Background and History

Born in Hunan Province in 1904 and died in 1995. General Li Jukui was the Petroleum Industry Minister form 1955 to 1959. Li Jukui served as the president of the Logistics Institute of the PLA.

In the incidents at Tiananmen Square General Li Jukui had a part. On May 22nd 1989, troops came into conflict with demonstrators. At about the same time, retired or semi-retired senior generals and marshals, such as Xu Xiangqian and Nie Rongzhen, assured visiting students that people's liberation army would never shoot at students. (Back on 18th, students on the Square had read out a purported support letter from "young army officers", and 38th Corps Chief Xu Qinxian was sacked on the night of 18th. And on 20th, seven retired senior generals, including Zhang Aiping, Xiao Ke, Ye fei, Li Jukui, Yang Dezhi, Chen Zaidao and Song Shilun, would write a letter to CCP Military Commission to express opposition to military crackdown.)