Xu Qin

Not to be confused with Xu Qing.

For other people named Xu Qin, see Xu Qin (born 1928).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xu.

Xu Qin
许勤
Xu Qin in 2014
Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang
Incumbent
Assumed office October 18, 2021
Deputy	Hu Changsheng Liang Huiling (governor)
Preceded by	Zhang Qingwei
Governor of Hebei
In office April 7, 2017 – October 22, 2021
Leader	Zhao Kezhi→Wang Dongfeng (Party secretary)
Preceded by	Zhang Qingwei
Succeeded by	Wang Zhengpu
Communist Party Secretary of Shenzhen
In office December 30, 2016 – April 1, 2017
Preceded by	Ma Xingrui
Succeeded by	Wang Weizhong
Mayor of Shenzhen
In office June 2010 – April 2017
Preceded by	Wang Rong (acting)
Succeeded by	Chen Rugui
Personal details
Born	October 1961 (age 62–63) Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Beijing Institute of Technology Guanghua School of Management Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	许勤
Traditional Chinese	許勤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xǔ Qín

Xu Qin (Chinese: 许勤; born October 1961) is a Chinese politician, and the current Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Heilongjiang. Previously he had served as governor of Hebei, and before that, mayor, then party chief of Shenzhen, China's most prominent special economic zone.

Career

Xu Qin was born in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, in 1961. He was admitted to the Beijing Institute of Technology in October 1978 to study photoelectric engineering. After graduating in 1982, he was assigned by the state to Factory 559 (later part of Norinco), a military contractor, to conduct scientific research with military applications. He returned to BIT two years later to study for a master's degree. In 1987, after obtaining his master's, he joined the National Planning Commission (the antecedent of the National Development and Reform Commission), embarking on a career as a public servant with technical skills.

Xu worked for the next twenty years in the economic planning system, supporting state-run industries related to electrical mechanics. In 2001, he entered the Guanghua School of Management to obtain an MBA. In 2003, he began overseeing high-tech planning as part of the National Development and Reform Commission. In 2004 he received a doctorate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In April 2008, he was transferred to the Special Economic Zone of Shenzhen to become executive vice mayor. In June 2010, he was named Mayor of Shenzhen. Xu was mayor during the 2015 Shenzhen landslide, an industrial accident later deemed to have been caused by human factors. He apologized on behalf of the government for the incident, bowing to the public to acknowledge his responsibility. On December 31, 2016, after Ma Xingrui was moved to the post of Governor of Guangdong, Xu was named party chief of Shenzhen. He served as party chief and mayor for a few months simultaneously.

In April 2017, Xu was transferred to Hebei as deputy party chief and governor-designate, duly was confirmed as Governor of Hebei by the provincial People's Congress on April 26, 2017. He will oversee the planning of the Xiong'an New Area and integration of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic area.

On October 18, 2021, he was transferred to northeast China's Heilongjiang province and appointed Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Heilongjiang.

External links

• Asia Pacific Cities Summit profile