Li Xiaopeng (politician)


Li Xiaopeng is a Chinese businessman and politician. He currently serves as Governor of Shanxi province, in central China. He is the former chief executive of China Huaneng Group, a power generation company. He is the son of former Chinese Premier Li Peng.

Li was born in June 1959, at the Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, the son of Li Peng, an electrical engineer, and Zhu Lin, a Russianlanguage translator. Li was the eldest child of his parents. His sister, Li Xiaolin, was born two years later. Both children were named after their parents by simply appending the middle character xiao to their names , so Li Xiaopengs name can be taken to mean little Li Peng or Li Peng, Jr.. Both Li Xiaopeng and Li Xiaolin took after their father and studied electricityrelated professions in university. He is a graduate of the North China Electric Power University.

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