A native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province,1joined the national liberation vanguard of China while studying in Tsinghua University in September 1936, and1joined China in February 1937. He has served as the organization minister and acting secretary of the East Sichuan Youth Committee of the Communist Party of China, the editor-in-chief of the Propaganda Department of the Central Youth Committee, the editor-in-chief of China Youth magazine, the researcher of the Central Political Research Office, the leader of the Political System Group of China, and the Victory Daily of Liaoji Provincial Committee. After the founding of New China, he successively served as secretary of the Youth Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, secretary of the Municipal Youth League Working Committee, executive chairman of the presidium of the Beijing People's Congress Consultative Committee, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee, member and deputy director of the Supervision Committee of the Central People's Government, and minister and deputy director of the Theoretical Propaganda Department of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee. Since September, he has presided over the daily work of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee 1964. He used to be the director of the Central Bureau of the Collection of Mary Rice's Works and the deputy editor-in-chief of Red Flag magazine. He was severely persecuted during the Cultural Revolution and was imprisoned for eight and a half years. Later, he served as consultant of China Academy of Social Sciences, director and honorary director of the Institute of Philosophy, and retired on 1995. Xu Liqun is a deputy to the First National People's Congress, the Eighth National Congress of communist party, China, a member of the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh National Committees of CPPCC, and a standing member of the Fifth National Committee of CPPCC. On July 28th, 2000, 65,438 died in Beijing at the age of 83.