Li Yuan (PRC general)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Li.

Li Yuan (Chinese: 黎原; 1917 - December 18, 2008) was People's Liberation Army major general who served as Chairman of the Hunan Province Revolutionary Committee during the Cultural Revolution.

He was born in Xi County, Henan Province. He fought in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. In the Chinese Civil War, he participated in the Liaoshen Campaign and Pingjin Campaign. During the Korean War, he was commander of the 140th Division of the People's Volunteer Army. In 1967, he became Chairman of the Hunan Revolutionary Committee after the removal of the governor, former Kuomintang general Cheng Qian.

Preceded by Cheng Qian as governor of Hunan	Chairman of the Hunan Revolutionary Committee 1967-1970	Succeeded by Hua Guofeng

Political leaders of Hunan since 1949

CPC Committee Secretaries	Huang Kecheng Jin Ming Zhou Xiaozhou Zhou Hui Zhang Pinghua Wang Yanchun Li Yuan Hua Guofeng Mao Zhiyong Xiong Qingquan Wang Maolin Yang Zhengwu Zhang Chunxian Zhou Qiang Xu Shousheng

People's Congress Chairmen	Wan Da Sun Guozhi Jiao Linyi Liu Fusheng Wang Maolin Yang Zhengwu Zhang Chunxian Zhou Qiang Xu Shousheng

Governors	Chen Mingren Wang Shoudao Cheng Qian Li Yuan Hua Guofeng Mao Zhiyong Sun Zhiguo Liu Zheng Xiong Qingquan Chen Bangzhu Yang Zhengwu Chu Bo Zhang Yunchuan Zhou Bohua Zhou Qiang Xu Shousheng Du Jiahao

CPPCC Committee Chairmen	Zhou Xiaozhou Zhang Pinghua Mao Zhiyong Zhou Li Cheng Xingling Liu Zheng Liu Fusheng Wang Keying Hu Biao Chen Qiufa Li Weiwei

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