Chen Run'er (; born October 1957) is a Chinese politician who served as the Communist Party Secretary of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from October 2019 to March 2022. He formerly served as Governor of

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Province, the

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Province, and Party Chief of the cities of

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and Xiangtan in his home province of

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Biography

Chen Run'er was born in October 1957 in Chaling County,

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. He joined the work force in September 1975, and the

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three months later. From 1983 to 1985 he studied agriculture at Hunan Agricultural University. Chen spent most of his early career in the government of Chaling County, rising to

county magistrate County magistrate ( or ) sometimes called local magistrate, in imperial China was the official in charge of the ''xian'', or county, the lowest level of central government. The magistrate was the official who had face-to-face relations with the ...

in 1987, and county party chief in 1990. In 1992 he became Mayor of Chenzhou, then a

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. Two years later he became deputy party chief of Chenzhou Prefecture. From 1993 to 1996 he studied at the graduate school of the Central Party School on a part-time basis. In 1997 he became deputy party chief of Loudi Prefecture. In April 2000 Chen was appointed Mayor of the

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of Xiangtan (acting until January 2001), and Party Chief of Xiangtan in 2003. In November 2006 he became Party Chief of Changsha, the capital of Hunan. In April 2013, Chen was transferred to

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to serve as the province's Deputy Party Chief. In November 2014, when the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection sent a team to Heilongjiang, a

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columnist predicted that Chen Run'er would likely fall due to corruption, and overseas Chinese news site

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even reported that Chen had been arrested. The prediction did not materialize. In March 2016, Chen was transferred to

Province in central China as Deputy Party Chief and Governor Designate. On 7 April 2016, the Henan Provincial People's Congress duly elected Chen as Governor of Henan, succeeding

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, who had become the provincial party chief. On 25 October 2019, he has appointed as the Communist Party Secretary of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. On April 20, he was made vice chairperson of the

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. Chen was an alternate member of the 17th and the

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Central Committees of the Chinese Communist Party, and is a full member of the 19th Central Committee. He is considered to be an Ethnic Affairs policy specialist.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Runer 1957 births Living people Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan Political office-holders in Hunan Political office-holders in Heilongjiang Political office-holders in Ningxia Governors of Henan Politicians from Zhuzhou Hunan Agricultural University alumni Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Alternate members of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Delegates to the 13th National People's Congress