86: Deputy head, Publicity Department, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

1986-87: Member, Standing Committee and head, Publicity Department of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

1987-91: Member, Standing Committee and Secretary General of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee; Secretary, Working Committee of the Organs Directly under the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee

1991-92: Member, Standing Committee, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee; Secretary, CPC Chifeng Municipal Committee

1992-93: Deputy Secretary, CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Committee; and concurrently Secretary, CPC Chifeng Municipal Committee (1989-92: Student of Party and government administration, Correspondence School, Party School of the CPC Central Committee)

1993-97: Deputy head, Publicity Department, CPC Central Committee

1997-2002: Deputy head, Publicity Department, CPC Central Committee (October 1997, ministerial level); head, General Office, Central Commission for Guiding Cultural and Ethical Progress

2002-12: Member, Political Bureau; member, Secretariat; and head, Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee