Liu Peng (Chinese: 刘鹏; born September 1951) is a Chinese Communist Party bureaucrat, who most recently served as director of the State General Administration of Sports. Born in Chongqing, he studied mechanical engineering at Chongqing University and has a graduate degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was a rusticated youth in Neijiang County during the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, he was a factory worker at Chongqing Steel Company. He joined the Communist Party in May 1979. By 1985 he joined the prefecture-level standing committee of Chongqing, then a city under Sichuan province. He was then head of the provincial Communist Youth League organization in Sichuan. In 1991 he became chief commissioner (mayor equivalent) of Yibin. In 1993 he was promoted to the