Li kuisheng, a former government vice minister and Chinese revolutionary has passed away at the age of 89.

According to a government obituary released Friday, Li died on Nov. 26, 2006 in Beijing. Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior state and Party officials expressed their condolences after Liao's death, it said.

Born in Laixi County of eastern Shandong Province, Li joined the Communist Party of China in 1938 and participated in the war against Japanese aggression and the War of Liberation before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

After 1949, he worked as official in coal mines in Jiangsu and Heilongjiang provinces and joined the former Ministry of Coal Industry in 1977 as its vice minister.

Source: Xinhua