He Zhongyou

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He Zhongyou
何忠友
Communist Party Secretary of Ürümqi
Assumed office
13 May 2023
DeputyYahefu Paidula (mayor)
Preceded byYang Fasen
Communist Party Secretary of Haikou
In office
5 December 2019 – October 2021
Preceded byZhang Qi
Succeeded byLuo Zengbin
Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Politics and Law Commission
In office
May 2017 – December 2019
Preceded byLin Shaochun
Succeeded byYe Zhenqin
Vice Governor of Guangdong
In office
January 2016 – July 2017
Succeeded byHuang Ningsheng (黄宁生)
Communist Party Secretary of Heyuan
In office
December 2011 – January 2016
Preceded byChen Jianhua
Succeeded byZhang Wen
Personal details
BornNovember 1965 (age 58)
Wuwei County, Anhui, China
Political partyChinese Communist Party
Alma materSouthwest Jiaotong University
London School of Economics
University of Massachusetts Boston
Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party

He Zhongyou (Chinese: 何忠友; pinyin: Hé Zhōngyǒu; born November 1965) is a Chinese politician currently serving as the Communist Party Secretary of Ürümqi and a deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee.

Early life and education[edit]

He was born in Wuwei County, Anhui in November 1965. In September 1984 he was accepted to Southwest Jiaotong University, majoring in computer science.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

After graduating in July 1988, he was assigned to the Guangdong Provincial Communications Department, becoming its Party Branch Secretary in April 2007 and the head in March 2008. He obtained his Master of Science degree from London School of Economics at the expense of the Communist government in 1996. In 2000 he was sent to study at the University of Massachusetts Boston as a part-time student.[citation needed]

In December 2011 he was transferred to Heyuan and appointed Communist Party Secretary there, he concurrently served as chairman of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress in January 2012. In January 2016 he was promoted to become vice-governor of Guangdong.[1][2] He was secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Politics and Law Commission in May 2017, and held that office until December 2019.[citation needed]

On December 5, 2019, he was appointed CCP committee secretary of Haikou and member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Hainan Provincial Committee, replacing Zhang Qi, who was sacked for graft in September 2019.[3][4]

He was a delegate to the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed]

In October 2021, he was appointed as a deputy secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xinjiang Committee. In May 2023, he succeeded Yang Fasen as the Communist Party Secretary of Ürümqi.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 河源市委书记何忠友、韶关市委书记蓝佛安出任广东省副省长. thepaper (in Chinese). 21 January 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  2. ^ 黄宁生任广东省副省长 何忠友不再担任. ce.cn (in Chinese). 27 July 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  3. ^ Zhu Jiabei (祝加贝) (5 December 2019). 中共中央批准:何忠友任海南省委常委. sina (in Chinese). Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  4. ^ Lin Yunshi (林韵诗) (6 December 2019). 人事观察 从广东飞降 海南新常委何忠友主政海口. caixin.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  5. ^ "新疆维吾尔自治区党委副书记何忠友兼任乌鲁木齐市委书记" [He Zhongyou, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, concurrently serves as Secretary of the Ürümqi Municipal Party Committee]. Economic Daily. 15 May 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2024.
Party political offices
Preceded by Communist Party Secretary of Heyuan
2011–2016
Succeeded by
Zhang Wen (张文)
Preceded by
Lin Shaochun (林少春)
Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Politics and Law Commission
2017–2019
Succeeded by
Ye Zhenqin (叶贞琴)
Preceded by Communist Party Secretary of Haikou
2019
Incumbent
Government offices
Preceded by
Zhang Yuanyi (张远贻)
Head of the Guangdong Provincial Communications Department
2008–2012
Succeeded by
Zeng Zhaogeng (曾兆庚)