Photo special: Liu Yunshan

Editor's note: On the occasion of five weeks after the new central leadership elected at the first Plenary Session of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee took office, Xinhua News Agency opened the "Top CPC Leadership" special column. Over three consecutive days beginning Sunday, Xinhua will broadcast profiles and related photos of the seven members of the Standing Committee of the 18th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau.

In this file photo taken in the autumn of 1981, Liu Yunshan (C), then a Xinhua reporter, talks with Ewenqi hunters during an interview in Olguya, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.