Liu Qi, ethnic Han, native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province, born in November 1942. Joined the CPC in September 1975 and began working in June 1968. Graduated from the Metallurgical Department of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering, majoring in iron smelting. With a postgraduate education. Senior engineer with a rank equivalent to professor.

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad, and secretary of the committee's Leading Party Members' Group.

1959-1964: Student of the Metallurgical Department of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering, majoring in iron and steel metallurgy.

1964-1968: Postgraduate of the Metallurgical Department of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Engineering, majoring in iron smelting.

1968-1978: Gas controller, furnaceman and section chief of No. 2 Blast Furnace of the Steel Works of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.

1978-1983: Technician and deputy head of No. 3 Blast Furnace of the Steel Works of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.

1983-1985: Deputy director of the Steel Works and head of the Production Department of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company.

1985-1990: Executive deputy manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company and member of the Standing Committee of the company's CPC committee.

1990-1993: Manager of Wuhan Iron and Steel Company and member of the Standing Committee of the company's CPC committee.

1993-1998: Minister and secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.

1998-1999: Deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and vice mayor of Beijing.

1999-2001: Deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and mayor of Beijing.

2001-2002: Deputy secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and mayor of Beijing, chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad, and deputy secretary of the committee's Leading Party Members' Group.

2002-2003: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, mayor of Beijing, chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad, and deputy secretary of the committee's Leading Party Members' Group.

2003-: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the XXIX Olympiad, and secretary of the committee's Leading Party Members' Group.

Alternate member of the Fourteenth CPC Central Committee. Member of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth CPC Central Committees and of the Political Bureaus of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CPC Central Committees.