Chen Xu (; born 1 July 1963) is a Chinese politician and the current deputy head of the Chinese Communist Party's

United Front Work Department The United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (UFWD; ) is a department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which is officially tasked with "united front work". For this endeavo ...

and director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, in office since 2022. Previously she served as the CCP committee secretary of Tsinghua University. She was an alternate member the

19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. It is a prime number. Mathematics 19 is the eighth prime number, and forms a sexy prime with 13, a twin prime with 17, and a cousin prime with 23. It is the third full re ...

and is a member of the 20th Central Committee.

Biography

Chen was born in

Baoding, Hebei Baoding (), formerly known as Baozhou and Qingyuan, is a prefecture-level city in central Hebei province, approximately southwest of Beijing. As of the 2010 census, Baoding City had 11,194,382 inhabitants out of which 2,176,857 lived in the b ...

, on 1 July 1963. In 1981, she was accepted to Tsinghua University, majoring in electronics. After graduation, she stayed and worked at the university. She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1984. She was named deputy party secretary in February 2006. She moved up the ranks to become vice-president in December 2007 and executive deputy party secretary in June 2009. In December 2013, she was elevated to party secretary of Tsinghua University, a position at vice-ministerial level. In February 2022, she was transferred to the

and appointed deputy head. In June, she concurrently serves as director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, succeeding Pan Yue.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Xu 1963 births Living people People from Baoding Tsinghua University alumni Academic staff of Tsinghua University People's Republic of China politicians from Hebei Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hebei Members of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party