Liu Zhijun

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Full Name	Liu Zhijun
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 29, 1953(1953-01-29)
Age	71
Birthplace	Ezhou
Country	China
Horoscope	Capricorn

Liu Zhijun Biography

Liu Zhijun is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 29, 1953 in Ezhou, China. Liu Zhijun, simplified Chinese: Liu Zhi Jun; traditional Chinese: Liu Zhi Jun; pinyin : Liu Zhijun; born 29th January 1953), is an ex-Chinese politician and Minister of Railway. Liu Zhijun was born to a peasant family and left school at the age of 14 to become a railway minister. After rising quickly within the Ministry, he was promoted to head the Railway Ministry in 2003. He also served as vice-minister and eventually headed several regional railway departments.

China criticized Liu for setting up a high-ranking position in the ministry for Liu Zhixiang’s brother. Liu Zhixiang, who was accused of embezzlement and bribe-taking, was detained in January 2005. He also arranged the murder of a contractor with intent to expose him. Liu Zhixiang had amassed a fortune of fifty million dollars (US), in cash, jewelry, real estate, and other art before he was arrested. Although he was sentenced to death for his crimes, this sentence was suspended and reduced by sixteen years to jail. He was then transferred to a hospital where he will serve the remainder of his sentence. He reportedly continued his rail business via phone while he was in hospital.

During his tenure, Liu’s ministry was criticized for its illegitimate business interests and relationships with large companies, its inability to improve conditions for migrant workers during the Chinese New Year travel season, its slow response to widespread winter storms in 2008, and its failures to prevent the 2008 train collision in Shandong and a smaller collision in Hunan a year later. In addition, Liu was personally subject to online criticism for his repeated marriages. Illegal subcontracting was a common practice throughout Liu’s tenure as head of the rail ministry, so that much of the staff who built the railway were poorly educated, trained, and supplied.

When China’s first high-speed rail system completed its first test-run in June 2008 it was 75 per cent over budget, but was hailed in the Chinese media as an achievement worthy of national pride. Liu described his achievement as having created a network with a comprehensive system involving indigenous Chinese intellectual property. He stated that China had created a high-speed railway system that had the “greatest comprehensive technology, best integrative ability, highest operational distance, fastest operational speed, and largest scale of construction” in the world. (In reality the rail system was largely based on German and Japanese designs). Shortly after Liu’s completion of China’s first high-speed rail line, in the autumn of 2008, the Chinese government more than doubled Liu’s ministry’s budget (as part of an effort to combat global recession), and gave him the responsibility laying ten thousand miles of high-speed rail track by 2020: five times the size of America’s first transcontinental route. By 2010 Liu’s budget was over one hundred billion dollars (US). In 2011, the American president, Barack Obama, cited Liu’s high- speed rail system as evidence that American infrastructure was no longer the best in the world.

Liu was promoted from vice-minister to Minister of Railways. He succeeded Fu Zhihuan, the then-Minister of Railways, as Minister of Railways at the National People’s Congress’ annual meeting in March 2003. The Ministry of Railways was China’s second-most powerful ministry (second only to the military) at the time Liu was appointed Minister of Railways. It was staffed by its own police, courts and judges and was able to spend billions of dollars on its budget. Liu was named minister and announced plans to significantly expand China’s railway system. He proposed building 7,500 miles more high- speed rail tracks than any other country. Liu’s plans were supported by the central government, who allocated Liu a budget in excess of two hundred fifty billion dollars over several years. Liu’s plan was the most well-funded public infrastructure project in the world since Ike Eisenhower, the American president, built the American Interstate Highway System back in the 1950s. Liu ordered the Railway Ministry employees to work 24 hours a day to finish China’s first high speed rail line before 2008 ended. He was known for his dictum that “To make a great leap, a whole generation must be sacrificed”, earning him the nickname “Great Leap Liu”. His work pace earned him the nickname “Lunatic Liu” from his critics. Liu was responsible for developing China’s high-speed railway system. He also managed the upgrades to China’s standard railroad system. Liu also managed the opening of Qinghai-Tibet Railway. However, he regarded China’s development of its high-speed train system as his favorite project.

Liu Zhijun Net Worth

Liu Zhijun is one of the richest Politician from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Liu Zhijun 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Liu was born Huarong in Hubei. His father was a farmer and he grew-up in Hunan. He left school as a teenager and became a low-ranking bureaucrat at the national ministry for railways. In August 1973, he joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a trusted letter-writer to some of his less- educated colleagues at the railway ministry. In 1974, he married into an politically connected family.

Liu graduated in July 1988 from the Party School of the CCP, a university that was established to train Party leaders. He majored in Marxist Philosophy. Liu went on to earn a master’s in Engineering at the Party School. Liu quickly rose through the ranks of rail ministry and served two terms as director of two regional railway bureaus in Liaoning, and Henan. In 2002, he was elected to the CCP Central Committee’s sixteenth Congress.

His dismissal was linked to an earlier corruption case involving Shanxi business magnate Ding Yuxin (former name Ding Shumiao) of Boyou Investment Management Group Ltd., a company whose portfolio benefited greatly from China’s rapid high-speed rail construction. Just prior to his dismissal Liu had traveled over 7,000 miles across China, from 30 January to 8 February, inspecting China’s railways in order to ensure smooth operations during the subsequent Chinese New Year travel season. His downfall came suddenly and unexpectedly. At the time of his dismissal, the international media considered Liu the highest-level Party official to be prosecuted for corruption since Chen Liangyu lost his post as Party Chief of Shanghai in 2006.

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As Railway Minister, Liu oversaw numerous expansions of China’s railway system, most notably the rapid development of China’s high-speed railway. He was a figure of national praise until February 2011, when he was arrested and expelled from the Party over allegations of corruption. After the Wenzhou train collision in July 2011, in which forty people died and one hundred and ninety-two people were injured, a government report singled out his leadership as one of the main contributors to the crash and he was publicly criticized.

Facts & Trivia

Liu Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Liu Zhijun celebrates birthday on January 29 of every year.

On 14 December 2015, Liu Zhijun’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The prison authorities said that he was expressing repentance and had committed no intentional offences during the reprieve period.