Chairman of the Communist Party of China
Liu Shaoqi ( ; 24 November 189812 November 1969) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, and theorist. He was Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee from 1954 to 1959, First Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1956 to 1966 and Chairman of the People's Republic of China, the "de jure" head of state, from 1959 to 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China.