Jiang Dingzhi (; born September 1954) is a Chinese politician and current Chairman of the Jiangsu People's Political Consultative Conference (''zhengxie''). He holds a master's degree in Engineering from

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. Jiang has successively served as the Party Secretary of the city of

Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...

, Vice Governor of

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province, Vice Chairman of the

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, Governor of

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

province, and, since December 2014, Vice-Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress.

Career

Jiang Dingzhi was born in September 1954 in

Liyang Liyang () is a county-level city under the administration of Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. In 2011, it had a population of about 781,500. It borders the prefecture-level divisions of Wuxi to the east, Xuanc ...

. He joined the

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in July 1978. He spent most of his career in his native

province, serving as the

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of the

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from 1994 to 1996. From 2000 to 2003 he was the Party Chief of

, a major

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near Shanghai. In February 2003 he was promoted to Executive Vice Governor of Jiangsu, and a member of the provincial Party Standing Committee. In November 2005 Jiang was transferred to the national government to become the Vice Chairman of the

. He held the position until December 2010, when he was transferred to southern

province to serve as a Vice Governor. He was promoted to acting governor in August 2011, and was officially elected Governor by the Hainan Provincial People's Congress in February 2012, in addition to taking on the role of deputy party chief and member of the provincial

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. Following the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee held in late 2013, Jiang disappeared from public view for several weeks. Chinese-language media speculated that he was implicated in the

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case; he delegated some of his tasks as governor to Executive Vice Governor

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(Tan himself was detained and investigated several months later). In December 2014, Jiang left his post as Governor of Hainan to take on the office of Vice-Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress; this was seen as a demotion, though some sources suggested he went home to recover from illness. In 2017, he became Chairman of the Jiangsu People's Political Consultative Conference, a largely symbolic advisory body. Jiang is a member of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jiang, Dingzhi 1954 births Chinese Communist Party politicians from Jiangsu Governors of Hainan Living people People's Republic of China politicians from Jiangsu Political office-holders in Jiangsu Politicians from Changzhou Nanjing University of Science and Technology alumni Vice-governors of Jiangsu People from Liyang