Li Jukui served as the president of the Logistics Institute of the PLA.
Li came from a destitute peasant family in rural Hunan.
[1]: 16 Li served as the People's Republic of China's first Minister of the Petroleum Industry.
[1]: 23 The change was made at the recommendation of Peng Dehuai, who was then the Secretary of Defense.
[1]: 23 During the Tiananmen Square protests of spring 1989, Li Jukui signed a letter opposing the enforcement of martial law by the Army in Beijing.