Name Chen Yiqin | ||
Chen Yiqin (Chinese: 谌贻琴; pinyin: Chēn Yìqín; born December 1959) is a Chinese politician of Bai ethnic heritage currently serving as the Deputy Party Secretary, the Governor, and the Political and Legal Affairs Commission Secretary of Guizhou, a province in southwestern China. She has served in these positions since April 2015.
Career
Chen was born in Zhijin County, Guizhou. Chen 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, Chen became deputy party chief of Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then deputy party chief and head commissioner (mayor) of Tongren. In April 2007, Chen became a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee of Guizhou and head of the provincial party propaganda department. In May 2012, she was named Executive Vice Governor of Guizhou. In April 2015 she became Deputy Party Secretary of Guizhou and Secretary of Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei) of Guizhou. 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.
In September 2017, Chen was appointed as the acting Governor of Guizhou. Chen Yiqin is the first female Governor, the first Governor who has Bai ethnic heritage, and the first Governor to have been born in province since 1993 in Guizhou.
Chen is an alternate member of the 17th and the 18th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China.