Liu Mingzu

{{Short description|Chinese politician}}

{{Family name hatnote|Liu|lang=Chinese}}

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| office1 = Chairperson of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee

| term_start1 = March 2003

| term_end1 = March 2008

| predecessor1 = Gao Dezhan

| successor1 = {{ill|Wang Yunlong|zh|王云龙 (1945年)}}

| office2 = Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia

| term_start2 = August 1994

| term_end2 = August 2001

| predecessor2 = Wang Qun

| successor2 = Chu Bo

| office3 = Chairperson of Inner Mongolia Regional People's Congress

| term_start3 = January 1997

| term_end3 = January 2003

| predecessor3 = Wang Qun

| successor3 = Chu Bo

| office4 = Chairperson of Guangxi Regional People's Congress

| term_start4 = January 1993

| term_end4 = January 1995

| predecessor4 = Gan Ku

| successor4 = Zhao Fulin

| name = Liu Mingzu

| native_name = {{nobold|刘明祖}}

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| birth_date = September 1936

| birth_place = Weihai, Shandong, China

| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|12|28|1936|09|df=yes}}

| death_place = Weihai, Shandong, China

| party = Chinese Communist Party

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| p = Liú Míngzǔ

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Liu Mingzu ({{zh|s=刘明祖|p=Liú Míngzǔ}}; September 1936 – 28 December 2022) was a regional Chinese politician. He served as the Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia, therefore the top leader of the region, from 1994 to 2001, and before that, the deputy party chief of Guangxi, also an autonomous region.{{cite news|title=刘明祖|url=http://www.sd.xinhuanet.com/wq/2008-01/02/content_12103396.htm|agency=Xinhua|date=January 2, 2008|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924114921/http://www.sd.xinhuanet.com/wq/2008-01/02/content_12103396.htm|archivedate=September 24, 2015}}

Liu was born in the rural outskirts of Weihai, Shandong province, in what is present-day Huancui District; he went to Dalian with his mother to reunite with his father there. Liu joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1959, and spent his early career in various incarnations of the Weihai municipal office before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution. In 1986 he was named prefecture party chief of Linyi, Shandong. In 1988 he was transferred to become deputy party chief of Guangxi, then in 1993 also became chair of the regional People's Congress. He was then transferred to Inner Mongolia.{{cite web | title=中共内蒙古自治区委书记刘明祖简历 | website=新闻中心首页_新浪网 | date=2000-06-30 | url=https://news.sina.com.cn/c/184937.html?from=wap | language=zh | access-date=2025-01-20}} After his retirement from active 'frontline' politics, he was named chair of the National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee in 2003, where he served one term, before leaving politics for good.

Liu was an alternate member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a full member of the 15th Central Committee.

He died on December 28, 2022 at the age of 86 in Weihai, Shandong Province after a long illness.{{cite web | title=劉明祖同志逝世--時政--人民網 | website=politics.people.com.cn | date=2023-01-14 | url=http://politics.people.com.cn/BIG5/n1/2023/0114/c1001-32606356.html | language=zh | access-date=2025-01-20}}