Li Xiannian
Xu Yongyue (; born July 1942) is a Chinese Communist Party senior official, who served as Minister of State Security from March 1998 to August 2007. Prior to that, he was private secretary (or "mishu") to Party Elder Chen Yun (the leading hard-liner in the CCP along with Li Xiannian) from 1983 to Chen's death in 1994.