Chen Jianguo (; born July 1945) is a Chinese politician, serving since 2013 as the Chair of the

National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee The National People's Congress Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee () is one of nine Special committee of the National People's Congress, special committees of the National People's Congress, the national legislature of the People's Republic o ...

. He is the former

Communist Party Chief A Party Committee Secretary () is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in a province, city, village, or other administrative unit. In most cases, it is the ''de facto'' highest political office of its area of jurisdictio ...

Ningxia Ningxia (,; , ; alternately romanized as Ninghsia), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in ...

Autonomous Region and Chairman of the Ningxia People's Congress. He was born in Rongcheng,

Shandong Province Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...

. He joined the

Chinese People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...

in July 1962, and the Chinese Communist Party in April 1966. He was an alternate member of the

15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party The 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was in session from 1997 to 2002. The 14th Central Committee preceded it. It was followed by the 16th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. This was the first Central Committee ...

, and a full member of the

16th 16 (sixteen) is the natural number following 15 and preceding 17. 16 is a composite number, and a square number, being 42 = 4 × 4. It is the smallest number with exactly five divisors, its proper divisors being , , and . In English speech, ...

and 17th Central Committees.

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1945 births Living people Politicians from Weihai People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong Political office-holders in Ningxia {{china-politician-stub