Jump to content

Shen Yiqin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by The Account 2 (talk | contribs) at 13:12, 24 October 2023. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Shen Yiqin
谌贻琴
State Councilor of the People's Republic of China
Assumed office
12 March 2023
Serving with Wang Xiaohong and Wu Zhenglong
PremierLi Qiang
Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou
In office
20 November 2020 – 9 December 2022
DeputyLi Bingjun (Governor)
General SecretaryXi Jinping
Preceded bySun Zhigang
Succeeded byXu Lin
Governor of Guizhou
In office
6 September 2017 – 24 November 2020
Preceded bySun Zhigang
Succeeded byLi Bingjun
Personal details
Born (1959-12-15) 15 December 1959 (age 64)
Zhijin County, Guizhou
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materGuizhou University

Shen Yiqin (Chinese: 谌贻琴; pinyin: Shèn Yíqín; born 15 December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage who is currently a state councilor. She previously served as the Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China, between November 2020 and December 2022.

Shen is the third female provincial-level party chief since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 after Wan Shaofen and former Vice Premier Sun Chunlan.

Career

Shen was born in Zhijin County, Guizhou. Shen belonged to a group of sent-down youth in the latter years of the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution ended, she began studying history at Guizhou University. After graduating, she was sent to work for the provincial party school in Guizhou as a lecturer. She later became a human resources manager there. In 1998, she became vice president of the Guizhou party school. In 1999 she became Vice Chair of the Guizhou Social Sciences Academic Association.

In December 2001, Shen became deputy party chief of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then deputy party chief and head commissioner (mayor) of Tongren.[1] In April 2007, Shen became a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee of Guizhou and head of the provincial party propaganda department.[2] In May 2012, she was named Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou.[3] In April 2015 she became Deputy Party Secretary of Guizhou and Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei) of Guizhou.[4] At the time of her appointment to the deputy party chief position, she became the second sitting female zhuanzhi deputy party secretary in the country, and the only female provincial Zhengfawei chief in the country.[5]

In September 2017, Shen was appointed as the acting Governor of Guizhou. Shen Yiqin is the first female Governor of Guizhou, the first Governor of Bai ethnic heritage, and the first Governor to have been born in province since 1993.[6]

In November 2020, Shen was appointed as the CCP Secretary of Guizhou.[7]

In March 2023, Shen was appointed as a state councilor and in charge of human resource affairs, social affairs, civil affairs, and ethnic affairs.

Shen was an alternate member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, and is a full member of the 19th Central Committee.

References

  1. ^ "杨玉学任铜仁地委书记 谌贻琴任铜仁行署专员". 金黔在线. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  2. ^ "盘点32位女性省委常委从政之路". 搜狐. Retrieved 2012-02-25.
  3. ^ "十一届人大常委会二十八次会议闭幕 谌贻琴当选副省长". 贵网. Archived from the original on 2013-04-24. Retrieved 2012-07-18.
  4. ^ "贵州省委副书记谌贻琴兼任政法委书记 秦如培不再担任". 中国经济网. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  5. ^ "谌贻琴履新贵州成中国首位女政法书记". Powerapple. April 24, 2015.
  6. ^ "中国第三位女省长将诞生 还是当地第一位白族省长". 政知圈. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
  7. ^ "吉林等4省省委主要负责同志职务调整" (in Chinese). Xinhua. 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2020-11-20.
Government offices
Preceded by Governor of Guizhou
2017–2020
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Communist Party Secretary of Guizhou
2020–2022
Succeeded by