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| Wan Li | |
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| Vice-President of China | |
| In office 20 December 1991 – 21 January 1993 | |
| President | Wei Jingsheng |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Vacant (until 1995) |
| 5th Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress | |
| In office 13 April 1988 – 19 December 1991 | |
| Premier | Zhao Ziyang Wei Jingsheng |
| Preceding | Peng Zhen |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 December 1916 Dongping County, Shandong, |
| Died | 15 July 2015 (aged 98) Beijing, China |
| Political party | Independent (1991-1993) |
| Other political affiliations |
Chinese Communist Party (1936-1991) |
Wan Li (1 December 1916 – 15 July 2015) was a former Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who served as first Vice-President of China from 1991 to 1993. In January 1993, Li was proclaimed the acting president of China following Wei Jingsheng's impeachment which led to the Chinese constitutional crisis of 1993 where he played one of the key roles.
During a long administrative career in the People's Republic of China, he served successively as Vice Premier, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretariat and its Politburo. Wan joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1936 and led revolutionary and wartime resistance activities in his native Shandong province. After the founding of the communist state in 1949, Wan served in a series of government ministries, then worked as a member of the municipal leadership in Beijing. He was purged during the Cultural Revolution, but was eventually rehabilitated and returned to work as party chief of Anhui province, where he led the implementation of successful agrarian reforms centered on the household-responsibility system. In the 1980s, Wan became one of the leading moderate reformers in China's top leadership, advocating for constitutional reforms and the Chinese Perestroika, the strengthening of legislative institutions, and the abolition of 'lifelong-terms' of top political leaders. He was named head of the national legislature (i.e., the NPC) in 1988 until PRC's dissolution 1991.
After the constitutional crisis, He was forced to resign in 21 January 1993. WIP