Quan Shuren

Quan was born into a family of farming background in Xinmin County (now Xinmin), Liaoning, on 26 August 1930.[1] He attended Harbin Nangang Primary School and Harbin Municipal No. 3 Middle School.

He joined the Northeast Democratic Youth League in 1946, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in April 1949. Starting in 1948, he served in several posts in Fushun. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was brought to be persecuted and was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works. He was reinstated in June 1969 and was despatched to the Fushun Steel Factory (now Fushun Special Steel). Since 1980, he successively served as deputy party secretary, mayor, and party secretary of Fushun. In October 1982, he was named acting head of the Organization Department of the CCP Liaoning Provincial Committee and was admitted to member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Liaoning Provincial Committee, the province's top authority. He served as governor of Liaoning from March 1983 to April 1986, and party secretary, the top political position in the province, from April 1986 to March 1993.[1][2] During his tenure, he vigorously promoted the reform of the urban economic system and the work of streamlining administration and delegating power at the provincial level. At the same time, he also attached great importance to the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", attached importance to the development of agriculture and rural areas and the improvement of farmers' income, and made positive contributions to the leap from shortage agriculture to self-supporting agriculture, and actively promoted the rural household contract responsibility system with output linked.[1] He was chosen as chairman of Liaoning People's Congress in March 1993, and held that office until January 1998.[1]

On 1 December 2008, he died from an illness in Shenyang, Liaoning, at the age of 78.[1]