In the 1980s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Liu Huaqing, the navy developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction continued at a level somewhat below the 1970s rate.

* Liu Huaqing ( 1916 – 2011 ), PRC politician

Liu Huaqing (; October 1916 – January 14, 2011 ) was the Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy from 1982 through 1988, and is considered to been responsible for its modernization efforts.

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* Former son-in-law of Liu Huaqing ( 刘华清 ): Pan Yue ( 潘岳 ), vice director of the State Environmental Protection Administration

These records state that Bu began his rule before 477, was recognized as the ruler of Japan by the Liu Song, Southern Qi, and Liang dynasties, and continued his rule through to 502.

It was commented on by Liu Hui in the 3rd century.

During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

The merchant was sent to be reborn as Liu Qi ( 刘杞 ).

Chen was a beautiful and talented girl, but did not wish to marry Liu Qi.

Liu was also very close to Deng Xiaoping as his modernization efforts were very much in keeping with Deng's national policies.

The latter fuses Daoist ideas with Confucianism and was a precursor to later Chinese metaphysical nature poetry, according to Liu Wu-chi.

* July 19 – A Chinese delegate in the Netherlands, Liu en-Tsiu, is declared persona non grata because of the death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances ; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office.

* Liu Zhang, ruled Yi after Liu Yan's death until he was forced to hand it to Liu Bei ( d. 219 )

It began when the ruler of Wei, Cao Cao, was defeated by Liu Bei and Sun Quan at the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Court eunuch Jian Shuo planned to kill General-in-Chief He Jin, a relative of the imperial family, and to replace the crown prince Liu Bian with his younger brother Liu Xie, the Prince of Chenliu ( in present-day Kaifeng ), though his plan was unsuccessful.

In 192, there was some talk among the coalition of appointing Liu Yu, an imperial relative, as emperor, and gradually its members began to fall out.

Cao Cao, directly to Yuan Shao's south, was engaged in a struggle against Yuan Shu and Liu Biao, who occupied respectively the Huai River basin and middle Yangtze regions.

Lü Bu fled to Xu Province and was received by Liu Bei, and an uneasy alliance began between the two.

In 197, Yuan Shu, who was at odds with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei, felt assured of victory with his subordinate's conquests, and thus declared himself emperor of the Cheng Dynasty.

In 200, after winning a decisive battle against Liu Biao at Sha County and putting down the rebellions of Xu Gong and others, Sun Ce was struck by an arrow and fatally wounded.

It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han.

Following Liu Bang's victory in the Chu – Han Contention, the resulting Han Dynasty was named after the Hanzhong fief.

By 157 BCE, the Han court had replaced all of these kings with royal Liu family members, since the loyalty of non-relatives to the throne was questioned.

However, he was overwhelmed by the " Red Eyebrow " rebels who deposed, assassinated, and replaced him with the puppet monarch Liu Penzi.

Liu had refused to do battle against the Red Army, to save his own military from destruction.

In 1937 Liu traveled to the Communist base at Yanan ; and, in 1941, Liu became a political commissar of the New Fourth Army.

In legend, Wong was recruited by Liu Yongfu, commander of the Black Flag Army, to be the army's medical officer and martial arts instructor.

*** Liu Yongfu 劉永福 / 刘永福 ( 1837-1917 ; Bobai, Guangxi ; Hakka pronunciation: Liew Yun Fook ), Commander, Black Flag Army ; President, Republic of Formosa, 1895

The Vietnamese authorities, despairing of meeting the French with their own forces, appealed to the notorious Chinese soldier of fortune Liu Yongfu to come to their aid with his Black Flag Army.

Liu Bei appointed Zhao Yun as " General of the Flying Army " after occupying Chengdu.

T ' ang Ching-sung ( 唐景崧 ), the Ch ' ing governor-general of Taiwan, was prevailed upon to become the republic's first President, and his old friend Liu Yung-fu ( 劉永福 ), the retired Black Flag Army commander who had become a national hero in China for his victories against the French in northern Vietnam a decade earlier, was invited to serve as Grand General of the Army.

When the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, Liu was named as deputy commander of the first war zone and commander-in-chief of the 2nd Army Group.

Liu Bocheng (; December 4, 1892 – October 7, 1986 ) was a Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army.

) Officially, Liu was recognised as a revolutionary, military strategist and theoretician, and one of the founders of the People's Liberation Army.

In 1927, Liu was appointed army corps commander of the 15th Temporarily Organized National Revolutionary Army.

During this uprising, Liu was appointed chief of staff of the newly born Chinese Red Army.

In January 1932, Liu was appointed president and commissar of the Red Army Military Academy.

In the Red Army ’ s endeavour against the KMT's Fifth Encirclement Campaign, Liu was demoted to Chief of Staff of the 5th Field Army following his dissidence with Bo and Braun.

During the Long March, near the end of 1934, Liu was reappointed as Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army and commander of Central Column, which consisted of the majority of the CPC senior leaders, such as Bo, Braun, Zhou and Mao.

Liu then led the 1st Division of the Red Army across the Dadu River, where Chiang plotted to have the CPC armies annihilated, in the same manner as Shi Dakai and his army ’ s road to perdition almost a century before.

When Mao's 1st Red Army later united with Zhang Guotao ’ s 4th Red Army, Liu stayed Chief of Staff.

Under the agreement with Chiang, CPC armies were reorganised into 8th Route Army, and Liu was appointed commander of the 129th Division, one of its three divisions.

#* Significance: Held at the culmination of the " Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ," Mao's Party is decimated from infighting ; People's Liberation Army ( PLA ) influence on Party administration pronounced ; few members appointed to power during the previous Party Congress survive the 9th Congress politically ; former State Chairman and second-ranking Liu Shaoqi ( arrested 1966 ) and former CPC General Secretary Deng Xiaoping labelled " traitorous scabs and renegades "; Defence Minister Lin Biao becomes CPC Vice Chairman and Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms ", and is designated constitutionally as Mao's successor ; Mao's " thought " reinserted into CPC Party Constitution.