Jiang Xinzhi (; born February 1958), is a

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politician, serving as a senior official within the

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. Since November 2017, he has been serving as the executive Deputy Head of the party’s Organization Department, under Chen Xi.

Biography

Jiang was born in 1958, in

Dunhuang Dunhuang () is a county-level city in Northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city has a population of 186,027, though 2019 estimates put the city's population at about 191,800. Dunhuang was a major ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

, and graduated from

Lanzhou University Lanzhou University () is a major research university in Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Founded in 1909, it is one of the key universities under China's Ministry of Education (Double First Class University Plan, former Project 985 and Project 211). It ...

with a degree in political economics. In the early 1980s, Jiang would serve as a finance and trade school teacher. Beginning in 1983, he would work for the Gansu provincial Party Committee Organization Department. In 1990, Jiang was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Anning District in

Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...

. By 1994, he was appointed deputy director of the Gansu provincial Organization Department, and by 1995, was appointed Director. In 2003, he would be moved to the

Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture (, Xiao'erjing: ), formerly known as Hezhou (河州) and Baohan (枹罕), is located in Gansu Province, south of the provincial capital Lanzhou, bordering Qinghai to the west. It is an autonomous prefecture for the ...

, and would serve as Chairman of its National People’s Congress Standing Committee. In 2007, he was appointed

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of the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, a post he would hold until 2011. In 2011, he was transferred to

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, where he would serve in its provincial organization department until 2015. In November 2015, he was made a deputy head of the Central Party Organization Department, and by November 2017, was its Executive Deputy Head, with full ministerial rank. Jiang is a member of the

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