Li Ziliu
{{Short description|Chinese politician (1932–2022)}}
{{Family name hatnote|Li|lang=Chinese}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Li Ziliu
|image =File:Li_Ziliu_pic.jpg
|native_name = 黎子流
|nationality = Chinese
|order = 12th Mayor of Guangzhou
|term_start = 1990
|term_end = 1996
|predecessor = Yang Ziyuan
|successor = Lin Shusen
|office3 = Member of the National People's Congress
{{small|(7th & 8th)}}
|term_start3 = October 1988
|term_end3 = March 1998
|constituency3 = Guangdong
|birth_date = 4 January 1932
|birth_place = Shunde, Foshan, Guangdong, China
|death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|25|1932|1|4|df=yes}}
|death_place = Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
}}
Li Ziliu ({{zh|c=黎子流}}; January 4, 1932 – December 25, 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as Mayor of Guangzhou from 1990 to 1996.
Biography
Li was born in Shunde, Guangdong, Republic of China on January 4, 1932,{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lxflAAAAMAAJ&q=Li+Ziliu+Li+Ziliu+1932.1.4 |title=广州百科全书 |date=1994 |publisher=中国大百科全书出版社 |isbn=978-7-5000-5240-1 |language=zh}} to a peasant family and he studied for only two years in a primary school. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1953. During the Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1969, he was listed as "rightist", tortured by the Red Guards and sent to prison for two years. In 1974, Li was appointed the Communist Party Secretary of Shunde County. In 1983, he was appointed as the party secretary of Jiangmen City. During his term of service, he drove the construction of the bridge linking Jiangmen and Zhongshan to improve the city's transportation network. In 1990, he was appointed mayor of Guangzhou. He facilitated the construction of highways to Baiyun Airport and the Guangzhou Metro during his term of service.[http://www.asiancapital.org/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=90 黎子流：回归农业] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927224102/http://www.asiancapital.org/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=90 |date=2007-09-27 }}
After his retirement in 1996, Li established an agricultural company called Shunde New Century Farm in Shunde. Hence, certain property developers such as Henderson Land, New World Development, Sino Group and Ka Wah Group, which are all Hong Kong-based companies invested in the business.
Lai died of cardiovascular disease on December 25, 2022, at the age of 90.{{Cite news|author=周甫琦 |date=2022-12-25 |title=广州市原市长黎子流12月25日在广州逝世 |work=南方日报 |url=https://news.southcn.com/node_54a44f01a2/f3ce2795a6.shtml |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221225124721/https://news.southcn.com/node_54a44f01a2/f3ce2795a6.shtml |archivedate=2022-12-25}} Before his death, he was reported to have contracted COVID-19 on December 15.{{cite web | url=https://hk.finance.yahoo.com/news/%E5%BB%A3%E5%B7%9E%E5%B8%82%E5%89%8D%E5%B8%82%E9%95%B7%E9%BB%8E%E5%AD%90%E6%B5%81%E6%93%9A%E5%A0%B1%E5%9B%A0%E6%9F%93%E6%96%B0%E5%86%A0%E5%9C%A8%E5%AE%B6%E9%80%9D%E4%B8%96%E4%BA%AB%E5%B9%B491%E6%AD%B2-021254067.html | title=廣州市前市長黎子流據報因染新冠在家逝世享年91歲 | date=26 December 2022 }}
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Category:20th-century mayors of places in China
Category:Businesspeople from Guangdong
Category:Delegates to the 7th National People's Congress
Category:Delegates to the 8th National People's Congress