Editing Liu Huaqing (section)

==== Central Military Commission and Retirement ====
In 1990, Liu became the Vice Chairman of the CMC.<ref name=":Li">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Xiaobing |title=China under Xi Jinping: A New Assessment |publisher=[[Leiden University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9789087284411 |editor-last=Fang |editor-first=Qiang |chapter=Beijing's Military Power and East Asian-Pacific Hot Spots |editor-last2=Li |editor-first2=Xiaobing}}</ref>{{Rp|page=261}}

In 1992, Liu became the 6th-ranked member of the [[Politburo Standing Committee]], the Communist Party's top leadership body.<ref name=":Li" />{{Rp|page=261}}  He was the last active military member to sit on the Standing Committee, and since his departure from the Standing Committee in 1997, no other military leader has sat on the Committee. Liu officially retired from the military after stepping down as Vice Chairman of the CMC in March 1998.

Liu remained active through the mid-1990s and appeared in uniform at 2007 commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the [[People's Liberation Army]] in Beijing. He also appeared in [[Beijing]] during the [[60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China]] on October 1, 2009.

Liu died on 14 January 2011 in Beijing.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7261629.html|title=China's former military leader passes away|publisher=[[People's Daily Online]]|date=14 January 2011 |access-date=14 January 2011 }}</ref> His son [[Liu Zhuoming]] is a [[vice admiral]] of the PLA Navy.<ref name=dtic>{{cite web |url=http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA591531 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120203226/http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA591531 |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 November 2015 |title=Behind the Periscope: Leadership in China's Navy |author1=Becker, Jeffrey |author2=Liebenberg, David |author3=Mackenzie, Peter |date=December 2013 |publisher=[[Defense Technical Information Center]] |page=176}}</ref> His daughter [[Liu Chaoying]], a former lieutenant colonel in the PLA, was a major figure in the [[1996 United States campaign finance controversy]].<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/liu052498.htm Liu's Deals With Chung: An Intercontinental Puzzle] ''Washington Post'', 24 May 1998. Retrieved 10 November 2020.</ref>