predecessor successor nationality ethnicity order term_start article_title term_end name
yang ziyuan lin shusen chinese han chinese 12th mayor of guangzhou 1990 li ziliu
 1996 li ziliu 黎子流
li ziliu

li ziliu -lrb- traditional chinese : 黎子流 , simplified chinese : 黎子流 -rrb- , born in january , 1932 in shunde , guangdong , china , was a former mayor of guangzhou , serving from 1990 to 1997 .
he was born in a farm family and he studied for only 2 years in a primary school .
li joined the chinese communist party in 1953 .
during the cultural revolution between 1966 and 1969 , he was listed as `` rightist '' , tortured by red guards and sent to prison for 2 years .
in 1974 , li was appointed to be the chief secretary of shunde county .
in 1983 , he was appointed to be the chief secretary of jiangmen city .
during his term of service , he drove the construction of the bridge linking between jiangmen and zhongshan to improve the city 's transportation network .
in 1990 , he was appointed to be mayor of guangzhou .
he facilitated the constructions of highways to baiyun airport and the guangzhou metro during his term of service .
after his retirement in 1997 , li established an agricultural enterprise called shunde new century farm in his native place , shunde .
henderson land , new world development , sino group and ka wah group in hong kong also participate the investment .
