Li Shulei, the deputy secretary of China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and known as the “child prodigy of Peking University,” has been named the executive vice president of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Party School, the school’s website has confirmed.

Succeeding 68-year-old He Yiting, this is the second time that Li has worked at the Central Party School. He was once appointed vice president of the school by Xi Jinping in 2007, right after Xi joined the nine-man Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party at the 17th Party Congress, and became head of the school.

Li, 56, had a short stint as head of the propaganda department in Fujian province between 2014 and 2016. He then returned to Beijing to serve as the city’s head of Discipline Inspection for a year before being promoted to deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Li was admitted to the Peking University’s library and information science department at the age of 14. He obtained a master’s degree in contemporary literature when he was 21 and a doctoral degree when he reached 24. Being one of the few senior officials who had earned a PhD prior to joining the government, Li was often called the “real doctor.”

Like his predecessor He Yiting who was one of President Xi’s ghostwriters, Li was known to have written some of Xi’s speeches. He Yiting had served as the school’s executive vice president since 2013.

The Central Party School was merged with the National Academy of Governance in 2018 as the main training ground for senior government officials.

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