Jin Yuzhang (born May 1942)[1] is the current pretender to the imperial throne of China. He is the eldest son of Jin Youzhi, a younger half-brother of Puyi, the Last Emperor of China.[2][3] The last published succession rule for the Qing dynasty, adopted in 1937, provides for succession by male descendants, brothers, and then half-brothers.[4] After the death of Pujie, Puyi's only full-brother, in 1994, Jin Youzhi became next in line to be the head of the Aisin-Gioro clan. Jin Yuzhang succeeded his father when he later died in 2015.
^"Law Governing Succession to the Imperial Throne", March 1, 1937, The Manchoukuo Year Book 1941, Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku (Japan). "Among the Imperial brothers and the remoter Imperial relations, precedence shall be given, in the same degree, to the descendants of full blood over those of half blood." (Article 8, p. 905.) Buyers, Christopher, The Royal Ark, "China"
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