Hui Liangyu, ethnic Hui, native of Yushu, Jilin Province, born in October 1944. Joined the CPC in April 1966 and began working in August 1964. With a college education at the Jilin Provincial Party School. Economic administrator.

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council and member of its Leading Party Members' Group.

1961-1964: Student of the Agricultural School of Jilin Province.

1964-1968: Staff member of the Agricultural Bureau and Personnel Supervision Bureau of Yushu County, Jilin Province.

1968-1969: Sent to do manual labor in May 7th Cadre School of Yushu County, Jilin Province.

1969-1972: Secretary of the political department and deputy head of the general office of the Revolutionary Committee of Yushu County, Jilin Province.

1972-1974: Deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Yushu County Committee, and secretary of the CPC Committee of Yujia People's Commune, Jilin Province.

1974-1977: Deputy secretary of the CPC Yushu County Committee, Jilin Province.

1977-1984: Deputy director general of Jilin Provincial Agricultural Bureau, and deputy director general and deputy secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group of Jilin Provincial Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Department.

1984-1985: Deputy secretary of the CPC Baicheng Prefectural Committee and commissioner of Baicheng Prefectural Administrative Office, Jilin Province.

1985-1987: Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jilin Provincial Committee and concurrently head of the Rural Policy Research Office and head of Rural Work Department of the CPC Jilin Provincial Committee (attended correspondence courses in basic knowledge for Party and government officials at the Provincial Party School between 1984 and 1987).

1987-1990: Vice governor of Jilin Province.

1990-1992: Deputy head of the Policy Research Office, CPC Central Committee.

1992-1993: Deputy secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.

1993-1994: Deputy secretary of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee and chairman of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

1994-1995: Deputy secretary of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and acting governor of Anhui Province.

1995-1998: Deputy secretary of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee and governor of Anhui Province.

1998-1999: Secretary of the CPC Anhui Provincial Committee.

1999-2002: Secretary of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee.

2002-2003: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.

2003-: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, vice premier of the State Council and member of its Leading Party Members' Group.

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